In the "Come on People Now" issue:
What: Screening of Academy Award Winning Documentary, "Born into Brothels", SYNOPSIS: "In Calcutta's red light district appear a group of unforgettable children. Feisty, courageous and wickedly funny, these children of prostitutes embark on a transformational journey with photographer Zana Briski, who teaches them to photograph their own lives." Hosted by SSTOP (Students Stopping Trafficking of People)
The Washington Post reports:"CINCINNATI -- Deonta Vaughn scored 20 points, and Cincinnati extended No. 25 Georgetown's midseason misery by sending the Hoyas to their fourth straight loss, 65-57 on Wednesday night.
The Hoyas (12-7, 3-5) were coming off a deflating 65-60 loss at Seton Hall, which hadn't won a game in the Big East until Sunday. Afterward, coach John Thompson III proclaimed that his team was in a "bad situation right now."
It got a whole lot worse against Cincinnati (14-7, 4-4), which finally got a distinguishing win. The Bearcats were 0-2 against ranked teams this season.
Chris Wright scored 15 points for Georgetown, which saw its usually dependable defense fold down the stretch. Cincinnati shot 45.8 percent from the field.
It's Georgetown's longest losing streak since 2004-05, Thompson's first season.
Neither team could put together much of a run during a sloppy game, keeping it in a back-and-forth pace."
What: Former Soviet President and Nobel Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev will deliver the keynote address at a conference at George Mason University on March 24, 2009. The conference, "1989: Looking Back, Looking Forward", will offer a critical perspective on how the lessons of the end of the Cold War should be applied to the promotion of peace and international cooperation in the coming decades.
Georgetown Hotties will be in Red square Wednesday Jan. 28, they will be selling a kiss for all the single ladies out there. This money will be going to a good cause not yet decided (Relay for Life?). But its a GREAT cause so we better see you ALL there!!!! It starts at Noon (first person in line gets a FREE KISS)"Danielle Mathis and her husband Nate were two of about 2 million people who made their way to Washington, D.C., last week for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
But for Danielle the journey was also one for which the groundwork, and its needed completion, were laid 60 years ago.
A New Jersey native and adjunct faculty member at Clayton State University’s Peachtree City campus, Danielle is also a Realtor with Keller Williams in Fayetteville and founder of the Fayette County Track Association.
For Danielle, her journey to Washington was more than a chance to witness the inauguration. It was the completion of another journey, one that began in a Washington suburb just after the end of World War II.
“I went to Georgetown University where my dad 60 years ago was denied access to the cafeteria. He was one of five African-Americans in the class of 1948. They couldn’t study or eat or live with white students. So I went to Georgetown to the cafeteria and had lunch in honor of my father,” Danielle said, reflecting on her father and his death in 1991. “It was my lunch counter sit-in. Going to Georgetown was the icing on the cake.”
Business First reports:"Facebook.com grew a dramatic 127 percent in the past year to 222 million visitors in December, and now ranks as the top social networking site worldwide.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook Inc. is also the seventh most popular Internet property in the world, according to ComScore, which reported that the worldwide Internet audience above the age of 15 crossed 1 billion last month.
The most popular destinations in December were Mountain View, Wash.-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) sites, with 777.9 million visitors, followed by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), AOL, Wikimedia, and San Jose-based Ebay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY)."
Tip off is 7:30pm ET @ Cincinnati. Go Hoyas! The Washington Post reports:"The numbers are hardly what Georgetown's fans have grown accustomed to in recent years.
The Hoyas are off to a 3-4 start in the Big East, their worst mark in conference play at this point in a season since Coach John Thompson III arrived in 2004.
They have lost three consecutive games for the first time since the 2005-06 season. Plus, they plunged from 12th to 25th in this week's Associated Press poll.
All of this makes a victory tonight at Cincinnati -- the second in a three-game stretch of road games -- critical if the Hoyas (12-6, 3-4) are to shore up their morale and raise their standing in college basketball's pecking order.
Cincinnati (13-7, 3-4), which is tied with Georgetown in the middle of the Big East standings, has just as much as stake. But that's a welcome step up for the Bearcats, who are off to their best start since Mick Cronin took over in 2006 after leading Murray State to two NCAA tournament appearances.
