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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

Leisure

Queer? Aie!

Around the early 1900’s people thought minstrel shows were really funny. And seriously, what’s funnier than a white guy in black face imitating one of those darn funny blacks, right? White racists laughed and blacks probably laughed, too. Even some white people who had black friends laughed.

By the October 2, 2003

Sports

Q&A: wideout Luke McArdle

Senior wide receiver and kick returner Luke McArdle is having the best season of his career. At 6-foot-1 and 180 lbs. he possesses an incredible amount of athletic ability and speed. We sat down with the Hoyas captain to ask him about the season, life at Georgetown, and the NFL.

By the October 2, 2003

Leisure

Prosit!

To the chagrin of the flip-flop loving students of Georgetown, the cold waltzed in this week in all of its frosty glory. But if anything makes college students happier than warm weather, it’s cold beer. The advent of fall finds consolation on this front, as Oktoberfest rolls in along with the chill in the air.

By the October 2, 2003