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Emergency text service unreliable, company says

The text messaging component of Georgetown’s new emergency notification system is unreliable, an executive for the company providing the service admitted Wednesday.

By August 30, 2007

News

Two years later, Georgetown remembers Katrina

While Amelia Colomb (COL ’09) and her family were arriving for New Student Orientation two years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit her home on the West Bank in New Orleans, gutted her father’s psychiatry office and shut down the hospital in which her mother worked as an emergency medicine physician.

By August 30, 2007

Features

From Georgetown to the frontlines

Georgetown students are ambitious. When they graduate, they flock to jobs where they can aspire to do big things, whether in politics, finance or any other field. But a few Hoyas end up in a different line of work in a different place altogether: Iraq or Afghanistan.

By August 24, 2007

News

V. Tech comments cause anxiety

Reynold Urias (COL’10), who goes by the name Rei Sairu, moved out of his Harbin room on Tuesday under the unwavering watch of Lorenzo Caltagirone, an area coordinator for the Office of Residence Life. Sairu said he underwent a psychiatric evaluation on Monday after the University received word that he had made a threatening comment regarding Virginia Tech, and that he is no longer allowed on campus. Sairu will finish the rest of his classes while living off-campus.

By April 26, 2007

Leisure

Artomatic: where bizarre meets genius

When I first walked into the Artomatic, I was greeted by a large shoebox of a movie still from Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend. The characters, donning barbie-sized silk fabric and tiny pearls, were marshmallow peeps. I obeyed the sign, “Do Not Eat,” and wandered into the exhibit, only to encounter a collection of equally eye-popping and unpredictable art.

By April 26, 2007

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: Relay for Life a fun-raiser

I could smell the GUGS burgers all the way from the Leavey Center—the scent of a barbeque spread through the clear spring air faster than the keenest relayers. As I got closer to the source of the delicious aroma, the music got louder, the crowd got rowdier and, turning into Harbin Field, I stumbled into the biggest party of Saturday night. The field looked like a combination of a Bedouin settlement, an Oriental bazaar and a children’s fair. There were tents as far as the eye could see. All the summer trends were here: floral Hawaiian, fluorescent brights and the nautical color scheme of the Hoya Blue tent. If it weren’t for the numerous white and purple Relay For Life balloons, this tent city could have been easily mistaken for a mass, al fresco slumber party.

By April 26, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Voice backpacker makes rash assumptions

To the Editors, Oh boy. Kent starts off his blather admitting the only place to keep valuables while traveling is in your front pants pocket (“A $350 problem,” Voices, March... Read more

By March 22, 2007

Features

The Hoya Hood: Trashy and classy on the same block

A few years ago, Perrin Radley was awakened at three in the morning by a chorus of screamed obscenities outside his window on R Street. “Go home!” Radley shouted to the students. At the same moment a cab driver pulled up, and the young men shouted racial slurs and “all the expletives you can imagine” at the driver. Concerned that the fight would escalate into violence, Radley went outside and insisted they disperse. In response, one of the students took off his pants. Uncomfortable voicing the vulgar specifics out loud, the retired Episcopalian priest paused for a moment.

By March 1, 2007

News

University VP under fire from Hoya Ed. Board

Margie Bryant, the Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services, faced increased criticism on Tuesday when the Hoya published an editorial urging her to resign.

By March 1, 2007

News

The life and times of international students

Georgetown ranked number one in a recent survey of international relations programs and prides itself on its high percentage of international students, but faced with tasks like applying for jobs or getting a credit card or cell phone, students from abroad often have to jump through hoops.

By March 1, 2007