Late last night, GUSA finally passed the Fall 2009 budget for all student funding boards on campus. The budget was approved in late February and has been stalling in the Senate since then. The main problem facing the budget, until last night, was GUSA President Calen Angert’s (MSB ’11) attempt to usurp some of the [...]

Three months ago, I went to Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony. Although I have many joyous memories of the occasion, one of the more lasting is also the most disheartening: the National Mall was a wreck once the ceremony had ended. The crowd of over a million people had just been invigorated by Obama’s impassioned speech [...]

The GUSA Senate voted to pass their budget this week with twenty-six senators in favor, one senator opposed, and two abstentions.  The meeting Wednesday night ended almost two months of internal politics and controversy over club finances. It seems that senators ultimately believed failing the budget would do more harm than good, despite concerns about [...]

Though Fratelli la Bufala (loosely translated as Buffalo Brothers) is best known for its Buffalo meat dishes and buffalo milk mozzarella, the scent of sweet cheese won’t be the first thing to greet your nose as you walk in. At the Italian chain’s newest location on 31st St, which opened this month, the pine tables [...]

Thirteen points, eleven assists, ten blocks, and fifteen rebounds in one game is what the basketball world calls a quadruple double—one of the sport’s rarest feats. Jerrelle Benimon, a 6’8” power forward from Fauquier High School in Warrenton, Virginia, accumulated those statistics. Benimon is the newest addition to the Hoyas men’s basketball team.