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Jesu & Fog Thursday, Oct. 18; Black Cat UK rock lords Jesu (that’s YAY-zoo to the uninitiated) treat their thick metal pomp with enough feedback and distortion to justify their... Read more

News

City on a Hill: Zoning out

Washington’s contentious zone system for taxi fares will soon be replaced with meters, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced yesterday.

News

Israeli Ad Sparks Debate

A Georgetown University law professor’s letter confronting University President John DeGioia sparked a debate on academic freedom, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, when the professor spoke in front of an audience of more than fifty Law Center students and faculty Tuesday.

News

Stopping harrassment

Marty Langelan has been harassed since she was six. At age nine, she wouldn’t go down to the store for bread and milk because a group of men who hung around the corner would say “creepy things” to her.

News

Poet’s honor

“I still don’t know what poetry is,” Dr. Edward Hirsch said at the annual fall faculty convocation on Wednesday.

News

Marching on Georgetown

Activists will descend on Georgetown Friday as part of a series of protests to disrupt the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

News

New firing powers proposed for D.C. schools chancellor

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty proposed legislation Friday to give his newly-appointed schools’ Chancellor Michelle Rhee increased authority to fire previously protected employees.

News

Thousands greet Dalai Lama on the Mall

Georgetown students were among the thousands that gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol as the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday.

Corrections

Editor’s note

Beginning this week, the Voice will be rearranging the order of our sections.

Letters to the Editor

Here’s to fighting fragmentation

Just wanted to compliment Samuel Sweeney on a great article in the most recent issue. (“Action, not reaction,” Voices, October 11.)

Letters to the Editor

An Open Letter to Todd Olson, V. P. for Student Affairs

We are deeply troubled by the events of October 11 on campus. The way in which LGBT students and their supporters were treated on that day by the campus police is extremely discouraging, to say the least. For a peaceful student group to be prevented by a large number of police officers from entering the open spaces of the Healy building in order to deliver to the president’s office signatures to a widely shared campus petition is appalling.

Leisure

Music for your mind

Based upon its premise alone, The Gunshy’s There’s No Love In This War stands as one of the best independent releases of 2007.

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America according to Colbert

If I were to take the advice Stephen Colbert’s offers in his new book I Am America (And So Can You!), I wouldn’t stoop so low as to write about the hilarious and much-needed “Constitution for the Colbert Nation.” I would feel it with my gut.

Leisure

Goes Down Easy: A Bi-Weekly Column on Drinking

Thinking about drinking means considering every aspect of the process, including how your drink is served, and perhaps more importantly, who served it. The art of bartending, passed on from father to son or gleaned from one of those bartending guides you never seem to have the right ingredients for—blue curacao? Chambord? Seriously?—is a critical one.

Features

Georgetown searches for its pride

How September’s hate crime reignited a decades old campaign for LGTBQ integration at Georgetown, and why both stories converge on the two-month anniversary of the assault.

Leisure

Stogies 101

If you’ve seen Scarface one too many times or the allure of blowing smoke rings has gotten to you, the world of cigar smoking might have something to offer. Here’s a quick guide for picking cigars, compiled after a chat with Edward Gnehm III, the manager of Georgetown Tobacco on M Street.

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

The American League dwarfs the National League in top-tier teams. Most people expected any of the four AL playoff teams to be able to blow away the NL representative with offensive firepower once the World Series rolled around.

Sports

Volleyball slump

The Georgetown Volleyball team lost a tough match to Virginia Commonwealth University Tuesday night at McDonough Gym in a five game decision.

Sports

Soccer wins some, loses some

Georgetown split a pair of exciting games this week, falling to conference rival West Virginia on Saturday 1-0 in overtime, then notched a thrilling 2-1 overtime win against cross-town rival American University on Tuesday.

Leisure

The Exonerated

“This show is ultimately about hope,” show producer Jessica Stone (COL’08) said after the first run of The Nomadic Theater’s production of The Exonerated.

Sports

What Rocks

There’s been little to cheer about this season for Georgetown football, but last Saturday’s new aerial attack might be something to get excited about in the coming weeks.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Liver damage. Needles. Testicular atrophy. There are a lot of downsides to anabolic steroid use.

Sports

Strange lands with sporting ties: Hoya athletes abroad

Have some aggression to work out and would like to learn how to curse in Spanish? You’d be sure to find a home on the rugby team Alicante, Spain.

Leisure

Fixer Clayton needs fixing

Confusion in a film can create suspense, serve as a plot device or even develop a character, but the biggest problem with Michael Clayton is that it is just plain confusing.