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Scratch that Itch

Bruce Norris’s The Pain and the Itch is a tricky piece of dramatic machinery. Its structure is carefully convoluted, painstakingly difficult, and yet, by the end, complete and exact.

By Shira Hecht March 25, 2010

Editorials

Healthcare reform a welcome success

At a rally held less than a week before this past Sunday’s monumental healthcare vote, President Barack Obama declared that the American people were “waiting for us to act ... waiting for us to lead.”

By the Editorial Board March 25, 2010

Editorials

SAC should embrace accountability

The Georgetown University Student Asssocation and the Student Activities Commission are at a negotiating standstill—it’s time for them to resolve this conflict.

By the Editorial Board March 25, 2010

Raise a brow for D.C. artists

According to the mission statement of Georgetown University Art Aficionados, “creativity is and remains Georgetown University’s Achilles heel.”

By Leigh Finnegan March 25, 2010

Lez’hur Ledger: Adventure to the land before time

A Neanderthal woman struggles under the weight of the antelope slung over her shoulder, carrying it laboriously back to her family’s shelter.

By Brendan Baumgardner March 25, 2010

Editorials

Make recycling easier for GU students

In his book The Daily Planet, environmental activist Paul Griss observed “just as we cannot blame others for destroying the environment, so we cannot look to others to protect the environment.

By the Editorial Board March 25, 2010

Women end historic season in loss to Baylor

All good things must come to an end. For the women’s basketball team, their unforgettable season came to a close Monday night in Berkley, Calif. in the second round of the NCAA tournament against fourth-seeded Baylor. The Lady Bears defense proved too much for the fifth-seeded Hoyas, who suffered a 49-33 defeat.

By Nick Berti March 25, 2010

Turnitin.com turns profit on students’ work

Georgetown University prides itself on a strong ethical tradition. In my own journalism masters program, an ethics class is one of two mandatory graduation requirements. The University also boasts a policy-oriented ethics institute whose mission is to “serve as an unequalled resource for those who research and study ethics, as well as those who debate and make public policy.”

By Byron Tau March 25, 2010

Hoyas speak softly, carry a big stick

The Georgetown Baseball team’s bats have been lighting it up this week, helping the team win two of three games against the George Washington Colonials and secure victories over Delaware State and Navy. The Hoyas scored at least nine runs in four of those five games. In the Delaware State game Georgetown exploded offensively for an 18-7 victory.

By Rob Sapunor March 25, 2010

Critical Voices: MGMT, Congratulations

From its scratch-off lowbrow album art to its panned leak of “Flash Delirium,” critics and bloggers were eager to make scant predications about MGMT’s follow-up to 2008’s smash hit Oracular Spectacular.

By Nico Dodd March 25, 2010

One student’s premeditated path to medicine

Even before you get to college, people ask what you want to major in, a choice that could set out what you’re doing for the rest for your life. You did pretty well in all your math and science classes in high school: all APs, all fives, no big deal. So you say that you’ll go pre-med. Hey, after all, a doctor’s salary doesn’t sound too shabby.

By Scott Wisniewski March 25, 2010

Critical Voices: Fang Island, Fang Island

According to Jason Bartell, one of Brooklyn-based Fang Island’s guitarists, the group’s goal is to “make music for people who like music.”

By Justin Hunter Scott March 25, 2010

The Sports Sermon

While many Americans were focused on the passage of health care reform this week, others were concerned with another, arguably more important reform—a new NFL overtime format. That’s right, the day has finally come. When my roommate first told me the NFL had passed the reform, I was quite the happy camper.

By Adam Rosenfeld March 25, 2010

Rub Some Dirt On It: This is your brain on hookah

Smoking is a fairly prevalent vice at Georgetown. We have all walked past that guy in the GERMS shirt smoking on the Village C Patio, and there is nothing new about having to pass through the eternal smoke cloud in front of Lauinger in order to get some studying done.

By Sadaf Qureshi March 25, 2010

What Rocks: Molly Ford

The Women’s Lacrosse team has gotten off to a slow start this season as the Hoyas have struggled through one of the toughest schedules in the country. However, these early trials aren’t necessarily a bad thing. “These losses will help us because we’re learning from our mistakes and correcting the problems,” said senior co-captain Molly Ford.

By Adam Rosenfeld March 25, 2010

Backdoor Cuts: True madness

By the second night of the NCAA tournament, my bracket was busted worse than the Irish property bubble. By the close of night three, I was nearing a disaster of Greek credit default swap proportions. Obviously there’s a lot more basketball to play, but with favorites Kansas, Pitt, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Marquette, New Mexico, Notre Dame, and Villanova falling to the likes of Northern Iowa, St. Mary’s, and Murray State, this tournament is shaping up like no other.

By Jeff Bakkensen March 25, 2010

Oh V.P. Magoo, you’ve done it again!

Vice President Joe Biden is one of the most recognizable men in the country. He is Barack Obama’s right-hand man. He helped pass universal healthcare. But when he said, “this is a big fucking deal” on national television, Biden cemented his place in my heart. Biden was embracing the president in front of television cameras and microphones, and he probably thought that he was speaking out of range when he blurted out this statement to his boss. He was not.

By Dan Newman March 25, 2010

Agoraphobia on the Hilltop: Unreasonable insularity

Ask Georgetown students to list the top five reasons they chose this school, and the one thing that almost everyone will include is the location. Here we have the best of both worlds: a beautiful campus on a hilltop overlooking our nation’s bustling capital. But how often do Hoyas really venture beyond the brick paths of M Street and cross over to the cemented reality of what is commonly known as Pennsylvania Avenue? Not very often.

By Emily Fink and Marcie King March 25, 2010

Bottoms Up: Booze in your back pocket

In the Prohibition era, knocking one back—or two, or three, for that matter—was about more than just getting sloshed on a Saturday night.

By Sam Sweeney March 25, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 3.18.2010 Solution – “This and That”

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2010

Features

Spring Fashion 2010

Buds, buds everywhere, but not a flower to see! The balmy breezes and sunny days of early spring seem like a tease when you’re still looking at stark, leafless trees and muddy strips of yellow grass. Why not help spring spring by being the very flower everyone has been waiting for?

By Emily Voigtlander March 25, 2010