The Bearcats are led by junior guard Deonta Vaughn, who has proved capable of shouldering Cincinnati's offensive load single-handedly. If the Hoyas can contain Vaughn, they'll go a long way toward a badly needed victory."
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Blue & Gray reports:"With 35 undergraduate alumni serving in the Peace Corps in 2008, Georgetown University became the fifth-largest producer of Peace Corps Volunteers among all private colleges and universities in the country.
The university maintains its ranking from last year. And with nearly 7,000 undergraduate students, Georgetown is the ninth-largest producer of volunteers among all private and public medium-sized schools for 2008. Medium-sized institutions are classified as having between 5,001 and 15,000 undergraduate students.
“Georgetown students and alumni are deeply committed to service and community engagement at the local, national and global levels,” said Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. “And they are well prepared to make valuable contributions to the communities they serve.”
What: Museum Scavenger Hunt (see fbook event for more details)
What: David Edgar, celebrated British playwright, public intellectual, Tony award winner for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and chronicler of "The New Europe," will speak about the cultural, political, and linguistic transformation of European identity since the fall of the Berlin Wall in relation to his award-winning play Pentecost.
Blue & Gray reports:"Because Georgetown is not immune to the nation’s ongoing recession, university leaders are taking multiple steps to help soften the potential impact of the downturn’s effects, President John J. DeGioia said during a Jan. 16 town hall meeting.
Changes in the credit market, stock market and student loan industry mean university actions may be felt across several areas -- including administrator and faculty salaries, student lending and capital projects.
DeGioia called for more conservative spending, increasing cash liquidity, slowing investments in private equity markets, restructuring university debt and aggressive fundraising to weather the economic volatility.
“This is a time of almost unprecedented economic uncertainty, challenge and difficulty – a time which is leaving no institution, academic or otherwise, untouched, unaffected or untested,” DeGioia said in an address focusing mainly on the economy."
Hey everyone,
Elle magazine recently interviewed Georgetown alumnus and actor Bradley Cooper (COL, 97). From Elle:"Has Bradley Cooper always been a lady-killer? “What do you think?” says Gloria Cooper, his proud Italian mother, on the phone from Philadelphia. “He had girlfriends from the day he started walking.” Overhearing her voice from where he sits across the kitchen island in his Venice, California, home, her son the actor looks slightly alarmed. “Bradley was always attracted to women, and women have always been attracted to him.” As illustrated on-screen by Jennifer Garner, Rachel McAdams, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, and Sandra Bullock."Continue reading the interview here.
Bleacher Report reports:"In all of Georgetown's losses, their weaknesses have been on full display.
The offense needs to go through Greg Monroe. When he sits on the bench, teams (such as Duke) clamp down on the guards, and nobody is able to jump start the offense.
Even if the Hoyas' ideal look is an outside shot, they need to get the ball to Monroe first, as backside help closes in on Monroe, resulting in open looks in the corner. I want to know what the plus/minus is on Greg Monroe, because they go ice cold when he is on the bench.
The Hoyas need to rebound. They are last in the Big East in rebounds per game, and have been outrebounded in all of their five losses.
The Hoyas have size in Monroe, Dajuan Summers, and bench players Julian Vaughn and Henry Sims, but have been unable to get inside position in the paint. The Georgetown-style offense puts players in positions away from the basket on offense, which puts them out of position on missed shots if they don't follow their miss.
When the Hoyas get good performance from their bench players, the Hoyas suceed.
Against Syracuse, Nikita Mescheriakov was 2-2 from three-point range off the bench, and Jason Clark had his second double-digit game of the year.
The Hoyas dont score lots of points, so if their starters arent all producing, the young bench players have to become more involved.
The Hoyas need to be control the turnonvers. Turnovers are one of the few ways teams can get back into games against the Hoya's lockdown defense. They let leads get chipped away by being careless with the ball. Their offense is suppose to be slow and cerebral, but turnovers negate this."
