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It’s alive! The yuppies … not so much

Pack the Dramamine, kids, because Cloverfield—the newest creation from Lost/Alias wunderkind J.J. Abrams—is a visceral thrill ride with a few new twists on the classic monster-destroys-New York trope.

By Joshua Speiser January 24, 2008

Diary of a Bad Year: Not so bad for marginalia

Imagine reading an essay on political theory that has a note scrawled along the bottom of the page in the author’s handwriting. It describes a young woman he has just seen walk into a laundromat wearing a “tomato-red shift … startling in its brevity.” Notes continue on pages throughout the essay, bit-by-bit, developing into a suspenseful tale of the relationship between the writer and the woman, while interacting with the philosophical work with which it shares the page. This is the basic format of J.M. Coetzee’s inventive new novel, Diary of a Bad Year.

By Sara Carothers January 24, 2008

One too many dresses?

As you would expect from the writer of The Devil Wears Prada and the director of Step Up, 27 Dresses is a romantic comedy we’ve all seen before: within the first few minutes, you’ll recognize the formula and be able to predict most of the plot. The clichés are numerous—the unrequited love, the beautiful and bratty sister, the sharp-tongued best friend and the irksome acquaintance turned love interest. Original, this movie is not. But enjoyable? Surprisingly, yes.

By Erin Espe January 24, 2008

The Mars Volta, The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta, led by former At the Drive-In members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, have long been divisive in the critical world. Their spastic progressive rock has won them as many detractors as fans, and that’s not likely to change with their fourth album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Still, the album is an exciting development for the band’s sound, which is faster and more focused than on their previous albums.

By Justin Hunter Scott January 24, 2008

He’s Not There

By the time you read this Heath Ledger will have been dead for at least about 48 hours. Yet his death and his life have already been discussed, examined and analyzed, the analysis analyzed, a thousand theories raised and discarded and made into cover stories.

By Shira Hecht January 24, 2008

Women get first Big East win

Having dropped their last four contests going into Tuesday’s game, the Georgetown women’s basketball team was in a funk. In those four games, though, the team showed true determination and signs of life—most notably in their mere 10 point loss to the fifth ranked Scarlet Knights of Rutgers and senior forward Kieraah Marlow’s 34 point and 17 rebound tear against 16th-ranked Notre Dame. But Tuesday’s game against Seton Hall was a different story.

By Corey Sherman January 24, 2008

Hoyas tip off tennis season

With the basketball team receiving most of the hype on the Hilltop these days, the Georgetown tennis program is quietly getting into the swing of its spring season. The men got off to a quick start last Friday taking down East Carolina 3-1 and Longwood 3-0 at the VCU Men’s 4×1 Invitational in Richmond, Va.

By Mike Kuebler January 24, 2008

Yatesians

We’re now three weeks into the New Year, which means, for most of us, that we’re two weeks removed from breaking our New Year’s resolutions. It’s no fault of our own. It takes a special kind of person to stave off the cravings induced by Little Debby or L.C. from Laguna Beach—both evil temptresses in their own right.

By Phil Perry January 24, 2008

Kieraah Marlow

A positve outcome of the women’s basketball team’s 20-point loss to 17th-ranked Notre Dame last Saturday was the play of senior forward Kieraah Marlow. Marlow went 13-22 from the field and sank 8 of 9 free throws to amass 34 points in all, a career best and team best this season. Although such an outstanding performance failed to propel GU to a much-needed first Big East victory, it did emphatically exorcise a personal demon. Marlow, who entered the season as Georgetown’s thirteenth all-time career scoring leader board, followed the worst scoring performance of her career with her best.

By Tom Philipps January 24, 2008

Fear the ‘neers

With more than a third of the Big East Conference season behind us, it’s time to reflect on preseason expectations. Georgetown is right where they were expected to be at the top of the conference, but just below the Hoyas in the Big East standings sits what many would call a surprise team: the West Virginia Mountaineers.

By Anthony Francavilla January 24, 2008

The Sports Sermon

With the second semester in full swing, the Georgetown football team is back into the off-season early-morning workouts. Getting up at the break of dawn is hard enough, but the facts the Hoyas must face every morning as they trek up to the varsity gym must hurt even more.

By Liz Kuebler January 24, 2008

Features

Pluralism in action?

ROB HURTEKANT SFS ‘08 “It seems silly to even use the word ‘challenges,’” Rob Hurtekant (SFS ’08) said of his experiences in a wheelchair at Georgetown. Hurtekant, an African Studies... Read more

By the Voice Staff January 24, 2008

Hope you have the time of your pro-life

Members of Georgetown’s Right to Life organization joined as many as 200,000 other pro-life activists on a march from the National Mall to the Supreme Court Tuesday as participatants in the March for Life, an annual protest held on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion as a privacy issue.

By Vivian Chen and Brittany Keates January 24, 2008

Metro slowdown

Major rehabilitation on Metro Center’s platform caused delays on the red, blue and orange Metro lines last weekend, tripping up students who attended Georgetown’s basketball games on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening at the Verizon Center. Trains travelling in both directions from the nearby Gallery Place-Chinatown Station were put on the same track, causing delays of half-an-hour or more.

By Crystal Chung January 24, 2008

City on a Hill: Farewell to cheating cabbies

The past few months have been quite an emotional rollercoaster for the District’s taxi riders—and the Taxicab Industry Group’s latest call for strikes ensures that it won’t end any time soon. With Mayor Adrian Fenty’s decision to switch to metered fares to be instituted April 6, the strike is largely for show. And what it shows is that the first priority for many cab drivers is preserving their ability to rip off their customers.

By Juliana Brint January 24, 2008

LGBTQ: working it out

Based on recommendations by a working group formed in November to assess the efficacy of the University’s bias reporting system, Public Safety Alerts will undergo several changes in the spring semester. The alerts, which previously included only robberies and assaults, will now notify students of incidents of bias and will be available every day of the week

By Alison Crowley January 24, 2008

A dream of D.C. voting rights

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the District of Columbia’s non-voting Representative in Congress, was honored by the University on Martin Luther King Jr. day for her continuous efforts for civil rights, and said that she will keep working until D.C. residents gain full representation in Congress

By Ohm Gore January 24, 2008