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News

Student wins USAID award

by Amy Wittenbach

Tutoring children in D.C. is one of Georgetown’s most popular service activities, with over 400 students participating in programs like D.C. Reads and Sursum Corda. But for first-year student Kay Lauren Miller (CAS ‘06), fighting illiteracy did not start in college.

By the November 21, 2002

Editorials

Don’t tell mom and dad

This week, the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring all public and private school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and/or sing “The Star Spangled Banner” every day. According to this bill, school administrators are required to notify in writing the parents of any student seen not participating in the pledge or anthem.

By the November 21, 2002

News

PLO advisor advocates equality

Diana Buttu, a Canadian Palestinian who is legal counsel to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said on Tuesday that she believes Israelis and Palestinians may move toward equal citizenship rather than equal statehood. Sponsored by Students for Middle East Peace, Buttu spoke to over 50 students on the past, present and future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

By the November 21, 2002

Leisure

Swamped? If not, check out Art-O-Matic

Art-O-Matic, an unjudged grassroots art exhibition, is currently making its third annual appearance, this time inside an abandoned EPA office building in the elusive southwest quadrant. It’s huge, it’s varied and it’s completely anarchical. Come prepared to exercise your better judgement.

By the November 21, 2002

News

Money woes for Metro

There’s good news and bad news about the future of transportation in the District. The good news is that the Washington Metro Area Transit Association plans to spent $12.2 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand Metro services in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

By the November 21, 2002

Leisure

Holy musical, Bat Boy!

You walk in to a large warehouse-ish room. It’s all splintery wooden beams and black paint, huge red-and-black bat faces and unfinished walls. Smoke floats overhead. The slight beat of a drum echoes in the background, and bare risers surround a small stage.

By the November 21, 2002

Sports

Curtin wins Big East Rookie of the Year

First-year back Jeff Curtin was named Big East Rookie of the Year last Thursday, the first Hoya to win the award since 1988. Curtin has been the quiet defensive workhorse of the team amassing player of the week awards and helping the Hoyas turn around their season, which culminated in a trip to the Big East Tournament semifinals for the third time in five years.

By the November 21, 2002

Leisure

Northerners deliver two snoozers

The dashing hero of a Russian romantic novel poses a question to his traveling companion: “It was the French, I suppose, who made boredom fashionable?” “No, the English,” the companion replies. Surprisingly, both were wrong. Neither the Francos or the Anglos live in a locale quite northerly enough to facilitate truly mind-numbing boredom.

By the November 21, 2002

Sports

Hoffman’s steady career ends

Senior defender Casey Hoffman has many nicknames. Head Coach Diane Drake calls her the Cal Ripken of the Georgetown women’s soccer team because she started every game of her collegiate career and missed only one practice in four years. Drake also teasingly calls her Mute, for her quiet, uncomplaining leadership style.

By the November 14, 2002

Features

The future of music is now

A young woman with short, dyed-red hair, dressed stylishly with a hint of thrift-store nonchalance, stands confidently behind the podium among Gaston Hall’s stained-glass-and-oak-paneled grandeur. Names of great thinkers are etched on the wall behind her, and a herd of dark-suited lawyers, powerful businessmen and curious musicians sit in front of her.

By the November 14, 2002