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News

GUSA candidates disqualified, voting botched

Two GUSA presidential tickets were disqualified Tuesday night for inappropriate campaigning following an election mishap that prevented at least 300 students from voting.

Soon after declaring Brian Morgenstern (CAS OE05) and Steve de Man (CAS OE04) the winners of GUSA1s executive elections, the six executive candidates were ushered into the glass-walled GUSA office for a closed meeting.

By the February 27, 2003

Voices

Playing though the pain

I rotate writing this personal column with a senior in the college, Peter Hamby. He is my closest friend at Georgetown. Last spring, his brother Patrick died in a car accident. Peter’s never written a column about what happened. That’s because what he has to say is too overwhelming to fit into half a page.

By the February 27, 2003

News

Georgetown responds to threat of war

At Georgetown University, as in many communities across the country, people are preparing for war. Students and staff are designing evacuation routes, designating meeting points and buying duct tape in record numbers.

3We have completely sold out of duct tape, and are ordering more,2 said Meg Gardner, the supply buyer for the Georgetown bookstore.

By the February 27, 2003

Leisure

Recording like the pros

Listening to the professional sheen of Spacecamp’s new Grog’d EP, you’d swear these guys were major-label pros, rolling in a big advance reveling in heavy MTV rotation and airplay on modern-rock radio stations nationwide.

You’d be wrong. Spacecamp, composed of five Georgetown students, is a lot like many other garage bands—unsigned, little-noticed and hungry for success.

By the February 27, 2003

Sports

Hoyas schooled by UConn, 97-57

As 1,879 noisy fans looked on in a packed McDonough Arena, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-11 overall, 5-9 Big East) meekly handed No. 1 Connecticut its 65th straight win last night, 97-57. Though junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led all scorers with 20 points, the Hoyas lost their second consecutive game by 40 points or more.

By the February 27, 2003

Leisure

Cowboys and pudding

Listen up, you pasty, drug-addicted prostitute of a student: I know how you feel. It’s February, perhaps the worst month of the year. Spring Break seems far away. It’s cold and snowy, and there is nothing to do in this city unless you’re going to see Liza Minelli on Friday night at the MCI Center.

By the February 27, 2003

News

Only first-years eligible for dorms

Although the Office of Housing announced earlier this year that all students who want to live on campus would be guaranteed housing, the sign-up for residence hall room selection will be limited to students in the class of 2006.

According to an e-mail sent to students Wednesday by the Office of Housing Services, the desire for on-campus housing exceeds the actual availability of housing.

By the February 27, 2003

Sports

Couch potato

As the snow fell from the sky like cocaine in the promised land, I cursed the sporting gods as athletics stood at a standstill for the weekend. Between the mullet overload that was the Daytona 500 and the soap opera that was Tiger and Phil, there was little else to do but peruse the wide world of cable.

By the February 20, 2003

Voices

Get out that Starter jacket

I got it in my head that I had to look north as I decided where to attend college last year. As I explained to distressed parents and pets alike, “It’s just not cold enough for me in D.C.; I need sub-zero temperatures and blankets of snow from the second week in October to the last week in April to function.

By the February 20, 2003

Editorials

Get on your feet

As part of Georgetown’s increased security efforts in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a Department of Public Safety vehicle has been stationed at University entrances, Healy Gates and Reservoir Road, 24-hours a day. While the car adequately addresses campus traffic control, it has not been as successful at policing crimes occurring near campus: On Feb.

By the February 20, 2003