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It takes more than two to study

Pity the members of Professor Jennifer Swift’s organic chemistry class.

By the Editorial Board December 6, 2007

Student rights a primary issue

Home is where the vote is.

By the Editorial Board December 6, 2007

Scholarship deal fit for a prince

Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies recently signed an agreement with Prince George’s Community College which will allow qualified Prince George’s graduates to enroll in Georgetown’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Program.

By the Editorial Board December 6, 2007

Voices

What we have here is a failure to communicate

“You just don’t have a soul.”

It hurt when she said it, but I understood why my best friend was so upset. Braving arctic January winds, we had hiked a mile from Chicago’s downtown Loop to the only theater in the entire metropolitan area that was still showing Pride & Prejudice. She had spent two months threatening, begging and bribing me to see it, and I had caved. Now we were about to board a Green Line train at 10:30 p.m.—essentially asking to be robbed—all because she had been sure that this movie would finally make me a chick-flick lover.

By Molly Redden December 6, 2007

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Happy Holidays from the Family

This Georgetown Life is a collection of stories written by Georgetown students all based on the same theme. [Cue trendy jazz music.]

By the Voice Staff December 6, 2007

Decaying Photos

Christopher Myers’ “Standing on Two Eyes” is a refreshing departure from the modern-day overkill of digital photography, confronting the unrest of urban gentrification with a collection of hauntingly beautiful and nostalgic black and white giclee (a type of fine-art ink-jet) prints.

By Madeline Reidy December 6, 2007

El Pollo Rico: a taste of Peru

Some restaurants do everything decently, others do a few things well and a small number do one thing spectacularly. Just as Ben’s Chili Bowl is all about the chili, El Pollo Rico earns its customers by serving delicious chicken.

By Sara Carothers December 6, 2007

Performing LGBTQ Awareness

In the wake of the two hate crimes against LGBTQ students that occurred at Georgetown earlier this year, Nomadic Theater’s Square Pegs Productions will present a staged reading of Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project tonight.

By Grace Erdmann December 6, 2007

Voices

Carrying on: A light in the dark of Darfur

Underneath the Christmas star that seems, in the dark, to float on the Healy building, a small group of students gathered for a candlelit vigil last night. They were members of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, marking the end of a day of fasting to raise money for refugees displaced by the genocide in Darfur. Far be it from me to inflict a journalistic cliché on you, but as the group worked together to light their candles in the freezing cold while other students shuffled numbly by through the slush, there seemed to be a bit of metaphor in the air. Not a million points of light, but enough.

By Tim Fernholz December 6, 2007

Golden God?

The Golden Compass, which comes out nationwide on Friday, has all the ingredients of a standard big-budget fantasy epic. Complex fantastical universe, surprisingly like our own—check. Talking animals—check (several times over). Ian McKellen and/or Christopher Lee—check and check! Shadowy, evil villain bent on controlling the entire magical world—check.

And that’s where things get complicated.

By Shira Hecht December 6, 2007

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UN needs effective adaptation policy

As representatives from over 180 countries, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the media fly to Bali, Indonesia for the thirteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference, they prepare for two weeks of what has been perceived as “make-or-break” negotiations on the future of international climate change policy.

By Tian Tian December 6, 2007

Critical Voices: Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah’s third release in two years, The Big Doe Rehab, proves that he’s quite the prolific rapper, but does little to silence the cries of inconsistency that have plagued him since his breakthrough Supreme Clientele. With its lack of innovation and absence of any true standout tracks, The Big Doe Rehab doesn’t live up to its colossal expectations as the follow-up to 2006’s excellent Fishscale.

By Justin Hunter Scott December 6, 2007

Plans for LGBTQ center to be finished by Jan.

The working group charged with planning the new LGBTQ resource center expects to present completed recommendations to University President John DeGioia by mid-January, members of the group reported at an LGBTQ open forum on Wednesday evening.

By Sam Sweeney December 6, 2007

Rethinking Curriculum

Seated in a high-backed leather chair in his cluttered office, Provost James O’Donnell stroked the head of a stuffed rhinoceros and explained that, much like his office, Georgetown’s academics might need to be redecorated. O’Donnell has recently established two working groups to consider making changes in the Georgetown curriculum and to analyze the best ways to foster an academic culture on campus.

By Alison Crowley December 6, 2007

Daschle and Ricks discuss the Fiasco

“It’s like moving from the eighth circle of hell to the fifth,” Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post and the author of two books on the Iraq War, said of post-surge Iraq.

Speaking at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute on Tuesday about the situation in Iraq, Ricks was introduced by former Sen. Tom Daschle as the author of “the definitive book on the Iraq war, Fiasco.”

By Molly Redden December 6, 2007

Mixed report card for GU tutoring in D.C.

This fall, the McDonough School of Business started sending 14 students to tutor at D.C. Preparatory School, a District charter middle school that serves students in the 4th through 8th grades, as a new pilot program to incorporate community service into their curriculum. Next semester, MSB students will be able to participate in the program as a fourth credit option.

By Crystal Chung December 6, 2007

City on a Hill: The Re-education of Fenty

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee heaped the insult of exclusion on top of the considerable injury of 23 planned school closures when they left DCPS parents to learn about their proposal from a leaked article in The Washington Post. Community members feel, understandably, shocked, alienated and enraged.

By Juliana Brint December 6, 2007

Sports

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hoyas light up Dolphins, 87-55

The last time Georgetown (7-0) faced the Dolphins of Jacksonville University (3-6) on the hardwood, an on-court punch provoked a gym-wide fight, forcing both teams into the locker rooms for safety. Georgetown would not return, forfeiting the game. This time, Jacksonville threw very few “punches” and the Hoyas pulled none en route to an 87-55 victory.

By Anthony Francavilla December 6, 2007

WEB EXCLUSIVE: The nightmare that keeps on giving

Director Tim Burton delivers a visionary new nightmare before Christmas with his macabre adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical Sweeney Todd. As the haunted pipe organ and bloody opening credits make abundantly clear, this gory film, laced with coal-black humor, is not your average musical.

By Joshua Speiser December 6, 2007

Sports

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hoyas win dirty in Jersey

The seventh-ranked Georgetown basketball machine opened up Big East Conference play the same way it has dealt with the rest of its early season opponents: a sloppy first half offensively, a close halftime score, and a grinding, smothering defense that wears down the opponent. The victim on Saturday afternoon was Rutgers (8-6, 0-2 BE), and although the Scarlet Knights remained competitive for most of the game, the double-digit, 58-46 victory seemed inevitable throughout.

By Anthony Francavilla December 6, 2007

WEB EXCLUSIVE ‘There Will Be Blood’: There Was Blood … And More

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is a devilish movie that isn’t easily absorbed in its two-and-a-half-hour runtime. Although it offers hardly any satisfying moments, There Will Be Blood is challenging and engaging, polished filmmaking at its best that makes for a demanding, but extremely rewarding, experience.

By Michael Evans December 6, 2007

Colleges should not police downloads

While the Voice does not condone illegal file-sharing, Congress should not be roping universities into the fight against it, and Georgetown should not be diverting any of its limited resources into investigating students’ downloading habits.

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2007