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Brown paper bag blues

We all know why it’s there, this den of secret passions and forbidden pleasures. Although temporarily situated behind and underneath a vast web of scaffolding, and permanently located in the less fashionable end of M Street, Key Bridge News appears to be chugging along today as the same model of utopian urban efficiency and inauspicious prosperity that it always has been.

By the January 24, 2002

Leisure

Wax in your ears

Two or three months ago, some elitist tool delivered a polemic in the Washington City Paper about the sad state of record stores in our fair city. Granted, this may be the case if you’re a vintage vinyl hound, who can’t live without a weekly dose of first-pressing mono-recorded wax.

By the January 24, 2002

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By the January 24, 2002

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Grieco?I love you; why do you hate me?Janet Reno

Jennifer Ernst?You are my hero! You are the wind beneath my wings.?The Brown Committee Admissions Dept.

If Uncommon Grounds opens a stand in Lauinger, they had better offer 40-cent coffee, 24 hours a day, because otherwise I’ll just stick to the vending machine coffee.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Students protest at Cardinal’s mass

Frustrated with the University’s refusal to fund a resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students, the supporters of the center protested at a Mass Sunday presided over by the D.C. archbishop, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. The supporters’ decision to stand throughout the hour-long Mass in Copley Hall marks the beginning of a new phase in their campaign?a phase that, supporters said, will more visibly draw attention to their cause.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Rivers resigns as election commissioner

Eric Lamar Rivers (CAS ‘02) resigned from the joint position of election commissioner and secretary of the Senior Class Committee last Tuesday. Rivers left to assume work as presidential election campaign manager for the Trey Street (SFS ‘03)-Dan Spector (SFS ‘04) platform.

By the January 24, 2002

News

MLK speaker: Americans need to reprioritize

The people of the United States need to rethink their standards and get their priorities straight, said Reverend Jamal-Harrison Bryant at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration service on Tuesday. Bryant, who is from the Empowerment Temple of Baltimore, gave the keynote sermon at the celebration in Gaston Hall, which also included performances by the Georgetown Gospel Choir and Black Movements dance troupe.

By the January 24, 2002

News

MPD uses new ID-checking machine

Police officials at the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission have unveiled a small, hand-held device that will validate the age and identity of bar, restaurant and club patrons across the city. The Lavinna L100 represents D.C.’s newest deterrent in an effort to reduce underage drinking in bars and nightclubs throughout D.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Rep. Smith criticizes Roe v. Wade

Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.) likened the legalization of abortion in the United States to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case to not recognize blacks as legal persons. Smith was a keynote speaker at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life held at the University this Monday.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Keeling stresses need for community

“Am I safe? What can I do? Where do we go from here?” Dr. Richard P. Keeling asked an audience of students and faculty on Wednesday evening in an event for Health, Safety and Justice Week. Keeling, who is the editor of the American Journal of College Health, compared the events of Sept.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Real World comes to campus

Julie Stoffer, cast member of MTVs The Real World New Orleans, said in a speech on Wednesday that her experiences in New Orleans challenged her to be more tolerant of others. Stoffer spoke as part of a nationwide public-speaking tour sponsored by the Bush administration to raise awareness on drug abuse, abstinence, diversity and AIDS among American youth.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Ranking what counts

The new Princeton Review college rankings are out. As usual, the report lists Georgetown as one of the nation’s top universities. Nothing new or surprising is mentioned. As always, ours has one of the nation’s most selective admissions standards and, as always, the University’s location in Washington, D.

By the January 24, 2002

Features

Are you sure you didn’t plagiarize? The computer is.

When University of Virginia Professor Lou Bloomfield first heard that students were recycling term papers in his popular physics class, he spent a night designing a computer program to check for plagiarism. His class, called “How Things Work,” was billed as physics for non-scientists, and drew a crowd of 500 students each semester.

By the January 17, 2002

Editorials

One war’s enough

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) stressed in his speech Monday in Gaston Hall that the war on terrorism “will not be over until Saddam Hussein is removed from power.”

Lieberman reminded audience members that Saddam already “has the means?chemical and biological weapons that he hasn’t hesitated to use .

By the January 17, 2002

Editorials

Ethics for Life

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) stressed in his speech Monday in Gaston Hall that the war on terrorism “will not be over until Saddam Hussein is removed from power.”

Lieberman reminded audience members that Saddam already “has the means?chemical and biological weapons that he hasn’t hesitated to use .

By the January 17, 2002

Editorials

Plagiarism.com

The University announced last week that it will be introducing anti-plagiarism computer software from Turnitin.com. This new software is designed to aid professors in identifying student papers that have been copied or substantially paraphrased from online sources.

By the January 17, 2002

Voices

Idle days in Richmond

Austin Powers: “Two things scare me. One is nuclear war.”

Basil Exposition: “What’s the other?”

Austin Powers: “Excuse me?”

Basil Exposition: “What’s the other thing that scares you?”

Austin Powers: “Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage.

By the January 17, 2002

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A new message …

“Writing an article ? “

I just put that away message up.

“Writing an article ? “

That should get a huge response. I mean, the brilliance of it, the sheer splendor of the wit. It’s amazing. It really is. Writing an article ?

It’s got that simplistic beauty to it.

By the January 17, 2002

Voices

The gambler

“Writing an article ? “

I just put that away message up.

“Writing an article ? “

That should get a huge response. I mean, the brilliance of it, the sheer splendor of the wit. It’s amazing. It really is. Writing an article ?

It’s got that simplistic beauty to it.

By the January 17, 2002

Leisure

Local theater celebrates German cinema

The casual American moviegoer’s knowledge of German cinema most often begins and ends with films such as Das Boot (1981) and Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, 1998). While both films merit viewing, a thriving German film industry exists beyond Franka Potente’s shock of flame-red hair in Lola and Das Boot’s boatload of doomed submariners.

By the January 17, 2002

Voices

The smallpox threat

For centuries, the smallpox virus remained one of the most dreaded and deadly diseases to plague mankind. It is a virus that infected and killed the most privileged in society, such as King Louis XV of France, as well as the poorest populations around the globe.

By the January 17, 2002

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Announcements

Dr. Richard P. Keeling, executive editor of the “American Journal of College Health,” will deliver the keynote address during Georgetown University’s “Health, Safety and Justice Week,” on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Copley Formal Lounge. Keeling will discuss what it means to be safe in a college environment and the health choices students make surrounding major issues, specifically alcohol.

By the January 17, 2002

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By the January 17, 2002

Leisure

Schreifels strikes a chord

Walter Schreifels of Rival Schools is a rock star. Not in that good-looking, sings-to-the-camera, ladies’-man kind of way—although this writer finds the first to be true. Instead, he is the kind of rock star that has vision in his blood and determination behind his eyes—undoubtedly the product of a 15-year music career.

By the January 17, 2002

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Billy Boyd rocking D.C.!!!

Cori?I love you; Ron is nothing; I think I have more money than Ron.?MJT

Midnight golfer? Yes, he is a midnight golfer.

To RB?Thank you for coming to our ice-cream social.

Mayor?Never turn down the Whitney Houston.

Yes that’s hoemotional.

By the January 17, 2002