“Give up on Georgetown. It’s not a Catholic university anymore,” an alumnus told me recently.

“Give up on Georgetown. It’s not a Catholic university anymore,” an alumnus told me recently.

The opening line of Toronto Film Festival’s award-winning Bella provides a preview of the turning and twisting 91-minute path the movie proceeds along: “My grandmother used to say, ‘You want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans.’” Beginning as the story of a young man who seems to own life, the film follows the protagonist on an

Through the misrepresentation and outright dismissal of certain opinions of a minority, Nick Timiraos contributes to the very “intellectual vacuum” which he claims to denounce (“Georgetown’s Intellectual Vacuum,” THE HOYA, Sept. 23, 2005, A3). Such ideologues are destroying the university by depicting their opponents as “too timid, too disorganized

Set in ninth-century China, House of Flying Daggers attempts to ride the recent wave of Chinese movie imports and combine martial arts, Chinese history and romance into a dramatic feature film.

Instead of seamlessly blending all these elements, House of Flying Daggers only achieves true success in its cinematography and action sequences. This is a movie for artists, not writers.

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission passed a proposal for a new welcome sign at a revised Canal Road entrance during a meeting Tuesday night that marked sole student commissioner Mike Glick’s (COL ’05) last ANC meeting, concluding his two years of service on the board.

Glick’s plan for a new welcome sign at the site was passed by a vote of 7-0.

The sign, a Senior Class gift from the Class of 2003, would be black in the style of an iron gate with the university seal and “Georgetown University” in gold lettering. This project would also involve the installation of a new traffic light allowing for left turns onto M Street.

Jennifer E. Howitt (SFS ’05) is one of 32 students nationwide selected for a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship.

The recipients of the award were announced Sunday morning.

“Jennifer has made Georgetown extremely proud,” University President John J. DeGioia said in a university press release. “Her intelligence and leadership are remarkable and I am certain she will continue to make her mark on the world through her academic, personal and professional achievements.”

Howitt, an international politics major, will enter Oxford University in England next October to pursue a doctorate in development studies. She described being given the scholarship, which funds two or three years of study at Oxford, as a surreal experience.

1. Freshmen will wear a distinctive cap everywhere on the campus, in Georgetown , to and on Wisconsin Ave. , to Montrose Park , and also on the river. N.B. — The cap need not be worn after a street car has been boarded, nor when in the street car in the Freshmen rule district of Georgetown.

2. Freshmen will yield right of way to all upper classmen. This rule applies to street cars, within the section of Georgetown where the Freshmen rules apply, to all the places on the campus including telephone booths, and excepting only the tennis and handball courts.

3. Freshmen will not wear bowties before seven o'clock in the evening.

Allison Carpenter’s ignorant comments in her letter to the editor (“Hoya Environment Unwelcoming to Minorities,” The Hoya, Nov. 2, 2004, A2) offended me.

I am among the “sole minority” students in positions of power of The Hoya.

I was the first woman and first person of color to ever work on The Hoya’s Web site.

Mark Ipri fails to understand a wealth of Catholic teaching and tradition in his viewpoint “What Would Jesus Think?” (The Hoya, Sept. 28, 2004, A3).