"With inauguration behind us, The Hoyas return to business and must take on the West Virginia Mountaineers (13-4, 2-2) tomorrow in a game that Georgetown (12-4, 3-2) must win to stay near the top of the league standings, but will by no means be easy.The game is a must-win not because it is West Virginia which poses the greatest threat to Georgetown’s shot at a top-of-the-league finish, but rather because with such a brutal schedule, the Hoyas absolutely must defeat the teams in the middle and lower tiers of the Big East. While the Mountaineers stand a good chance of earning an NCAA berth, it is unlikely they climb above seventh in the league.
Problem is, though, that in the Big East, even the seventh or eighth or ninth best team can beat just about anyone.
West Virginia combines a staunch defense (tops in the Big East in scoring defense and three-point percentage defense) and several viable offensive options.
“They, as most of Huggies’ teams, they are a very good defensive team,” Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said by phone on Wednesday evening. “They are a very fundamentally sound defensive team that is very aggressive. They are versatile offensively. … They are long and lanky, they can score in different ways. That versatility on offense and doggedness on defense makes them very good.”
Blue & Gray reports: "President Barack Obama entered office on Jan. 20 with one of the highest approval ratings for an incoming president in recent history -- but can afford to waste no time in tackling America’s many critical problems, according to a panel of Georgetown University experts.
As Judy Feder, professor in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, wryly noted, the Obama administration “will have to walk and chew gum at the same time” from its first day in power.
Four Georgetown experts in finance, environmental studies, health care policy and international relations gathered on Jan. 16 for a roundtable discussion moderated by Paul Begala, affiliated professor of public policy at Georgetown and former counselor to President Bill Clinton. Meeting only days before Obama took the oath of office, the panel indicated that strong leadership would be key for the new administration’s success.
All four of the issue areas are intertwined, but all need individual attention as well, according to the professors.
“The first thing Obama will need to do, and he’ll need to do it in his inaugural address, is to say we’re putting the past behind us. We’re sending a new signal,” said Tony Arend, professor of government and foreign service. “We are going to close Guantanamo, we are going to pay attention to international law … we are going to pay attention to how we define torture. The first thing the president can do is make that statement.”
The international community “breathed a collective sigh of relief” at Obama’s election, but that good will may be quickly squandered without definitive action on global issues, said Arend, who also serves as director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program."
ESPN reports:"There is only one place I know that combines tiny balls, plastic cups and vats of beer. Besides Jose Canseco's house, that is.
It's a beer pong tournament. This is a sport that requires a steady hand, faulty hearing and a titanium liver. It's believed that 73% of all tuition money goes toward it.
Beer pong is played on a table slightly smaller than Ping-Pong's, by teams of two. Ten cups, filled about one-third with beer, are set like bowling pins at the ends. As you try to toss or bounce a Ping-Pong ball into the cups on the side opposite yours, opponents jump and yell unspeakables about your mother. If you make it, they must drink it. First team to sink all 10 cups wins. It's very sophisticated.
But the beer pong I play is nothing like the kind in the World Series of Beer Pong, which I covered recently at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. That's where North America's 414 best pong teams competed for the $50,000 first prize. Second prize: bubkes. Gulp.
You have never seen such large people throw such tiny objects into such small receptacles with such hair-raising frequency. The best teams hit about 70% of their shots on the eight-foot tables. That's like pitching a quarter into a parking meter slot seven times out of 10."
SportsIllustrated reports:"Size doesn't matter. The saying is just as valid in college basketball arenas as it is in the bedroom.Every time a tall recruit comes along, zealous fans and sports writers can't resist referring to him as "the next great big man." Based on size alone, they expect the young center to lead his team to a national championship, just like Lew Alcindor did at UCLA, Bill Russell did at San Francisco and Patrick Ewing did at Georgetown.
The most recent example of this is Georgetown center Greg Monroe. Hoya fans envision the 6-foot-10 freshman carrying on the program's tradition of dominant big men, started by Ewing. But the idea that a team needs a "traditional big man" -- one who spends most of his time posting up three feet from the basket -- to win a national championship is nothing more than a myth nowadays.
After all, if having a traditional big man is so necessary to success, wouldn't Stanford, which has had two sets of twin 7-footers, have won at least one title since 1942?
