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News

Director of Residence Life Robinson resigns

After being at Georgetown for less than five months, Director of Residence Life Frank Robinson resigned last Wednesday effective immediately. Robinson’s resignation creates another vacancy in Residence Life, which already lacks one of two associate directors.

By the November 14, 2002

Leisure

‘Cope’-ing with success

Whether or not you’ve heard of Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, it’s likely that you will hear a lot of him in the coming months. The D.C. native’s new self-titled album has been acclaimed by the Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many others. Cope’s video for the song “If There’s Love” off his album has been in heavy rotation on M2 and is featured on the network’s new compilation.

By the November 7, 2002

Sports

Hoyas throw down the iron curtain on Latvia

On Friday night, the men’s basketball team participated in its first live action of the season in an exhibition game versus the Latvia Select Team at McDonough Arena. The Hoyas shrugged off some initial rust, and by ten minutes into the game they had a comfortable 44-17 lead.

By the November 7, 2002

Features

Talking to each other

The tensest moments of recent public conflict between student groups involved the politics of the Middle East. Groups such as the Muslim Student Association, the Jewish Student Association, the Young Arab Leadership Alliance and the Georgetown Israel Alliance have been especially active on campus in recent years, staging events, bringing speakers to campus and trying to foster debate or at least raise awareness of what they see as an important issue on a seemingly daily basis.

By the November 7, 2002

Leisure

Comic relief

Calvin & Hobbes is lost in comic rerun without any chance of revival. Peanuts died with creator Charles Schultz. It’s doubtful that anyone really even reads Family Circus anymore, or if anyone ever did. The state of current comic syndication is pretty stagnant, save for a few Mutts ‘toons every now and then.

By the November 7, 2002

Sports

Paulus solidifies QB position for Hoyas

Since peewee football, senior quarterback/punter David Paulus has spent countless hours on the gridiron. Now as the starting quarterback for the Georgetown Hoyas, he has led the team to its first ever Patriot League win, a 32-31 victory over Bucknell on Oct.

By the November 7, 2002

Voices

‘Gonna make you sweat, bay-bee!’

“You have a sweating problem, Peter,” one of my friends told me a few weeks ago while recounting a list of my flaws. I could not disagree. While a sweat problem is better than, say, a smack problem or a child-molesting problem, it’s still an issue. I should clarify.

By the November 7, 2002

News

One of three student candidates elected to ANC

Only one of the three student candidates from Georgetown was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission on Tuesday. Mike Glick (CAS ‘05), who ran unopposed in the all student District 4, received all 77 votes cast for the ANC in that district.

In District 2, Eric Lashner (CAS ‘05) received 150 votes, 34.

By the November 7, 2002

Sports

The Sports Sermon

It’s about that time in the NFL season. Names of quarterbacks become as familiar as Chapter 3, Monetary Policy, that you forgot to read for your Econ midterm tomorrow. Instead of the normal names?Stewart, Warner and Fieldler?we’re stuck with Tommy “XFL MVP” Maddox, the spicy Sage Rosenfels and the pseudo-dirty Marc Bulger.

By the November 7, 2002

Voices

Letter to the Editor

Georgetown University has a secret court system on campus that adjudicates crimes as serious as rape and murder. While they describe it as an “educational system” that doesn’t function as a substitute for a court of law, the reality is that it does.

For some crime victims, like rape victim Kate Dieringer, who spoke out in the Voice (“The girl who whimpered rape,” Oct.

By the November 7, 2002