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Sports Sermon: Georgetown needs to extend JTIII’s contract

John Thompson III deserves an extension, and a lengthy one at that. I want to see what other coach could come in and recruit incredible talents like Greg Monroe and Otto Porter to a school with facilities lacking as much as Georgetown’s.

Sports

Otto-matic presence reassuring for Hoyas

“Otto is as grounded as they come. He understands that it’s not about him. It’s about us,” said Coach John Thompson III of Porter, his star player.

Sports

Juniors Starks and Lubick step up to lead Georgetown

Though Coach John Thompson III thinks leadership could come from a number of different places, the players already look to Markel Starks and Nate Lubick as the most seasoned to lead the Hoyas through their daunting schedule.

Sports

Rounding out the rotation: Hopkins, Trawick, and Whittington

Sophomores Jabril Trawick, Greg Whittington, and Mikael Hopkins are crucial to the Hoyas' success.

Sports

Big East Rundown

The Voice runs through the teams in the Big East, ranking them from best to worst.

Sports

Meet the Hoya freshmen

A short profile on each of the freshmen on the Hoyas and their expected impact this season.

Sports

Sugar, Sugar how you get so fly?

Sugar Rodgers, the third-leading scorer in the Big East last year and second leading scorer in Georgetown women’s basketball history, is hungry for more, working a lot on her game this offseason to cement her legendary legacy at Georgetown.

Sports

On the record with women’s Head Coach Keith Brown

Georgetown is a special place. I don’t recruit kids; I give them the opportunity. What you find out by being here at Georgetown is that it’s the opportunity that lasts you a lifetime.

Features

2012 Basketball Preview

The Hoyas enter the second-straight season unranked in all national polls, failing to garner even one vote in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Just like last season, they don’t seem to care all too much.

News

Ph.D. student-professor benefits fall short of other schools

As the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) moves to unionize adjunct faculty on the Hilltop, one group of instructors is being left out— Ph.D. students who teach undergraduate courses.

News

Georgetown Environmental Initiative sprouts with $20 million donation

The Georgetown Environmental Initiative has officially been launched, thanks to a $20 million donation from an anonymous family affiliated with the University. The Initiative aims to orient the Georgetown community toward advancing the study, understanding, and implementation of sound environmental policy.

News

Obama supporters mob White House, GOP faithful dismayed

Here at the Princeton Review’s second most politically active university in the nation, the Georgetown University College Republicans and College Democrats held election parties Tuesday night in anticipation of the 2012 election results.

News

Saxa Politica: Sandy brings out the best

Just after 6 p.m. on Oct. 28, Georgetown students rejoiced; University spokeswoman Stacy Kerr sent a broadcast email to the campus community cancelling Monday classes in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy’s onslaught.

Leisure

Daniel Craig proves he’s a tux-worthy Bond in Skyfall

Bond is back. After a rather torturous hiatus of four years, the famous franchise is up on its feet and has hit the ground running with Skyfall. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has managed to breathe life into a series that many considered to be on a downward spiral, and though the original material of the Ian Fleming spy novels has dried up, the writers have managed to come up with an entertaining storyline that doesn’t stray too far from the films’ roots.

Leisure

BMDT’s Fire in Her Eyes ignites Walsh’s Black Box Theatre

If “Gangnam Style” is the extent of your knowledge about the current dance world, the time has arrived to experience Georgetown’s Black Movements Dance Theatre. Appropriately titled for its emphasis on girl power and ethnic culture, Fire in Her Eyes opens this weekend at the Walsh Black Box Theatre. And what the show lacks in technical consistency, Fire makes up for with the dancers’ passion, highlighted in energetic performances which mix a myriad of styles.

Leisure

Student One Acts brought to life

The Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival is a celebration of Georgetown’s own aspiring playwrights. The festival features two readings of original student works-in-progress: “Finch/Robinson” by Jack Schmitt (COL ‘15), which examines race relations through the lens of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and “Family Pictures” by Lydia Brown (COL ‘15), which tells a tale of high-profile family drama surrounding the indictment of the director of the CIA for war crimes.

Leisure

Critical Voices: Aerosmith, Music From Another Dimension!

“You are about to enter a great adventure, and experience the awe and mystery from your ultimate fantasies to your deepest fears.” A Twilight Zone-esque voice issues this ominous warning to kick off Music From Another Dimension!, Aerosmith’s first release of original content in 11 years. The “deepest fears” to which this voice refers could be of the likelihood that, in the time that has elapsed, the band has lost its touch, and can no longer produce quality music. Fortunately, these concerns last only until the first drum beats bring in the powerful riffs, proving that Aerosmith is still alive and kicking—vigorously.

Leisure

Plate of the Union: Let’s not put labels on it

In the broadest sense of the word, foodies are harmless. They’re just a group of people intensely curious about food. They flock to every new restaurant, they memorize José Andrés’ cookbook as though it were the Bible, and they scour farmers’ markets for heirloom varieties of little-known vegetables. Though doing such things may seem ridiculous, foodies are, in fact, nothing more than hobbyists.

Editorials

Occupy Sandy provides model for disaster aid

Last week, various Caribbean nations and much of the American Eastern Seaboard were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, reaching 1,000 miles in diameter. The storm... Read more

Editorials

Trust principals to best spend extra money

At the end of the 2011 fiscal year, the District contracted a $240 million surplus, mostly thanks to an estate tax windfall, increased income tax withholding, and automatic traffic ticket... Read more

Editorials

Diversity Chief should support gay marriage

In mid-October, Gallaudet University placed Chief Diversity Officer Angela McCaskill on administrative leave in response to her support of a petition which called for Maryland’s controversial gay marriage law to... Read more

Voices

A History of Bro’s

Frederick Douglass once perspicaciously noted that “food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.” Okay, now that I’ve gotten all the bros to stop reading, I’m going to explain how... Read more

Voices

Disenfranchised doyenne fumes at dark side of democracy

The U.S. is infamous for its low voter turnout. The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance ranks it 120th out of 169 voting countries, putting it behind such bastions of... Read more

Voices

Late? Look no further, laggard learner, than collective action

After my freshman year in college, high-brow, intangible theories were dead to me. I took a full course load of philosophy and liberal arts courses that left me begging for... Read more

Features

Hilltop or bottom? The Voice‘s 2012 sex survey

Although the sex lives of Georgetown students have received more national attention than anyone would have liked, the Voice wanted to know more. From Rush Limbaugh calling one of our own a “slut” on national radio to Playboy ranking Georgetown high in sexual satisfaction, onlookers react to Georgetown’s sex culture in highly disparate ways.