Archive

The stairway down to heaven

I can jump off the 10th stair and land on my feet in my grandpa’s basement.

By Maura Garven November 16, 2006

Grades schmades: why the GPA system stinks

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

By Mike Stewart November 16, 2006

Turkey and tanning: Thanksgiving in July

My cousins were born and bred in Italy.

By Lael Goodman November 16, 2006

Tracking down the dream

It’s hard to know how to start an Op-Ed about streetcar tracks.

By Molly Creeden November 16, 2006

Editorials

Blue congress should end D.C.’s voting blues

No city appears poised to benefit more from the sudden collapse of the GOP’s hold on Congress in last week’s midterm elections than Washington, D.C. Newly empowered Democrats plan to... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 16, 2006

Editorials

MPD: Keep chompin’ on crime

The results are in: the installation of several dozen security cameras, draconian curfews and a drastic increase in the number of hours worked by police officers have reduced violent crime... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 16, 2006

Editorials

Ladies first, please, GU

Georgetown may have gone co-ed in 1969, but our faculty still has more testosterone than an East German swimmer. Less than a quarter of the full professors at Georgetown are... Read more

By the Editorial Board November 16, 2006

Cartoons

Graphic Account: A Comic Strip

By Ben Zeidler November 9, 2006

Cartoons

In Poor Taste: A Weekly Cartoon

By Alexandra Hart November 9, 2006

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By the Voice Staff November 9, 2006

Saxa Politica: Beer ‘n votes

bi-weekly column on campus news and politics

By Anna Bank November 9, 2006

GU’s intelligence dept.

In a move that is bound to bolster the stereotype of Georgetown as the school for the spies of tomorrow, the School of Foreign Service has created a professorship for the current year for the study of intelligence practice.

By Ryan Maye Handy November 9, 2006

Jaw broken outside Lauinger

A Georgetown student suffered a broken jaw in a fight near Village A early Saturday morning. A second victim allegedly sustained lacerations to his back in the same on-campus attack.

By Matt Murtagh November 9, 2006

Study abroad numbers down for spring

There has been a decline in participation in semester abroad programs since the University changed its tuition policy two years ago, according to the Office of International Programs.

By Kent Elliott November 9, 2006

Sugartown: not as sweet as it sounds

The book’s theme is epitomized in the poem, whose namesake is the collection’s title—“Sugartown”: “and it’s nice, what it’s doing/what it’s done too/to that popsicle stick/it’s licking./But what it said earlier,/it hurt,/I can’t remember the words/exactly/but they hurt.”

By Kyle Fitzpatrick November 9, 2006

Chinese triathlon: three dishes, three restaurants, one winner

Branching out can be a tricky step when it comes to trying new delivery places. When it’s Chinese, perhaps the wiliest beast on the fast food delivery circuit, there’s reason to be suspect.

By Michael Keller November 9, 2006

Isis: _In the Absence of Truth_

Ever since heavy metal’s inception at the hands of four young men from Birmingham, that is to say Black Sabbath, the visionaries have pushed the genre’s boundaries. Isis have cemented their place among such visionary artists with the release of their latest album, In the Absence of Truth.

By Tim Smith November 9, 2006

Trail of Dead: So Divided

The Austin-based band brought post-punk to new musical and conceptual depths with their thought-provoking musical and lyrical mosaic Source Tags & Codes. But So Divided suggests that the band’s struggle to find new meaning in these depths has proved futile. The entire journey has left the group unsure of whether to continue searching or resign and conform to everything it used to love to hate.

By Chelsea Paige November 9, 2006

Joanna Newsom: Ys

It is difficult to write a review, in the conventional sense of the word, of Joanna Newsom’s sophomore release, Ys, because it’s unlike any other record you’ll hear this year, this decade, or perhaps even your life. At least until Ms. Newsom releases her third album, that is.

By Justin Hunter Scott November 9, 2006

Schmitt fails in R.I.

Recent Georgetown graduate Patrick Schmitt (SFS ’06) lost his bid for a seat in Rhode Island’s State Senate Tuesday.

By Will Sommer November 9, 2006

Silver reflections of a District long past

Volkmar Wentzel’s camera captures stunning images of Washington: street lights glisten through the fog of late-night D.C. and reflect off the rain-slicked streets, giving familiar sights a mysterious quality.

By Kathleen Simone November 9, 2006

Students going beyond the ballot box

For most Americans, Election Day meant nothing more than hitting the polls and waiting to see who would triumph. But for a small group of politically active students at Georgetown, Election Day was the climax of months spent phone banking, sign-blitzing and getting out the vote for campaigns from Virginia to Maryland and all the way out to Kentucky.

By Sam Sweeney November 9, 2006

GU alum writes, speaks

Author of the novel, “Last of the Red Hot Poppas”, Berry will be on campus Thursday to talk about the current situation in New Orleans after Katrina and reminisce about its past through his new book.

By Sara Carothers November 9, 2006