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September 2012

Voices

Struggling for sovereignty, Hong Kong marches on

When people ask me if I’m from China, I happily say yes. China is my country; it is where I am from. Based on that alone, most of my friends... Read more

By September 19, 2012

Voices

Honey Boo Boo: More than just roadkill and Mountain Dew

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a lot of things: child exploitation, caffeine science experiment, and the funniest thing on television. But, if you can crack through the exterior of... Read more

By September 19, 2012

Voices

Art for art history’s sake

Toward the end of my sophomore year, I realized that I could not delay declaring a major anymore. Unable to choose between Government and Art History, I opted for both.... Read more

By September 19, 2012

The Back Page

50 Shades of Blue and Gray, Part I

Here at the Voice, we’re all about following trends, so in this moment of crowdsourced news and steamy literature we’ve decided to combine the two. Behold the first installment of... Read more

By the September 13, 2012

News

Caravan for Peace culminates with march and vigil in D.C.

The Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a protest movement against the ongoing Mexican drug war, culminated a multi-state tour in a vigil and rally in Malcolm X Park on Sep.12.

By September 13, 2012

Features

Start me up: The struggles of Georgetown’s tech entrepreneurs

“Our community is not that creative,” Carlos Cheung (MSB ‘13) said of Georgetown’s student body. “if you think about it, how many art majors do you meet here? Let’s be real. We’re kind of like a mill. We build a lot of good people who go into middle-management positions at law firms and banks and consulting. That’s the three major things that a lot of kids end up doing, right?” Cheung became an anomaly among this group, when he left the business track to work for three D.C.-based tech startup companies.

By September 13, 2012

News

Epicurean faces multiple lawsuits from employees

Since 2010, several employees of Epicurean and Company have filed lawsuits alleging the owners of the campus eatery failed to pay overtime wages, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and D.C. Minimum Wage Act.

By September 13, 2012

News

Students struggle with delinquent landlords

Georgetown may be attempting to move more students on campus, but a substantial number of Hoyas still reside beyond the front gates. For many of them them, the biggest problem with their living situation isn’t SNAPs or neighbors, but the people who own their properties.

By September 13, 2012

News

Saxa Politica: A Blueprint for success

This semester, the Center for Student Programs, the Center for Social Justice, and Campus Ministry collaborated to launch a daring initiative entitled The Blueprint. This set of two training sessions, which concluded Saturday, was designed to educate the leaders of student organizations on the resources available under the University’s access to benefits policies and, of course, the consequences of abusing organizational privileges.

By September 13, 2012

Leisure

Pulitzer-nominated wrestling play is a major knockout

We’ve known it all along, though we still revel in every outrageous, distorted reflection of true life that is thrown at us—in television, “reality” is a term that should be taken with a sizeable grain of salt. The world of televised wrestling, powered by the sheer volume of entertainment that raw human conflict can provide, is surprisingly no different from the carefully engineered documentations of beauty pageants or Kardashian daily living pervading programs which ought to be inviting skepticism.

By September 13, 2012