Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

Space camp: even better than band camp

Last week, mankind made a giant leap forward-again.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

6 Number of Vice Presidents alive in 2004 98 Age of oldest Vice President when he died 14 Number of Vice Presidents who have been elected President 33 Percentage of... Read more

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

No whites allowed (but segregationists welcome)?

I wanted the sign as soon as I saw it. My wife and I were attending a black memorabilia fair at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland last spring, and on my way to the Negro Baseball League gear, I encountered a display of framed “Colored Only” signs that once infamously adorned restrooms, water fountains and other public facilities.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Throwing it into drive

The car roared, wheels spinning, and slammed through the garage wall and straight into my dinning room, knocking the china cabinet over along the way. Apparently, I’d mistakenly hit the gas and now the car, without a scratch on it, sat in my dining room, making a slow, shrill beeping noise.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Sex, drugs and sex on drugs

Hsssssssh.

I drag deeply on the mouthpiece, slowly counting down in my head as the acrid fumes fill my lungs, relaxing me. I exhale and lean my head back against my overstuffed chair. I let my eyes lazily drift around the room before slipping the inhaler back into my pocket.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

Student loan swindle

Add another tax-revenue draining loophole to the list of errors on the part of the federal government.

By the September 30, 2004

Editorials

Gunning for a change

Guns in the district? Thanks, but no thanks, Congress.

By the September 30, 2004

Editorials

Field of dreams, schools of nightmares

Baseball, but still no books.

By the September 30, 2004

Voices

Tall tales in a fly-over state

Wisconsin is one of those states that I just never thought I’d visit.

By the September 30, 2004

Voices

What would Georgia O’Keeffe have majored in?

Unlike a School of Foreign Service junior politico or a pre-med science prodigy, I came to college armed only with the vague notion that I liked “the humanities.”

By the September 30, 2004

Voices

There’s no place like it

To my surprise, I discovered that I don’t wake up happy very often anymore.

By the September 30, 2004

Voices

When I was a hostage

I could see exactly what the hired guns planned to do with me when they opened the rear hatch of the Jeep.

By the September 23, 2004

Voices

The show goes on

One of the first opportunities my relocation afforded me was a chance to open for a magician-friend of mine for six shows in Bermuda.

By the September 23, 2004

Voices

Georgetown reacts to the Beslan massacre

The crowd of students and parents, shocked and dehydrated, huddled in the gymnasium as the terrorists draped wires around the room, connecting a series of bombs. This horrible image was only one of many to come out of Beslan, Russia this month.

By the September 23, 2004

Editorials

Civilizing underage drinking

Anyone who has been to a college campus on a weekend night knows that criminal penalties don’t do much to stop underage drinking.

By the September 23, 2004

Editorials

Fight for your right

Student rights and responsibilities are a constant issue at Georgetown.

By the September 23, 2004

Editorials

Should they stay or should they go now

What Novak forgets is that every day Bush dithers over his policy, people are dying.

By the September 23, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

Blogs, blogs and more blogs.

By the September 23, 2004

Voices

Makes me want to Ralph

Why a vote for Nader is a vote for nonsense

By the September 16, 2004

Voices

Reservoir hot dog

A man with a hot dog suit. And a gun.

By the September 16, 2004