Archive

NSO includes first ever mandatory sexual assault education component

For the first time, New Student Orientation included a mandatory sexual assault education component this year after a recent push from student organizations, including the Voice and GUSA. Last year’s... Read more

By Julia Jester August 28, 2014

Four-year housing guaranteed for students with financial need

For Hoyas receiving financial aid, there was a bright spot to be found amid the grime and whine of construction activity that greeted them on campus: GUSA helped secure four... Read more

By Noah Buyon August 28, 2014

Chadwicks closes on K St. this weekend, replaced by Mr. Smith’s

Chadwicks will serve its last bottomless champagne brunch on Sunday, Aug. 31 at its K St. location. With the restaurant closing, Georgetown students of legal drinking age will be losing... Read more

By Lara Fishbane August 28, 2014

Saxa Politica: Planning Georgetown’s Blueprint

It’s hard to not talk about the banging of construction, dust of drywall, and random road closures that will last for the next year. All this is driven by the... Read more

By Claire Zeng August 28, 2014

Farm fresh fixtures fill local markets with delights dorms desire

Here at the Voice we know how satisfying it is to get your hands around a pair of firm, juicy tomatoes––organic, of course! If in the midst of your frantic... Read more

By Shalina Chatlani August 28, 2014

Speculative forms: creates conjecture

Each of us looks at the world through our own filter, constructed by our own thoughts and emotions. It matters that you are the one in front of the art—that... Read more

By Sabrina Kayser August 28, 2014

DC’s The Partisan transcends divides, celebrates co-op diversity

In my opinion, every man should have a mancave at some point in his life––womancaves are essential too, of course. I’m talking burnished wood, exposed brick, excellent scotch and rye... Read more

By Sam Kleinman August 28, 2014

Breeches & Bodice: Normcore: making suburban dads chic and Birkenstocks haute couture since 2014

Now that we’re all back on the Hilltop, please take my advice: those Birkenstocks aren’t doing you any favors. They’re ugly, comfortable, and —dare I say it— painfully hip. But,... Read more

By Tim Annick August 28, 2014

Idiot Box: Broad City leads pave way for female-driven comedy

It’s impossible to tell whether the creators of the Comedy Central series Broad City drew any inspiration from Tyga’s classic 2012 single “Rack City” in a brainstorming session, but it’s... Read more

By Julia Lloyd-George August 28, 2014

Field hockey goes back to basics

As the Georgetown University Field Hockey team prepares for a fresh start, all eyes are on new Head Coach Shannon Soares. The former Virginia Commonwealth University coach will look to... Read more

By Max Roberts August 28, 2014

Men’s soccer to reach new heights

Last year the Georgetown Men’s Soccer team made it to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. In 2012, the team advanced all the way to the finals of the... Read more

By Kevin Huggard August 28, 2014

Critical Voices: The Wytches, Annabelle Dream Reader

“I am here but lost in the light,” The Wytches frontman, Kristian Bell, croons in their new release Annabel Dream Reader. The album is, indeed, lost in its stormy sea... Read more

By Will Collins August 28, 2014

Critical Voices: The Gaslight Anthem, Get Hurt

On the New Jersey punk rock band’s fifth LP, frontman Brian Fallon lost sight of the road beyond his dashboard and steered the Gaslight-mobile straight into Heartbreak Hotel. This is... Read more

By Jackson Sinnenberg August 28, 2014

The Sports Sermon: Tim Howard takes a break

If the U.S. soccer team were a living room, goalkeeper Tim Howard, on the squad since 2007, would be a couch— but not like the beer-soaked couch that’s travelled with... Read more

By Chris Castano August 28, 2014

Georgetown football embraces ‘Hoya Culture’

After a disappointing 2-9 campaign last year, the Georgetown football team enters this fall with high hopes thanks to some major offseason changes. The new head coach Rob Sgarlata took... Read more

By Joe Pollicino August 28, 2014

Editorials

In Ferguson, entrenched social ills in need of dialogue

The cover of this week’s issue of the New Yorker is awash in red and yellow, the silhouettes of protesters with raised arms backlit by the spotlights of a police armored... Read more

By the Editorial Board August 28, 2014

Editorials

Georgetown should lead on divestment from fossil fuels

The student group GU Fossil Free released the final draft of a proposal titled “Divesting Georgetown’s Endowment from Fossil Fuels” on August 19. The 35-page document is the culmination of a two-year... Read more

By the Editorial Board August 28, 2014

Editorials

GU and VA Gov. McAuliffe take campus sexual assault to task

As part of a statewide campaign to improve how university officials adjudicate reports of on-campus sexual assaults, Virginia Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe recently announced the creation of a task force... Read more

By the Editorial Board August 28, 2014

Features

Context Clues: Piecing together the pieces of the Georgetown puzzle

With a campus that’s constantly in motion with its students moving at a hundred miles an hour in seemingly endless directions, it can be difficult to gather perspective on the... Read more

By Caitriona Pagni, James Constant and Elizabeth Baker August 28, 2014

The road to peace in the Middle East lies with the secular left

The Middle East is often portrayed by mainstream Western media as a culturally backwards region: overtly religious, rife sectarian conflict, and a hotbed for terrorism. If we take a... Read more

By Rohan Advani August 28, 2014

Thin shaming is just as harmful as other forms of harassment

Toward the end of my final year of high school, I was accosted by a friend in such an unexpected way that it has stuck with me to this... Read more

By Sarah Joseph August 28, 2014

Carrying On: Chipotle changing the face of fast food

As Hoyas migrate back to the Hilltop for fall classes, how we occupied ourselves for the past three months is sure to be a choice topic of conversation. What... Read more

By Laura Kurek August 28, 2014