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Saxa Politica: A final stand

bi-weekly column on campus news and politics

Leisure

Fashion Props volume 2

The Voice takes it to the street to find Georgetown’s finest dressers.

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

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

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

Voices

Tracking down the dream

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

Voices

Turkey and tanning: Thanksgiving in July

My cousins were born and bred in Italy.

Voices

Grades schmades: why the GPA system stinks

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

Voices

The stairway down to heaven

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

Sports

No. 8 Hoyas thwart Hawks’ attempt to snatch game

As could be expected in their season opener, the Georgetown men’s basketball team looked a little rusty. Luckily for the Hoyas, their opponent was Hartford. The Hawks, despite playing above expectations, could not make up for what they lacked in talent in comparison to the No. 8 Hoyas, as Georgetown escaped with the 69-59 win at the Verizon Center.

Sports

FAST BREAK: Georgetown downs Commodores 86-70

As Vanderbilt guard Alex Gordon hit a running jumper with time expiring in the first half, the lead that Georgetown’s men’s basketball team had once stacked to 12 points dwindled to just four. However, the Hoyas survived foul trouble and missing junior guard Tyler Crawford to defeat Vanderbilt 86-70 and avenge their loss to the Commodores at home last year.

Sports

Tigers trounce Hoyas in season opener

The Lady Hoyas 2006-07 season started off on a sour note when, after a late-game tie, the Hoyas fell 64-57 to the Towson Tigers.

Sports

Hoya football future looks bright

As the Georgetown football team came out of halftime last Saturday against Lafayette, Charlie Houghton cut across the middle of the field on a short slant pattern, looked Matt Bassuaner’s pass into his hands and darted down the field eluding Leopard defenders along the way for an 84-yard touchdown reception. For this Canadian-born ball carrier, it was no sweat.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Any time you have a computer helping to determine the national champion, then you should know something’s fishy.

Sports

Big pimpin’, spendin’ cheese

Coming from the West Coast, I have long hated the overblown Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Each of the teams’ 19 regular-season match-ups are analyzed and hyped like each is game seven of the World Series. Meanwhile, the rest of the baseball world is held hostage to this spectacle and largely ignored. Call me crazy or call me jealous. I don’t care.

Features

Ladies First: Female professorship at Georgetown

Long before women donned power suits and took over corner offices across America, the fairer sex was firmly in control of one profession: teaching. Though the image of schoolmarms in high-necked shirts and sensible shoes is long gone, the tradition of women in education remains strong. According to the National Educational Association, only nine percent of elementary school teachers today are male, meaning that women tower over men in this crucial area of education. But the tables turn drastically when it comes to education at the university level, where men overwhelmingly dominate teaching positions.

News

SJP wall divides Red Square


In the early afternoon on Tuesday, students passing through Red Square encountered a towering 20 foot representation of the separation barrier built to separate the West Bank from the rest of the country.

Leisure

Fountain spews chemical brilliance

If you’ve seen either of Darren Aronofsky’s first two movies—1999’s Pi and 2001’s Requiem for a Dream—you should take everything you thought you knew about the man and throw it out the window. The Fountain bears little resemblance to either of those films and is ultimately much better than either of them.

News

D.C.’s crime emergency bill a success

Crimes dropped and arrests rose during the District’s crime emergency, which officially ended on Nov. 3, according to data released by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Leisure

Chinese Elvis meets dominatrix mom

Martha, Josie, and the Chinese Elvis is a great production, not just because of its endearing portrayal of people with problems but because Woolly Mammoth Theatre has made this play into something respectful on many levels.

Leisure

LEDs, toys as art

What happens when you put 19 grandmas and a great-grandma in one room? An industrial-sized tea and scones party?

Leisure

Jay-Z, Kingdom Come

Jay-Z’s coming-out-of-retirement album Kingdom Come features an older, wiser rapping from the secure throne of a music icon. On this album, he has nothing left to prove. He has transcended the shuck and jive of mainstream hip-hop to create an album showcasing more depth and maturity than many typical Jiggaman tracks.

Leisure

Swan Lake, Beast Moans

What happens when the powers of three Canadian indie gods unite? Swan Lake endeavors to test the equation, though the resulting Beast Moans falls short of its superhuman expectations.