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Sports

Former Hoyas hopeful for another chance

In Part One of our series, the Voice introduced former Georgetown athletes Marc Samuel and Tyler Purtill who are vying for NFL kicking jobs. Both were signed as undrafted free-agents?Samuel, the Hoyas’ kicker last year, with the Buffalo Bills and Purtill, a former goalie with the soccer team, with the Carolina Panthers.

By the August 29, 2002

News

Years of housing may increase

by Brendan Boundy

The completion of the Southwest Quadrangle by next fall may guarantee Georgetown students another year of on-campus housing.

“We anticipate that the number of guaranteed years for on-campus housing may change with the addition of the Southwest Quadrangle,” Admissions Counselor Nicole Arshan said.

By the August 29, 2002

Editorials

Deputizing the media

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, a bomb exploded, killing one and injuring more than 100. A hero was quickly made?a security guard who quickly led people away from the suspicious backpack containing the bomb, preventing further injury and death, was hailed and interviewed on several television networks.

By the August 29, 2002

Sports

Cook cleared to play for Hoyas

The NCAA and the Conference Commissioners’ Association granted first-year guard Ashanti Cook an unqualified release from his commitment to the University of New Mexico on Monday, freeing him to play for the Hoyas in the 2002-3 season.

“Ashanti has been completely released from his prior commitments,” said Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the August 29, 2002

News

Georgetown Jesuit turns 100

Father James Martin, S.J., the oldest living Jesuit in the United States, will celebrate his 100th birthday this Friday on campus with friends and relatives from across the country.

Throughout his 68-year ministry, Martin has served at Georgetown University twice.

By the August 29, 2002

Editorials

Did you get that memo?

Twenty-four Metro police officers have been suspended as part of an ongoing internal investigation into a slew of offensive e-mails sent between squad car computers in 1999 and 2000. Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer was quoted in The Washington Post as saying that the messages included comments such as ”’Let’s go punch this person,’ or, ‘Let’s go stop this person’ based on their race or gender or sexual orientation,” and that many others included vulgar or sexual banter.

By the August 29, 2002

Sports

Minor allegiance

Major League Baseball is poised for its first work stoppage since the supposedly disastrous 1994 strike, and so baseball-loving Americans like you and I should be crying in whatever we happen to be drinking.

Not me, though. I’ve still got minor-league ball.

By the August 29, 2002

Leisure

Wilco: the band, the myth, the album

In the music business, a sure way to foster interest in an artist (and thus sell records) is to build a mythology?a drama to underscore, if not transcend, the music. Typically, the most expedient way to mythologize oneself is by dying?to which still-robust catalog sales for Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake and Lynyrd Skynyrd attest.

By the August 22, 2002

Voices

For your entertainment

“You have to promise me that you won’t get six more earrings, an eyebrow ring or anything like that,” the store manager of the f.y.e. chain music store at my local mall said as she was about to hire me for the summer. “Sure,” I said smiling, picturing Ozzy Osbourne’s gratuitously tattooed forearms.

By the August 22, 2002

News

D.C. Court of Appeals denies GU motion to stay

The D.C. Court of Appeals denied Georgetown University’s request for a stay regarding portions of the Board of Zoning and Adjustment’s conditions for the campus Ten-Year Plan.

Despite the June 20 ruling, both students and University neighbors are optimistic about progress that has been made in the past year and the future of community relations.

By the August 22, 2002