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This Georgetown Life: Awkward Luvin’: The Valentine’s Day Edition

Voice staffers share their most awkward encounters with love, in a Valentine Day's Edition of This Georgetown Life.

By the February 12, 2009

Voices

The ANC: G-town’s own bastion of hyper-democracy

Washington, D.C. touts its 37 ANCs as advisory boards whose opinions on traffic, parking, zoning, liquor licenses, and police presence must be given “great weight” by District agencies. But this doesn’t even begin to explain the phenomenon of the ANC.

By February 12, 2009

Voices

Just because it’s real doesn’t mean it’s not terrifying

When I get bored, I slip into a sort of steady state of mind, my own personal state of nature. Oddly, that condition has come to involve watching a lot of horror movies. It isn’t that I particularly prefer slashers or monster romps to romantic comedy or drama. It’s more force of habit than conscious choice.

By February 12, 2009

Voices

A message for President Obama: go green, baby, go green

Newly appointed Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele won’t push his party in a new direction. This is the man who coined the phrase “Drill, baby, drill,” so often attributed to Sarah Palin, and whose acceptance speech lacked any real substance.

By February 12, 2009

Editorials

Georgetown students earn their Day

For many Georgetown students, happily wandering around Copley lawn on Georgetown Day is one of the highlights of their college experience. This year, however, the University is threatening to strip... Read more

By the February 12, 2009

Editorials

Metro service cuts are just not fare

As a rule of thumb, you’re not supposed to spend what you don’t have­—one need only look at our current financial crisis to see the disastrous results. Yet the Washington... Read more

By the February 12, 2009

Editorials

Georgetown should lose the chaperones

Last week, the Old Georgetown Board—a board of architects charged with monitoring the Georgetown neighborhood’s aesthetic integrity—sent Apple back to the drawing board for the fourth time, taking issue with... Read more

By the February 12, 2009

Features

Saturday Night Fever: six hours on the beat with DPS

This past weekend, I shadowed several DPS officers on patrol, to see the typical Georgetown weekend from the perspective of the officers paid to keep students safe. What follows is an account of my night on the force.

By February 5, 2009

News

GUSA passes 6 of 8 SCU proposals

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate approved six out of the Student Commission for Unity’s eight proposals designed to address what the commission sees as the University’s diversity problem.

By February 5, 2009

News

GU to drop Russell for labor violations

After months of investigation into the labor practices of Russell Athletic, a major producer of athletic gear for universities that has been accused of violating workers’ rights in Honduras, and under pressure from the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown’s Licensing Oversight Committee decided on Tuesday that it will not renew the University’s contract with the company when it expires June 30.

By February 5, 2009

News

Seniors daunted by Wall St. woes

This year’s senior class will be entering the job market in what many are calling the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. With job opportunities few and far between—especially in the finance industry, a field that has traditionally attracted a large number of Georgetown students—seniors are facing uncertainty and stiff competition in their search for employment.

By February 5, 2009

News

Dowd pushes for Hindi program

Georgetown University Student Association President Pat Dowd (SFS `09) has formed a fundraising committee to solicit funds to revive the University’s Hindi language program.

By February 5, 2009

News

Professor Chuck Hagel

Former Senator Chuck Hagel (R—Neb.) will be joining the Georgetown faculty next year as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of National Governance. Hagel will teach classes on U.S. Foreign Policy to both undergraduate and graduate students.

By February 5, 2009

News

GPB Spring Concert

Jason Mraz was the first choice for the Spring Kickoff Concert in a survey e-mailed to students by the Georgetown Programming Board. Lupe Fiasco and Third Eye Blind followed closely behind.

By February 5, 2009

News

ANC scolds WASA over broken hydrants

Fifty-nine of Georgetown’s 200 fire hydrants need maintenance, according to Louis Jarvis, the Water Services Director for the District of Columbia Water and Sewage Authority, who was called to testify before the Advisory Neighborhood Commission at their meeting on Monday.

By February 5, 2009

News

City on a Hill: Mall madness

It sinks, it stinks, and it floods. It’s the National Mall, and it’s a national embarrassment. Last week, the House Rules Committee cut $200 million from President Obama’s stimulus bill that would have been dedicated to its restoration.

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

The heart and fist of a revolutionary

The two-part film Che, an epic biography of Cuban Revolutionary leader Che Guevara, falls short of its expected epic proportions—though it is arguably better for it. In a decisive rebellion... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

So you want to catch an Albanian sex trafficker?

At one point in Taken, when told by an old-friend-turned-cynical-police-chief that he’ll never find his daughter, Brian Mills (Liam Neeson) threatens that he will stop at nothing to save her,... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

A gallery of Vices

The National Portrait Gallery is an odd museum among D.C.’s many Smithsonian gems. For a hall full of paintings, it isn’t particularly concerned with any particular Art Historical ideas, and... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

Z-Burger makes a saucy patty

If you’re craving a burger but you’re sick of the same old places around campus, think about venturing to Glover Park to grab a bite at Z-Burger. An updated version... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

Vinyl is better

There’s no denying the economy is in the pits, so what should you do with that last wad of cash stashed in your underwear drawer? Invest in a turntable and... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

Good die young

A few years ago, I began to realize that following television was very different from being a fan of most other mediums. There is no chance that when you go... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: Beirut

From eastern European gypsy-folk to French chamber pop, Beirut’s Zach Condon finds inspiration in odd places. Yet he’s always been able to fuse his disparate influences into coherent records dripping... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

Vroooooom show

More than just a means for transportation, cars in America have long served as indicators of status and as treasured collectibles. Celebrities always flaunt their auto collections on MTV’s “Cribs,”... Read more

By February 5, 2009

Leisure

DC Shorts

For the past six years, one festival has been bringing the District’s short film lovers their heart’s desire: The DC Shorts Film Festival. Moviemaker Magazine praised the festival as “one... Read more

By February 5, 2009