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Liberating gender

“I don’t think many of us imagine Jane Hoya kissing other girls, unless it’s in a Joe Hoya fantasy,” former GU Pride President Shamisa Zvoma (MSB ‘08) said during the panel discussion “Deconstructing Jane and Joe Hoya: Gender at Georgetown,” on Tuesday.

By Brittany Keates November 29, 2007

Living with AIDS in Washington

Being an HIV-positive gay man in Venezuela “was like you had a scarlet letter on your forehead,” said Miguel Aguero (SCS ‘11) “The new generation, people under 20, didn’t live through the first cases and the paranoia and the fear. People would say, ‘You’re going to hell and this is your ticket.’”

By Juliana Brint November 29, 2007

Filming Afghanistan

A screening of a documentary about a young Afghan boy turned into a heated debate yesterday as the film’s director discussed the invasion of Afghanistan.

By Crystal Chung November 29, 2007

Web-based academic journal on Latin America debuts

Three former presidents and numerous business executives from Spain and Latin America gathered at Georgetown Tuesday for the launch of a virtual journal about business and globalization in Latin America. The Journal of Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability is the product of a partnership between the University and the world’s eighth-largest bank.

By Marco Cerna and Alison Crowley November 29, 2007

G’town sees spike in crimes at Thanksgiving

A spate of crimes struck Georgetown in the period during and around Thanksgiving, with one student being held-up at gunpoint last week and robberies of a Copley suite and four Henle apartments over the past ten days.

By Elena Solli November 29, 2007

Leisure

Lonely channels: surviving the writers’ strike

With the Writers Guild of America entering its fourth week on strike and no new episodes remaining of most scripted shows, networks are pulling out the big guns—namely, a bowtie clad Tucker Carlson. He’ll be the host of a new game show about trusting complete strangers to win cash. If that isn’t depressing enough, there’s no shortage of horrible ideas for unscripted shows to fill in the slots usually taken by 30 Rock or The Late Show: “My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad,” “Baby Borrowers,” and “When Woman Rule the World” (what, we don’t already?). To help cope with the onslaught of mediocrity that will rule the airwaves until the writers and networks get a contract signed, here’s some TV-on-DVD you may not have heard of:

By Sara Carothers November 29, 2007

Leisure

No Country for Old Men

Joel and Ethan Coen’s brutally masterful new film, No Country for Old Men, is an unnerving piece of filmmaking as harsh and unforgiving as the parched Texas landscape where the story unfolds.

By Joshua Speiser November 29, 2007

Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

There’s something wrong with Boston sports. In fact, there is so much wrong with Boston sports, I’m writing this column from the roof of Healy Tower. And I’m not here to steal the clock hands.

By Phil Perry November 29, 2007

No luck for volleyball

The Georgetown women’s volleyball team lost the final match of a disappointing season to Virginia Commonwealth University in the VCU Thanksgiving Classic Saturday.

By Nicole Bush November 29, 2007

The Sports Sermon

This Sunday, on my nine-hour sojourn back to school, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan helped prove what I had long suspected: there is no such thing as a “friendly game.”

By admin November 29, 2007

Fair weather ahead: Georgetown vs. Fairfield

Fairfield University does not appear to be the team that will blemish the undefeated Georgetown basketball team’s early record when the two teams square off in D.C. Saturday in a rematch of last year’s 73-60 Hoyas victory in Bridgeport.

By Anthony Francavilla November 29, 2007

Features

The Books. The Bar. The Brains.

“I love school. I’m a huge nerd. I love and accept that about myself,” Valerie Sorenson confided across her kitchen table. “I’m not doing this for the grades specifically. Whatever. I just want to know it.”

By admin November 29, 2007

Georgetown unites against HIV/AIDS

As World AIDS Day 2007 approaches, one of the most serious obstacles to combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic is the stigma around it and the various forms that stigma takes around the world. Students at Georgetown University are not exempt.

By Liora Ziv November 29, 2007

Make space, not flyers

I want there to be less flyers on this campus. I dream, ladies and gentlemen, of pushing a door that is a solid, unbroken brown pane. I dream of bare lampposts, of seeing the actual bricks in the Red Square archway. I want blue electrical tape to be used for … whatever it is usually used for, rather than to outline program board events or dinners. I want some space.

By Shira Hecht November 29, 2007

Carrying On

Growing up I believed that there were no parents more conservative about television than my own. I resented the fact that no one else’s parents seemed to frown upon their watching shows like Friends. I can count on one hand the episodes of The Simpsons I saw before college: my parents believe it’s unwholesome.

Then I learned about the Parents Television Council…

By Marco Cerna November 29, 2007

Remembering the T in LGBTQ

This month, Georgetown University Pride is organizing a week of programming themed issues as well as issues of gender norms and expectations. But why is specific programming necessary for these groups when everything that Pride does is meant to apply to the entire LGBTQ community, which clearly includes the ‘T’?

By Jack Harrison November 29, 2007

Editorials

Make Amtrak funding a priority

The federal government should increase Amtrak’s funding in order to give train travel, one of the safest, greenest forms of public transportation, the jolt it need

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2007

Editorials

Improving D.C.’s needle exchange

Five percent of the District’s population has HIV, according to a report released by Washington’s Department of Health, which also found that 13.2 percent of new HIV infections came from injected drugs. With infection rates so high, the city’s lack of support for needle exchange programs is dangerously negligent.

By the Editorial Board November 29, 2007

Editorials

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

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By Cal Lee November 15, 2007

Features

Find Your Place

By 2 a.m., the Blisspop Dance Party had finally fizzled out. Discarded bottles and decorations were strewn across the floor of the 9:30 Club. Weary-eyed concertgoers chatted softly, soaking in the wee hours of Sunday morning as they eyed their watches. Only a few tenacious partiers seemed ready for another round.

By Daniel Cook November 15, 2007

Leisure

A man to man with Girl Talk

Known for mash-ups that combine small parts of many popular songs, Gregg Gillis is a rising star in the world of dance music. He’s also coming to Georgetown Saturday night, and we caught up with him for a quick interview in advance of the show.

By Justin Hunter Scott November 15, 2007

City on a Hill: Don’t drop the flag fee

When Mayor Adrian Fenty announced cabs would switch from the zone system to meters, D.C. residents rejoiced without considering the effect this change would have on taxi drivers. The Washington area’s disregard for taxi drivers was on display again when commuters complained about D.C.’s new $4 flag drop fee. Instead, passengers should recognize that the flag fee is necessary to help taxi drivers transition from the zone system to the meter system.

By Will Sommer November 15, 2007