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Day: October 1, 2009


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MPD issues noise violations to students

This academic year, the Metropolitan Police Department has issued at least six 61-D citations to Georgetown students for noise violations, according to an email sent on September 24 by Cory... Read more

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4 GUSA seats empty

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate campaigns are well under way, in preparation for elections on October 6, but four of the 25 open seats have attracted no candidates. None... Read more

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Eco-friendly trash cans installed

Georgetown has installed twenty environmentally-friendly BigBelly solar trash compactors on campus as a part of an ongoing sustainability campaign. Three BigBelly cans premiered at last year’s Green Fair on campus.... Read more

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Circulator saved

At a Wisconsin Avenue-Whitehaven Place Circulator bus stop Tuesday morning, Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) officially announced that Circulator service on upper Wisconsin Avenue will not be cut. According to Fenty’s... Read more

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Freshman authors story of abuse

“There are stories hidden inside each and every one of us.” Yaya Chang (COL ‘13) opens her book, Hidden Behind Innocence, with these words. At first glance, the diminutive yet... Read more

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Saxa Politica: Diversity Initiative a worthy cause

Georgetown students got an e-mail last week with the subject, “EVENT: Diversity Initiative, Town Hall Meeting.” Most of them probably never opened it. It was easy to dismiss the event,... Read more

Voices

Breaking the glass ceiling: oysters with the boys

For a grotesque portion of my life, I pushed picky eating to its furthest limits. I refused to eat nearly anything that wasn’t pizza, macaroni, or bread until I was... Read more

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Keep ‘em separated: love the art, not the artist

Just this week, Roman Polanski, one of the most celebrated film directors of the 20th and 21st centuries, was arrested in Switzerland and awaits extradition.   Polanski is wanted in the... Read more

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Heroes and hotdogs: the great American pasttime

One of the clearest memories of my childhood is walking into Fenway Park in the summer of ’97 to see my first baseball game. It was as profound a religious... Read more

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Don’t let Congress leverage our future on student aid

The Voice’s recent endorsement of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (“Senate must pass Student Aid Bill” 23 Sept 2009) is a timely example of how the public is... Read more