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Critical Voices: Weezer, Hurley

Few bands are more frustrating than Weezer. They produced two of the best records of the last fifteen years, Weezer and the early emo classic Pinkerton, but recent, unfortunate efforts have reduced the band to a parody of itself. Their last few successful songs have been candy-coated, sugar pop anthems.

By Matthew Decker September 16, 2010

Critical Voices: The Walkmen, Lisbon

The Walkmen are proof that past failures do not prohibit future successes. But the thing is, you can never predict whether the band’s next album will be an instant classic or an ignored flop. After two lackluster albums, A Hundred Miles Off and Pussy Cats Starring The Walkmen, the band turned around and released 2008’s killer You & Me.

By Nico Dodd September 16, 2010

Warming Glow: Kicking TV up a notch

Blame it on Colonel Sanders. Blame it on the kiddie play areas at McDonald’s with the multicolored ball pits. Blame it on the good ol’ American attitude that bigger is always better, and so supersize is the only option. Whatever the culprit, the unavoidable fact remains: obesity in the United States is an epidemic.

By Leigh Finnegan September 16, 2010

Rub Some Dirt On It: Show me your tats

I cannot understand why anyone would pay money to have someone puncture their skin with tiny needles that stab at the speed of 100 times per second using a machine that sounds like a dental drill and stabs like a sewing machine, and then fill the resulting wounds with ink.

By Sadaf Qureshi September 16, 2010

MMA fights for support after fighting each other

After years of being decried as a sideshow at best and an inhumane blood sport at worst, mixed martial arts have seemingly reached the mainstream, garnering national media coverage with the commercial success of Ultimate Fighting Championship. But at Georgetown, the sport remains underground.

By Tim Shine September 16, 2010

The Sports Sermon: Baseball’s attendance problem

As the weather cools down and baseball season approaches October, a number of playoff races are heating up. The Yankees and Rays, the two best teams in the league, are battling for the AL East crown while the Padres, Giants and Rockies are separated by only 2.5 games in the NL West as of Wednesday night.

By Nick Berti September 16, 2010

Hoyas come back, win again

They say lightning never strikes twice. But this was not the case for the Georgetown football team, which rode the momentum from their season-opening win over Davidson to oust Lafayette College 28-24 on Saturday night, earning their first victory against the Patriot League powerhouse in seven years.

By Daniel Kellner September 16, 2010

Soccer falls in the desert

After an opening weekend that sent the Georgetown men’s soccer team into the national rankings, they felt like they could beat an opponent anywhere. Unfortunately, when the Hoyas left the friendly confines of North Kehoe Field last weekend for New Mexico’s TLC Plumbing, Heating and Cooling Lobo Invitational they left their winning streak behind.

By Adam Rosenfeld September 16, 2010

Backdoor Cuts: More hard knocks

I’m a Jets fan and I know that the Jets embarrassed themselves royally this week. If there was ever a time head coach Rex Ryan needed to say something loud, it’s right now. I am referring to the Jets’ treatment of TV Azteca reporter Ines Sainz.

By Tom Bosco September 16, 2010

On the record with ex-Colombian President Álvaro Uribe

On Tuesday morning, Álvaro Uribe, former President of Colombia and Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership at the School of Foreign Service, sat down with the Voice's Cole Stangler for his first interview since leaving the presidency in August.

By Cole Stangler September 16, 2010

Page 13 Cartoons

Spiral

He was a sculptor. His body was found on the shore the next morning. Overnight, frost crystallized on the ends of his hair, his lips, the inside of his ear, his nostrils, his forefingers, his chipped fibula cracking through wax paper skin. The coroner said that the impact wasn’t enough to kill him outright, but that he had a heart attack during freefall. He had jumped off the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

By Joseph Romano September 16, 2010

Features

Surviving: The Reality of Sexual Assault

In the week before her spring semester finals in 2009, Helen, a senior, got a call from her ex-boyfriend asking if he could come down for a visit that weekend. He was a Georgetown alum who made frequent visits to D.C. to see friends who were still living in the area, so it wasn’t unusual for him to call her or make the long drive into the District.

By Molly Redden September 16, 2010

GU, students discuss changes to off-campus life

The University is crafting new off-campus housing regulations, a process which has close ties to the negotiation of the 2010 Campus Plan. The discussion is still in its early stages, but students at Georgetown have recently attended two meetings with Georgetown administrators to discuss changes to off-campus housing regulations. The first meeting was attended by seven students, Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson, and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Jeanne Lord.

By Holly Tao September 16, 2010

Anti-semitic graffiti suspect identified

The Department of Public Safety has identified a student allegedly responsible for at least one of the bias-related incidents that occurred over the weekend, the Office of Communications reported this afternoon. Four students in two dorm rooms were the victims of bias-related incidents in New South Hall on Sept. 6 and 11. The perpetrators drew swastikas and wrote “Hitler” on the victims’ dry-erase boards. A similar incident occurred in Darnall Hall last weekend, according to the Department of Public Safety.

By John Flanagan September 16, 2010

SFS pioneer passes away

On Sept. 5, R. Smith Simpson, who helped found Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, died near his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 103. Simpson was a career Foreign Service officer. After receiving his law degree from Cornell University in 1931, he served as a labor policy advisor for the National Recovery Administration. He spent 23 years in the U.S. Foreign Service and later helped select future diplomatic officers, which showed him that many candidates’ knowledge of international geography, culture, and sociology was deficient.

By Emma Forster September 16, 2010

Saxa Politica: Doomed to repeat

Flipping through old Voice archives was enough to give me déjà vu. “SAC continues freeze of GUSA funds,” March 4, 1999. “Gay activists press demands,” Feb. 13, 1973. “Residents say GU must justify higher enrollment,” Nov. 11, 1999. Reading through archives, it is increasingly apparent that we’ve been fighting the same battles for decades. Georgetown University Student Association versus Student Activities Commission. Students versus neighbors. Activists versus the administration. University Information Services versus technology.

By Kara Brandeisky September 16, 2010

The nation of Puerto Rico, an unrealized dream

“But you don’t look Puerto Rican...” I get that a lot. I’m light-skinned and somewhat blonde, have a German last name, and speak English without a heavy Latino accent. But yes, I am Puerto Rican, born and raised.

By Margo Hufstetler September 16, 2010

Affirmative action neglects real disparity: Wealth

In the heat of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said something important about the role of affirmative action in college admissions that should give pause to those who favor the status quo.

By Eric Pilch September 16, 2010

A lifelong world traveler unpacks her global identity

“Can you pass the rubber?” Yes, I am now aware that in the U.S., I should use the word “eraser.” A rubber, I have realized, is a condom. But so goes my cultural adaptation to life in the U.S. I also spell “humour” with a “u,” I can’t pronounce “literally,” and I get annoyed when I can’t use the passive voice.

By Ishita Kohli September 16, 2010