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Hoyas face familiar foe

The Hoyas might not have thought they spent their Thanksgiving in the happiest place on earth, after emerging from the Old Spice Classic in Disney World, Florida, with a decent 2-1 record.

By Tim Shine December 4, 2008

Crawford leads women’s basketball past Fordham

The Georgetown women's basketball team walked out of McDonough Arena Wednesday night with their sixth win of the season, a 58-46 triumph over Fordham.

By Liz Kuebler December 4, 2008

Features

The Best Movies and Albums of 2008

The Voice staff indulges our egos by ranking this year's top ten movies and albums. Best Album - Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer Best Movie - Wall-E Read on to discover the rest of the rankings, a few of which may surprise you...

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2008

Campus grieves for Faenza

Jenny Faenza (COL `11) passed away on Saturday while visiting her family in Nashville, Tenn. She had been released from a Georgetown area hosptial before break so she could visit... Read more

By Lillian Kaiser December 4, 2008

Bias may have motivated Harbin assault

Georgetown’s Department of Public Safety and Bias Reporting Committee are investigating last week’s assault outside Harbin Hall to determine whether the crime was racially motivated. A separate investigation by the... Read more

By Anna Bank December 4, 2008

Student Metro efforts stall

Progress toward the creation of a Metro discount for D.C. college students has come to a standstill, despite its momentum at beginning of the semester. Though they remain optimistic, local... Read more

By Juliana Brint December 4, 2008

Editorials

Before SAC, clubs tread lightly

In the midst of controversial discussions between the Georgetown University Student Association and the Student Activities Commission over the SAC chair selection process student clubs, which receive their funding from... Read more

By Alisha Crovetto December 4, 2008

Commissions advance slowly

In October, the Georgetown University Student Association created five commissions to address concerns about technology, class registration, Georgetown identity, student dining concerns, and code of conduct reform. The Commissions have... Read more

By Eric Pilch December 4, 2008

The Sports Sermon: Georgetown and Maryland not as close as one would think

The trip from 37th and O Streets to College Park, Maryland, takes around 30 minutes, depending on traffic. The University of Maryland is Georgetown's virtual neighbor and its best basketball competition in the area, but if you ask either team about a rivalry they would deny its existence.

By Tom Bosco December 4, 2008

In the Big East, Size Matters

The Big East has long been the preferred stomping ground of the nation's best big men. From Derrick Coleman (Syracuse) to Walter Berry (St. John's) to Emeka Okafor (UConn), the conference has been synonymous with power basketball in the last three decades. It is a tradition that began right here on the Hilltop with Big John, Patrick Ewing, and the rough-and-tough style of play they engendered.

By Walker Loetscher December 4, 2008

University can’t squash club team’s growing success

Of all the sports named after a gourd, squash is by far the best.

By Alisha Crovetto December 4, 2008

Page 13 Cartoons

Mumbai bombs felt 8,000 miles away

Never was I more certain of how powerless the innocent are during acts of terrorism until, from thousands of miles away, I saw my own city under fire.

By Samir Kapadia December 4, 2008

Voices

Tears, vomit, strippers and love in the New South jungle

As a sophomore I learned that being a Resident Assistant in New South is a lot like sipping the bitter nectar of new parenthood: vomit cakes the bathrooms and hallways most weekends, screams rebound unflaggingly ‘til dawn’s first light, and torrents of tears make Justin Timberlake’s “River” seem like a tributary.

By Traviss Cassidy December 4, 2008

Voices

A Plebeian Guilt Complex

Susan B. Anthony once said, “If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools, they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” Much like the famous suffragette, I used to be a public school diehard who believed that no thinking person could in good conscience attend or send his or her children to a private school, while pretending to care about the quality of public education.

By Anna Bank December 4, 2008

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Cold-weather holidays

Babar’s No Good, Very Bad Day Virtually every kid has one stuffed animal that equals, in importance, at least 80 percent of a human sibling. For my little sister, it... Read more

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2008

Crosswords

Crossword Solutions 04.DECEMBER.2008

By Cal Lee December 4, 2008

City on a Hill: D.C.’s perception problem

World AIDS Day, which took place on Monday, annually brings the District of Columbia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic into citywide focus, if only for a few days. HIV/AIDS clinics and patient advocacy... Read more

By Molly Redden December 4, 2008

Critical Voices: Kanye West , “808s and Heartbreak”

Much has been made of Kanye West's transformation from gloating hip-hop megastar to brooding synth-popper. Would 808s and Heartbreak be a disposable gimmick or a real artistic statement? Surprisingly, the answer leans more toward the latter.

By Justin Hunter Scott November 20, 2008

Gaming for a girl

The Who Wants to be a Millionaire? song used to mean so much to America. The lights went down, Regis Philbin spun in his chair, and we were thrilled by the beginnings of reality TV. Most of all, though, the song heralded promise-the promise that by spending an hour in Philbin's spaceship of a studio, a regular person could use luck and determination to win a whole lot of money. Slumdog Millionaire, a movie based around the Indian version of the show, asks us to believe in that innocent hope-and a whole lot more.

By Will Sommer November 20, 2008

A shaky, not stirring, Bond in Quantum of Solace

Avid James Bond fans were once skeptical about Daniel Craig's abilities to pull off one of the most iconic cinematic characters of all time. Complaints ranged from his apparent lack of debonair charm to rumors that he could not drive a stick shift Aston Martin. Casino Royale, however, proved to be one of the most acclaimed Bond movies to date, inspiring comparisons to Connery and exclamations that Craig had managed to do the impossible-reinvent Bond for the better. Unfortunately, not only does Quantum of Solace not measure up to Casino Royale's standard of cinematic excellence, this time around, Craig's Bond is Bond in name only.

By Vivian Chen November 20, 2008

Fritz Scholder’s American Indians, past and present

"Indian, not Indian," an exhibit of Fritz Scholder's work at the Smithsonian Institute's National American Indian Museum, challenges the very idea of who the American Indian was while demonstrating how Scholder revolutionized the depiction of the American Indian, replacing the classical romantic depictions with a modern, pop-art realism.

By the Voice Staff November 20, 2008