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Planning for Disaster: Georgetown’s Emergency Preparedness

On May 8, 2007, Department of Public Safety officers were faced with a terrifying prospect: an anonymous caller to the Metropolitan Police Department had threatened to commit “mass murder” inside the Bunn Intercultural Center. DPS responded to the ICC threat while MPD officers searched the building.

By April 29, 2010

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Best-selling author Dave Eggers is an unassuming man. When he sheepishly approached the podium before a nearly full Gaston Hall on April 7, he introduced himself by making a self-effacing joke. The shy Eggers did not try to hide his public speaking anxiety.

By April 22, 2010

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Photo Contest 2010

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By the April 15, 2010

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What makes a Provost? The notorious JO’D

When President John J. DeGioia is out of town, Provost James O’Donnell is responsible for greeting dignitaries that visit Georgetown. While an honor, it occasionally leads to a bit of confusion, like when a certain Governator spoke on campus.

By April 8, 2010

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Spring Fashion 2010

Buds, buds everywhere, but not a flower to see! The balmy breezes and sunny days of early spring seem like a tease when you’re still looking at stark, leafless trees and muddy strips of yellow grass. Why not help spring spring by being the very flower everyone has been waiting for?

By March 25, 2010

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Empire State of Mind: Hoyas do the Wright thing in New York

As the West Virginia Mountaineers celebrated on the court and the strains of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” echoed through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden, the Georgetown Hoyas sat down for a press conference. They did not have much to say.

By March 18, 2010

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The R Word: Recession or Revival?

One day it was there, the next—gone. An empty storefront on Wisconsin Avenue is all that remains of Sugar, a Georgetown boutique that once sold women’s clothes and jewelry.

By March 4, 2010

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Guilty until proven innocent: Overturning the District’s wrongful convictions

A plastic mail bin sits on Daniel Satin’s desk, nearly overflowing with a mix of thin white envelopes and manila envelopes so thick that a single stamp won’t suffice. Every month, he receives between 40 and 70 of these envelopes, their contents all asking for the same thing: a second chance.

By February 25, 2010

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Higher education: GU and GWU’s drug policy divide

On the night of September 8, 2009, George Washington University Police Department officers responded to a suspicious odor coming from freshman Simon Abrahms’s dorm room.

By February 18, 2010

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Chiming in: When you’re a Chime, you’re a Chime all the way

Last Saturday night, the audience in Gaston Hall erupted in laughter as a nearly unintelligible cacophony rang out. On stage, an unlikely cast of characters—a bourbon-drinking Jesuit, Jersey Shore’s the Situation, and Midnight Madness toilet-shooter Alex Thiele, to name a few—sang out simultaneously.

By February 11, 2010

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Pride and Prejudice: LGBTQ at Georgetown

“I came out the day after the election—November 5, 2008.” After spending eleven months working for John McCain’s presidential campaign, Carlos Hernandez (SFS ’11) was exhausted.

By February 4, 2010

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The Marshall Plan: a charter across the Anacostia

Although some successful businesses have recently opened on the street, space on Anacostia’s Martin Luther King Avenue SE doesn’t exude status like a K or M Street address does. It’s in Ward 8, the city’s poorest ward. With 43 homicides in 2009, it is also the city’s most violent.

By January 28, 2010

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A new Hoya Paranoia: the lady Hoyas’ transition game

Last Saturday afternoon in McDonough Arena, the Georgetown Chimes walked out to midcourt to belt out the National Anthem while the Georgetown women’s basketball team prepared to take on last year’s national runner-up, Louisville.

By January 21, 2010

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The Best of 2009: Movies and Music

1. Inglourious Basterds A Spaghetti Western set in Nazi-occupied France and directed by Quentin Tarantino—it’s difficult to think of anything that could improve upon the sheer awesomeness of the concept.

By December 3, 2009

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Growing Pains: The University’s plan to expand and the neighbors’ struggle to stop it

On Tuesday in Copley Formal Lounge, the architects of Georgetown University’s 2010 Campus Plan presented to the campus community the tentative blueprint for the next decade of the University’s development. The presentation was attended by about 20 staff and faculty, and hosted by five top University administrators. Halfway through the presentation, only two students were in the audience.

By November 18, 2009

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D.C. Gets Real

For those of you who have neither the time nor the inclination to untangle the sprawling web of Twitter feeds, blogs, and forums devoted to the upcoming 23rd season of “The Real World,” set here in Washington, D.C., but still want the inside scoop before the show premiers on December 30, let me save you some trouble.

By November 12, 2009

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Men’s Preview: Hoyas get physical

John Thompson III had never been in this position before. Standing in Waco, Texas, the head coach of the Georgetown men’s basketball team watched his players surrender a ten-point lead to Baylor University, losing in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. The hallmark of Thompson’s Georgetown teams had been their ability to thrive in the clutch, but “clutch” was the last word someone would have used to describe the any of the Hoyas that day. After limping to a 16-15 record, and missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years, it’s time for the Hoyas to start moving on—though the specter of last season lingers.

By November 4, 2009

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Six feet under GU

In 1931, construction on Georgetown’s newest dormitory, Copley Hall, hit an unexpected roadblock: workers who were clearing a heavily overgrown area 100 feet north of the planned residence hall had uncovered a long-forgotten cemetery.

By October 29, 2009

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What’s a Hoya? Jack DeGioia

At 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning early last April, seventeen Georgetown students gathered in the ornate Hall of Cardinals on the Healy Building’s second floor for an intimate meeting with a man whom most of their peers had only ever seen from a distance. Following greetings from an uncomfortable-looking Daniel Porterfield (COL ‘83), Georgetown’s vice president for strategic affairs, the students—representing campus groups dismayed by the content of The Hoya’s recent April Fools’ Issue—sat down and waited to be joined by the man they were there to see, Georgetown University President John DeGioia.

By October 29, 2009

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A History of One Night Stands

Midway through Vagabond Improv Comedy’s show on October 18th, the stage in Bulldog Alley in the Leavey Center has turned into utter pandemonium. One performer is beating his chest and hurling another performer onto the floor, while a third is whirling around dizzyingly on one foot, and a fourth is obliviously tying his shoe. It is one of those bizarre, spontaneous scenes that can’t be replicated, a had-to-be-there moment, and the audience is eating it up. For the remainder of the show, students clutch their sides and roar with laughter. By any standard, the performance is a success.

By October 22, 2009