Backstage with punk rock outfit The Riddlin' Kids, I sense something's missing. No slashed clothes, no spikes, no beer. This is the new face of punk rock: lovelorn bodies packed tightly in T-shirts, legs hidden beneath stonewashed jeans.
Crashed out on the couch, unmoving, inert. The quiet is calming. You smile, noticing your heart pumping blood up and down your arms in short, quick bursts. Your roommate sits quietly flicking his toenails with focused fascination.
Housed in a room with cream-colored walls, the Corcoran's collection of photographs titled "Joseph Mills: Inner City" is a startling remembrance of an era not too distant. An era of events that have scarred many and a social climate that has become even more severe over the years.
Venice is less perfect than people would like to think, particularly in the summer, when the city is overrun by tourists and unbearably hot. In the afternoons, a putrid stench rises from the canals, a mix of sewage and seaweed. Long lines block the pathways into the main square, Piazza San Marco, as people wait to get into one of the city's many landmarks.
As the Strokes, on repeat, begin to splinter the eardrums, you're met with a realization. "There's got to be more to this rock resurgence. There's just got to be." "The bands" might offer a momentary escape from the MTV doldrums, but are they really reinvigorating the rock scene? Nah. Don't be so quick to weep in despair, though. The last few years have meant great things for the world of rock.
Wow, kids, it's a movie in which martial arts meets hip-hop - again. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Exit Wounds) gives another go at the action flick only to find himself tangled in a mess of confusing plot lines and consumed by a hopeless, ludicrous ending.
You know when you revisit a childhood memory and learn that it's not what it was at all? Like finding our Mr. Rogers is a pedophile or that Snuffy beat Big Bird. That's how I felt last weekend when I ended my night in Adams Morgan at Angles bar.
Last season the GW women's basketball team was undefeated in conference play and riding a 15-game winning streak heading into its final regular season game. But a loss at Massachusetts followed by a first-round loss to Xavier in the Atlantic 10 tournament dashed any NCAA Tournament hopes. After accepting a bid to the WNIT, the women lost to Virginia Tech in the second round, quickly ending what had been a highly promising postseason.
The GW men's basketball team shot 53 percent from the field and saw a career-high 24 point-performance from sophomore Tamal Forchion but fell just short of its first conference road win Wednesday night at St. Bonaventure. The Colonials took the Bonnies into overtime but could not contain Marques Green, who scored 13 of St. Bonaventure's 15 overtime points to edge GW 94-89.
Seven different Colonial pitchers held local rival James Madison University scoreless for eight innings en route to a 10-1 victory in Newport News, Va. Tuesday. The dominant win was a confidence booster for the GW baseball team, which heads to No. 1 (Baseball America) Georgia Tech this weekend.
I stood outside the Marvin Center Friday night, watching the spectacle that is the kickoff to the Student Association elections. More than a hundred students hurriedly plastered the walls with posters while passers-by looked on in confusion. The event epitomized student politics at GW; the politicos (candidates and their friends) were so consumed with the election process that they ignored the issues and the people they want to represent.
The University Board of Trustees meets Friday to approve the administration's proposed tuition increase, which is expected to be above the inflation rate at about four to five percent. Administrators will say that tuition hikes are needed to cover all the top-end amenities and services at GW, but a tuition increase, like any budgeted revenue, is a choice.
Officials said the administrative coordinator position will be eliminated from the housing staffing structure for next year because it is ineffective.
Lisner Auditorium played host to a ceremony Tuesday that marked the transition of several agencies to the newly created Homeland Security Department, a part of the largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II.
Colleges and universities should be more sensitive to the plight of men's sports teams in trying to comply with Title IX restrictions, said a report handed to the U.S. Secretary of Education Wednesday. The report, based on the findings of the Education Secretary Roderick Paige's 15-member commission, listed 23 recommendations for the Office of Civil Rights.
About 20 students gathered on a snowy Kogan Plaza at about noon Wednesday to voice their disapproval of an expected rise in tuition for the 2003-2004 school year.
Twenty female students will bring the issue of homosexuality and the trans-gendered lifestyle to their presentation of the "Vagina Monologues" this weekend. The show, written by Eve Ensler, will take place at the Western Presbyterian Church Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
The recent release of a Student Association report legitimizes the need for reform included in many candidates' campaign platforms.
While a handful of students protested the upcoming tuition increase in Kogan Plaza Wednesday, administrators are stressing the academic and student life merits of next year's budget, which will be announced Friday afternoon.
The first day of GW's second-ever online student election went smoothly, election officials said, despite snow and multiple campaign violations. Though some students reported computer problems, Joint Election Committee members said they are pleased with the turnout thus far and said they hope to announce winners Thursday night.
On the eve of the student government elections, the Vice President of Judicial and Legislative Affairs has released a report implicating former Student Association senator J.P. Blackford and incumbent Executive Vice President Eric Daleo.
The GW gymnastics team posted its second-highest score of the season to beat local rival James Madison University 193.925-191.100 Wednesday night at the Smith Center. The score was the gymnasts' second-straight high score, brining them one step closer to qualifying for regionals.
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Posted 5:30a.m. Preliminary Election Results
And then there were two. Junior Steve Sobel will face off with sophomore Kris Hart for the Student Association presidency next week after garnering the two highest vote counts in a hotly contested eight-person race.
Posted 7:15 p.m. Feb. 28- The Board of Trustees approved a 4.5 increase in tuition and fees for next year Friday, bringing student bills to $29,072. Incoming students will pay $29,350, a 5.5 percent increase over last year.
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