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It’s a people-watching party

My window is my favorite part of my Village A apartment. My room is too small to hold two desk and two beds, so I put my desks by the window in the living room, directly across from the old Jesuit residence, west of the library. The view has become quite a distraction. I’d much rather people-watch out my window than study Italian or stare at my computer screen.

By September 20, 2007

Voices

Carrying On

Let’s say you’re a freshman, eagerly awaiting the substance-induced rebellion promised you by multiple viewings of Animal House. You could binge drink like so many other freshmen, but why go the cliché route? Not to mention you’re as terrified of the new campus alcohol policies as every other student. You’ve been Just-Say-No-ed enough to stay away from hard drugs. Cigarettes might be the right rebellion statement, but you know the health risks and don’t want to end up an addict (and if, like me, you come from the land of a thousand smoking bans called California, this message has permeated your entire being.)

Then a friend invites you to a hookah bar.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

Edward Hopper and the art of loneliness

The National Gallery’s modern art space endures perpetual remodeling. Most recently, the industrial white walls have turned a calmer, grayish blue, and visitors to the East Wing will find Jasper Johns’ dynamic targets and mechanical abstractions from last spring replaced by the composed depictions of Edward Hopper’s America.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

A trip with The Beatles Across the Universe

That’s right, the whole gang is “all together now” (oh, stop moaning); Jude, Lucy, Prudence and a few others star in the funny and poignant Across the Universe, where the word ‘trippy’ just begins to describe these surreal re-imaginings of Beatles’ classics. I mean, what can accurately describe seeing U2’s Bono make a cameo as a Californian cowboy hippie and belt “I am the Walrus.” Some moments of the show are simply beyond words.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: Akron/Family, Love is Simple

Akron/Family burst onto the music scene in 2005 with their promising self-titled debut and a fantastic split EP with the Angels of Light. With 2006’s Meek Warrior, however, they seemed to run out of energy even as they piled on the ideas. Thankfully, Love is Simple is exciting and lively, and its fusion of straightforward rock, tribal freak-outs and dense soundscapes makes it Akron/Family’s best release yet.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Bewhiskered troubadour Devendra Banhart is a man of many hats: father of freak-folk, new-age pseudo-hippy, the witch-voiced banshee of Jack Johnson’s nightmares. It’s appropriate, then, that his fifth and latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, dabbles in a variety of musical genres, ranging from glam-rock to dub to gospel. While too long like its predecessor Cripple Crow, Smokey intrigues as the most revealing glimpse into the odd and joyous world of the shape-shifting folk singer.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

Hip to the off-beat: DC Crafts and Fairs

If M Street has left you with a hankering for off-beat creativity, look no further than Crafty Bastards. With over 100 vendors, Crafty Bastards showcases talented independent artists and crafters from around the D.C. area.

By September 20, 2007

Leisure

Goes Down Easy

Nobody likes a wine snob, but I don’t need you to like me. I need you to like good wine. And I want you to drink it at a restaurant, paired with good food. An honest bottle of wine—poached from the low end of the wine list and foreign, if at all possible—is the pinnacle of the culturally constructed drinking experience.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

Fore! play!

While lacrosse, soccer and football benefit from the advantage of on-campus facilities, the Hoya golf team could never dream of having more than 18 holes of mini-golf in the quaintly cramped Georgetown community. The only glimpse most students will ever get of the golf team may be the sight of players lugging their golf bags on the way to practice.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

To me, Peter Gammons is the ultimate name in baseball credibility. I’ve never read a single column he wrote in The Boston Globe, don’t regularly search out his pieces on ESPN.com and only hear from him on the rare occasions that I watch SportsCenter when he happens to be on.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

Bend it like…Wells

If there were ever a time to say that football is the best fall sport on campus, it would be now. And by football, we mean fútbol. The women’s soccer team is the top sport on campus this fall, with the best start the program has ever seen.

By September 20, 2007

Sports

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Still unsure as to whether or not Georgetown has a football team? Me, too. But meandering over to the center of campus last Saturday, I noticed something.

By September 20, 2007

News

Students protest the war

Georgetown students joined thousands of protesters in a march to the Capitol Building on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq. The march, organized by the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, drew about fifty Georgetown students, organized by various groups such as the College Democrats and the Georgetown Solidarity Committee.

By September 20, 2007

News

MPD policy “unconstitutional”

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said the Metropolitan Police Department’s alleged arrest policy for parties is unconstitutional. Students residing in Burleith claimed that MPD officers, including 2nd District Commander Andy Solberg, threatened to arrest all residents if their house received one more noise complaint.

By September 20, 2007

News

Ex-Marine discusses Al-Jazeera job

“People believe three things about [Al-Jazeera],” Josh Rushing told a crowd of about fifty observers. “They say that it shows beheadings, it has a website called aljazeera.com and it is the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.”

By September 20, 2007

News

Party anger persists

The administration’s optimism over the new alcohol policy changes has not been matched by students’ reactions.

By September 20, 2007

News

Democrats debate 2008 election

Barack Obama won the College Democrats’ straw poll after more than an hour of debate between students representing the different Democratic presidential candidates. The war in Iraq, the healthcare system and foreign policy consumed most of the discussion.

By September 20, 2007

News

City on a Hill: D.C. Vote Act filibusted

The Senate came three votes short of righting a 200-year old wrong Tuesday when it failed to achieve cloture on the D.C. Voting Rights Act. The act would have given Washington residents a voting member in Congress and an equal voice in the nation’s democracy.

By September 20, 2007

Features

After School Activities

Students aren’t the only ones who daydream. The droning prof at the front of class is often the last thing on the minds of jaded students. Anything and everything, from chicken fingers to weekend plans, is capable of winning the battle for your attention on a Friday afternoon. But these musings start and stop with the pupil, right? It seems there’s no room for daydreaming in the life of a college professor, so what if you caught your teacher neglecting his own lesson plans to tap out a catchy Caribbean beat with his make-shift, number-two drumsticks? What if, on that never-ending Friday afternoon class, you bolted out of your chair as soon as the professor said “go,” only to watch him slip out just before you?

By September 20, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Voice website offensive

As a member of the Georgetown alumni, I wanted to comment that I find your website header of someone walking over the University seal offensive.

By September 20, 2007

Letters to the Editor

How Hoyas can change the party policy

By this point, every Georgetown student could probably extemporize a five to ten minute speech elaborating the new alcohol policies that have been put in place, and provide a detailed, well-reasoned argument as to why each of them sucks magnificently. What is not clear, however, is how the student body can engender any sort of change. While the ‘GU Students for Stopping the Madness’ Facebook group has some worthwhile events planned, I believe that the most assured way of getting the administration to change these policies is to hit them where it hurts the most … the wallet.

By September 20, 2007

Corrections

Improper profit; Metro mistake

In “Unpacking your tuition,” (Features, Sept. 13) the Voice reported that the Institute for the International Education of Students and the Council for International Educational Exchange are for-profit companies. In... Read more

By September 20, 2007

Editorials

Partying so hard it’s a crime

The University of Chicago is called the school where fun goes to die, but Georgetown may soon knock those Midwesterners off of their pedestal.

By the September 13, 2007

Editorials

The best $18,000 vacation ever

Although study abroad students won’t be on campus, they will be unfairly forced to pay full Georgetown tuition.

By the September 13, 2007

Editorials

Nothing can stop UIS (except spam)

UIS must continue to expand its capacity in order to preempt the next incident rather than scrambling to react to it.

By the September 13, 2007