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Negative Campaigning

Fliers with a negative message about a Georgetown University Student Association presidential ticket were posted in first-year dorms Tuesday evening. Most of the signs were composed of two 8” by... Read more

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Election results

The Saxa Server has developed a new program to track demographics of on-line votes. The program will most likely be used for the first time in this year’s GUSA presidential... Read more

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Metro speaks on underage drinking

Lt. Patrick Burke of the Metropolitan Police Department and Nicole Hughes, a local attorney, spoke to students at a meeting Tuesday regarding the repercussions of underage drinking. Burke presented a... Read more

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Board approves fee

The Board of Directors approved a student activities fee at a meeting last week. The fee was proposed by the Georgetown University Student Association in order to increase funding for... Read more

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Burleith thief identified

Metropolitan Police have a suspect for several crimes committed in the area surrounding Georgetown throughout January, according to Metropolitan Police Officer Lt. Brian Bray. Metro has identified a suspect for... Read more

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Constitutional Convention

A Constitutional Review Committee established by student government convened for the first time Monday. The committee was organized by Georgetown University Student Association President Tawan Davis (CAS ‘01) in response... Read more

Editorials

Give US A Break

Of the six tickets slated to run in the upcoming elections, we feel that the Bill Jarvis/Doug Herrema ticket comes closest to meeting our criteria for suitable executives. In relative terms, their platform is more evenly balanced between concrete proposals for improvement in student life and activities, measures for student government reform and a push for fuller representation of the student body by GUSA.

Editorials

Hail to the chief

The recent appointment of John J. DeGioia to the position of University President is encouraging. If Georgetown is serious about its mission to truly become one of the world’s foremost universities, it cannot simply be content with being the best Catholic school in America. DeGioia’s appointment offers a tentative sign that the Board of Directors understands that secularizing the University need not ruin its Jesuit identity.

Features

You don’t know Jack

City council member Jack Evans has his office in the fortress of city bureaucracy that sits at One Judiciary Square. From here he represents Ward 2, which includes all of... Read more

Sports

Seniors key Rutgers victory

The men’s basketball team ended a losing streak, secured a 20-win season, stabilized its confidence and tried out some new (well, kind of) strategies and tactics on its way to... Read more

Sports

Get over it

Just a brief question: Is anyone else fed up with this whole “Troy Murphy is such a goofy and clever guy” phenomenon? In the media over the past few weeks,... Read more

Sports

Sportsview

Dale Earnhardt died Sunday at the Daytona Motor Speedway coming off of the same Turn 4 that he’d handled so many times before. His black No. 3 stockcar, an image... Read more

Sports

The Answer

Saturday afternoon, our rivals come to town. I’m trying as hard as I can to hate them, really hate them. I’m not quite there yet. I know this, because I... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

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

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

Leisure

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

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

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

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

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

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

Editorials

Hypocrisy on the hill

In a typical election cycle, fundraising activity among members of Congress is fairly quiet following the presidential election. The first few months of the new term are generally a time of much-needed respite for the members after the grueling scramble to raise funds for the campaign trail. Yet despite the fact that the 2000 elections were more tiresome than most elections in years past, this post-election period has seen little slowing of fundraising activity.

Editorials

Leaving Lorton

Lorton Correctional Complex, a medium and maximum security prison in suburban Virginia, is on its way to a projected December closure, leaving the city with no prison in the metropolitan area. Bi-weekly bus trips take the once-7,200 inmates to new facilities elsewhere?such as Virginia, Ohio, New York and New Mexico?which are a mixture of federal, state and private institutions with which the city has contracted.

Editorials

Cheque this out

This weekend is Senior Parents’ Weekend. The Senior Class Committee has extended the invitation to parents of seniors to “take part in some of the events that they have enjoyed during their years at Georgetown.” The primary event, however, appears to be parting with a large sum of money in exchange for inclusion in the weekend’s activities.

Voices

What a difference a year makes

One year ago, I was in a very different place. One year ago, I was nearly dead. One year ago, I was in the hospital trying to keep myself alive.... Read more