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Women’s basketball falls to Marquette in quarterfinals of Big East Tournament

The Georgetown women’s basketball team (17-12, 9-10 Big East) fell to host Marquette (23-7, 14-5 Big East) in the quarterfinals of the 2017 Big East Women’s Tournament at the Al... Read more

News

Celenza announced as new College dean

Christopher Celenza will become the new dean of Georgetown College on July 1. Celenza will replace Dean Chet Gillis. Gillis, who has held the role since 2009, will take a sabbatical... Read more

Sports

Men’s basketball Senior Day dampened by 26-point loss to No. 2 Villanova

The Georgetown men’s basketball team (14-17, 5-13 Big East) was unable to contain the balanced scoring of No. 2 Villanova (28-3, 15-3 Big East) on Senior Day at the Verizon... Read more

Features

Earth Explorers Takes D.C.: New NatGeo Exhibit Addresses Environmental Issues

The National Geographic Museum’s newest exhibit, Earth Explorers, opened on a peculiarly balmy February day. The exhibition, running February through September 2017, offers visitors the opportunity to become a NatGeo... Read more

Features

Orchestrating Diplomacy: GU Students Head to Cuba

While most students will be relaxing at home over spring break, twelve members of the Georgetown University Orchestra will be boarding a plane to Havana, Cuba. Only two years ago,... Read more

Features

Alternative Snacks: A Second Student Dining Option

College dining hall food is notoriously subpar, and for many Georgetown students, Leo’s is no exception. But it is an unavoidable part of campus life, as all freshmen and sophomores... Read more

Features

Spaced Out: Club Sports in Crisis

When Kehoe Field closed, it was a long time coming. The playing space was notorious for its rough conditions, and Georgetown deemed it unsafe for practice conditions. Although many felt... Read more

Editorials

Library Cuts Set Harmful Precedent

Lau saw its 2016 fiscal year budget cut by six percent or $1 million, resulting in a 17.5 percent decrease in the library’s budget for principal collections of books, as... Read more

Editorials

Georgetown Must Support Refugees

On June 20, 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that the number of displaced persons in the world reached a record high at 65.3 million people. Of... Read more

Editorials

Prioritize Club Sports’ Space

When the university closed the increasingly hazardous Kehoe Field last February, this editorial board approved of the move. It was right to end the use of Kehoe’s unsafe playing surface,... Read more

Sports

The Phone Booth: What Postseason?

Welcome to the Phone Booth, the Georgetown Voice‘s podcast dedicated entirely to Georgetown hoops. In this episode, host Tyler Pearre is joined by Nick Gavio to discuss the team’s past few... Read more

Leisure

Steve Alderton Captures the Blurred Emotions of Memory

Memoryscapes – Blurry Lines III is the third and final installment of a series of increasingly abstracted landscapes—but at first glance, these paintings don’t look like landscapes at all. Rather... Read more

Leisure

Logan Isn’t Afraid to Break New Ground

Logan, the newest X-Men movie from director James Mangold, delivers the best send off to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine that fans could have hoped for. It’s no secret that Fox’s X-Men... Read more

Halftime Sports

The Yankees Will (Hopefully) Be 2020’s Cubs

“I’ll stop hating them when they let their players have facial hair and don’t have 27 championships.” – a friend of mine talking about why she dislikes the New York... Read more

Carrying On

Carrying On: Reflecting on Death and My Grandmother’s Disease

Sometimes I run to think through a problem, but this is not one of those days. I’m at Yates, running on the treadmill because my left knee is too messed... Read more

Opinion

Growing up Godless

I’m three or four years old, holding up a popsicle stick cross I made in day care for my mom to see. I had colored it using pink washable marker... Read more

Opinion

Fashioning a New Understanding of Gender Equality

When most of us hear the words “gender equality,” our minds jump to women’s issues. We automatically conjure images of feminist rallies, calls for equal pay, and ownership of reproductive... Read more

Halftime Leisure

A Case for the Classics: The O.C.

The O.C. is, was, and always will be the perfect show. It was full of teen drama, including class divisions and tumultuous romance; it had a heartwarming family dynamic complete... Read more

Halftime Sports

MLB Season Preview

In this MLB season preview, we’re predicting the division winners and the outcome of the World Series, even though spring training just started. There are a lot of well-matched teams... Read more

Halftime Sports

The Sports Sermon: the Business Side

Welcome to the Sports Sermon, the Voice‘s global sports podcast. In this episode of the Sermon, Nick Gavio talks with Graham Piro, Jonny Amon, and Woodley Jean-Louis about salary caps, free... Read more

Leisure

CV: Dams of the West, Youngish American

Vampire Weekend’s side projects have been tried and tested, with notable successes including Rostam Batmanglij’s duo with Ra Ra Riot’s lead singer, Discovery, and Ezra Koenig’s L’Homme Run. VW drummer... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Lessons From Literature: The Woman Destroyed

“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.” ― Simone de... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Trailer Takes: As You Are, The Discovery, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

As You Are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVe4fEn7W0 Brynne: Compelling as this film looks, I can’t tell exactly what it’s getting at. The overhead shot in the opening, the music, and the creepy ending... Read more

Leisure

CV: The Orwells, Terrible Human Beings

At first glance, Terrible Human Beings, The Orwells’ latest album, has all the makings of a cult classic. The title is shameless, the cover art screams 90’s alternative with its... Read more

Leisure

CV: Future, FUTURE

In his latest project, Future is focused on identity. After retreating from social media and laboring day and night on his latest album, FUTURE, Future has delivered a mixed bag... Read more