Since 2000, no team with an offense that revolves around its center has won a NCAA National Championship. Sure, all the champions, especially the 2004 Connecticut team and 2006 and 2007 Florida teams, had an inside presence, but their big men were never the primary scoring threats.
Here's a more telling stat. Out of the last 20 NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Players, only two can be considered centers -- Emeka Okafor and Christian Laettner -- and neither would ever be labeled a traditional big man.
The good news for Georgetown fans is that, after watching the Hoyas lose to Duke on Saturday, it's obvious that Monroe isn't your traditional big man. In fact, he's a better passer than he is a rebounder and that bodes well for Hoyas' chances at winning a national championship."
"Georgetown’s historic M Street — known for its restaurants, retail and pristine hotels — has been a meeting ground for tourists and locals during inauguration week.And businesses are reaping the benefits.
Monday was “our busiest brunch we’ve ever had,” said Clyde’s manger Martha Allen. There were more than 500 guests, compared with a typical Monday lunch of 90. “It’s like Saturday night all week,”Allen said.
The restaurant served many visitors from Illinois — President Barack Obama’s former stomping ground — and also from California, Hawaii and overseas locales such as Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland.
The upscale American restaurant brought on an extra manager and chef, and all employees are volunteering to pick up extra shifts. The normal amount of beer ordered was doubled, which the restaurant thinks should quench customers’ thirst through Friday.
Hunger is not the only force driving people into Georgetown stores. So is the cold weather.
The Running Company started picking up heavy business after 2 p.m. Monday, when a mix of Under Armour, thermal underwear and hand warmers flew off the shelves.
Nearby, the Philadelphia Cheesecake Factory at 3347 M St. NW had about triple its normal business Monday, with lines out door, according to Marice Mossaidis, owner of the burger and sub joint."
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The Washington Post reports:"DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 17 -- The call was as quick as a reflex and made amid the roar of Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Seconds earlier, Georgetown's big men had pared a 15-point deficit to four, giving the Hoyas new life in a wearying slugfest against the third-ranked Blue Devils.
But after an official heard something he didn't like from the Georgetown bench, he spun on his heels and called a technical foul on freshman center Greg Monroe.
Monroe's claim that he didn't say anything was ignored, and it offered little solace in the aftermath of the 76-67 loss that brought Georgetown's daunting nonconference schedule to a disheartening close on Saturday.
The technical, coming with 15 minutes 7 seconds remaining, counted as Monroe's fourth personal foul. And it changed the game's complexion, muzzling Monroe from that point on and opening new avenues of attack for Duke, which had been doing quite well against the Hoyas' defense anyway.
Still, Georgetown Coach John Thompson III took pains to say afterward that the call wasn't why the Hoyas lost. Nor was Duke's famously hostile home court, he added.
"They outplayed us," Thompson said with grim-faced clarity. "It's a very disappointing loss for a lot of reasons. But we have to move on."
The DCexaminer reports:"The Hoyas are well aware of the Cameron Crazies
Greg Monroe knows they’re waiting for him.
The Georgetown freshman center, who spurned a recruiting visit to Duke last fall when he was still a high school senior — instead committing to the Hoyas while in Georgetown the weekend before — knew that there would be repercussions if he faced the notorious Cameron Crazies.
“I’m positive they’ll have something special in store for me,” said Monroe, who faces his stiffest mental challenge of season as No. 13 Georgetown (12-3, 3-2 Big East) takes a difficult detour from its grueling conference schedule to visit the third-ranked Blue Devils (15-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).
It may be the only situation that Hoyas head coach John Thompson III can’t duplicate in practice for his young corps of reserves. In the last two games, both victories, Georgetown’s bench has produced a combined 44 points on 61 percent shooting (17-for-28) from the field. Perhaps more importantly, they’ve played aggressively yet turned the ball over a combined three times, showing uncommon poise for a group of freshmen and sophomores in helping turn the Hoyas around after a 1-2 start to league play.
