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News

Students to vote on alternative to GUSA

The Georgetown University Student Association voted Tuesday to set Feb. 11 as the date on which students will vote to repeal the current GUSA constitution and replace it with a new constitution proposed by The Yard.

Proponents of The Yard, an alternative student government structure to GUSA, delivered a petition to GUSA’s Constitutional Council calling for a proposed amendment to the Constitution.

By the January 31, 2002

Editorials

Improving our school

The reputation of the city in which a university is located can be as important as the reputation of the university itself. A Georgetown University located in a dilapidated capital known worldwide for its crime and bureaucratic nepotism is a far cry from a Georgetown University located in a safe, stable city.

By the January 31, 2002

Leisure

Keyes for TV success

Cable-news junkies have welcomed the latest addition to the pantheon of talking heads. Sometime Presidential candidate and full-time conservative pundit Alan Keyes is now hosting a program on MSNBC called Alan Keyes Is Making Sense. One portion of the program is devoted to a “conversation” between Keyes and several guests, supposedly “regular folks” plucked from the District’s streets.

By the January 31, 2002

Voices

A public service announcement

It seems that we have reached that time of year again when the characteristically Scandanavian weather patterns in Washington abate and make way for summer. Our winters are usually tedious and unspecacular ordeals, marked by murky and gelid conditions, biting wind and little in the way of aesthetic precipitation.

By the January 31, 2002

News

Students protest at Cardinal’s mass

Frustrated with the University’s refusal to fund a resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students, the supporters of the center protested at a Mass Sunday presided over by the D.C. archbishop, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. The supporters’ decision to stand throughout the hour-long Mass in Copley Hall marks the beginning of a new phase in their campaign?a phase that, supporters said, will more visibly draw attention to their cause.

By the January 24, 2002

Sports

Horvath leads Hoyas

The Georgetown women’s basketball team defeated Pittsburgh last night 73-56 after losing to Syracuse last Saturday 89-61 and falling to No. 1-ranked University of Connecticut 85-41 earlier last week.

Despite the tough loss to UConn, the Hoyas came back to put up a fight against the Orangewomen.

By the January 24, 2002

News

Rivers resigns as election commissioner

Eric Lamar Rivers (CAS ‘02) resigned from the joint position of election commissioner and secretary of the Senior Class Committee last Tuesday. Rivers left to assume work as presidential election campaign manager for the Trey Street (SFS ‘03)-Dan Spector (SFS ‘04) platform.

By the January 24, 2002

Features

Digging deeper into the hole

You pass it on your way to Yates; you drive by it in the GUTS bus as you enter campus from Prospect Street; you gaze out on it from your dormitory window; it looms before you as you descend the stairs of Village C or the hill by New South. No matter who you are on campus, chances are you’ve noticed the huge hole in the southwest corner of campus.

By the January 24, 2002

Sports

Where have you gone Jim McMahon?

I am a fair-weather fan. Once the clouds roll in, I’m gone, off to the less-disappointing pastures of unaffiliated fandom.

Having grown up in the Chicago area, this comes as second nature. You see, Chicago sports fans as a whole are not known for their optimism or, for that matter, loyalty.

By the January 24, 2002

News

MLK speaker: Americans need to reprioritize

The people of the United States need to rethink their standards and get their priorities straight, said Reverend Jamal-Harrison Bryant at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration service on Tuesday. Bryant, who is from the Empowerment Temple of Baltimore, gave the keynote sermon at the celebration in Gaston Hall, which also included performances by the Georgetown Gospel Choir and Black Movements dance troupe.

By the January 24, 2002