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Sports

Crew uses fall setbacks to prepare for spring

Georgetown varsity and novice crews competed in to separate regattas this weekend and posted mixed results across the board. Last week, the novice crews competed in a scrimmage against UVA and George Washington, and this week they traveled to Princeton, N.

Leisure

Mice and Men squeaks by

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck’s 1937 book, which he later adapted for the stage, paints the portrait of the dusty and disenfranchised migrant farm workers who roamed across California during the Depression. The Arena Stage’s production of Of Mice and Men, directed by Liz Diamond, captures that bleakness of atmosphere in the physical realities of the stage and set: when the actors make contact, little clouds of dust billow into the air.

News

Student robbed in Georgetown

A female Georgetown student was robbed at gunpoint around 1 a.m. this past Saturday, according to a broadcast e-mail from the Department of Public Safety.

The student was walking southbound on the 1300 block of 34th St., NW, when two African-American males approached her and demanded her to give them her purse.

Voices

The hidden cost of study abroad

Ten months ago, almost to the day, I got on a plane bound for Paris, France. I was spending the semester there in hopes of improving my French and acquiring a Givenchy wardrobe like Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.

Actually, that’s not entirely true. I went abroad because I had to and because I knew it would be good for me.

Leisure

Singer-Suckwriters

Of all the stupid labels that the music industry uses to describe its product, there are few more pigeonholing than “singer-songwriter.” As far as labels go, it’s descriptive enough. I mean, people called “singer-songwriters” generally both write songs and sing.

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Sports

Hoyas skin Kiwis, 87-53

New Zealand select visited McDonough Arena last Thursday and performed the country’s traditional Haka dance of intimidation before tipoff. Forty minutes later, Georgetown had beaten the Kiwis, 87-53.

Apparently, it wasn’t that intimidating.

Junior forward Victor Samnick was the story for the Hoyas, finishing the game with 13 points and 15 rebounds for his second consecutive double-double.

Leisure

Jewel’s back. Why? O God, Why?

It’s been five years since Jewel foisted herself upon the cultural consciousness of this great nation with her breakout album, Pieces of You. The mega-success of “Who Will Save Your Soul? and “You Were Meant for Me” soon led to a spoken-word album, a plethora of softly-lit black-and-white photo shoots and a strange nationwide awareness of the fact she slept in her car while working her way to the top.

Voices

Can’t touch this

This past weekend, I had the great opportunity of attending the Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina. If the name of the event was not cause enough for chagrin, thanks to my right-wing neighbors, the troubles I met on my way down certainly added fuel to the fire.

Leisure

Paul McCartney drives home

Paul McCartney has one of the most easily-recognizable voices in rock ‘n’ roll. We’ve grown up hearing his voice crooning to us over the radio, and any new McCartney album’s vocals will have the familiarity of an old friend. In his new release, Driving Rain, McCarney’s natural compositions and his simple, beautiful lyrics feel like home.