Archive

Another play about a dysfunctional family

Nothing really happens in The Subject Was Roses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth your time.

By the Voice Staff January 26, 2006

Just a taste of visual art at Georgetown

The new art exhibition in Walsh may not be Georgetown’s biggest art show, but for what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in diversity.

By the Voice Staff January 26, 2006

Features

Why aren’t we mixing?

Take a look at Georgetown’s cafeteria.

By the Voice Staff January 26, 2006

Features

The Color of Hip-Hop?

Examining race in the District’s campus hip-hop dance troupes

A hard hip-hop beat rattles the old speakers in two corners of the black-rubber-floored room. The windows, clouded with steam, drip with condensation as the members of Groove Theory, a primarily black hip-hop dance team at Georgetown University, swagger through heavy columns of hot air. The leader of the group runs back to the stereo to turn up the music as the dancers pop, lock, grind, wop and slide to Missy Elliot’s “Lose Control.”

By the Voice Staff January 26, 2006

Capital access

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national politics

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

The Sports Sermon

Georgetown is not a football school, and with John Thompson III signing top high school recruits, it may stay that way.

By Phil Perry January 19, 2006

Life outside the lines

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Sailor Honored

For the second time in his four years at Georgetown, senior Andrew Campbell was named U.S. Olympic Committee Male Sailing Athlete of the Year for 2005.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Friars go cold, Hoyas take advantage

Women’s basketball coach Terri Williams-Flourney and the Hoyas earned their first conference win of the season last Wednesday, defeating visiting Providence.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Hoyas elude Bulls’ angry charge

In the midst of the toughest part of their schedule, the Georgetown men’s basketball team eked out their third conference win against Big East newcomer South Florida in front of 5,071 fans at the MCI Center Tuesday night.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Diplomacy for democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice discussed the Bush administration’s transformational diplomacy initiative, the U.S. effort to help countries govern themselves democratically, yesterday in Georgetown’s O’Donovan Hall.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

D.C. bans smoking

Georgetown restaurant managers remain unfazed after Mayor Anthony Williams signed the District of Columbia smoking ban earlier this month.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Prison for student protestor

A Georgetown student faces up to six months in federal prison for trespassing on a military base during a November protest in Georgia.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Student wins Dream scholarship

Georgetown student keeps Dr. King’s legacy alive

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Burleith bristles at SafeRides

Local residents express concern over additional shuttles

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Editorials

Always low prices, never responsibility

Last Thursday, the Maryland legislature overrode Governor Robert Ehlrich’s veto and passed a bill requiring Wal-Mart stores to offer affordable insurance to its estimated 17,000 employees, setting a precedent for other states.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Editorials

Residents give red light to SafeRides

The Department of Public Safety took strong action last semester to improve the University’s SafeRides program—but local residents have sought to turn this into yet another needless conflict between the University and the neighborhood.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Editorials

Davis Center fails to play to students

The Royden B. Davis Performing Arts Center opened to great fanfare last semester after $30 million and a delay of several months. Students hoping to finally see their favorite student productions on a larger stage, however, are set for a sore disappointment.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

No dress is an island

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Features

Cat Power, _The Greatest_

Critical Voices

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Tortoise & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, _The Brave and the Bold_

Critical Voices

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

_The Trestle_ is all water under the bridge

After watching the play, the audience might be thankful that this is the first time the two groups have worked together.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006

Wallace’s _Lobster_ traps readers

It would not be an overstatement for me to say that David Foster Wallace is the most important, or at least smartest, writer working today.

By the Voice Staff January 19, 2006