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Minding the GAAP: seducing prospective frosh

Deciding what college to attend can depend on any number of tiny details: 70-degree weather, a hot tour guide, pot stickers at the cafeteria. This weekend, the Georgetown Admissions Ambassadors Program (GAAP) will host the first of three weekends designed to show accepted students everything the University has to offer. With the basketball team in the Final Four and students sunbathing on Copley Lawn, the timing couldn’t be better.

By Kate Mays March 29, 2007

News Hit

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) presented the first budget proposal of his mayoral tenure to the District Council on Monday, where it was greeted with both praise and concern. Though councilmembers said they had not had time to look at the budget in depth, many voiced uncertainty. Fenty requested $5.7 billion in local spending, but added no new taxes. The District’s Chief Financial Officer, Natwar Gandhi, said in a letter attached to the budget that this was an 8.8 percent spending increase over the budget for 2007.

By John Lawless March 29, 2007

New York Times morality guru speaks in Reiss

Randy Cohen, author of the New York Times Magazine’s ethics column, feels like he frequently gets left out at parties.

“I’ve become a kind of professional wet blanket,” he said. “I feel like there are all kinds of fun and depraved things going on until I arrive.”

By John Lawless March 29, 2007

DPS prepares for Final Four weekend

Despite college basketball’s history of violent student riots, Georgetown students managed to celebrate the Hoya’s NCAA Tournament wins this past weekend peacefully and responsibly.

By Lynn Kirshbaum March 29, 2007

Features

Spring Fashion ’07

Oh the pleasures of womanhood!

Girls, it’s the anxiously awaited season! Time to tan your legs and brush the mothballs off that most important of seasonal rights—the spring dress. If you don’t have one, or you’re sick of your old one, or two or three or seven, we at the Voice recommend several Georgetown boutiques that you should visit.

By Mary Katherine Stump March 29, 2007

Editorials

The Funny Third: Jaywalking, an American right

Metro is at it again. No longer content to oppress the masses of D.C. through the enforcement of open container laws, underage curfews, and that pesky handgun ban, this month D.C.’s police will be cracking down on a new segment of our population that includes teachers, firemen, heroes and even you and me—jaywalkers.

By the Editorial Board March 29, 2007

Editorials

If you’re rich, you’re HOT

Rich and friendless drivers who enviously watch vehicles in the carpool lane blaze by during their rush hour crawl on I-495 will soon get their turn to hop into the fast lane.

By the Editorial Board March 29, 2007

Editorials

Thanks to you, we are Georgetown

There are 679 members in the facebook.com group “2007: The Year of the Hoyas,” 439 in the group “If you don’t like Georgetown, you must also hate Christmas morning,” and 541 in the group “Where do you go to school? That sucks, I go to GEORGETOWN.”

By the Editorial Board March 29, 2007

Sports Sermon

Throughout this storybook basketball season, Georgetown has shown again and again the importance of team effort. The patient Princeton offense outlasted the lightning-fast transition game of UNC. As the Hoyas prepare to take on Ohio State in Saturday’s semi-final, however, they will face a new challenge in a team whose parts are very similar to their own.

By Anthony Francavilla March 29, 2007

Baseball takes step back

After Georgetown Baseball was swept in a disappointing Big East opening series versus Rutgers, the team rebounded Tuesday, edging rival George Washington 5-4 at home. The win avenged a 17-9 blowout loss earlier in the season and had all the signs of being a major boost for the team, but Georgetown faced a setback the next day, falling to the University of Maryland-Baltimore County 9-2.

By Daniel Eden March 29, 2007

Lady Hoyas take third straight

Georgetown Women’s Lacrosse battled for their third straight road-win Tuesday evening. The 9th-ranked Hoyas (first in BE) defeated the College of William and Mary 13-5, improving their record against the Tribe to 11-1.

By Liz Kuebler March 29, 2007

Power trio

I remember about two and a half years ago standing on Harbin Field for our Class of 2008 picture during Freshman Orientation and seeing Jon Wallace, Roy Hibbert and Jeff Green standing there. They were the freshman basketball stars, one from Alabama and two local talents. I had never heard of any of them.

By Mike Kuebler March 29, 2007

Campin out to get to HotLanta

Phillip McClymont was as giddy as a plastic surgeon at the Playboy mansion as he sat in full collegiate glory Monday night outside McDonough Gymnasium, surveying the crowd of fellow Hoyas who came to secure tickets to the culmination of March’s madness: the Final Four in Atlanta. Reclining in a camping chair as buddies popped open brews and enjoyed the gustatory delights of finely-aged Philly Pizza, the junior’s glow outshone even Patrick Ewing’s dog-tag bling.

By admin March 29, 2007

Carrying on: Radiohead through the rolling fog

After finishing my last paper of freshman year, I decided to go for a walk at night to celebrate my new freedom. It was a simple walk through Georgetown, a route I often took to go see movies on K Street, but that night the pedestrian became glorious, the uncomfortable became terrifying and the everyday neighborhood looked like something out of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was listening to Radiohead in the fog.

By Michael Bruns March 29, 2007

Bush’s compromised justice

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales just can’t seem to catch a break.

By Sam Sweeney March 29, 2007

Teetering on the edge of victory

I try to be modest, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m the reason that the Hoyas are winning.

By Tim Fernholz March 29, 2007

This Georgetown Life: The things we do for money

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 March 29, 2007

Hoyas outlast Tar Heels to earn Final Four trip

ONLINE ONLY, EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Georgetownï¿½s past was prologue once more, as the Hoyasï¿½ storybook season continued into the Final Four following a hard-fought 96-84 win over the top-seeded Tar Heels of North Carolina.

By Anthony Francavilla March 22, 2007

Hoyas slip past Vandy for Elite Eight Slot

ONLINE ONLY: EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Trailing Vanderbilt by one point with 14 seconds left, Georgetown came out of their final timeout. There was no confusion in sold-out Continental Airlines Arena about who would have the final touch for the Hoyas. The crowd held its collective breath as junior forward Jeff Green received the pass from junior guard Jonathan Wallace. The Commodores were as ready as anyone and quickly doubled Green with his back to the basket at the right-hand elbow.

By Anthony Francavilla March 22, 2007

Global Hegemony

Global Hegemony: click to enlarge.

By the Voice Staff March 22, 2007

Cartoons

In Poor Taste

By Alexandra Hart March 22, 2007