“They’ve learned that quicker than I did,” said Hoyas senior guard Jessie Sapp. “I guess it comes with Coach believing in those guys and putting them in the game in different situations early in the season so by the time it got to this point, they don’t feel like it’s something new.”
What: Georgetown University & American Opera Theatre present "Hydrogen Jukebox"
What: Georgetown University First Inaugural Ball, hosted by Women in PoliticsThe Voice snapped out of winter-break mode to bring you:"Students looking for value in a private education should look to Georgetown, according to new rankings from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
The magazine ranked the university No. 21 on its 100 Best Values in Private Colleges list, featured in its February issue. Georgetown is the only school in the Washington area to receive a listing.
“While this ranking is one independent measure of Georgetown’s value, especially in this economy, I am pleased to be recognized among our peers for providing outstanding academic quality at a valuable price,” said President John J. DeGioia. “This reflects our ongoing work to continually enhance Georgetown’s academic excellence and longstanding commitment to helping students and families be able to afford the cost of college.”
What: PostSecret Founder Frank Warren, "The Most Trusted Stranger in America"
"DaJuan Summers scored 21 points and No. 13 Georgetown had its best 3-point shooing game of the season in an 88-74 victory at home over No. 8 Syracuse on Wednesday night.
The Hoyas (12-3, 3-2 Big East) were 12 for 21 from behind the arc. Austin Freeman, who scored 19 points, led the way, making 4 of 5 3-pointers.
“Everybody was knocking down shots,” Freeman said. “We were looking for each other, and when teammates were open they knocked down shots. We just looked at each other, and said, ‘Let’s go.’ ”
Georgetown shot so well that Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim switched from zone defense to man-to-man in an effort to slow down the Hoyas.
“We gave them open looks, and they knocked them down,” Boeheim said. “We played equally bad in both defenses.”
What: free sampling Cafe Ole's newest foods. Including:
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Tip-off is is 7:30 pm tonight @ the Verizon Center. Go Hoyas!"Just as there’s nothing secret about the high intensity of the long-standing rivalry between Georgetown and Syracuse, there’s no hiding who this year’s Hoyas will rely on when they face the Orange’s trademark zone defense tonight.
Freshman center Greg Monroe.
“He can score. He can pass. He can shoot. He can do whatever you want him to do,” said Hoyas senior guard Jessie Sapp. “I think last game you got a glimpse — not even, you didn’t really see what he can do, a sneak peek — of what he can do to a zone if you let him, if you get him the ball. That’s what we’re going to try to do.”
Monroe picked apart Providence last weekend with 13 points and eight assists that could’ve been 15, helping garner his third Big East rookie of the week award of the season. The young big man knows exactly where traditional weaknesses are expected against the eighth-ranked Orange (16-1, 4-0 Big East), whose only loss came via a buzzer-beating 60-foot shot by Cleveland State on Dec. 15.
But just as the zone uses five players to bottle up an offense, so too must five players move in concert to successfully find ways to break it down.
“It’s never just me,” said Monroe. “It’s about anybody finding the right hole so you can get the ball and make good passes and easy decisions to get baskets.”
"WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) is pleased to announce the producers and initial talent lineup for WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA INAUGURAL CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, the Opening Celebration for the 56th Presidential Inaugural, to be presented exclusively by HBO on Sunday, January 18 (7:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT). The event will be free and open to the public, kicking off the most open and accessible Inauguration in history.
The special will be executive produced by George Stevens, Jr. (The Kennedy Center Honors), and produced by Don Mischer (Olympic Ceremonies) who will also direct the special, and Michael Stevens (The American Film Institute Salutes) who is also writing the special, and will be a production of The Stevens Company in association with Don Mischer Productions.
Musical performers scheduled for the event include Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am, and Stevie Wonder. Among those reading historical passages will be Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington. The Rt. Reverend V. Gene Robinson will give the invocation. Rob Mathes will be the music director and arranger for the backing band, which will support all of the artists. Additional performers will be announced as they are confirmed.
“Our intention is to root the event in history, celebrating the moments when our nation has united to face great challenges and prevail,“ observed George Stevens, Jr. “We will combine historical readings by prominent actors with music from an array of the greatest stars of today.'“
"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Georgetown University for its 2008 Community Engagement Classification.
