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GUSA announces Student Activity Fee reform

On Wednesday, the Georgetown University Student Association Financial and Appropriations Committee announced that it will now appropriate the entirety of the $100 yearly Student Activities Fee toward funding student clubs through the Advisory Boards. Since 2001, half of the student activities fees paid by undergraduates have gone to an endowment that was supposed to have accrued enough interest by now to be self-sustaining. That endowment, now at roughly $1.9 million, is not expected to mature.

By October 21, 2010

Voices

Incompetent chef craves Georgetown culinary institution

Once again, Leo’s has made me sick. But this time, it has nothing to do with undercooked chicken or unwashed forks. I’m homesick. I went abroad ready to experience everything that a foreign country has to offer: the people, the history, and especially the food.

By the October 21, 2010

Voices

Carrying On: Teaching the teacher

Not every Georgetown professor is perfect, and many Georgetown students have had serious problems with some of the teaching styles they have encountered during our college careers. I’m not talking about a complaint about the amount of homework on a particular night—I mean a fundamental problem with their professor’s teaching methods.

By October 21, 2010

News

Capital Bikeshare set to launch in Georgetown next week

Students seeking a new way to escape the Georgetown bubble are in luck. Capital Bikeshare, a program that offers daily, monthly, and yearly access to communal bikes across the District of Columbia and Arlington Va., plans to install a new station at 37 and O Streets by early next week. The station is being installed as an alternative to the originally proposed site in front of the Car Barn at Prospect and 36 Streets.

By October 21, 2010

News

Mice problem affects Midnight Mug

Earlier this fall, Bill Nelson (COL ’11) began noticing some alarming signs in Midnight Mug, one of his favorite spots on Georgetown’s campus. Nelson says he witnessed evidence of mice—torn or gnawed packaging—about half the times he’d been in Midnight Mug this year. Corp Chief Executive Officer Brad Glasser (COL ’11) has acknowledged that Midnight Mug had problems with mice, although he stressed that the coffee shop does not have an infestation.

By October 21, 2010

News

GERMS alcohol calls steady

Although the annual number of alcohol violations reported by the Department of Public Safety dropped by 31 percent from 2007 to 2009, the number of alcohol-related calls, or EtOH calls, to the Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service has stayed roughly the same for the past two academic years. The number of alcohol violations reported to DPS has been decreasing since 2005. In the Oct. 5 edition of the Hoya, Joseph Smith, associate director of DPS, attributed the drop to the heightened University.

By October 21, 2010

News

City on a Hill: D.C. loses a literary icon

This past week, Carla Cohen passed away at age of 74. A Washington resident, Cohen became one of the most celebrated booksellers in America after she founded a bookstore 26 years ago. After the Reagan Administration eliminated her position at the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, she decided to establish a bookstore that she would like to spend time in—a comfortable store with a knowledgeable staff and a regular community of readers. That bookstore became Politics and Prose.

By October 21, 2010

Editorials

Georgetown supports a community of scholars

Every fall, over one million young Americans become the first person in their family to attend college. The first-generation college students who come to Georgetown do so through incredibly hard work, often overcoming huge obstacles on their own. Once they arrive at Georgetown, students continue to face enormous financial, social, and academic pressures.

By the October 21, 2010

Editorials

Hysteria stalls sex education at Hardy Middle

Last week, a seventh grade sex education survey at nearby Hardy Middle School caused so much hysteria that the principal put any future sexual education programs on indefinite hold. A minority of parents feel that the survey—which included questions about gender identity, sexual activity, pregnancy, drug use, and sexual orientation—was inappropriate for their 12-year-olds.

By the October 21, 2010

Editorials

GPB brings fall concert to the worst venue in D.C.

For the first time since Coolio came in 2007, the GPB will host a fall concert. GPB and the Senior Class Committee should be applauded for bringing Lupe Fiasco—students’ first choice in last year’s GPB artist survey. However, with so many concert venues in D.C., GPB and SCC should think critically about whether on-campus concerts are the most effective use of their funds.

By the October 21, 2010

Leisure

Bad haircut, worse movie

Ed Norton, in full prison garb, walks into a counseling office. He informs his parole officer that he has found religion. Suspicious, yes, but it appears that his epiphany has some degree of sincerity to it, and Ed has become a new man. Sounds like American History X, right?

