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Peace Action ‘speaks out’ in Red Square

Georgetown Peace Action’s tent village came alive Wednesday as students voiced their opposition to the war in a “speak-out” in Red Square.

Students formed a circle and cheered speakers from the group, who have been sleeping in tents since last Wednesday night.

By the March 27, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Did you actually pick Xavier to go to the Sweet 16? I mean, whatever, only a retarded person would bet on a three-seed from the Atlantic 10 with the most overrated college player since Andrew DeClerq. But it’s okay. You’re not retarded.

What? You picked Florida over Michigan State? And you picked Louisville, too? Goddammit, you are retarded.

By the March 27, 2003

News

Student Health Center to offer online scheduling

Georgetown’s Student Health Center will begin offering online appointment scheduling and prescription refill service within the next four weeks, according to Dr. James Welsh, director of the Student Health Center.

Welsh said that the directors of the Student Health Center have been working for about four months with the Medical Center and Relay Health, a company that provides online communication between doctors and patients, in order to create and implement the online services.

By the March 27, 2003

Leisure

Richter exhibition off the scale

There is something about Gerhard Richter’s paintings which sets them apart from the works of most of the post-modernists and neo-expressionists he is typically associated with: they are pretty. Pretty in a way that transcends their typically grim spectra. Say what you will for the theoretical implications of his blurred portraits and crackling abstracts, they are first and foremost the work of a man with a hell of an eye.

By the March 27, 2003

News

Former ambassador emphasizes human rights

Dr. Mansour Farhang, former Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, spoke about his hope for democracy and human rights in Iran on Wednesday. Speaking in Gaston Hall, Farhang discussed democratic prospects for the world’s only theocracy.

Farhang suggested that achieving human rights for all should be Iran’s most important goal.

By the March 27, 2003

Leisure

Kirchner show features bright colors, vivid figures

In the pages of this week’s New Yorker, a cartoon depicts a group of patrician-looking types chatting in front of a Calder-ish mobile and a squiggly-lined painting. “Jim’s a good old-fashioned modernist,” says one to the others.

“Good old-fashioned modernist” is an apt moniker for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, co-founder of Die Br?cke and perhaps German Expressionism’s most remarkable artist.

By the March 27, 2003

Voices

We have a diverse student body … and toilets

When I was 16 years old, I read a profile in Rolling Stone about a pair of hotel management students on the “seven-year plan” at Florida State University. Written right after FSU had first been named the number-one party school in the nation, the journalist followed the students around their daily life, focusing especially on party scenes.

By the March 27, 2003

News

Georgetown street collapses

Dozens of curious onlookers were kept at bay by emergency workers Wednesday night as they tried to catch a glimpse of the gaping hole that used to be Bank Street.

Approximately three-quarters of Bank Street, which runs between M and Prospect streets past Kinko’s, collapsed into the hole that is part of a construction project on the street.

By the March 27, 2003

Leisure

Shock and ‘AwNaw’

“Nappy don’t have nothing to do with hair,” said Scales, one member of the Kentucky hip-hop sextet Nappy Roots. “It’s about staying close to where we came from and building on that.”

The group, which will play at McDonough Arena on Saturday night, are the leaders of the new country-fried rap genre, a style of hip-hop that combines the funk of Outkast and the glossiness of Master P’s No Limit, first popularized by the now-forgotten Timbaland prot?g? Bubba Sparxxx.

By the March 27, 2003

Voices

What’s a couple of dirham anyway

My trip to Morocco was motivated by the search for a cheap locale and a slight desire for adventure. I flew to Casablanca via Paris-very romantic, very Bogie. It was obvious that my friends and I are foreign-me not so much, my Aryan-looking roommate a little more.

By the March 27, 2003