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CHARMS and choosing your roommate

Sure, college applications were hard. Maybe you didn’t dream about being a Hoya, but now you find yourself painting the town gray and blue. And now you have your first... Read more

By July 31, 2015

Living at Georgetown

Mental health at Georgetown

We like to look like we’re the perfect candidates for everything—a job, an internship, a marriage … Admitting that you struggle with mental health issues means admitting that you’re not... Read more

By and July 29, 2015

Hilltop Activities

Sex at Georgetown

Editors note: This post is intended to provide a realistic and informative picture of sex at Georgetown. The information in this post is generally common knowledge and does not come from... Read more

By July 29, 2015

Voices

Transcending Battle Lines: Taking Stock of Israel’s Narrative

Children kidnapped from their homes; rockets fired across arbitrary lines on a map; 2,200 people killed during a bloody summer. A speech that divided a congress; an election that divided... Read more

By April 24, 2015

Features

Spring 2015 Photo Contest

The Voice is pleased to announce the winners of our 2015 Photo Contest: Jenna Chen (COL ’18), Mollie Coyle (COL ’17), and Trishla Jain (SFS ’15). Check out their work below!

By the April 22, 2015

Halftime Leisure

Mustaches, Masculinity, and the Terrifying Future: What’s Up Mad Men?

With only four more episodes until the end of the world of Mad Men, Don Draper and those around him find themselves in precarious situations. The future is a scary,... Read more

By April 21, 2015

Halftime Sports

FC Porto’s Smart Business Plan

Not many soccer fanatics expected the seemingly undefeatable Bayern Munich to be on the losing side of club competition anytime soon, especially to exit as early as the quarterfinals of... Read more

By April 20, 2015

Halftime Sports

The Revenge of Fellaini and Co.

For a team that struggled so much at the start of the season and then struggled to play decent football for the middle of the season, Manchester United have solved... Read more

By April 17, 2015

Features

Passing Judgment: The effects of anonymous evaluations

“I WANT YOU,” reads a long-forgotten sign that still remains affixed to the wall of a Car Barn classroom. This sign, and many others like it, are the last remnants... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Page 13 Cartoons

Dinner with the dean

By April 16, 2015

Voices

An Open Letter to Incoming Hoyas

My piece is a cry to decolonize; to blatantly deface and dismantle the structures on this campus that alienate by telling us that we cannot be proud of our working... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Voices

Helpless in Henle: Lessons Learned from a Broken Leg

My lack of athleticism was never more apparent than a few Saturday nights ago when I gracefully tumbled down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, bruising my pride and breaking... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Voices

Cheat, Heckle, and Strip: Tabletop Gamesmanship 101

I’ve been an avid tabletop games player since before I can remember. I can thank my dad for this. Since I was just a baby, he taught me how to... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Sports

Baseball returns home for seven-game homestand

The Georgetown men’s baseball team (16-15, 3-3 Big East), is coming back home. After winning two out of three against Villanova, the Hoyas are set to return home for a... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Sports

The Sports Sermon

I’m a pro wrestling fan. Whenever I tell people at Georgetown this fact, it seems that I’m met by two very distinct reactions. There’s either total condescension, because many find... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Editorials

Foreign Service grad stats only half the picture

According to the Cawley Career Education Center’s post-graduation employment statistics, in the past decade, more students who graduate from the School of Foreign Service are entering jobs in consulting and... Read more

By the April 16, 2015

Editorials

Keep professors accountable in course evaluations

Of the many adjectives that can be used to describe America’s post-secondary education system, “transparent” is not one of them. Unfortunately, Georgetown’s course evaluation system is not an exception to... Read more

By the April 16, 2015

Editorials

Making peer mentorships a productive experience

In the next few weeks, Georgetown’s admitted students will commit to becoming members of the Class of 2019. Over the summer, incoming freshmen have the option to communicate with upperclassmen... Read more

By the April 16, 2015

Sports

Men’s lax continuing momentum

Last Saturday, the No. 14/13 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team (8-4, 3-1 Big East) put on a show for its former members who returned for Alumni Day, winning 17-8 against Villanova... Read more

By April 16, 2015

Sports

Men’s hoops TV ratings increase

Things are looking up for Georgetown basketball. Georgetown junior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera opted to return for his senior season after initially declaring for this June’s NBA Draft. The Hoyas got... Read more

By April 16, 2015

News

Students stage sit in to support ‘Engaging Differences/Diversity’ curriculum proposal

A group of over 50 students gathered for a sit-in outside of university President John J. DeGioia’s office on April 10 to present a petition expressing support for the “Engaging... Read more

By April 15, 2015

News

Georgetown Day Cup initiative to encourage recycling on campus

The GUSA Senate Sustainability Subcommittee and the Corp Green Initiative have partnered to sponsor the first Georgetown Day Cup competition to promote recycling and sustainability on campus April 25, the... Read more

By April 15, 2015

News

SAC places sanctions on Philodemic Society for policy violations

On Tuesday, April 7th, the Student Activities Commission voted 8-2 to place the Philodemic Society into a Restoration category and ban its travel for the 2016 fiscal year due to... Read more

By April 15, 2015

News

On the record with Dr. Joel Hellman

On Tuesday, the Voice spoke with the incoming Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Joel Hellman, Ph.D. Why Georgetown? What do you find appealing about our University, specifically... Read more

By April 15, 2015

News

Saxa Poitica: Classism dialogue outside the classroom

I’ll be dedicating my last Saxa Politica column (at least for the foreseeable future) to an issue I’ve seen grow in salience over the three years I’ve spent in college.... Read more

By April 15, 2015