The foundation honored Georgetown for its commitment to community-based learning programs and for its work in community outreach and partnerships.
Georgetown is among 119 U.S. colleges and universities selected to receive this classification, which recognizes schools with an institutional focus on community engagement, be it local or internationally.
“It gives you great pride when you think about the ways this university is engaged in the community. It ranges from students doing community-based learning to faculty doing major research projects and collaborations around the globe,” said Kathleen Maas Weigert, executive director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service. “It is in my opinion, truly inspiring."
The Capital Spice blog has put together a map featuring the DC establishments that will be taking advantage of the extended business hours during inauguration."See your local favorites on this list?If not, they may be among the 73 additional establishments that attempted to register with ABRA but must first obtain permission from ANCs and other groups with whom they have existing Voluntary Agreements. They have until 1 PM on Thursday, the 15th, to submit letters to that effect, at which point they will be able to pay and participate in the extended hours."
The Huffington Post reports that Andrew Dubbins (C '11), Assistant Editor of The Hoya, traveled to Israel for a week as part of Project Interchange to report on the current conflict between Gaza and Israel. Traveling with five other college newspaper editors, he interviewed local citizens and leaders to learn more about the state of affairs and understand the conflict between Israel and Hamas more deeply. Check out his article here.
"If Georgetown goes on to enjoy a successful Big East campaign, the Hoyas can circle Saturday's 82-75 victory against Providence as their seminal moment of maturation.
With 16:15 remaining against the Friars (11-5, 3-1), the No. 9 Hoyas were trailing 44-40, staring squarely at a three-game losing streak and a 1-3 start in league play. Georgetown (11-3, 2-2) was struggling mightily on both ends of the floor, sputtering on offense against Providence's matchup zone and flagging on defense.
When leading scorer DaJuan Summers reported to the bench with four fouls and 15:34 remaining, joining slumping senior guard Jessie Sapp, Georgetown's prospects for reversing its slide looked grim.
But the strangest thing happened on the way to 1-3. When freshman guard Jason Clark and freshman forward Henry Sims replaced Sapp and Summers, Georgetown didn't just hold its own with five underclassmen on the floor, the Hoyas erupted. Growing up right in front of the 12,764 assembled at Verizon Center, the youngsters parlayed suffocating defense and the versatility of 6-foot-11, 250-pound freshman Greg Monroe into a 21-2 run to reclaim control of both the game and their season.
"I hope we grew up," said Georgetown coach John Thompson III, whose team hosts No. 11 Syracuse on Wednesday. "That group of freshmen and sophomores was on the floor during the key stretch when we tightened up [on defense] and pulled away. I stood here about a month ago and talked about the disparity between our first and second groups. That gap has become much smaller, and those guys in the second group are becoming much more comfortable and confident.
"I thought both Henry and Jason were terrific today. They didn't just help - we got a big boost today with them in there."
For a limited time GUASFCU is raffling off a Georgetown logo-ed Basketball signed by the entire Gtown Men's Basketball team and JTIII himself."Last week, I got a curious tip. Protestants at Georgetown University have been directed to sponsor an event to be "welcoming" to the new campus gay rights center.Leaders of Georgetown's council of 12 Protestant ministries are meeting Jan. 12 to discuss just how to do this.
I began calling around. Four evangelical Protestant chaplains, all of whom are from ministries that believe homosexual activity is sinful, confirmed they got this mandate from the Rev. Constance C. Wheeler, the lead Protestant chaplain, who was passing along instructions from the president of Georgetown University, John J. DeGioia.
In the fall of 2007, Mr. DeGioia promised the university would fund a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and "questioning" (LGBTQ) students within the year. GU Pride, the campus gay rights group, demanded such a center after a Sept. 9, 2007, gay-bashing incident off campus.
Although the 19-year-old sophomore who was first charged with assault later had his charges dropped, that incident led to much soul-searching at Georgetown. One decision was to have a campus resource center for gay students "in a manner consistent with Georgetown's Catholic and Jesuit identity," Mr. DeGioia said."
