Archive

The negotiator

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national news and politics

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

News Hit

Hip-hop is about to invade one of America’s most traditional institutions: the Smithsonian.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Georgetown’s black heritage

Tuesday evening, Carroll Gibbs, lecturer and author of Black Georgetown Remembered, took a retrospective look at the Georgetown community’s black heritage.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Legal challenges in the Big Easy

A group of Georgetown Law Center students will travel to the Big Easy next week to provide legal support and clean-up aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Wages and unions: Living Wage revival

Georgetown officials met with the Living Wage Coalition Wednesday and announced they are not blocking subcontracted workers’ rights to unionize. The decision lifts a perceived hurdle to the organization of labor at Georgetown.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

GUSA election set to repeat

Assembly pushes constitutional limits in certification vote

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Olympian levels of bad behavior

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Suitcase schlep

Don’t believe a word of it. Studying abroad is not about cultural experience, learning a new language or seeing the world. Studying abroad is about two suitcases.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

The road more travelled

I wanted to be nine again. I wanted to be at Beth’s house in New Jersey, before she moved to Florida, talking about how her older sister burnt her hair with a curling iron.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

The cornfields of Sinaloa

Running far in a far away land

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

Features

Getting the message across

Being deaf won’t stop her

MJ Muller-Chillier was diagnosed as hard-of-hearing at the age of three, and her hearing capacity has since decreased almost totally. Nevertheless, she is now an independent and worldly 23-year-old in her junior year at Gallaudet University, in the District of Columbia. She is also the first Gallaudet student in at least 10 years to take a foreign language class through the D.C. Consortium, and she has opted to do it at Georgetown.

By the Voice Staff March 2, 2006

By any means

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

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

Paolo’s Crispy Top

A Saturday night fire at the offices of Capital Restaurant Concepts has not hampered the business of Paolo’s Ristorante, Chris Perilli, the manager of the Italian restaurant located on the corner of Wisconsin Ave and N St. said.

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

The Science Building: Exciting

University officials are solidifying plans to build a new Science Center by 2011, in spite of concerns that the planning has been hampered by fundraising issues and administrative foot-dragging.

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

Alum for Senate

A Georgetown Law Center graduate and Navy Secretary in the Reagan administration announced this month he will run for the Virginia U.S. Senate seat as a Democrat in November’s congressional elections.

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

Rolling on vegetable oil and sunshine

Outdoor adventure group tours in eco-friendly bus

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

Twisting to victory

With campaigning over and voting underway last Thursday, the GUSA executive candidates spent the day waiting to see the results of two weeks of hard work. Three days later, presidential candidate Khalil Hibri and his running mate, vice-presidential candidate Geoff Greene, were disqualified despite gaining the most votes.

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

Hi, Ricky Williams

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006

The Sports Sermon

The world of sports talk has officially gotten out of control. Whether it is TV, radio, chat rooms or internet blogs, you are guaranteed to find someone somewhere rambling about subjects from the size of Barry Bonds’ head to Freddy Adu’s birth certificate.

By Phil Perry February 23, 2006

Wildcats scratch out two wins, take weekend series 2 of 3

The Georgetown baseball team grabbed its first win of the 2006 campaign, taking one of three games from the Davidson Wildcats.

By the Voice Staff February 23, 2006