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News

GIA, JSA organize Jewish solidarity rally

Students gathered in Red Square on Monday, Nov. 25 in response to the recent remarks of Norman Finkelstein, a Holocaust historian who spoke on campus Nov. 18, and Professor Hisam Sharabi, a Professor Emeritus who made controversial remarks in a speech in Lebanon.

By the December 5, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

OK, ladies and gentlemen, let’s play Six Degrees of Sports Separation, Thanksgiving Edition. We’re taking suggestions from the audience. Anyone? Where should we start?

Yes, you there. The man with no penis. Yes, you in the Kansas sweatshirt.

“Can you talk about Kirk Hinrich?”

Ah, the elfish one himself.

By the December 5, 2002

News

More students choosing two majors

The number of Georgetown students with double majors has increased by over 150 percent since 1997. A recent article in The New York Times cited Georgetown as one of a number of schools that represent a growing but not necessarily desirable trend in double majoring.

By the December 5, 2002

Leisure

Strokes finish too quickly, fail to satisfy

The Strokes’ concert last Tuesday was a safe bet for D.C. kids with a curfew: By 11:30 p.m. ushers were already yelling for the hangers-on to clear the building. After playing a 50-minute set with no encore, the Strokes had cleared D.A.R. Constitution Hall in record time.

By the December 5, 2002

News

Medical Center avoids walk out

A walk out by Georgetown University Medical Center staff planned for Monday, Nov. 25 was averted when workers and management reached a last-minute agreement over contract disputes.

The negotiators reached a tentative two-and-a-half year contract agreement an hour before the planned walk-out, and on the following Wednesday, the workers agreed to ratify the temporary agreement.

By the December 5, 2002

Leisure

More art, less matter

While the shopping opportunities on Wisconsin Ave. and M St. are the best around, art galleries in Georgetown are somewhat sparse. You have to look a little harder in order to find some substance beneath the overpriced clothes and trendy restaraunts. The Addison/Ripley Georgetown gallery on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Reservoir Road fits nicely into the void left by these other shops.

By the December 5, 2002

News

Area alert system introduced

Coordinators of the newly developed Pilot Project presented its text messaging emergency broadcast system to the Georgetown community, which would be used in community emergencies.

The Pilot Project, the first of its kind in Georgetown, is designed to quickly provide the community with information in the event of an emergency.

By the December 5, 2002

Leisure

Santarchy 101

This Saturday, Dec. 7, if you’re in the vicinity of the Georgetown Park Mall around 5 p.m., you might be in for a treat, as Santa Claus is scheduled to pay a visit. Actually, about 40 Santas should be around, but they won’t be handing out any sugar plums or candy canes.

By the December 5, 2002

News

Walking out

In the words of Pope John Paul II, “[Labor] organizations … are an indispensable element of social life, especially in modern industrial societies.” In 1891, Pope Leo XIII released Revum Novarum, the first papal edict to focus on the rights of workers. Since then, the Catholic Church has supported the rights of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions, a specific application of the more general right to associate.

By the December 5, 2002

Leisure

Interpol: Not strokes

Perhaps the best thing about the whole Strokes/New York underground music “revival” is that it has brought a bunch of bands that are a whole damn lot better than the Strokes into the mainstream. Although those guys think they’re cool with that scraggly-haired thrift-store alcoholic image they stole from CBGB circa.

By the December 5, 2002