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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

Hoyas fall flat in NCAA opener, lose to 14-seed Ohio

While making a run to the finals of the Big East tournament, the Georgetown Hoyas fulfilled all the promise they had shown in wins over the likes of Duke and Villanova. But the one thing the Hoyas could not prove in New York was that they were forever rid of the flaws that led to losses to teams like Rutgers. In the first round of the NCAA tournament, the latter version of the Hoyas showed that it was never really gone.

By Tim Shine March 19, 2010

Health inspections yield violations

Seven popular Georgetown eating establishments received critical health code violations in 2009, according to health inspection reports obtained by the Voice. Of the violators, Epicurean and Company was the most egregious, with a total of 17 critical violations identified.

By Matt Kerwin March 18, 2010

Local assaulter convicted

Todd M. Thomas, 24, was sentenced to 26 years in prison last Friday after a D.C. Superior Court jury found him guilty of 11 separate crimes, including burglary and assault of Georgetown students. While some local media outlets, including the Washington Post and Saxaspeak, identified Thomas as the “Georgetown Cuddler,” the victims in Thomas’s case were male and Thomas has not been found to be connected to other cases of sexual assault on and near Georgetown’s campus.

By Holly Tao March 18, 2010

Catholic Charities changes benefits after gay marriage legalization

Catholic Charities in the District of Columbia has enacted two significant employment policy changes in response to the District’s recent legalization of same-sex marriage. New employees will no longer be able to receive health benefits for their spouses and will be required to pledge that they will not violate the tenets of the Catholic Church.

By Cole Stangler March 18, 2010

Still feuding with GUSA, SAC warns clubs of cuts

The Student Activity Commission may decrease allocations to clubs next year, SAC Chair Ethel Amponsah (NHS ‘11) warned in an e-mail sent to SAC-funded groups Tuesday. Amponsah told clubs that the Georgetown University Student Association currently plans to cut SAC’s budget by approximately 15 percent, which will affect club funding unless SAC agrees to all six of GUSA’s advisory board recommendations.

By Kara Brandeisky March 18, 2010

Saxa Politica: Support student loan reform

As the House nears a crucial vote this week on the controversial healthcare bill, it appears more and more likely that Democrats will bundle influential legislation on student aid reform with the healthcare amendments they are attempting to pass using reconciliation. If passed, the bill would fundamentally change federal student loan programs by ending the practice of federally subsidizing private companies that give loans to students, instead giving federal loans directly to students.

By Galen Weber March 18, 2010

Page 13 Cartoons

General Ashcombe

She sat quietly in the winter night, watching as the air turned her breath into a soft, white mist, curling slowly away from her person. She had what they all wanted, that is, a soldier of her own, and not just a soldier, but an officer.

By Anastasia Baran March 18, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 3.18.2010 – “This and That”

By the Voice Staff March 18, 2010

Features

Empire State of Mind: Hoyas do the Wright thing in New York

As the West Virginia Mountaineers celebrated on the court and the strains of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” echoed through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden, the Georgetown Hoyas sat down for a press conference. They did not have much to say.

By Tim Shine March 18, 2010