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Editorials

Too many buses

When Georgetown University sold the Medical Center to MedStar in 2000 to avoid further financial losses, part of their agreement addressed traffic and parking issues. It was agreed that by 2002, MedStar would control almost 2,800 of the 4,080 on-campus parking spaces allowed by zoning laws—800 more than the hospital could use previously.

By the August 21, 2003

Editorials

Nice quads

After many months of construction, the Southwest Quadrangle project is complete. Students have been moving in, and the building should be filled to capacity by this time next week, mostly with sophomores surly for having been denied a shot at a Village A rooftop.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

With QB chosen, football looks eagerly ahead

SPORTS BY BILL CLEVELAND The major summertime question about the Georgetown football team’s upcoming season has been this: Who will be the starting quarterback? After a period of preseason uncertainty, Head Coach Bob Benson has selected junior Andrew Crawford to start in the position.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

Tumultuous summer for Hoyas hoops roster

The Georgetown men’s basketball team is rebounding from a tumultuous year, during which they lost six of 14 players on their roster to graduation, transfer or ineligibility. Only two of last season’s starters will be returning this year-senior guard Gerald Riley and sophomore forward Brandon Bowman.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

New basketball assistants settle in

The Hoyas roster wasn’t the only part of the men’s basketball team that underwent a major overhaul this summer. When assistants Ronny Thompson and Chip Simms left the team to take a position at the University of Arkansas and explore other coaching options, respectively, Georgetown was left with two significant holes in its staff.

By the August 21, 2003

Sports

Scavenge, win

I don’t really do sports. I sit on the couch and watch them. I listen to my friends talk about them. I even watch a basketball game or two at Yates while I’m running on the treadmill. But I don’t do sports.

So what got me up at 6:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning to jog two miles? And why am I loading up on carbs and consuming four Nalgenes of water a day? It’s because the race of all races, the challenge of all challenges, the adventure of all adventures is just around the corner.

By the August 21, 2003

News

In Memoriam

Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. The Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, Professor Emeritus of History, died this summer shortly after his one-hundredth birthday. An extremely active community member even in old age, Durkin worked with prison inmates and Alzheimer’s patients, as well as Georgetown students.

By the August 21, 2003

The Back Page

The Back Page

Free Unclassifieds: Don’t fret, plun. Welcome freshpeople! nijntje But who could forget the viceroy? I’d feel awful. Surely you are misled. The British love picnics, and so one didn’t not have a picnic merely because the environment didn’t lend itself particulary well to picnics.

By the August 21, 2003

Voices

Not Nirvana, just clarity

I cried the day that Kurt Cobain died. That night, nine Aprils ago, friends and I lit candles and listened to “Pennyroyal Tea” as a meaningful, if juvenile tribute. I cried the next year too, playing my guitar as my mother consoled me, even though she had until that spring disdained Nirvana and their lyrical content-unsettling material for an impressionable nine-year-old, I understand.

By the April 24, 2003

Voices

My 20 Years with the Voice

All good things must come to an end. Today, The Georgetown Voice publishes my byline for the last time. My first byline ran when I was a first-year, in the fall of 1983. Or was it 1982? No, it had to be 1983 because the theme for my senior prom was “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” and I don’t think Culture Club was too popular in the spring of 1982.

By the April 24, 2003