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August 2007

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GU may lose grant funds

Georgetown could lose millions of dollars in federal financial aid if the Bush administration succeeds in cutting a major federal aid program.

By August 30, 2007

Leisure

Deadbeats

Rewind your memories to July 31, 2004. Modest Mouse’s “Float On” was sailing along at number one on Billboard’s U.S. Modern Rock Track chart, and Franz Ferdinand’s “Take Me Out” was on its way to number three. Fast forward to August 21, 2007. Vice Records released This Is Next: Indie’s Biggest Hits Volume 1, an indie-rock compilation designed to “reach beyond the core album consumer and toward the casual buyer.” Is this the death of indie rock as we know it?

By August 30, 2007

Leisure

Sounds of Summer ‘07

The Voice Leisure team enjoys spreading the word on its favorite new albums. Unfortunately, we didn’t have that pleasure this summer, so here’s the best of what we missed.

By the August 30, 2007

News

City sues over library fire

The District of Columbia is seeking $13 million in damages from the contractor whothe District claims is responsible for the blaze that ravaged the historic Georgetown Neighborhood Branch Library last April.

By August 30, 2007

News

Emergency text service unreliable, company says

The text messaging component of Georgetown’s new emergency notification system is unreliable, an executive for the company providing the service admitted Wednesday.

By August 30, 2007

Voices

The Deepest Aftershock

Information spread early after an disaster is usually wrong. When my Mom received the first phone call about the quake, she was told that the epicenter had been in Ancash, Peru—my parents’ home region, and the center of a 1970 quake. That information wasn’t right; the quake hit hundreds of miles south. But with that one wrong word, a lifetime of mental scars were reopened.

By August 30, 2007

Leisure

Chu-less and hungry

Every year when students return to Georgetown, they are surprised to find a few welcome changes around campus, like the school-spirited crosswalk added on 37th and N Street and the new carpeting in Sellinger Lounge. The closing of Chu’s Café is an adjustment students will not enjoy making.

By August 30, 2007

Voices

Tea Time with the Turkish Police

Sitting in a Turkish police station next to an accused criminal is not how I expected to spend my Thursday night. Even less did I expect the night to end with a pratical joke played on me by the Turkish police.

By August 30, 2007

Leisure

Lezhur Ledger: The Awkward Ship Sails

On a campus of over 6,000 undergrads, packed like collar-popping sardines in a can, I had never felt more alone. I had been living at Georgetown for little more than a day and wishing my parents would leave and take me back with them, or at least just leave already.

By August 30, 2007

Voices

Talk It Out

If you’re not unhappy with the new party regulations, you should be—even if you don’t drink. They represent a betrayal of Georgetown’s tradition of consulting with students before making policy changes.

By August 30, 2007