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Switch Hitting: a weekly take on sports

Four weeks into the season, a lot of things are becoming clear in college football. Notre Dame is finally feeling the pain of being the most overrated program in the nation for the past few years. USC is scary good. Louisville can score a lot, but so can their opponents. Ohio State reloads instead of rebuilding.

By Mike Kuebler September 27, 2007

On the record: Dick Gregory

If you look at the new stats that came out on OD deaths and they break them down, they’re led by white women, white teenagers, and white Southerners. That’s the problem.

By Alison Crowley September 27, 2007

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Lily

“...the accident had claimed his heart and mangled it like the wreck of her silver Mercedes on the side of the road.”

By Evan Regan-Levine September 27, 2007

Men’s soccer strikes back

A Sunday win was the perfect medicine for the ailing Hoya men’s soccer team (2-5-0, 1-2 BE), which snapped a four game losing streak with a 1-0 win against conference foe Louisville (4-3-0, 1-1-0 BE).

By David Dietz September 27, 2007

On the rocks: The tale of one prof. and the Alps

Four in the morning bedtimes are more relevant to most Hoyas than 4 a.m. wake-ups. Such an early rise can be exhilarating, though, granted you have a helmet, headlamp, ropes, crampons, a bag filled with more equipment and a mountain to conquer.

By Chris Leo September 27, 2007

Features

Some Have Forgotten

District revelers on the night of Oct. 22, 1916 must have seen the strange glow emanating from the Georgetown campus. Those closer could plainly see that the source of the glow was in fact a raging inferno, and the audible cries and screams of thousands might have convinced residents that the morning would bring tragic headlines and the smoldering ruins of Healey Hall. But if the bravest had climbed the hill to lend a hand, they would have heard the cries and screams become yells and cheers because the scene through the main gates was anything but tragic.

“The wildest kind of a night was seen at the Hilltop last night. The biggest bonfire Georgetown has ever known was kindled … and at its height was visible for miles into Maryland and Virginia,” the next day’s Washington Times read.

The creators of the growing conflagration were the very same students—some 1,000 strong—who “snake-danced and sang and yelled until the fuel supply vanished and the band lost its breath.”

By Anthony Francavilla September 27, 2007

Practicing humility

When I need to get away, I go to a crypt. No, I don’t frequent tombs for kicks (Save a certain bar on 36th St.). It’s more chapel than crypt, but the solemnity remains the same. It was once the Crypt of the North American Martyrs; today it’s the Copley Chapel. Small as it is, it serves a very special function, for me anyway.

By Tyler Stone September 27, 2007

No justice, no peace in Jena, La.

The much-reported Jena 6 incident serves as a reminder that the fight for civil rights is still a relevant social movement. The case is today’s most notable example of social and racial inequality.

By Jheanelle Brown September 27, 2007

Carrying On

My father hates goodbyes almost as much as he hates paying for parking.

The day of my flight to Georgetown, he pulled into the drop-off lane at the airport and pressed a twenty into my hand. “Well,” he said. “Good luck.”

By Sarah Harman September 27, 2007

No soapbox for Ahmadinejad

Free speech is an important right we have as Americans, and as human beings. When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke on Monday at Columbia University, I hope he learned a few lessons about the value of free speech. I hope he takes those lessons to heart as he returns to a country where his government exercises complete control over the press.

By Or Skolnik September 27, 2007

Editorials

Keep Catholic education alive in D.C.

Turning these schools into charter schools will be an enormous disservice to families who want Catholic faith—or intellectual rigor—to be a part of their kids’ schooling.

By the Editorial Board September 27, 2007

Editorials

A victory for free speech at Columbia

The decision to host Ahmadinejad was remarkable not just because he is, in the words of Columbia President Lee Bollinger, “a petty and cruel dictator,” but because of the widespread criticism it provoked.

By the Editorial Board September 27, 2007

Editorials

Batons are for relay races, not DPS

University President John DeGioia’s plan to arm officers with batons and mace will put both students and officers at risk.

By the Editorial Board September 27, 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 Corrections 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 Letter to the Editor 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 Letter to the Editor 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 Clare Malone and Sam Sweeney September 20, 2007

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 Will Sommer September 20, 2007

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 Sarabeth Boak September 20, 2007

Party anger persists

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

By Jenine Boileau and Tae Jung Choi September 20, 2007

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 Alison Crowley September 20, 2007

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 Juliana Brint September 20, 2007

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 Lynn Kirshbaum September 20, 2007