November 20, 2006

Sex columnist oversimplifies Dear Eve: As it is clearly not your strong suit, please don’t speak for all women as you did in your recent column, “We’re going to hook-up like it’s 1955,” (Nov. 13, p. 7). You may have been hurt by a “physical encounter” not resulting in a reaffirmation of your personal value, […]

Even as the number of students coming to the U.S. from many Muslim countries has fallen since 9/11, the number of Saudi students coming to the U.S. has suddenly skyrocketed. The kingdom of less than 22 million people has well over 11,000 of its subjects studying in U.S. universities, according to the Saudi government. Most […]

The National Park Service held a public symposium at the Navy Memorial Wednesday to hear complaints about the National Mall’s facilities, ranging from restrooms to handicap access. The symposium is part of an NPS planning initiative for improvements and preservation to the National Mall launched after Congress declared the Mall a “substantially completed work of […]

A Chipotle burrito is loaded with Vitamin A, has more calcium than a cup of milk and contains more sodium than the government recommends a person consume in a day. Thanks to junior Matt Silverman’s Web site, chipotlefan.com, readers can figure out these facts and countless others about the burrito chain that has captured the […]

Nathan Bush had the bad luck of being a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by police who uncovered a small stash of marijuana inside. The political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was charged with felony drug possession. Craig Selken, now a senior majoring in history at Northern State University in South Dakota, […]

Robert F. Kennedy once said, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Upon entering the theatre for a screening of Bobby, the fifth feature film from director Emilio Estevez (yes, the Mighty Duck man himself), I had but two thoughts: this can either be really good or really bad. Thankfully, the […]

D.C.’s MHz television network is looking to celebrate the filmmaker inside every kid with its annual Shortz Student Film Festival. “We create and change the world with our stories,” said Elizabeth Pringle, education director of the MHz, an independent public D.C. television network that focuses on educational and arts programming. “The Shortz festival is here […]

Indications that GW will phase out computer labs in residence halls in favor of common wireless hotspots are somewhat understandable, as these areas are often unused by students. Administrators should realize, however, that issues of study space, wireless access and computer lab access have all coalesced to create a convoluted policy in all three areas. […]

Until now, the best James Bond movie of the last 10 years was “Der James Bond Blumen” (“The Flowers of James Bond”), a little known German film from 2002. It’s about a German James Bond trying to save the world from an evil mastermind named Herr Dr Sven. It was shot at my friend Rob […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. With one game, Joe McKeown could have snubbed his nose at Maryland and iced years of pain of the University of Maryland refusing to play him. With one game against the top-ranked team in the country, the Colonials would have thrust themselves further into the national limelight and established themselves as a […]