By October 15, 2010

News

Plan A holding meetings with GU

Plan A Hoyas for Reproductive Justice, the reproductive advocacy group that drew attention this spring when its members chained themselves to the statue of John Carroll, is alive and well—but the average student would never know it. Plan A was created last year to demand the on-campus sale of condoms, access to rape kits at Georgetown University Hospital.

By October 14, 2010

News

Georgetown comes out of the closet

“Come out, come out, come out!” Echoing the words of famed San Francisco politician and gay rights advocate Harvey Milk, that is what GU Pride Co-Programming Chair Lisa Frank (COL ’13) said when asked about the message of Georgetown’s Coming Out Week. GU Pride is hosting a series of events as part of National Coming Out Week for the sixth consecutive year.

By October 14, 2010

News

On the record with potential Post pundit Conor Williams

On Wednesday evening, Georgetown PhD candidate Conor Williams (GOV ’11) discussed his entry to the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” essay competition with the Voice. At the time of publication, Williams’ essay about the impact of the D.C. mayoral election on education reform, “Real Education Reform,” was in fifth place.

By October 14, 2010

News

News hit: GU applies for bonds

Georgetown’s new science center could receive a major boost in funding thanks to a application recently submitted by the University for $90 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds. Associate Vice President of External Relations Linda Greenan announced the application at an Oct. 4 meeting of Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Comission.

By October 14, 2010

News

Saxa Politica: Georgetown students need to work together

The closer we get to the midterms, the less Democrats and Republicans can agree on. The Republicans are the party of no; the Democrats are the party of “maybe, after I’m reelected.” National leaders could use a lesson from our peers in the Georgetown University College Democrats, the Georgetown University College Republicans.

By October 14, 2010

Features

Arrested international development: A certificate program on the brink

Zara Khan (SFS ’07) has had enough. During her 18 months as the program coordinator of the International Development certificate—the most popular certificate in the School of Foreign Service—the SFS deans have repeatedly slashed the certificate’s budget, despite a meteoric rise in enrollment in the certificate.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Alone in his room, Edwards creates Monsters

There’s nothing new about a young filmmaker venturing out on his own and making an independent pet project. Most of the time, these are low-budget affairs that shuck special effects in favor of small-scale stories and clever writing. Some are brilliant, but budgetary restraints and production limitations guarantee that most are just film festival fodder.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Bill Ward explains the Things That Fools Do

Most seniors will spend their final year taking classes they’ve put off since they were freshmen, and then either applying to graduate school or frantically begging for employment. So Bill Ward (COL ’11), who already has a job lined up at Morgan Stanley, is liable to make his classmates pretty envious.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Improv incoming!

There’s a whole lot to look forward to this weekend—convincing your visiting parents to buy you everything you can’t afford, kicking off the basketball season, and seeing Despicable Me in the ICC auditorium. But for those of you still looking to fill your planners, there’s the Georgetown Improv Association’s first show of the semester, Holy Moly!

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Mount Eerie, Song Islands Volume 2

Song Islands Volume 2 is like an ice cream cone completely covered in ketchup: there’s something of value in there somewhere, but you’re so afraid to take that first bite that you’ll never find out exactly what that is. Mount Eerie frontman Phil Elverum tries to represent a wide variety of styles with his compilation album.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Critical Voices: Belle & Sebastian, Write About Love

Few bands embody the rise of independent music over the last decade better than Belle & Sebastian. This Scottish seven-piece began their career as the final project of front man Stuart Murdoch’s college music class in 1996. Since then, Belle & Sebastian have been hailed as the triumphant return of classic British pop.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Warming Glow: Glee is bigger than Jesus

In 1966, when John Lennon quipped that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” people went nuts. They burned records and religious groups pounded home the argument that Satan loves rock and roll. A little ironically, the Beatles have since become so canonized that these days comparing any musical act to them is decried as blasphemy.

By October 14, 2010

Leisure

Rub Some Dirt On It: The no-saline-solution blues

The hardest-working organs in any college student’s body are probably the eyes. They are continuously glued to a computer-screen lit in harsh, artificial light, gazing at power-point slides during class lectures, pouring over glossy textbook pages into the early morning, or adjusting to the strobe-lights at a Saturday night party.

By October 14, 2010

Sports

Late collapse dooms Hoyas in double OT thriller

The terrible feeling of defeat is never easy to deal with, especially after victory is within sight. On Saturday, the Georgetown football team fell victim to a fourth-quarter comeback for the second time this season, when they were outplayed by Wagner University and lost 22-16 in a thrilling double overtime classic at Multi-Sport Field.

By October 14, 2010