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Preview: Hoyas vs. Red Storm

Marcus Hatten remembers Georgetown very well.

St. John’s diminutive senior guard, the second leading scorer in the Big East at 22.8 points per game and first-team All Big East selection will lead the Red Storm (20-13) into the National Invitation Tournament finals to play the Hoyas (19-14) tonight at 8 p.

By the April 3, 2003

News

Wiesel supports Iraq intervention

Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel spoke on the war in Iraq on Monday, saying that although he is never for war, he supports U.S. intervention in Iraq. Wiesel spoke in Gaston Hall in recognition of Georgetown’s newly created Elie and Marion Wiesel Chair in Jewish Civilization in Gaston Hall Monday morning.

By the April 3, 2003

Sports

I like action

“NIT champs, huh? So you’re the 66th-best team in the nation. Way to go, losers!”

I will sock the next wise ass who says this. We need to dispense with this mindless cliche once and for all. To argue that Georgetown or St. John’s is a worse team than No. 16 seeds Vermont or South Carolina State is sophistry, an argument built on the fallacy that the 65 teams selected for the NCAA Tournament are the 65 best teams in the country.

By the April 3, 2003

Leisure

Can’t kill the rooster

When I was abroad, a friend of mine lent me Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. And let me tell you, I couldn’t put it down! I was laughing out loud! Golly! But seriously, this stupid hyperbole actually applies to Sedaris. An essayist and humorist based in New York, Sedaris’ humor can make anyone laugh … and trust me, it’s funny as all hell.

By the April 3, 2003

Voices

Don’t know why

I met Leslie in biology class our first year. I complimented her on a bracelet that stretched taunt across her thick wrist. She told me her boyfriend had given it to her. I wasn’t really listening, as I tend to do when girls go on about their boyfriends. The way she gushed on about this guy made me think it must be a new relationship.

By the April 3, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Given that our Final Four predictions last week were more despicably off target than a U.S. Patriot Missile (did we just say that?), we thought we’d focus our attention on the most important holiday of the year: Opening Day. So, in case you missed it, here are the highlights of Monday’s action.

By the April 3, 2003

Sports

Hoyas beat Tar Heels, advance to NIT semifinal

“I think we’ve learned how to win now,” said Georgetown Head Coach Craig Esherick following last night’s exhilarating 79-74 victory in front of a raucous crowd at North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the National Invitation Tournament.

Up 68-60 with 4:09 remaining, Georgetown (18-14), like so many previous times this year began to let the game slip away, allowing the Tar Heels (19-16) to go on a 10-2 run in the next two minutes and tie the game at 70.

By the March 27, 2003

Editorials

Meaningful speech

Most politically-minded groups on campus have responded to the war in Iraq in the same way they respond to everything: a flurry of fliers, a liberal chalking of Red Square and possibly a poorly-attended lecture or two. It’s the ante, and, in its repetitiveness, is easily ignored.

By the March 27, 2003

Sports

Why I love the National Invitation Tournament

It has been a rough four years for seniors like me who love Hoyas basketball. We have had our great moments, but far more “what if’s.” I often wonder what it would have been like to go to a university with a more successful basketball program, for as much as I hate to admit it, I often envy the Dukies in March.

By the March 27, 2003

Editorials

Town-gown terrors

Last week, Georgetown residents identified disorderly behavior by students as the worst quality-of-life issue in the neighborhood at a joint meeting called by the Metropolitan Police Department and the Citizens Association of Georgetown. Residents cited noise, vandalism and disorderly conduct by students as the primary problems and urged police to take action.

By the March 27, 2003