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Dressing it up

This month marks the end of McCall’s magazine. The magazine geared towards middle-aged suburban women will reemerge as Rosie, and the editor-in-chief is none other than TV’s Rosie O’Donnell.

By the March 15, 2001

Leisure

One Act, One Theme

More often than not, the most important and insightful things college students have to say involve relationships, be it with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends or lovers. So it’s not surprising that... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Editorials

Don’t leave school without it?

If the Senior Class Gift Committee is to be believed, the legacy of the roughly 1,550 members of the class of 2001 is not the dedication they’ve shown to their academics or extracurricular activities but the amount of cold hard cash they are able to plunk down for a few extra trees and shrubs to adorn a building they may never see.

By the March 15, 2001

Voices

Sweet home Alabama, er, Virginia

“Fairfax is a nice place, I suppose. Convenient to get to work from, it’s got some nice restaurants and a good school system. But no one is really from there.... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Voices

How I spent my spring vacation

The first thing you notice about Cuba is the color. Thick green leaves shade pink colonial buildings, which stand out against a clear blue sky. Old red Chevrolets motor past... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Editorials

Playground Policy

The last few weeks have brought news of yet another rash of school shootings. However, the question still remains for the American public and our policymakers: What steps can we take as a nation to ensure that we are not confronted with stories of children killing children on the front page? Unfortunately, President Bush and his Education Secretary, Rod Paige, seem content to punt this issue away.

By the March 15, 2001

Voices

I talks good

I dreaded every Friday of the second grade. That was the day that the school speech therapist came and pulled me out of class. Even at eight years old, I... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Voices

Weather you like it or not

They are all over America. People such as Shane Butler in Huntsville, Bryan Busby in Kansas City, Cary Carrigan in Fairbanks, Alexandra Steele here in D.C., Pete Delkus in Cincinnati,... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Sports

The Answer

In case you missed all the ridiculous looking Georgetown students with orange and red faces (I think that’s called sunburned, but there are a few lucky ones that know the... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Sports

Sportsview

So I’m sitting in Psychology this week, beside such luminaries as Minta Lucci and little Bennett, when it occurs to me that I should begin paying attention and stop doodling... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Sports

The Sports Sermon

So the tournament is finally here, and all the “college basketball experts” are coming out of the woodwork. You sit in New South and hear two cats discussing their brackets:... Read more

By the March 15, 2001

Features

March Madness

Thursday night the Hoyas won their first NCAA Tournament game in five years, sending them to the second round, Saturday.

By the March 15, 2001

News

Rats to Riches

After Loyola University of Chicago announced Georgetown’s special assistant to the president, Michael Garanzini, S.J., would be their next president, talk emerged again that Georgetown administrators were leaving Georgetown while... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

Classifieds

CAMP COUNSELORS?New York. Co-ed Trim down- Firtness Camp. Hike & play in the Catskill Mountains, yet only 2 hrs from NY City. Have a great summer. Make a difference in... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

Clarification

The February 22 editorial “Give US A Break” should have noted that the non-violent protest to which the Kildea/LaMotte ticket objected was the 1999 sit-in organized by the Georgetown Solidarity... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

Downhill disaster

People assume that because I’m from northern Illinois I love snow. They fail to realize, though, that a baffling affection for flecks of frozen water is not genetically inherent just... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

College Twilight Zone

I’m a believer in equilibrium: Nature abhors a vacuum. People never change. The pendulum swings back and forth. My faith in stasis, however, doesn’t prevent me from having an existential... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

They come from France …

Everyone, and I mean everyone, hates the people who come back from studying abroad convinced that they have “become” Spanish or have “discovered” that they were born with a French... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Voices

Hey! Weren’t you in my dream last night?

I never really held any belief in the potency of my dreams. If anything, this stems from the fact that, until recently, I seldom had them and didn’t really want... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Sports

Balanced attack topples ‘Cuse

For more than two decades, the Syracuse Orangemen have been cast as the rivals of the Georgetown Hoyas. They are the enemy. They are the archnemisis. On Jan. 29, the... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Sports

New coach, big plans

Leland Beckel wants the best. She wants her own tournament. She wants the NCAAs. And, most importantly, she wants the best golfers. Georgetown’s newest head coach is used to success,... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Editorials

Pacifism in the Pacific

The news was almost too unbelievable to comprehend at first: On February 9, an American submarine, practicing an emergency-surfacing maneuver off the coast of Hawaii, hit a Japanese fishing vessel on the way up, sinking the boat. The collision took the lives of nine aboard the Ehime Maru, including four Japanese high school students that were onboard.

By the March 1, 2001

Sports

Hoyas lance Scarlet Knights, 74-58

Last night, the men’s basketball team turned senior night into a celebration with a convincing 74-58 victory over Rutgers. Playing in front of 9,918 fans at the MCI Center, senior... Read more

By the March 1, 2001

Editorials

Scholastic, Arbitrary Test

On Friday, Feb. 16, the president of the University of California, Richard C. Atkinson, proposed an end to the UC system’s requirement of SAT scores for admission. Atkinson’s bold move is a commendable attempt to refocus the college admissions process on achievement and to eliminate part of the socio-economic bias inscribed on admissions decisions.

By the March 1, 2001

Leisure

Experimental Noise

Experimental music is a questionable style. In theory it would be where one would find bands doing new things, as opposed to producing pre-formatted records. In reality, the experimental bin... Read more

By the March 1, 2001