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April 2014


Halftime Leisure

Critical Voices: NEEDTOBREATHE, Rivers in the Wasteland

Following the release of four albums and extensive touring, the alternative rock band, NEEDTOBREATHE experienced a crisis of identity under the pressure of their past success. The trio decided it... Read more

Features

Trailblazing: A new path for collegiate scholarships

For much of its history, Georgetown’s student body could be summed up by four characteristics: white, Catholic, from the Northeast, and wealthy. While the image has shifted and student dialogue... Read more

Editorials

GUSA resolution aims to assist deaf community

In a resolution passed on April 6 concerning student accessibility on campus, the GUSA Senate asked the University to set up a funding system to bring sign language interpreters to... Read more

Voices

From digits to dehumanization: Minor League Baseball

Before the summer of 2012, I couldn’t have told you jack-crap about the sport of baseball. I had played in rec leagues back in middle school, but never really caught... Read more

Voices

Carrying On: The walls are closing in

Imagine a massive intergalactic trash compactor, Star Wars Episode IV-style. You and me, and the rest of the world’s population, are caught inside. The wealthiest of the bunch have managed... Read more

Voices

Empowering student tenants through support and advocacy

On October 17, 2004, nearly 100 firefighters were called to the 3300 block of Prospect Street after an anonymous 911 call alerted authorities of a blaze burning through the townhouse... Read more

Editorials

GSP vital for first-generation college students

Twelve percent of admitted students to the Georgetown Class of 2018 are first-generation students, a similar rate to last year’s accepted class and that of most Ivy League schools. Though... Read more

Editorials

Shooting shows veteran mental health neglected

The rhetoric is tired—and so are we at the Voice. Gun control has dropped off the map of firebrand issues in political dialogue. When it is discussed, it is separated... Read more

Voices

Structural violence in Panama: Native tribes’ legacy of starvation

¿Hay más pantalones? For the indigenous people of Latin America, resources are sparse.  Four years ago, I started the first of several travels to Santiago, an inland Panamanian town, to... Read more

Leisure

Jodorowsky’s Dune brings epic back from the recycling bin

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” Frank Herbert’s seminal science... Read more