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Change is Required for Club Diversity

The Voice has a diversity problem. We are not alone in this—as the recent op-ed in The Hoya about the lack of diversity in GUASFCU made clear. Yet when we... Read more

By the March 31, 2017

Editorials

High Civilian Casualties Draw Concern

In March 1969, the Voice was founded in response to the Vietnam War, a conflict that had inflicted heavy civilian casualties. On April 27, 1971, this editorial board wrote, “We... Read more

By the March 31, 2017

Features

Classics Department Translates Letter on Sale of 272 Slaves

A group of around 20 students and faculty from the Classics Department recently finished an English translation of an 1836 Latin letter from the Society of Jesus headquarters in Rome.... Read more

By March 31, 2017

Features

No Longer ‘Safe From Science’: Dissecting science visibility and increasing course requirements

When most people hear the words “Georgetown University,” they think of international relations, government, and business, headlined by the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the McDonough School... Read more

By March 31, 2017

Halftime Sports

The Sports Sermon: MLB Season Preview

In this episode of the Sports Sermon, Nick Gavio, Graham Piro, and Alex Boyd discuss expectations and predictions for the upcoming Major League Baseball season.

By , and March 31, 2017

Opinion

Campus Speaker’s Anti-Muslim Language Raises Concern

I am a Muslim, an immigrant, and a woman of color. On the campus of Georgetown University last month, I was silenced in the name of free speech. On Feb.... Read more

By March 31, 2017

Opinion

Stay-At-Home Motherhood, a Choice Worthy of Respect

Would you rather be married or have a successful career? Be honest. Now imagine a typical female college student. She’s average height and has long hair. Her guilty pleasure is... Read more

By March 31, 2017

Carrying On

Carrying On: ‘That Was Racist’ Can’t Be the End of the Conversation

Liberals, myself included, are in a well-documented crisis. Friction between progressives dominates my news feed more than arguments across ideologies. Divides have opened between focus on identity politics and economics,... Read more

By March 31, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Track Takes: Kendrick Lamar, “HUMBLE.”

Kendrick Lamar has dropped another unexpected track just a week after his viral hit, “The Heart Part 4.” Laced with varied beats and wide-ranging subject matter, “The Heart” was met... Read more

By March 30, 2017

News

DNC leaders discuss millennial engagement

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Tom Perez and Deputy Chair Keith Ellison discussed the future of the Democratic Party in a conversation with Mo Elleithee, executive director of the... Read more

By March 30, 2017

News

Rev. Katsouros discusses Jesuit education at Arrupe College

The Rev. Stephen Katsouros, S.J., founder and dean of Arrupe College, underlined the importance of giving everyone a chance to access higher education during the third annual Bernardin Lecture, sponsored... Read more

By March 30, 2017

Halftime Leisure

In Defense of Country Music

Oh, country music, the black sheep of the music industry. If someone did a survey, I bet they would find that 80 percent of CHARMS profiles say, “I love all... Read more

By March 30, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Trailer Takes: Justice League, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Baby Driver

Justice League: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxixDgHUYw Anne: Usually I give superhero movies a lot of hate (one can only watch white men save the world so many times), but even I am not... Read more

By March 29, 2017

Leisure

CV: Goldlink, At What Cost

As it currently stands, the world of hip-hop revolves more or less around three musical nexuses: LA, Chicago, and Atlanta. King Kendrick and his TDE label reign supreme on the... Read more

By March 29, 2017

News

GSC holds protest during GAAP weekend

Members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee (GSC) held a protest to raise awareness of the working conditions that laborers in Nike factories faced as admitted students and their families attending... Read more

By March 28, 2017

Leisure

The National Gallery of Art’s Writing Salon Provokes Creative Thought

On Saturday, a group of of mostly older D.C. residents sat on blue butterfly stools facing Jean Miro’s The Farm for the third session of this season’s Writing Salons at... Read more

By March 28, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Shameless is TV’s Hidden Gem

There is no denying that we are currently living in a golden age of television. All one needs to do is look at lists of the most watched shows of... Read more

By March 28, 2017

Halftime Leisure

The 250: Se7en

This week on the 250, host Danielle Hewitt talks about the David Fincher classic Se7en with Halftime writer Eman Rahman.

By March 28, 2017

News

Journalists discuss challenges in Trump era

Georgetown’s undergraduate journalism program hosted a panel discussion with journalists to discuss the changes and challenges to journalism in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency. The March 22 talk was... Read more

By March 27, 2017

Leisure

GU ArtsWeek: A Celebration of Art and Unity

Monday, Mar. 27 has marked the beginning of the second annual celebration of GU ArtsWeek, an active invitation for all Georgetown students to engage in the arts. “The mission is... Read more

By March 27, 2017

Halftime Leisure

The Sun is Shining, The Birds Are Chirping: Vampire Weekend Announces New Music

Ezra Koenig just announced information about Vampire Weekend’s new album, and I am currently having a heart attack, just in case you were wondering. There has been little noise from... Read more

By March 27, 2017

Halftime Leisure

The Weekly List: A Weekend at South By

Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit Austin, TX (the self-proclaimed weirdest city in America) for South by Southwest (SXSW). Serving as one of the largest film and music... Read more

By March 27, 2017

Halftime Leisure

Taste Test: Pocky

Welcome to Taste Test! This week, host Erika Bullock recounts the wild history of the Japanese snack Pocky with Danielle Hewitt and special guests, Voice alums Chris Almeida and Chris Castano. http://media.blubrry.com/voicepodcastnetwork/georgetownvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pocky.mp3 Podcast:... Read more

By and March 27, 2017

Columns

Hidden Hegemony: Housing Accessibility Is Missing From Our Conversations

In an August campaign rally in Ohio, after months of describing his perceptions of despair and dissolution in America’s “inner cities,” candidate Donald Trump urged black and Latino voters to... Read more

By March 24, 2017

Columns

And Now for Something Different: Why Is Everything so Obvious?

As a math major, there’s nothing I hate more than when a professor points to a theorem and says, “The proof is obvious.” More often than not, I then sit... Read more

By March 24, 2017