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Administration weighs keg ban

The Student Association will release a position paper on their web site today arguing against the on-campus keg ban proposed by the Disciplinary Review Committee.

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NEWS HITS: Students feel safer, survey finds; Victoria’s little labor secret

Students feel safer-Victoria’s little labor secret

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Faux names

City on a Hill: bi-weekly column on campus news and politics

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Karzai cheered in Gaston

With his measured speech and good humor, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan received a very warm welcome of two standing ovations from the Georgetown community on Monday.

Editorials

Trojan breaks (news about sexual health)

Sex happens—even at Georgetown, contrary to what the University’s glaring lack of sexual health services might lead you to to believe.

Editorials

University must let kegs stand

All things considered, it appears the Disciplinary Review Committee may have been drinking heavily when it recommended that the University place a campus-wide ban on kegs.

Editorials

Keep holidays exam-free

If you were a Jew who had a test scheduled last Friday, what could you do? What if you are a Muslim with a midterm on the first night of Ramadan?

News

D.C. vote at last?

City on a Hill: a bi-weekly column on D.C. news and politics

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Noted feminist doctor dies

Dr. Estelle Ramey, professor of endocrinology at Georgetown University Medical Center and famous critic of medically based sexism, died Sept. 8 as a result of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 89.

News

PSM Conference attendee sues Jack DeGioia

An Orthodox Jewish man has filed an $8 million lawsuit against Georgetown University, claiming he was injured while attending the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s national conference held here last year, the Canada Free Press reported.

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After Fairtrade abuses, Corp remains committed to its beans


Fairtrade Foundation coffee, the brand that approves the “ethically sound” coffee used in the Students for Georgetown Inc. coffee shops, recently fell short of its humanitarian standards in an impromptu inspection of one of its Peruvian coffee farms.

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Tense dialogue over Lebanon


ONLINE ONLY—There was no shortage of tension in the ICC Auditorium last Tuesday as the National Director of Muslim Public Affairs and a Georgetown professor of Government and International Affairs squared off in a discussion over the summer’s war in Lebanon.

News

M St. stitches

The Reiss rumble was not the only violent crime in Georgetown this weekend. A Georgetown University student was brought to the hospital after an altercation with a man who jumped out of his car near the intersection of M. and Bank Streets around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

News

Barack Obama welcomed in Gaston


Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made an impassioned bid for clean energy in front of an overwhelmingly supportive audience in Gaston Hall yesterday.

News

Alumni Square Assault


An altercation at the Grog & Tankard tavern on Wisconsin Ave. ended in an attack on a Georgetown student in his Alumni Square apartment Friday.

News

Wave of violence strikes the Hilltop

Metropolitan Police Department officers were called in early Sunday morning to help quell a violent confrontation in front of the Reiss Science building. Three Department of Public Safety officers and four Georgetown students suffered injuries.

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Leisure

Pipettes deliver girl-powered pop

The trio, while almost excessively retro, is not to be taken lightly as their debut album, We Are the Pipettes will most likely end up as this year’s finest straight-up pop record.

Leisure

Shining light on Sunset Rubdown

In anticipation of Sunset Rubdown’s concert at D.C.’s Black Cat on Wednesday, Sept. 27th, The Voice caught up with the group’s accordionist and backup vocalist Camilla Ingr to discuss hype, baking, and ostrich feeding.

Leisure

Pointillist perfection and scandalous photos

Rows of thousands of miniscule cells fill each of the monochromatic canvases, resembling a microscope slide of some gaudy specimen.

Leisure

Frankenstein stumbles

While Frankenstein shines in its technical achievements, it fails in its presentation of the story. Synetic is great with images and movement, but in this setting it seems that they are unable to turn the story into anything more than a quick anecdote.

Leisure

Sleep just a disjointed series of dreams

The film is, ultimately, a case of the parts exceeding the sum of the whole.

Features

Raised on Soccer—Three siblings show their skills in the U.S. and across the pond

Two young soccer players stand at midfield set to kick off another match. One has his foot resting on the ball and the other stretches out while they await the sound of the referee’s whistle. Fast forward a little more than a decade. One of the young boys is now a senior co-captain of the Georgetown University soccer team, while the other is a member of the U.S. National Team and plays for Reading FC of the English Premier League, one of the top soccer leagues in the world. Those two young boys are much more than teammates, though. They are brothers.

Editorials

The Funny Third: Hooray for alcohol

Arriving at Georgetown as a freshman is incredibly hectic. That’s why you should drink as much as possible. After all, what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. And if... Read more