The cluttered floor is lined with flavored lubricants in candy-like storage boxes, colored condoms and black t-shirts with pink writing stating, “Be Nice to Sex Workers.”
For a team that played its way out of an NCAA bid, the Georgetown men’s basketball team showed no signs of malaise as they throttled visiting Boston University 64-34 in Wednesday’s National Invitation Tournament first round.
Now, both the Living Wage Coalition and the University administration are slowing down the process towards a viable living wage proposal. It’s time to remember that both groups have reasonable goals and both deserve a reasonable compromise.
Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.
Hipsters everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. Just as they’re getting bored with the dance-rock of Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party is ready to take its place.
“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.
I met rock star, record producer, label head and certifiable legend Ian MacKaye at a show once in an abandoned school in Northeast D.C. during the wee hours of the morning.
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