Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

No Student Left Alone

The Department of Education has proposed creating a new system to gather more data on students at colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the threat to student privacy makes this otherwise reasonable proposal untenable.

By the December 2, 2004

Editorials

Five dollars too much

The City Museum closed its doors permanently last Monday, but in spite of the museum’s failure to attract attention, its goal was a worthy one in a city that documents the history of our nation but often forgets its own.

By the December 2, 2004

Editorials

Gimme Shelter

What would you rather have in downtown Washington, a homeless shelter or a $6.2 million art museum?

By the December 2, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

$10 Cost of “JFK Reloaded,” the JFK assassination computer game released last week. $32 million Budget of the Warren Commission’s investigation into JFK’s assassination, in today’s dollars. $100,000 Prize offered... Read more

By the December 2, 2004

Voices

Carrying On: Pondering mortality over sweet potatoes

The food grew cold as my family stared quietly at one another around the dinner table.

By the December 2, 2004

Voices

A traditional Swedish-Japanese Thanksgiving

Being a Japanese-Swedish combo family means American traditions such as Thanksgiving should be meaningless.

By the December 2, 2004

Voices

Everything’s better in Japanese

I can’t read that sentence because I do not read, speak or understand Japanese.

By the December 2, 2004

Editorials

Home improvement

For sophomores and juniors who plan to live on-campus next year, the wait to choose their housing is over.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

Red light special

A bill to extend the expiration date of cameras on red lights in several Northern Virginia communities was rejected on Monday by the Virginia House of Delegates.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

The Funny Third – You’ve got the fever, we’ve got the cure

This week a star-studded coalition of health-related campus organizations surprised the University by coming out with a strong anti-Influenza policy.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

By the numbers and Direct quote

90 Number of American casualties in Iraq in the first 17 days of November. 5.53 Average number of soldiers killed per day in November. 1211 Number of American soldiers killed... Read more

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Thanksgiving debunked

Like many Americans, you’re probably looking forward to the government-sanctioned gluttony fest known as Thanksgiving.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Congratulations, You’re an Asshole

“He’s an asshole… You’re so much better than him.” Almost every woman has heard it once.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Bow wow… letters from the dog park

Yesterday the biggest dog in the neighborhood, a six-year-old Great Dane named Salisbury, tried to mount my friend’s Jack Russell pup.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

What is a Liberal?

What exactly is a “liberal”?

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

Our lavender nation

In the days following the election, we all saw maps of the United States with each state colored the way its Electoral votes were cast: red for Bush or blue for Kerry

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Something rotten in the state of Jersey

New Jersey Democratic governor Jim McGreevey will resign on Monday in the wake of a sex scandal that erupted this summer and exposed his homosexuality to the public.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Agenda bender

President George W. Bush, safely ensconced in office, is preparing to lay out his second term agenda, one most likely to be radically conservative.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

2.38 million Number of Halo 2 X-Box video games sold in the United States and Canada in the first 24 hours it was on the market. $125 million Revenue earned... Read more

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Correspondence

Asses in elephant skin In the aftermath of Bush’s reelection, I thought I’d offer a little advice to melancholy D.C. from faraway Texas. Don’t despair!?Too many people in this country need you right now.?They need your progressive commitment to healthcare, workers’ rights and the minimum wage.

By the November 11, 2004