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Critical Voices: Touché Amoré, Is Survived By

Touché Amoré’s Is Survived By is less an exercise in creating music than it is an emotional outpouring that happened to take place in a studio. The L.A. five-piece’s third full-length LP scours the depths of human experience and returns with a chilling tale of personal reflection in the face of total uncertainty. Is Survived By takes post-hardcore’s emotional potency to its extreme.

By Rhiannon Greene September 26, 2013

Features

In the Red: The burden of student debt at Georgetown

Leah Brown (COL ‘16) wakes up at 9:30 a.m., finally giving in to her alarm after hitting snooze a couple times. She rolls out of bed and pads into the hallway, slipping into the empty bathroom. After getting ready and dressed, she breakfasts on a piece of fruit she swiped from Leo’s the night before. She has to choose her Leo’s meals carefully and stretch out her 10 meals so they last the week.

By Julia Tanaka September 26, 2013

Mold outbreaks sicken students

Over this past summer and beginning of the school year, students have reported multiple cases of mold in Kennedy Hall, Village C, LXR Hall, Henle Village, Village A, and Alumni... Read more

By Claire Zeng September 26, 2013

News Hit: GU launches first MOOC

Over 20,000 students from 150 countries have registered for Georgetown’s first Massive Open Online Course, “Globalization’s Winners and Losers: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries.” The course, taught by SFS... Read more

By Kenneth Lee September 26, 2013

University to increase student tuition and faculty salaries

Over the next five years, the University’s Financial Plan intends to increase total University spending by $127,893,000. In order to cover these additional expenditures, the University expects greater growth in... Read more

By Lara Fishbane September 26, 2013

University, GUSA to survey student body on satellite housing

In response to Thursday’s referendum launched by the One Georgetown One Campus campaign, administrators announced the University will conduct its own survey gauging student interest in living at a satellite... Read more

By Deborah Sparks September 26, 2013

City on a Hill : Keep the District open

With the D.C. Council’s failure to override Mayor Vincent Gray’s (D) veto on the Large Retailer Accountability Act, it’s easy for progressive Washingtonians to forget that we’re blessed with a... Read more

By Gavin Bade September 26, 2013

Enemies of SNAP misunderstand program completely

Recently, a partisan passage of a bill merited a veto threat from the White House. I’m not talking about the House Republicans’ valiant 41st attempt to repeal Obamacare. I’m talking... Read more

By Tia Baheri September 26, 2013

Carrying On: Teach regulation, not robbery

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley have become modern-day robber barons. This term originated in the late 19th century to describe businessmen who accumulated wealth through exploitative practices. They... Read more

By Matthew Weinmann September 26, 2013

Terror rhetoric a toxic trend in American civilization

Looking out upon a sea of anxious faces, Nina Davuluri, standing hand-in-hand with her opponent, learned that she would become the first Indian-American woman to ever win the Miss America... Read more

By Shalina Chatlani September 26, 2013

Editorials

Mold a danger to students in residence halls

A disturbing growth has been detected around Georgetown, and for once it’s not the neighbors. The contamination has worsened in several of the University’s older, run-down buildings. Mold poses serious... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 26, 2013

Editorials

Navy Yard shows negligence in veteran care

Navy contractor Aaron Alexis shot and killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard in Southwest D.C. before being killed in a gun-battle with police last Monday. Although facts concerning... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 26, 2013

Editorials

SNAP budget cuts deprive low-income Americans

On Thursday Sept. 19, 2013, the House passed the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act of 2013, also known as H.R. 3102. The act would cut nearly $40 billion from... Read more

By the Editorial Board September 26, 2013

Sporty Spice: Sports make us exceptional

Despite Vladmir Putin’s admonitions, encouraging American children to excel is neither dangerous, nor will it be the ruin of future generations, as Amanda Ripley argues in her “Case Against High-School... Read more

By Abby Sherburne September 25, 2013

Sailing continues to dazzle against top competition

As Hoya fans await basketball season patiently, one team on campus is preparing to make a different kind of buzz. Perennially below the radar, the Hoya sailing team numbers among... Read more

By Max Borowitz September 25, 2013

Men’s soccer impresses

It is now officially safe to say that the Georgetown men’s soccer team is on the rise. After a shaky preseason and an unconvincing start to the fall of 2013... Read more

By Chris Castano September 25, 2013

Football helpless against Brown

Following a frustrating loss to Marist (1-2, 0-0 Pioneer) a week ago, the Georgetown football team (1-3, 0-0 Patriot League) endured another torrid day against Brown (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League)... Read more

By Max Roberts September 25, 2013

The case against a satellite campus

A friend recently referred me to a column published in the Voice on Sept. 19, entitled “The case for a satellite campus.” While the author may have merely been playing... Read more

By Jim Myrtetus September 25, 2013

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By Madhuri Vairapandi and Mark James September 19, 2013

The Bard brilliantly enters the stage and exits the closet

Tattered paint peels off the walls. A smoky haze fills the room. A luxurious yet torn red velvet curtain takes center stage. This decadent late-1930s Austria, teetering on the verge of fascist annexation, sets the backdrop for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Measure for Measure, expertly directed by Jonathan Munby.

By Emily Coccia September 19, 2013

Pho-king deliciousness

Nestling itself into the cozy neighborhood on Wisconsin Ave, Pho Viet & Grille brings the Georgetown area a relatively inexpensive yet satisfying new eatery. This little café just north of Q St. aims to attract the pho-loving crowd that wants to avoid the trek to Rosslyn for their Vietnamese gastro-fix.

By Amanda Wynter September 19, 2013

Warhol brings whirlwind to Rosslyn

Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds takes you to a dreamland where your cares are lifted into the stratosphere amid the gentle roar of distant fireworks. Lost in the euphoria of unanticipated joy, visitors to the Rossyln Artisphere’s exhibit have a chance to experience a literal cloud nine in the center of a balloon whirlwind.

By Sabrina Kayser September 19, 2013

Al-Mansour triumphs with first film shot in Saudi Arabia

On paper, Wadjda is your typical Saudi preteen girl. She also possesses more spunk and spice than the entire cast of Mean Girls combined. This may be surprising given Wadjda’s context, but viewers cannot help but feel an inner glow every time the film’s titular character out-sasses the boys.

By Larissa Ong September 19, 2013