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Sports

Growing Pains

Over the last 20 years, Georgetown has built a new student center, an Intercultural Center, and a dormitory. Over the next 10 years, the University wants to build a Performing Arts Center, a new facility for the McDonough School of Business and a new science building.

By the February 27, 2003

Leisure

Quixotic quest ends in failure, fun

Video killed the radio star, curiosity killed the cat and bad luck and a lack of funds killed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the latest would-be joint from offbeat director Terry Gilliam. The only thing that remains of the director’s vision for a film version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s documentary Lost in La Mancha—a detailed account of the dissolution of one director’s dream.

By the February 27, 2003

News

DeGioia supports affirmative action

University President John J. DeGioia strongly stated Georgetown1s commitment to affirmative action in a speech delivered Tuesday evening in Gaston Hall, calling the policy 3critical to achieving our educational mission.2

The Supreme Court of the United States is currently examining affirmative action in public universities.

By the February 27, 2003

Voices

Finding myself, between the sheets

Back in one of my high school English classes we read the great American novel, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby isn’t just any book to Manhasset, the town I grew up in. The novel takes place on our shore and surrounding locations. Seventy-eight years after its publication, the social mores of the novel survive.

By the February 27, 2003

News

Merkel criticizes anti-war Germany

Dr. Angela Merkel, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany1s opposition party, discussed the future of Germany and Europe, and criticized Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der1s anti-war stance in a speech Tuesday afternoon.

Speaking in Copley Formal Lounge, Merkel criticized the German adoption of 3Sonderweg,2 the anti-war approach of Schr?der1s government, which has considerably strained U.

By the February 27, 2003

Editorials

GUSA: Clean up your act

Georgetown University Student Association elections are never a flawless process, and there has already been one especially ugly election this year: The returns from the election for first-year GUSA representatives were not certified by the assembly until almost a month after the election was over.

By the February 27, 2003

Voices

Track 03–The Scientist

Snow means real life is paralyzed; the only way to spend a day pent up inside your house, because you can’t open your front door, is doing nothing at all. I watched Empire Records, and it was phenomenal. I’d forgotten how much I love AC/DC and Coyote Shivers, the flannel shirts and long greasy hair.

By the February 27, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

When we say dynasty, what pops into your mind? The Bulls? The Yankees? Bad soap operas?

Well, how about a women’s basketball team? No? Am I exposing your innate gender preferences, your enormous lack of respect for the opposite sex? Or are you a woman? Were you actually thinking about women in the first place? Am I confusing the hell out of you? Are you wearing any pants?

Well, before you answer no, let us get back to the point.

By the February 27, 2003

Leisure

Cabaret brings noise, occasional funk

This isn’t your grandmother’s cover band concert. Assuming your grandmother has a cover band. And she’s not dead. It’s Cabaret, Georgetown’s long-running, annual variety show featuring performances by campus singers and musicians.

By the February 27, 2003

Features

Slam!

It may seem odd to rank poets like sports teams, but slam isn’t just art, it’s a competition. In an official poetry slam, a poet must present an original composition, no longer than three minutes and without using any props, music, or costumes. Five audience members are chosen at random to serve as judges and they rate each poem on a scale of one to ten. Unlike purely written poetry, just as much emphasis is placed on bodily movement and intonation as on the poem’s content.

By the February 27, 2003