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Solving the Mystery of Rafael Nadal’s Decline

“In that moment, Federer may not have realized the enormity of the situation, but his final forehand symbolized the passing of the torch to Rafael Nadal.” In my recent article... Read more

By October 23, 2015

Carrying On

Carrying On: Forcing Hate Out Of Our Lives

I can be a bit of a hater. I always have been, and perhaps I always will be. In middle school, I called myself a “nonconformist” (my sole act of... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Features

Safe Spaces or Echo Chambers? Understanding the Discourse Surrounding Georgetown’s Political Climate

On April 16, 2015, at the invitation of the Georgetown University College Republicans (GUCR), Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute studying feminism and American culture,... Read more

By and October 22, 2015

Features

Results from the Voice’s 2015 Political Values Survey

In the past month, the Voice reached out online and to a variety of student organizations in an attempt to illustrate (unscientifically) the student body’s attitudes to campus and national issues.... Read more

By the October 22, 2015

Halftime Sports

The Ticket Price Epidemic

Attending a game is the ultimate experience for any fan; nothing competes with euphoria a crowd collectively feels whenever a deep fly ball is hit, a running back barely inches... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Features

Jesters On The Throne: How A Joke Ticket Took The Georgetown University Student Association By Storm

It started with the campaign video. Two young men in suits smile for the camera over patriotic music. “My name is Joe Luther,” one begins. “And my name is Connor... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Editorials

Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?

Two weeks ago, Peter and Susan Cooper donated $50 million to Georgetown’s Athletic Department—while construction for the $62 million John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center is well underway. These... Read more

By the October 22, 2015

Opinion

SNAP, Crackle, DOPS: Serial Confusion for Off-Campus Residents

For a Friday night, it was a pretty mild party. For one thing, the only music was coming from my iPhone; for another, all the guests were seated around my... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Opinion

All Stressed Up: Raising the Curtain on a Hoya’s Life

They say that hindsight is 20/20. As my time on the Hilltop began, I wanted to get as involved in campus life as possible. Unfortunately, when I reflect on my... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Editorials

Eye in the Sky: Social media monitoring and campus crime at Boston U

During the shootings at Umpqua Community College, Texas Southern University, and Northern Arizona University, the Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) was put on high alert for any suspicious activity on... Read more

By the October 22, 2015

Halftime Sports

The R.A. Dickey Trade: The Creation of This Year’s Contenders

If you told me after the 2013 MLB season that in two years, the ALCS would include the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays, and the NLCS would feature... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Halftime Sports

Unpacking the ‘Snapfu’

Assuredly, most football fans have already had the treat of watching what may have been the dumbest play in sports history, which occurred during the Indianapolis Colts’ 34-27 loss to... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Halftime Leisure

Homeland Season Five, An Irregular Start

The fifth season of Homeland picks up two years after the gritty, action-packed last episodes of  season four.  After the horrors she went through in Islamabad, Carrie Mathison finds herself... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Leisure

Bridge of Spies Finds Extra in the Ordinary

Although Bridge of Spies is set during the Cold War, it is a surprisingly timely film. Director Steven Spielberg’s new release repeatedly challenges the legal representation of enemy combatants, a... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Leisure

Critical Voices: Thank Your Lucky Stars, Beach House, Sub Pop

It’s been a prolific past month for the Baltimore-based band, Beach House. Their newest release, Thank Your Lucky Stars, dropped just a few weeks after the group released another full-length... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Sports

W Marks the Spot: Women’s soccer looks for win against Pirates to gain ground on first-place DePaul

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (9-5-1, 3-1-1 Big East) gets set to take on the Seton Hall Pirates (2-11-2, 1-5-0 Big East) this Thursday at Shaw Field to close out... Read more

By October 21, 2015

News

Liebegott and Chatelain talk gender and LGBTQ identity in the media

On Oct. 20, the LGBTQ Resource Center hosted the event “The Tipping Point in Transgender Popular Culture,” a conversation about the challenges of representation for female and genderqueer writers in... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Halftime Leisure

Happy Back to The Future Day, McFly

Today, October 21st, 2015, is one of the most anticipated in film-geek history. It’s the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in the classic Robert Zemeckis film,... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Halftime Sports

Hoya Hoops Madness: Fun for Everyone (Plus 2 Chainz!)

1984 was a year of many things. There was a wall dividing Berlin, George Orwell’s vision did not quite ring true, and the Georgetown University Men’s Basketball team won the... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Halftime Sports

Reactions to First College Basketball Poll

If you’re itching for leather through nylon like me while the rest of the country is still fixated on the pigskin, Thursday was the first day of a five-month-long Christmas... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Halftime Leisure

Scream Queens  is Pure Fun

What do you get when you cross American Horror Story with Glee? Quite literally, Scream Queens. FOX’s newest hit is the concoction of the same writer-producer team (Ryan Murphy and... Read more

By October 21, 2015

Halftime Sports

The Cubs’ Unlikely Chance to Make History

It’s official. The Chicago Cubs, who have not won a World Series in over a century, are well into the National League Championship Series. For the first time since 2003,... Read more

By October 21, 2015

News

Higher Edge: Challenging Without Triggering

“I don’t believe in trigger warnings,” my professor tells the class, proud of her refusal to succumb to the excessive coddling of college students. The problem with the discussion around... Read more

By October 20, 2015

Halftime Leisure

The Weekly List: Country Songs for Country Haters

One of the most clichéd responses to the question, “What type of music do you like?” is “Anything but country.” Before I saw the light, I too was in this... Read more

By October 20, 2015

Sports

Volleyball Road-Trip Roundup: Hoyas come up short against Xavier and Butler

The Georgetown volleyball team (8-14, 2-7 Big East) fell to the Xavier Musketeers (10-8, 6-2 Big East) 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18) and the Butler Bulldogs (6-15, 3-6 BIG EAST)... Read more

By October 20, 2015