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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.

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

Leisure

Lez’her Ledger

Is your porn addiction getting in the way of your life? Don’t be ashamed. It happens to everybody. Maybe you started out reading Maxim or Men’s Health. The glistening bodies... Read more

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The Soul of Soulsides

The musical empire destined to alter the course of hip hop music was born in a college radio station somewhere in the middle of Northern California, circa 1992. Davis, California,... Read more

Editorials

Promise keepers

The people have spoken. Well, 36 percent of the people have spoken, to be exact. Perhaps this still-low voter turnout reflects the campus opinion of the relatively “blah” nature of this year’s GUSA candidates. Yet the people who did vote did so overwhelmingly for Ryan DuBose (CAS ‘02) and Brian Walsh (CAS ‘02), so the voters must be saying something. We have something to say, too.

Leisure

All work, no play

Despite the existence of an urban center just miles away from campus, students at Georgetown don’t seem to frequent movies, concerts, museums and plays as much as you might expect.... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It has been said many times before, but we hate Duke (henceforth: Dook). So after Maryland went into Cameron on Tuesday and exacted ACC revenge on the Blue Devils, tears... Read more

Sports

The Answer

Supposedly revenge is best served cold, but Georgetown’s red-hot win over Syracuse was about as good as revenge gets: Oranges were flying, students stormed the court first out of joy... Read more

Sports

Sportsview

Are you one of those students who waits for over a half an hour at Yates just to have the privilege to work out on one of the elliptical machines?... Read more

News

City on a Hill

The new resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW is not the most popular man in town. He received under 50 percent of the votes cast in November’s election, and signs... Read more

News

Seniors vote on class gift

The class of 2001 voted last Wednesday to provide several benches and a plot of trees for a designated area in the new Southwest Quadrangle as its class gift. A... Read more

News

Improved bookstore re-opens

The Georgetown University Bookstore reopened Monday in the space directly above its normal location after closing for three days to move the site of the store in order to continue... Read more

News

ANC expresses concerns over bars

The local Advisory Neighborhood Commission voted seven to one against renewing a liquor license for a local bar, Rhino Bar and Pumphouse. The ANC also voted to continue probation of... Read more

News

Constitutional review continues

A committee to evaluate the current student government constitution will finalize the structure and begin an evaluation and revision of financial provisions of the new student government constitution by the... Read more

News

DuBose,Walsh elected next GUSA executives

Ryan DuBose (CAS ‘02) and Brian Walsh (CAS ‘02) won the positions of Georgetown University Student Association president and vice president for the 2001-2002 school year by a margin of... Read more

News

Alumnus in fatal accident

A Georgetown graduate, Kevin C. Hurley (MSB ‘00) died in a car accident last Friday morning. The accident occured at approximately 2:15 a.m. on East Basin Drive, D.C. at the... Read more

Features

The never-ending reformation

It’s the graveyard shift, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Two sophomores sit on the floor in the living room of Village B 50. The light is just beginning to filter... Read more

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

News

Welcome Back Jack

Georgetown has a lot of adjusting to do. With the Board of Directors’ decision to elect Senior Vice President John J. DeGioia the new president of Georgetown University, the biggest... Read more

Leisure

The artistic side to Evans

Jack Evans, political animal and focus of this week’s cover story, has wedged himself into the Leisure section via the passage of the “Anti-Graffiti Amendment Act,” which he introduced to... Read more

Sports

St. John’s turns over Georgetown

Given a chance to separate itself from the middle of the pack in the Big East conference, the men’s basketball team lost to St. John’s, 73-70, last night at Madison... Read more

Leisure

Sewervivor: outshit & outlast

I was sitting in my intern “office” one day at DC-101, “the only station that really rocks,” when my eyes met a most repulsive sight. Through the window, I spotted... Read more

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Mr. Tweedy goes to Washington

It seems like such a short time ago that country music was frightfully uncool. The commercialization of Nashville in the early to mid-1990s had left us with country “stars,” people... Read more

Leisure

The Voice Interview with Neil Halsted

The guy behind me in the ticket line pegged me for a journalist at first glance. “What outfit are you with?” he asked, and I, without hesitation, responded, “The Georgetown... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Get involved: Basketball and assassins! Argh! (or other pirate noise)