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News

Students survive Burleith blackout

NEWS BY JANE ULANOVA While some carefree Georgetown students spent the hurricane rolling around in the mud like happy little piglets, students living outside the campus bubble were busy stumbling over furniture in the dark. The survivors of Burleith Blackout 2003, which started last Thursday night and lasted until Tuesday evening, got to watch the campus twinkle its tantalizing lights as they remained powerless.

By the September 25, 2003

Voices

Oh, Isabel

VOICES BY VANESSA MACHIR Let me explain something. I do not strip. I do not get naked. Unless nudity is an intrinsic requirement of a situation, the clothes stay on at all times. Not during the most aggressive heat strokes or my most embarrassingly drunken moments have I ever felt the urge to disrobe.

By the September 25, 2003

News

Making the call

Jim O’Donnell got out of bed Friday morning, walked outside his Georgetown waterfront home and saw something he wasn’t quite expecting: warm breezes and blue skies. “My first reaction was, I felt a little sheepish,” said O’Donnell, executive vice president and University provost.

By the September 25, 2003

News

Vouching for D.C.

A banner touting President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” slogan hangs along the fa?ade of the Department of Education’s downtown headquarters. With a school vouchers plan becoming closer to reality for the District, however, perhaps the slogan should be “Every School Left Behind.

By the September 18, 2003

Leisure

Eat this

From Atkins to South Beach, there’s a diet out there for just about everyone. While most popular diets help you lose weight by controlling caloric intake and portion size, diet programs of the past took a much more effective approach: make the food so unappealing that you literally can’t eat it.

By the September 18, 2003

News

GU battens down for Isabel

NEWS BY LAUREN TANICK Meteorologists, city officials and university administrators all agree: Isabel’s coming, and she’s packing a punch. Enough punch, it seems, for the University to close Thursday to accommodate commuting faculty and staff. According to the Weather Channel, the hurricane is predicted to bring gale force winds and heavy rains by Friday afternoon.

By the September 18, 2003

Leisure

Thrifty thrills

A hefty price tag has come to denote the following: quality goods, a designer outfit, or a new piece of clothing that looks 20 years old. Evidence of this phenomenon abounds in stores like Abercrombie & Fitch and Urban Outfitters, where retailers strive to make costly clothes that look like they were produced decades ago.

By the September 18, 2003

Voices

The great Bengali monsoon wedding

There is a scene in Mira Nair’s film, Monsoon Wedding, where the bridegroom asks his fianc?, handpicked by his parents, about the odd similarity between an arranged marriage and a “love match?” “Well, how much more risky can this arranged marriage thing be from meeting one night in a noisy and smoky bar and hooking up?” he asks.

By the September 18, 2003

Editorials

Improving SafeRides

While a greater percentage of Georgetown University students are living on campus, the need for greater attention to off-campus safety issues remains as pressing as before. Just this week, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspected armed robber who entered a second-story residence early hours of the morning.

By the September 18, 2003

Voices

Letter to the Editor

I want to congratulate Rob Anderson and Mike DeBonis on their centerfold article on the Southwest Quadrangle (“Our campus, our space,” Cover, Sept. 11). It is well written and shows considerable knowledge of architecture. And I laughed out loud when I read, “If God is in the architectural details, Georgetown lost its faith long ago.

By the September 18, 2003