The dcexaminer reports:"After a monster rollercoaster first week of Big East Conference play — toppling No. 2 Connecticut on the road, then losing two in a row to No. 3 Pittsburgh and No. 7 Notre Dame — Georgetown actually isn’t very far from where it was predicted to be at the beginning of the season: right in the middle of the league pack. Big East coaches’ preseason prognostications had the Hoyas (10-3, 1-2 Big East) picked to finish seventh.
“Clearly, this stretch was incredibly difficult,” said Hoyas head coach John Thompson III. “Three very good teams. Two games on the road. One on a quick turnaround. Sure, it was tough. But so what?”Things don’t get any easier, with first-place tied Providence (11-4, 3-0) on tap this weekend before Syracuse’s annual visit and a trip to Duke next week.
None of the Friars’ conference victories — over Cincinnati, DePaul and St. John’s — stand out, and despite its record in league play, Georgetown is by no means out of the race for a conference title. But serious questions remain, including a persistent lack of depth and shooting woes from the line and in the backcourt."
dcist.com reports:"So after city officials break out the measuring tape and zoning maps, where will the gun shops end up?
In Ward 8, thanks to the 300-foot buffer, the only viable locations for gun stores are near Blue Plains deep in Southwest, at Suitland Parkway and Interstate 295, and in historic Anacostia off Shannon Place, according to a report from the D.C. planning office. A large chunk of Southwest between Independence Avenue and Interstate 395 is fair game, as is the New York Avenue corridor from Florida Avenue almost to the Maryland line.
There's also a tiny plot along Connecticut Avenue NW in Van Ness, a cluster of parcels off Wisconsin Avenue just north of McLean Gardens, another plot off Wisconsin near Observatory Circle, and a small piece of M Street in Georgetown, again near Wisconsin Avenue. Downtown, between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street as far west as 20th Street also is available for potential gun store business — though either side of 16th Street is off-limits.
It's either hilarious or heinous to think that Georgetown might see a gun shop before an Apple store."
The New York Times reports:"SAN FRANCISCO — In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them.
In return, Apple, whose dominance in online music sales gives it powerful leverage, agreed to a longstanding demand of the music labels and said it would move away from its insistence on pricing all individual song downloads on iTunes at 99 cents.
Instead, the majority of songs will drop to 69 cents beginning in April, while the biggest hits and newest songs will go for $1.29. Others that are moderately popular will remain at 99 cents."
The Office of Communications reports:"Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia has been named one of Washingtonian magazine’s Washingtonians of the Year for 2008. For the past 37 years, the magazine has honored men and women “who give their time and talent” to make the national capital area “a better place for all of us.”
The magazine praises DeGioia for his efforts to increase Georgetown’s engagement at both the local and global level. The magazine highlighted Georgetown’s Meyers Institute for College Preparation as an example of DeGioia’s commitment to community engagement. The Meyer’s program provides tutoring, mentoring, counseling and family support to middle and high school students from Washington’s Ward 7 neighborhoods. During his tenure as president, the institute has more than doubled its outreach and scope."
Bloomberg News reports:"Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., known for the minimalist designs of its computers, iPods and retail stores, aims to drop that aesthetic in the middle of Washington’s Georgetown. The historic district doesn’t want it.
Apple’s architects, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, proposed building a store with an all-glass front at street level, topped by a slab of masonry with an Apple logo cut through it. That’s not Georgetown’s style, a committee appointed by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts said last month when rejecting the plan.
“The design was too much like a billboard,” said Thomas Luebke, secretary of the commission, which reviews designs for Washington’s federal historic district. “It wasn’t appropriate.”
"WASHINGTON -- Leaving the car at home on inauguration day is looking better and better. Transportation leaders now say the inbound Key Bridge will be closed to regular traffic on Jan. 20.
That means there is virtually no way for someone who wants to get into the District from Arlington to do so if he is driving his own car.
It has already been announced that the 14th Street, Memorial and Roosevelt Bridges will not be open to regular traffic during the inauguration.
Instead, these bridges will carry a mixture of motor coaches, shuttle buses and pedestrians, all trying to flock to the central core of D.C. for the ceremony."
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