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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

News

Performing Arts decision delayed

The D.C. Zoning Commission decided not to vote on the requested delay in the construction of the Georgetown University Performing Arts Center at its regular meeting Monday night.

The Zoning Commission decided to allow the University to file further information regarding the compliance issues, according to Director of Off-Campus Student Life Jeanne Lord.

By the February 27, 2003

Editorials

Empty promises, not empty beds

In anticipation of the 780 beds to be provided next fall by the newly-completed Southwest Quadrangle, Director of Student Housing Services Shirley Menendez told students in an Oct. 31 e-mail that the University would “have enough space to accommodate all students who want to live on campus.

By the February 27, 2003

Sports

Hoyas keep Big East Tournament hopes alive

With 6:30 left in the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s (13-11 overall, 5-8 Big East) 71-56 romp over Providence (13-12 overall, 6-8 Big East) on Tuesday, Friars’ sophomore forward Ryan Gomes backed down Hoyas’ junior forward Mike Sweetney. Over the past five minutes, the two 6-7 behemoths had combined to score 18 of the game’s last 19 points and Gomes was looking for more.

By the February 27, 2003

News

Three years later

In October, the Office of Housing and Conference Services announced in a broadcast e-mail that the University would be able to provide on-campus housing to all students during the 2003-2004 school year. It thought the completion of the Southwest Quadrangle project in the fall of 2003 would provide the extra space needed to house all students on campus.

By the February 27, 2003

News

Hoya Kids permit upheld by court

On Thursday, Feb. 6, the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld a building permit which allows Georgetown to host a child-care center on campus. The permit was challenged by local residents after being upheld by the Board of Zoning Adjustment in 1997.

Hoya Kids Learning Center, located in Poulton Hall, offers day care and preschool services for up to 58 children of University students, faculty and staff, including hospital staff.

By the February 20, 2003

Leisure

‘100th Window’ gives view of band’s decline

Pioneering British electronic act Massive Attack has finally released the follow-up to 1998’s critically acclaimed Mezzanine. The new album, 100th Window, is a disappointing record that tries in vain to recreate Mezzanine’s sound.

That sound was a sensual mix of slowed-down hip-hop beats, throbbing, insistent bass lines and the occasional foray into churning storms of guitar.

By the February 20, 2003

News

First GAAP weekend begins Friday

Two hundred prospective Georgetown students will be on campus this weekend to take part in the Georgetown Admissions Ambassadors Program’s first student-parent activities of the year.

Prospective students who were accepted in the early admissions process were invited to attend either the February early admissions GAAP weekend or one of three GAAP weekends held in April.

By the February 20, 2003