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A new voice in college rankings

Imagine if college students across the nation had the ability to decide your college team’s position in the ranks each week. This became possible last week when two students launched www.studentwriterpoll.com, a ranking system similar to the AP writers’ and Coaches’ polls, that will survey college students to determine NCAA rankings.

By March 22, 2007

Cartoons

In Poor Taste

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

You Taste Like A Burger: Red Ginger

Red Ginger is unusually quiet for a Wisconsin Avenue restaurant, but don’t let the empty tables fool you: this Caribbean eatery is everything you could want in a restaurant, and then some.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

Album number seven from Andrew Bird finds the midwestern singer-songwriter returning to many of the elements that made his last few albums beloved by his fans. It makes for a good album, and while Armchair Apocrypha can’t quite match 2005’s excellent Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs, it nonetheless stands as another remarkable entry in an increasingly varied and impressive oeuvre.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

Low never used to be a surprising band. These pioneers of the minimalist, glacially-paced subset of indie rock called slowcore made a name for themselves, beginning with their early ‘90s debut, by doing exactly what everyone expected: producing album after album of quietly gorgeous songs stealing plays from the Velvet Underground.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Maya Roth’s Big Love is a lot to love

Big Love just isn’t big enough to conquer all the staples of a social drama—free will, “love thy neighbor” and unrelenting feminism are just a few issues tackled in this revival of an ancient classic. Nevertheless, the performances are captivating, and the script is tinged with enough humor and cynicism to redeem the occasional dragging monologue.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Getting politcal with Ted Leo

New Jersey native Ted Leo isn’t your typical semi-knowledgeable, politically-charged artist. He’s a punk rocker, yes, but he also earned an English degree at the University of Notre Dame. In his recent interview with the Voice via e-mail, Ted discussed in depth the political themes that run through his latest release, Living with the Living, demonstrating a mastery of syntax seldom seen in the world of indie rock.

By March 15, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Gallaudet article misleading

Your article about Gallaudet University is misleading the public when it says that “Gallaudet University is still suffering from the long-term effects of last fall’s student strike.”

By March 15, 2007

Page 13 Cartoons

Giving Up Jesus for Lent

“I wanted him to come back,” she said, the sleeve of her striped pink blouse sagging to expose the protruding, wing-like bone of her shoulder blade. Sloshing the water around in her glass, she whispered, “I need to get this water out of my veins.”

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Black and white and pop all over

Beach Boy Brian Wilson once claimed he was making “teenage symphonies to God.” Wilson knew, perhaps better than any musician of his time, that a great pop song can be deeply spiritual, each melody crafted as an offering to some unknown musical deity.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Events calendar: get your spring on

What’s on when

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Goes Down Easy

Black and Tan

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices

Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

Gray Matters? More like gay matters

Gray Matters is like its star, Heather Graham—bubbly, nice to look at, but a bit lacking in depth and substance. It’s the story of a young single professional in Manhattan, named Gray, only in this hackneyed plot the twist is that Gray falls for her brother’s girl.

By March 15, 2007

Leisure

The best German film since Run Lola Run

The opening scene of The Lives of Others is austere and deadpan, an appropriate introduction to a film set in communist East Berlin. In a sterile classroom, secret police lieutenant Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) instructs students in the merciless process of interrogation, emphasizing that only the guilty shed tears.

By March 15, 2007

News

Saxa Politica: University must let DPS keep campus safe

When a Department of Public Safety officer was knocked unconscious in a fight last September, Georgetown students were reminded that DPS does more than just check IDs in Lauinger and bust parties. Now that the University’s contract with DPS is being renegotiated, though, it seems like the administration takes DPS for granted.

By March 15, 2007

Features

Meet Joe Hoya

“What are you going to call the story? How about, ‘Who is Fritz Brogan?’ People on campus sometimes wonder who I am—I look like I’m 40.”

Francis ‘Fritz’ Brogan III (CAS ’07) does not look 40. He looks a youthful 30. Brogan is 22, but has an older face and thinning hair, but before you notice Fritz’s age, you register how big Fritz is—6 feet 6 inches, 275 pounds, a looming figure. And as you’re noticing how big he is, his hand—adorned with a half-dollar sized monogram ring—is engulfing yours in a strangely loose shake, gripping, grinning and greeting.

By March 15, 2007

News

Lights out in ICC

The University embarked on a $116,000 project last week to install occupancy sensors in classrooms and conference rooms in buildings across the Georgetown campus.

By March 15, 2007

News

300 MBA applicants accidentally waitlisted

Applying to graduate school became even more stressful for over 300 applicants to the McDonough School of Business’s MBA program last Thursday when an incorrect e-mail told them they were waitlisted.

By March 15, 2007

News

DPS prep follows campus assaults

A number of recent assaults on campus, including an incident in Henle Village over spring break, have caused the University’s public safety officials to take steps to improve security.

By March 15, 2007

News

Library makeover

A $3.3 million redesign and restoration of the Georgetown Neighborhood Library on the corner of Wisconsin Ave and R St. began yesterday.

By March 15, 2007

News

Nobel Peace Prize winner in Gaston

2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed Yunus called for more socially-responsible businesses yesterday in Gaston Hall.

By March 15, 2007

Editorials

Adios, Mr. Gonzalez

In early December, seven United States Attorneys were dismissed from their jobs.

By the March 15, 2007

Editorials

Don’t shoot down District’s gun ban

In 1976, the District of Columbia passed one of the nation’s strictest gun laws, prohibiting handguns and severely restricting rifles and shotguns.

By the March 15, 2007