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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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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?

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

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.

By November 16, 2006

Leisure

Queen Newsom arrives

As a youngster I was a LEGO fanatic. Nary a moment went by when I wasn’t constructing a cowboy fort or an underwater sea lab out of those miniscule building blocks. As time went on, however, I learned that my passion for LEGOs—and many other childhood pastimes—had waned. I had simply outgrown them. The same phenomenon can and does happen with musical artists and their respective genres.

By November 16, 2006

News

Professor remembers Gates as Hoya

Another Hoya alumni will be taking a place in the ranks of government when Robert Gates is confirmed by the Senate as the new Secretary of Defense for the Bush Administration.

By November 16, 2006

News

Speaker alleges pro-Israel bias


Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict came under attack by a pro-Palestinian speaker at a University event Wednesday.

By November 16, 2006

News

NEWS HITS

Dulles Metro; To D.C. on foot

By November 16, 2006

News

City on a Hill

bi-weekly column on D.C. politics

By November 16, 2006

News

Runaway car kills two, decimates townhouse in Shaw

A large tarp now covers half of a historic townhouse at the corner of Florida Ave. and Sixth St. near Howard University.

By November 16, 2006

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By the November 16, 2006

Cartoons

Graphic Account: A Comic Strip

By November 16, 2006

Cartoons

In Poor Taste: A Weekly Cartoon

By November 16, 2006

Voices

Me write pretty one day

It is unfortunate that the Writing Center has developed such a pejorative reputation and we admit that a majority of the misconceptions about the Writing Center are attributable to our failure to explain who we are and what we’re all about.

By November 9, 2006

Voices

Running on nothing but fumes

For the last eight days of September and the first 29 days of October I smoked like a fiend. A chimney, if you will. I probably went through three packs a week, perhaps more. If I became frustrated with myself and threw my cigarettes away, I would only discover 18 hours later that I was desperately in need of a dry, rolled-up leaf, laced with toxins, producing a rich and foul-smelling smoke whose calm effluvience so artfully destroyed my lungs.

By November 9, 2006

Voices

Crossing Over: adventures at the Syrian border

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

By November 9, 2006

Editorials

DCRA versus fools on the hill

In last week’s issue, The Voice called on students to come together in a union and force landlords near the University to provide something that should be a given: safe... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Editorials

You say you want a revolution

In 1994, Republicans swept into majority status in the House and the Senate largely on the strength of their ideas. The Contract with America was a detailed and comprehensive plan... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Editorials

Gym class: we can work it out

In the Jesuit educational tradition, Georgetown University makes a commitment to the development of the entire person—mind, body and spirit. This seems clear to anyone who has been to Yates... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Sports

How sweet it is: another homecoming win for GU

For a group of seniors that seemed like they couldn’t catch a break all season, they sure picked a good time to reverse their fortune. For the second straight year, Georgetown’s football team rallied in the final minutes to secure a victory on Homecoming.

By November 9, 2006