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Metro officer suspects scam in $10,000 robbery

Last Wednesday, a female Georgetown graduate student was robbed of $10,000 on the 3800 block of Reservoir Road. Metropolitan Police Department investigators believe that the student was involved in a... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Sports

Sportsview

On Saturday afternoon, instead of spending the day recovering from a night of partying or getting ahead in my school work, I found myself getting ready and getting energized for... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Sports

NFL Dreams

The world is magically correct again. And no, I don’t mean because I saw a group of 40 first-years headed to a party last weekend on 36th and heard one... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

News

ANC postpones Student Bill of Rights

A vote on a Students’ Bill of Rights was postponed in an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting Tuesday. ANC Commissioner and sponsor of the bill, Justin Wagner (CAS ’03) said the... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Sports

Hoyas drop Patriot League opener to Lehigh, 41-14

Coach Bob Benson rests his elbows on his knees, then gently lets his head fall into his hands. He scratches his temples, rubs his eye intensely. Finally, after what seems... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Sports

Mutombo speaks on basketball, life

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo. He’s a man with seven names, but two missions: basketball and service. Mutombo, a former Georgetown big-man and current member of the NBA’s... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Voices

The skeptical granddaughter

When I got to college, I became more selfish. Any change to my life was horribly inconvenient (even if it improved my family’s life) if it changed my status quo. Case in point: My first year, my parents decided to move one block to a nicer house. Granted, my parents liked the new house better and were actually living there all year, but I threw a tantrum.

By the September 6, 2001

Voices

Sprawl attacks American life

Georgetown has something that most of the rest of the country lacks. There is something we love about this campus and D.C. that drew us all here. It’s a wonderfully... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Voices

Mohsin’s Sunscreen Song

The start of senior year is a hackneyed topic, so I’m going to avoid it. Besides, everyone’s got something to say about it. It’s old. First-years were annoying for the... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Features

Game On: Basketball life from here to 26th Street

They come from everywhere: lawyer’s offices, classrooms, straight off the streets. They are a collection of men and women from different political leanings, different incomes, different upbringings, different interests. But... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Editorials

Making unequal radio waves

Until recently, the Virginia Governor’s race was quiet, which is to say that nothing demanded serious news attention. Democrat Mark Warner, a wealthy Alexandria businessman, was and still is regarded... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Editorials

Bringing community apart

Neighborhood residents have always considered University students to be unwelcome and irritating guests in their community. In 1996, they tried to prevent students from voting. It failed. Just last year,... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Editorials

Off-Campus and off-base

Once more the University has shown that it does not have the interests of students in mind. This time, proof came in the form of the mandatory off-campus life orientation... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Leisure

Slice of life: Kert?sz and Fried at the Corcoran

With only 24 photographs and 24 paintings, Away from Home is a bite-sized exhibit, a one-room sampling of photographs, paintings and personal documents that trace the development of a lifelong... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Leisure

Fatboy’s grin

Part-time radio god, full-time party animal, Fatboy Slim touched down at the 9:30 Club Thursday, Aug. 30, to kick out the proverbial jams. The man saw fit to include our... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Leisure

I got pros(e) …

I had a “productive” summer this year, meaning I had a job and didn’t get to lay on my ass as much as I would have liked. While that may... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Leisure

Bitch and Animal altered

Bitch and Animal (a duo: one being Bitch, the other, Animal) opened for Ani DiFranco two years ago. Since then, their following has not only become significant in size, but... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Leisure

The horror of Redux

We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw So says Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse... Read more

By the September 6, 2001

Sports

Sportsview

On Saturday afternoon, instead of spending the day recovering from a night of partying or getting ahead in my school work, I found myself getting ready and getting energized for... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Sports

Sportsview

On Saturday afternoon, instead of spending the day recovering from a night of partying or getting ahead in my school work, I found myself getting ready and getting energized for... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Sports

Mutombo speaks on basketball, life

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo. He’s a man with seven names, but two missions: basketball and service. Mutombo, a former Georgetown big-man and current member of the NBA’s... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Sports

Mutombo speaks on basketball, life

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo. He’s a man with seven names, but two missions: basketball and service. Mutombo, a former Georgetown big-man and current member of the NBA’s... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Leisure

I love you Reggie

On Monday, August 27, Reggie and the Full Effect closed their “Mortgaging the Farm Tour” (their first ever!) with a show at the 930 Club. Hot Rod Circuit, Ultimate Fakebook... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Leisure

Haunted Houses, Hollywood and Heidegger

If I were to walk up to the average Georgetown student, and inquire: “read any decent fiction lately?”—their first response would be a resigned “yeah, right pal, more reading is... Read more

By the August 30, 2001

Leisure

Aaliyah: You will be missed

The death of any public figure resonates throughout the nation via radio, print and television. However, while the media can inform the public as to the tragic loss of someone’s... Read more

By the August 30, 2001