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Voices

Here, child, finish your nothing!

It’s dark inside the room where I sit with the blinds drawn and the door locked, the only source of light a faint glow emanating from the tip of my cigarette. I’m naked, slumped in a chair with my shoulders hunched forward and squinting into the shadows around me, a half pot of cold coffee sitting next to me on the desk.

By the April 1, 2004

Editorials

In Freddy we trust

When was the last time a 14-year-old saved a professional sports franchise? While it’s an unprecedented shift, that’s exactly what Potomac, Md. phenom Freddy Adu may do for DC United, and Georgetown students should get in on the act.

With the miserable state of professional sports in Washington D.

By the April 1, 2004

News

Anglican Archbishop addresses atheism

The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Head Primate of all England took the stage at a packed and attentive Gaston Hall to promote interreligious dialogue Monday.

The modestly dressed man, a noted scholar and professor of theology at Oxford University, did not look like the religious leader of over 73 million Anglicans worldwide.

By the April 1, 2004

Voices

Born to run

It’s late February in Yates Field House. All of the treadmills and stair climbers are in use and students eagerly wait in line for their turn to exercise. The runners trot along while watching ESPN, witnessing a thrilling intramural basketball game head into six overtimes, or staring at the cracks in the wall.

By the April 1, 2004

Editorials

Morgenstern/de Man review

Although outgoing GUSA executives Brian Morgenstern (CAS ‘05) and Steve de Man (CAS ‘04) ran into significant difficulties in implementing their agenda, they nonetheless led a fairly successful administration. Coming on the heels of former GUSA execs Kaydee Bridges (SFS ‘03) and Mason Ayer (SFS ‘03), Morgenstern and de Man faced high standards as they tried to build on their predecessors’ record.

By the April 1, 2004

News

GU students arrested at GW

D.C. Metropolitan Police arrested Georgetown students Mike Wilson (CAS’05) and Ev Yankey (CAS ‘06) at a protest at the George Washington University campus Monday. Yankey and Wilson were arrested along with nine GW students and face misdemeanor charges after they defied police orders at a protest for workers’ rights at GW.

By the April 1, 2004

Voices

Georgetown’s basketball webpage of record

John Reagan is into Georgetown basketball. He graduated from the McDonough School of Business in 1984, having capped off his senior year by taking one of the University’s charter flights to Seattle, where he slept on the floor of a local gym with other fans and watched the Hoyas win their only national championship.

By the March 25, 2004

Voices

All the news that’s fit to ignore

Imagine an entire country where the only inhabitants are 14-year-olds. Gossip lurks behind every corner. The system of government features a roomful of uptight, insecure representatives shouting insults at one another. Almost everyone is in need of braces.

By the March 25, 2004

Leisure

‘Eternal Sunshine’ lights theaters

LEISURE BY MARY KATHERINE STUMP Have relationship woes and gripes? Does your girlfiend spend more time decorating potatoes than hanging out with you? Don’t be too quick to complain about idiosyncrasies. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, written with the eerie intelligence of the famed Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) and directed by Michel Gondry (various Bjork videos), the film clearly executes its message-that perfect relationships are elusive.

By the March 25, 2004

Editorials

Men’s lacrosse be-devils Duke again

Georgetown Senior midfielder Walid Hajj is a 2004 pre-season All-American. With 3:14 remaining in Sunday’s game against no. 7 Duke, he showed why he deserved the honors.

Hajj scored his only goal of Sunday’s game on a rocket of a shot deep in the fourth quarter.

By the March 25, 2004