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GUSA presidential campaign kicks off

After winning last year’s Georgetown University Student Association presidential election as sophomores, Calen Angert (MSB ‘11) and Jason Kluger (MSB ‘11) moved quickly on an ambitious—but often controversial—agenda. They are now running as incumbents for the first time in recent memory.

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Landmark vote: GUSA consolidates power over activity fee

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate passed a bill to strip advisory boards of their votes in the allocation of the Student Activities Fee by a vote of 19 to four at their Monday night meeting. The bill, which faced strong opposition from the advisory boards, gives GUSA’s Finance and Appropriations Committee sole control over the allocation process. In the previous system, the seven members of the Finance and Appropriations Committee and one representative from each of the six advisory boards voted on allocating the funds from the fee at the annual spring Budget Summit. Under the new bill, however, members of the Finance and Appropriations Committee will analyze the advisory boards’ positions and then propose a budget, which must then be approved by two-thirds of the general Senate and by the GUSA president.

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Campus copes with blizzard

Amid a series of massive snow storms that have broken the 1899 record for seasonal snowfall in the District, Georgetown University has canceled classes at its campuses for a fourth consecutive day. In addition to preventing faculty and staff from safely reaching campus, the most recent blizzard has disrupted food deliveries and frustrated professors’ lesson plans. In an e-mail to the Voice, Provost James O’Donnell explained the University has been discussing potential closures with faculty every day, and that every day there are a few faculty who are in favor of keeping school open. But the general consensus has typically been in favor of closing the University, especially at the beginning of the week.

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With snow, businesses struggle

Many Georgetown businesses have struggled to stay open through the record-breaking snowstorms of the past week. Most businesses that have tried to maintain normal operating hours have had difficulty staying stocked and fully staffed. Many businesses—including Sweetgreen, Fed Ex, AT & T, Subway, Kitchen #1, Wingo’s, and Saxby’s—were closed Wednesday afternoon. Of the stores that remained open, many are struggling to get employees to work safely.

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Saxa Politica: GU Diversity

The Admissions and Recruitment Working Group, which was formed last spring as part of the University’s diversity initiative, recently released a list of recommendations to increase diversity in Georgetown’s admission’s and recruitment process. As President DeGioia and Provost James O’Donnell review the group’s recommendations, they should give special consideration to the value of socio-economic diversity, which is often overlooked.

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Page 13 Cartoons

The Capital of Sadness Part 2

The sound of the chapel bells ringing crisply across the snow seemed to splinter the smooth silence of the night that the cold air had frozen. It would now be one hour until check in and then another 15 minutes until lights out and sleep still further than that.

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Page 13 Cartoons

The Capital of Sadness Part 1

The sound of his roommate’s alarm stirred Cameron from sleep. He brought simple facts to mind, to see how they looked in this odd half light of consciousness: Something very... Read more

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Crosswords

Crossword 2.11.2010 – “Snowed In”

 

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Features

Chiming in: When you’re a Chime, you’re a Chime all the way

Last Saturday night, the audience in Gaston Hall erupted in laughter as a nearly unintelligible cacophony rang out. On stage, an unlikely cast of characters—a bourbon-drinking Jesuit, Jersey Shore’s the Situation, and Midnight Madness toilet-shooter Alex Thiele, to name a few—sang out simultaneously.

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Leisure

Daniel Tosh on sex changes, dead parents

Daniel Tosh, comedian and host of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, talked to the Voice’s Leigh Finnegan and other college newspapers this week about the new season of his show and the response he gets for his scathing brand of humor.

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