Leisure

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

Leisure

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

Leisure

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

Leisure

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

Leisure

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

Leisure

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

Leisure

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

News

$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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

City on a Hill: AU, meet ANC

When the Eagle, American University’s student newspaper, realized that the seat reserved on the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission for an AU student was vacant, their editorial board was incensed. And rightly so: AU students have failed to fill the seat for so long that Penny Pagano, the University’s Director of Community and Local Government Outreach, and even some sitting commissioners can’t remember the last time ANC 3D had a student commissioner. However, the Eagle blamed the seat’s vacancy on all the wrong parties.

By Molly Redden March 26, 2009

Crosswords

Crossword Answers 03.26.09

By Cal Lee March 26, 2009

Sports

Georgetown senior sets sights on NFL Draft

At first glance, Ataefiok Etukeren could be any MSB senior. He still does not know where he will be working after graduation, but he is confident he can land a job at one of the billion-dollar businesses where he has been interviewing. But Etukeren isn’t a typical MSB senior. He’s 6’3”, 245 pounds, and can run 40 yards in under 4.7 seconds. And his potential employers aren’t banks—they’re NFL teams.

By Tim Shine March 26, 2009

Sports

The Sports Sermon: What’s your fantasy?

Months of thinking, weeks of planning, and days of finalizing—all were nearly ruined by a fire drill.

By Tom Bosco March 26, 2009

Voices

Getting to know a grandfather, even after his death

Today, the weather is good for the first time in a long time. Come walk with me, down to the Washington Harbor. Past the shop windows of shiny, plastic women wearing soft things and summer things and silver things, who nod at you as you go by.

By Sadaf Qureshi March 26, 2009

Voices

When television grows out of its box

If television is supposed to capture the rhythms and flows of people’s lives, then it makes sense to immerse oneself totally into those lives.

By Shira Hecht March 26, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Election observer in El Salvador, a recession-proof spring break job

Last Tuesday, I spent my morning in the noisy, sunlit streets of San Salvador and the night in Georgetown’s comparatively glacial climate.

By Sarah Stodder March 26, 2009

Voices

Making brotherly love the official sport of brotherly love

My brother and I are completely different people.

By Tom Bosco March 26, 2009

Editorials

Information is power: keep GU safe

On Saturday, Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson sent an email notifying the Georgetown community of the recent defacement of the Blessed Mother statue on Copley lawn—the third act... Read more

By the Editorial Board March 26, 2009

Editorials

Loans borrowing students’ futures

This week the credit crisis is about to hit home for many students entering college and graduate school. Sallie Mae, the largest private lender to students, announced that students will... Read more

By the Editorial Board March 26, 2009

Editorials

Metro funds have gone off the rails

Facing an enormous budget deficit and drastic service cuts while pursuing ambitious plans to construct two new lines, the Washington Metro Transit Authority is a mess. Recently published reports by... Read more

By the Editorial Board March 26, 2009

Leisure

Hyde your kids; Jekyll is comin’

Jekyll & Hyde, Mask & Bauble’s spring production, is not a show for literary purists. If you’re looking for Robert Louis Stevenson’s critique of rigid Victorian society and its seedy... Read more

By Rachel Sadon March 19, 2009