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Welcome to Artest’s world

I have to admit, it was a real toss-up this week, deciding between a column on the exposure of a Columbian soccer team as a front for a drug cartel and Kim Jong Il’s apparent love of basketball. But then I remembered that Ron Artest’s hip-hop album was released this week. Oh, happy day.

Editorials

Channeling Jimmy Hoffa: Unionize

The paucity of University living spaces forces many rising seniors to find off-campus housing in an annual process that increasingly resembles the state of nature: nasty, brutish and short. The... Read more

Editorials

The Corp is searching for a hungry heart

For the first week of freshman year, the fro-yo shines like manna from heaven, the omelette station seems gourmet, and the chicken fingers taste like none you’ve ever nibbled on... Read more

Editorials

‘Cause we don’t want no one minute man

One of the basic tenets of a rational philosophy is that no opinion, no matter how incorrect, should be silenced. An open and rational debate allows the truth to shine... Read more

Leisure

Running with Scissors trips up

With sex, drugs, smutty language and a slew of one-liners, Augusten Burroughs’ memoir Running With Scissors has all the ingredients of a great blockbuster. However, films rarely live up to their literary counterparts, and Nip/Tuck director Ryan Murphy has clearly made some nips and tucks that have left the story dull.

Leisure

Lez’hur Ledger: Snoop Dogg’s grizzeat American novizzle

Awww, shizzle. Snoop Dogg wrote a novel. He’s ready to make an entrance on the literary scene, so back on up.

Leisure

Mask and Bauble give it an Earnest try

Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that consistently resists any attempt to add seriousness or gravity to the production. Mask and Bauble’s lively and entertaining production, running through Sunday, falters when it tries to imbue this terminally frivolous play with pathos and drama.

Leisure

Death Cab: a band with serious Plans

“An album is only a snapshot of where a band is at a particular moment,” Nick Harmer, bassist for Death Cab for Cutie, said in anticipation of the band’s show at DAR Constitution Hall on Monday, Nov. 6. “The next time we make a record, we’ll be in completely different spaces.”

Leisure

Ordering your ‘06 picks

When the gentle rustling of autumn leaves begins to sound like the white noise of radio static, it can only mean one thing—it’s time to start compiling your Best Of 2006 album lists.

Leisure

Ivri Lider: Israeli hero

“I’m what you call a pop star in Israel, and I’m gay and I’m out, so that by definition makes me an activist.”

Leisure

Chatting with Blake Sennett of The Elected

Blake Sennett was basking under the sunny blue skies near Lake Arrowhead, CA, when The Voice caught up with him earlier this month to talk about music, DVDs and cuisine.

Leisure

Borat urges you to touch his “khram”

There are very few movies I would unreservedly recommend before seeing them. Even fewer are so well publicized and eagerly anticipated that they aren’t in need of such recommendations. Borat accomplishes the impressive feat of fitting into both of those categories.

Voices

Time doesn’t heal all wounds

After visiting India and Senegal this past year, the question I got most often was, “What was it like? Was it hard seeing such abject poverty?”

Voices

Biting the hand that feeds us

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

Voices

Single and ready to mingle

“Where do you live?” It’s a question that I am met with daily.

News

Finally: a Sunday bus

Georgetown will offer Sunday bus service to Dupont for the first time next weekend, thanks to the efforts of the Student Association.

News

Gallaudet protesters triumph


Student protesters at Gallaudet University emerged victorious from their two- week-long demonstrations against Jane Fernandes last Sunday when the school’s Board of Trustees issued a statement terminating Fernandes’ position as president-designate.

News

GUSA success

Kevin Wang (COL ‘10), along with 22 fellow students, was voted into the Student Association’s newly created Senate by popular vote on Oct. 27.

News

City on a Hill

bi-weekly column on d.c. news and politics

News

Stadium finances threaten D.C schools


Persisting deadlock in the Council of the District of Columbia over the construction of the new baseball stadium could result in significant financial setbacks for the city and jeopardize much needed improvements to local schools.

News

Students protest ‘Minutemen’ leader


Chris Simcox, the founder and President of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, provoked raucous protests outside his speech in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday night.

News

GW sued by family of murdered student

Online Only—The family of a young man killed in 2005 at a George Washington University party has filed a wrongful death suit against the University and the organization which sponsored the event, the GW Hatchet reported this week.

Features

The grass is always greener

Caitlin Pedati (NHS ’07) said that when she moved into her house on the 3300 block of Prospect St. this summer with five other girls, dead roaches littered the floor and the interior needed cleaning and repainting. “I don’t think the house was safe when we moved in,” Pedati said. “I easily put a grand into cleaning and fixing up things.”

The girls found paper towels under a radiator and cracked or missing tiles on the kitchen and bathroom floors. There were no ground wires for electricity, and none of the fire alarms worked. The only fire extinguisher downstairs was “ancient,” Pedati said. “It’s been an absolutely miserable experience. “