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This Georgetown Life: Righteous karma

Righteous karma: tales of pranks from Voice staffers

By the Voice Staff April 2, 2009

A theory about theories

The idea that science gives us insight into today’s major policy issues—the most important, of course, being the financial crisis—hugely misrepresents what social science can tell us about the economic world.

By John Lawless April 2, 2009

How to get your econ freak on and ride the recession wave

The realignment of grandiose ambitions to account for economic reality is a rather hard pill to swallow.

By George D'Angelo April 2, 2009

Who let the girls out? Why women’s basketball matters

Most people assumed that the 2008-2009 Hoya basketball season ended with a disappointing defeat in Waco two weeks ago. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

By Nick Sementelli and Paul Campbell April 2, 2009

Features

The Voice Turns 40!

The Voice has reached middle age. This month, after decades of free exercise of our free speech, Georgetown University's weekly newsmagazine turns 40. To celebrate, we've collected some of the best, most controversial, and most entertaining work of our young history.

By the Voice Staff March 26, 2009

The (not so) Great Buck Howard

The Great Buck Howard doesn’t deserve the following review. It never meant to offend, and I hate to be so hard on it. Nothing about the film is storm-angrily-from-the-theater bad;... Read more

By Cyrus Bordbar March 26, 2009

Wilco who? Pronto is pimpin’

Since joining Wilco for the production of their 2002 magnum opus Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Mikhail Jorgensen has mostly lurked in the shadows of frontman Jeff Tweedy, playing keyboards and sampling for... Read more

By Eric Pilch March 26, 2009

Ahh, monsters!

Classic Japanese monsters in D.C.? No, the newest exhibit at the Sackler Gallery isn’t about Godzilla and Mothra, it’s about Shuten Doji, a mythical monster described by Wikipedia as a... Read more

By Matthew Collins March 26, 2009

Fellini in Rimini

Federico Fellini is one of those directors—the kind whose name gets tossed around cocktail parties and chic uniplexes. But anyone who’s managed to sit through one of his rather long... Read more

By Stephano Medina March 26, 2009

Smooth opera-tors

I think I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to other people’s musical tastes. However, I refuse to credit purely Pavlovian responses of negativity and disdain, such as, “I like all... Read more

By Chelsea Paige March 26, 2009

The gossip boy

During my time watching television, one person or another has mocked nearly every show I watch. Grey’s Anatomy is too soapy, The Wire is too boring, Lost is too twisted,... Read more

By Dan Newman March 26, 2009

Critical Voices: The Decemberists

Long known for their bookish indie ballads stuffed with folk tales and time-worn legends, the Decemberists have taken their critically acclaimed formula to a new level with their latest release,... Read more

By Sean Quigley March 26, 2009

Critical Voices: Swan Lake

Swan Lake’s debut, Beast Moans, was my joint, man. I was on that shit like white on rice, yelpy vocals, amorphous melodies, and all. It probably didn’t hurt that I wasn’t... Read more

By Matthew Collins March 26, 2009

Critical Voices: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

If you last heard Karen O and Co. in 2003, after the fist-pumping Fever to Tell, I wouldn’t blame you if you thought It’s Blitz was the work of another... Read more

By Matthew Collins March 26, 2009

$990,000 spent lobbying for boathouse

The University has paid the Carmen Group, an independent lobbying firm, $990,000 since 2005 to lobby the National Parks Service to approve Georgetown’s proposed boathouse on the banks of the Potomac, according to lobbyist disclosure forms obtained by the Voice.

By Juliana Brint March 26, 2009

Blessed Mother statue vandalized again

The statue of the Blessed Mother on Copley Lawn was vandalized over the weekend, bringing the total number of such incidents to three in the past month. Previously defaced on February 22, the statue was painted a second time sometime early Saturday morning. A statue of former Georgetown professor and World War II hero Jan Karski was also defaced in early March.

By Lillian Kaiser March 26, 2009

Hoya Snaxa has rodent infestation

Snackers beware: Hoya Snaxa is battling a mouse infestation. According to The Corp’s CEO and President Ryan Callahan (SFS `10), mice have been making their way into the store ever since construction of the new McDonough School of Business began in the spring of 2006.

By Molly Redden March 26, 2009

Sallie Mae’s new loan policy

Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest private student lender and one of the companies Georgetown’s Office of Financial Aid recommends to students, changed its signature loan policy this past Monday.

By Maddie Donnelly March 26, 2009

GU hosts first Doha Debates in U.S.

For their first trip to the United States, the Doha Debates, a weekly debating program that airs on BBC World News, came to Georgetown to discuss whether “it’s time for the U.S. administration to get tough on Israel.” The motion was ultimately approved, with 63 percent of the audience voting in its favor.

By Juliana Brint March 26, 2009

Students observe El Salvador election

A brutal drama about the assassination of a Latin American priest might not be at the top of most students’ must-watch lists, but for the 10 students who participated in Campus Ministry’s spring break trip to El Salvador, it was riveting.

By Anna Bank March 26, 2009