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Sports

Efficient Hoyas get it done at Lafayette

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH Georgetown football finally got into the win column with, according to Head Coach Bob Benson, a “resilient and persistent” effort last Saturday in a 17-10 victory over a talented Lafayette Leopard squad. The win, the season’s first both overall and in Patriot League play, was capped on a 14-play, 95-yard drive at the midway point of the fourth quarter of what Benson called a “great team win.”

By the October 9, 2003

Editorials

Get the word out

The Lecture Fund should be congratulated for bringing Michael Moore to speak at Georgetown. After more than ten years as a cult figure among liberal college students, known mostly for his documentary Roger and Me as well as his television series and books, Moore entered the mainstream with the release of his Oscar-winning film Bowling for Columbine last year.

By the October 9, 2003

Voices

Pizza, sex and Santa Claus

Being a student guard isn’t all about fast women and loose cars like so many people think it is. It takes a lot more to be one of Georgetown’s elite, as the following excerpts from the diary of a retired guard proves: 8:15 p.m.-Arrive for my 8 p.m. shift right on time, try not to acknowledge the angry glares from the previous guard as he packs up his science fiction novels and coloring books.

By the October 9, 2003

Sports

Hoyas fall to Friars, No.2 Terps up next

Following their blowout of the Virginia Military Academy on Wednesday night, the Georgetown men’s soccer team endured a harrowing 3-1 loss to Big East opponent Providence Saturday under piercing sun at North Kehoe Field.

In the first half, the Hoyas displayed immense vigor and team harmony on the field as they held the Friars off the scoreboard and away from senior goalkeeper Tim Hogan’s box, holding Providence to only one shot.

By the October 9, 2003

Editorials

We’re number … 20?

The November issue of The Atlantic Monthly includes a series of articles on the college admissions process. The pieces chronicle the long-term trend towards nationwide competition in American education. Entitled “Our First Annual College Admissions Survey,” the feature also includes a chart, much like that found each year in U.

By the October 9, 2003

Voices

A toast to integration

Recently there has been much discussion regarding the need to revise the current alcohol policy on campus. The FRIENDS group brought the debate to the forefront once again by submitting a proposal five weeks ago to revise the current alcohol policy.

By the October 9, 2003

Sports

Red Sox & Cubs vs. the curse

You my boy Derek Lowe. You saved me from going into a catatonic trance on Monday night. I’d been shaking because I had to watch my beloved Beantown baseballers let a three run lead dwindle to one, and with men on first and second and only one out, I was sure we were doomed to spend another off-season in the dumps.

By the October 9, 2003

Editorials

How to solve everything

In the eyes of many college applicants, student amenities are quickly outstripping more established criterion for judging schools, such as student-teacher ratios, historical prestige or the amount of financial aid the school is willing to provide. Colleges are responding, and the race is on.

By the October 9, 2003

Voices

Letter to the Editor

Overlooked arts community

I read your article detailing the groundbreaking ceremony for the Performing Arts Center and its implications for the new Program in Performing Arts and the University community overall with a great sense of anticipation (“Arts center construction begins,” News, Oct.

By the October 9, 2003

Sports

Seats taken

October perennially seems to be the month when the bandwagon pulls out of the garage and makes its stops, picking up the derelicts who wait on the street corner for their team to finally come around. Ahh, the bandwagon, that rollicking inferno that sets ablaze a never-before-seen passion in lost and wayward fans.

By the October 9, 2003