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Confessions of a lazy mind

Picture this: It’s a little after midnight early Wednesday morning, and you have a column and a three-page thesis outline due later that day. So what do you do? Well, if you’re me, you sit down with your too-often shirtless roommate and watch A Walk To Remember, based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks.

By the January 23, 2003

Voices

Lost in the margin

Last Saturday, Illinois Governor George Ryan emptied the state’s death row, declaring the system “arbitrary and capricious—and therefore immoral.” Governor Ryan commuted 167 death sentences to life in prison. This bold move by the governor came at the conclusion of three years of study of the death penalty system in Illinois that was spurred on by the discovery of 13 innocent convicts in the state’s death row.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

All-American Sicher strikes a balance

Georgetown track and field co-captain Erin Sicher is a three-time All-American who runs 70 miles a week. She was a member of the outdoor 4×800 meter relay team that won the Big East Championship in 2001 and she just earned her first individual All-American honor in cross country this fall.

By the January 16, 2003

News

First-year student takes own life in Village C

At approximately 11 p.m. on Saturday evening, Georgetown first-year student Jeremy Dorfman (CAS ‘06) was discovered to have taken his own life by hanging in his Village C West dormitory room. Dorfman, who was 19, was taken to Georgetown University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead early Sunday morning.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

Orangewomen juiced, lots of pulp

In the first of two games on its Big East road trip, the Hoyas women’s basketball team knocked off Syracuse 82-75 in overtime on Wednesday night. Junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led the Hoyas with 25 points and 15 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.

By the January 16, 2003

News

Students call for new assault policy

A group of students has created a report describing suggestions for improving Georgetown’s sexual assault services, which they distributed to various administrators on Monday.

The group, Advocates for Improved Response Methods to Sexual Assault put together the report as part of a campaign to enhance sexual assault services.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

The Esherant

After the Hoyas’ overtime victory against West Virginia last Saturday, a tall white guy, eyes burning and voice cracking, told the MCI Center pressroom how he truly felt:

“For the referees in our league, and for our league, and for the adults that run our league to expect Mike Sweetney to put up with the contact that he has to put up in the post when he goes up to shoot, and to put up with the contact he has to absorb and deal with and be happy about and not have a referee call a foul, and then [to have] that same 20-year old watch our perimeter people guard people … and get called for hand-checking every time we put our hands on somebody else is just absolutely, absolutely crazy.

By the January 16, 2003

News

Thefts over break cause DPS to urge caution

The rate of thefts and burglaries this winter has been dramatically higher than last year, making students uneasy about the safety of their on-campus housing.

According to Department of Public Safety records, a total of five burglaries and two thefts occurred during the winter break, including several in Henle Village and Alumni Square.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

In honor of Training Day’s debut on HBO, where it will inevitably be run over and over and over again until Ethan Hawke’s mustache actually seems attractive, this week The Serm divides the sporting world using “Denzel Terms.” As he said, you can either be two things in this raw and rugged life—a wolf or a sheep.

By the January 16, 2003

News

A healthy change

Georgetown, a University that has recently seemed to focus on preserving and promoting tradition, is taking steps to keep up with the constantly changing face of student health.

Throughout the 1990s, the percentage of students on psychoactive prescription drugs rose from 5 percent to 40 percent.

By the January 16, 2003