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Leisure

Rub Some Dirt On It: This is your brain on hookah

Smoking is a fairly prevalent vice at Georgetown. We have all walked past that guy in the GERMS shirt smoking on the Village C Patio, and there is nothing new about having to pass through the eternal smoke cloud in front of Lauinger in order to get some studying done.

By March 25, 2010

Sports

What Rocks: Molly Ford

The Women’s Lacrosse team has gotten off to a slow start this season as the Hoyas have struggled through one of the toughest schedules in the country. However, these early trials aren’t necessarily a bad thing. “These losses will help us because we’re learning from our mistakes and correcting the problems,” said senior co-captain Molly Ford.

By March 25, 2010

Sports

Backdoor Cuts: True madness

By the second night of the NCAA tournament, my bracket was busted worse than the Irish property bubble. By the close of night three, I was nearing a disaster of Greek credit default swap proportions. Obviously there’s a lot more basketball to play, but with favorites Kansas, Pitt, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Marquette, New Mexico, Notre Dame, and Villanova falling to the likes of Northern Iowa, St. Mary’s, and Murray State, this tournament is shaping up like no other.

By March 25, 2010

Voices

Oh V.P. Magoo, you’ve done it again!

Vice President Joe Biden is one of the most recognizable men in the country. He is Barack Obama’s right-hand man. He helped pass universal healthcare. But when he said, “this is a big fucking deal” on national television, Biden cemented his place in my heart. Biden was embracing the president in front of television cameras and microphones, and he probably thought that he was speaking out of range when he blurted out this statement to his boss. He was not.

By March 25, 2010

Voices

Agoraphobia on the Hilltop: Unreasonable insularity

Ask Georgetown students to list the top five reasons they chose this school, and the one thing that almost everyone will include is the location. Here we have the best of both worlds: a beautiful campus on a hilltop overlooking our nation’s bustling capital. But how often do Hoyas really venture beyond the brick paths of M Street and cross over to the cemented reality of what is commonly known as Pennsylvania Avenue? Not very often.

By March 25, 2010

Leisure

Bottoms Up: Booze in your back pocket

In the Prohibition era, knocking one back—or two, or three, for that matter—was about more than just getting sloshed on a Saturday night.

By March 25, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 3.18.2010 Solution – “This and That”

By the March 25, 2010

Features

Spring Fashion 2010

Buds, buds everywhere, but not a flower to see! The balmy breezes and sunny days of early spring seem like a tease when you’re still looking at stark, leafless trees and muddy strips of yellow grass. Why not help spring spring by being the very flower everyone has been waiting for?

By March 25, 2010

Sports

Hoyas fall flat in NCAA opener, lose to 14-seed Ohio

While making a run to the finals of the Big East tournament, the Georgetown Hoyas fulfilled all the promise they had shown in wins over the likes of Duke and Villanova. But the one thing the Hoyas could not prove in New York was that they were forever rid of the flaws that led to losses to teams like Rutgers. In the first round of the NCAA tournament, the latter version of the Hoyas showed that it was never really gone.

By March 19, 2010

News

Health inspections yield violations

Seven popular Georgetown eating establishments received critical health code violations in 2009, according to health inspection reports obtained by the Voice. Of the violators, Epicurean and Company was the most egregious, with a total of 17 critical violations identified.

By March 18, 2010