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College students volunteer more

College students are volunteering more than ever before, according to a new study, “College Students Helping America” released this month by the Corporation for National & Community Service. Volunteering and community service at Georgetown are part of this trend.

By Michael Bruns October 26, 2006

The Voice goes on a date with the dietitian

A new face in Leo’s is living behind the fro-yo machine. In an unassuming office ironically close to the tempting dessert section, you can now find Georgianne Belknap, R.D., L.D., Georgetown University’s Dietitian.

By Michael Keller October 26, 2006

Wrens land at Bulldog

The only thing better than an afternoon concert is a free afternoon concert. Indie rock aviators the Wrens are set to play at Georgetown’s Bulldog Alley this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. before heading down to the Black Cat to play a show at a more conventional time—9:30 p.m.

By Daniel Cook October 26, 2006

Circular revolutions with line-breaks

Mark Z. Danielewski’s highly anticipated “Only Revolutions” shocked his loyal readership when it hit shelves. Three hundred and sixty pages of bright text with jagged linebreaks and sentence fragments make for dazzling if intimidating read.

By Bradley Gorski October 26, 2006

Decemberists: a major label band with an indie mindset

When The Decemberists announced that they would release their fourth full-length album with mega-label Capitol Records, indie music-loving eyebrows around the world shot up in surprise. Visions of peeling back the cellophane packaging on The Crane Wife only to find a pepped-up, TRL version of the band mingled with self-righteous cries of “sell-out” from high school cafeterias around the nation. Yet a month after the release of The Crane Wife, it would seem that those people can safely shut up.

By Sarah Harman October 26, 2006

A Presidential assassination of the future

On October 19, 2007, President George Walker Bush was assassinated on his way out of a conference in downtown Chicago.

By Lauren Gaskill October 26, 2006

Sordid Lives gets naked

Three half naked cowboys in boxers take the stage in a small black room with a low ceiling with two pissed off, outrageously dressed southern women holding a shot gun and a revolver. A loud BANG follows and one of the lights goes out. “I said DANCE!” Sound like the next Quentin Tarantino film?

By Anna Hunter October 26, 2006

Tapes ‘n Tapes Interview

It’s hard to take Tapes ‘n Tapes seriously. They may seem like the latest ‘bloggers’-choice,’ over-hyped band of the moment, but where’s the drama, the attitude, the extraneous noise pollution? It doesn’t make sense—can this really be an indie band?

By Andy Martell October 26, 2006

M.S. reporter

With the hope of improving reporters’ often muddled understanding of legal principles, the Georgetown University Law Center has created a new one-year master’s degree program for working journalists.

By Chris Stanton October 26, 2006

GU John Doe

Social workers at Georgetown University Hospital are still working to determine the identity of a head trauma patient who has been at the hospital since March 25.

By Anna Bank October 26, 2006

Course links Hoyas to Middle East

As the first rays of autumn sunlight stream through the windows of Lauinger Library at 7:00 a.m., it is early afternoon in Cairo, and while Jenny Weingarten (SFS ‘08) is wiping the sleep from her eyes, she is discussing American-Arab relations face-to-face with a student from the American University in Cairo.

By Michael Bruns October 26, 2006

Wildes under fire in Big Easy

Father Kevin Wildes, a former Georgetown bioethics professor and current president of Loyola University New Orleans, received a vote of no confidence from Loyola’s College of Humanities and Natural Sciences.

By Will Sommer October 26, 2006

Examining the ills of North Korea

Usually, I wouldn’t be excited to watch the TV screens while tearing away at one of the cardio machines in Yates at seven in the morning.

By Dayea Diana Park October 26, 2006

I’m so lonely. Please talk back…please

Carrying On: a rotating column by Voice senior staffers.

By Mike Stewart October 26, 2006

Fall into food: we’re bringing comfort back

There is no greater or more constant pleasure than in an apple.

By admin October 26, 2006