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Sports

The Sports Sermon

February sucks, you say. The NFL playoffs are over, and there’s nothing going on until March Madness, right? NO!

You see, February is the grandest month for true fans, and by true fans I mean the good people who realize that football is almost as boring as hockey and that the two incarnations of the truest sport-basketball-are in full swing.

By the February 6, 2003

Voices

Detached, ironically

If college is a part of my formative years, then it is safe to say that I am still developing the basic paradigms through which I view the world. I don’t just mean my stance on political systems such as representative democracy or bureaucratic authoritarianism, or how to choose an appropriate theoretical economic framework with which to analyze the Mexican debt crisis of 1982.

By the February 6, 2003

Leisure

Supergroup Zwan zwucks

The problem with supergroups constructed from bits and pieces of other bands is that they often end up with the least essential component of the original—bringing with them the name association, but rarely the creativity, of their former group. Zwan is a band in this vein, bringing Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins), Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle) and David Pajo (Slint/Tortoise) together with less than outstanding results.

By the February 6, 2003

Features

In the anti-war movement is only one A.N.S.W.E.R. right?

Though the debate over numbers may prevent ANSWER from getting the credit it feels it deserves for organizing what may have been among the largest protests ever in Washington, its increasing success in attracting “real” Americans to protests has raised serious questions in the media and activist communities surrounding ANSWER’s role as the current leader of the anti-war movement. The group is at the center of a growing controversy surrounding the anti-war movement, how it should be run and just who ought to be running it.

By the January 30, 2003

Editorials

Look who’s talking

Georgetown is too often knocked for its “pre-professional” orientation: So it goes, students here would rather press flesh and pad resumes than learn without a motive or ambition in mind. Still, many of us are ready to wait in excessive lines to hear top speakers, class credit be damned, and over the past months, students have had more reasons than ever to stand in line, thanks to a wealth of fine speakers on campus.

By the January 30, 2003

News

Venezuelan journalist’s speech draws critics

When students and faculty in the Communication, Culture & Technology Program invited Marta Colomina, a Venezuelan journalist and vocal opponent of the Venezuelan government, to speak at Georgetown, they were aware that she was a controversial figure in Venezuelan politics.

By the January 30, 2003

Leisure

City of God–an evil god

After watching City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles, one leaves convinced that the scariest thing in the world is a child with a gun. “A kid? I smoke, I snort, I’ve killed and robbed a man,” says one anonymous character. Groups of single-digit-aged boys run rampant and buck the hell out of each other. With little remorse and fueled by pot-induced bravado, there’s no telling what these brats can do.

By the January 30, 2003

News

Midnight Mug reopens today after permit trouble

The Midnight Mug, Students of Georgetown Inc.’s new coffee shop located on the second floor of Lauinger Library, is anticipated to reopen for business today at noon.

The coffee shop originally opened on Jan. 21 and ran into immediate regulatory trouble when it was discovered that the University had issued an incorrect Certificate of Occupancy.

By the January 30, 2003

Leisure

Voice Leisure retro reads

Looking for something awesome and totally rocking to chase away those winter “blahs” and other emotions best expressed by non-words? Try a good book. Or, better yet, try the good book. Or just read the Bible. This “blast-from-the-past” has it all—action, adventure, betrayal, smiting, psalms, zombies, giants, Pharisees, morals and sects. Lots of hot, steamy sects.

By the January 30, 2003

News

Students call-in to protest U.S. stance on FCTC

Georgetown students participated in a call-in campaign to the office of Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson yesterday in Red Square. Callers were encouraged to ask Thompson not to modify an international tobacco treaty proposed by the World Heath Organization and drawn up through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

By the January 30, 2003