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Saxa Politica: Read this, Frosh

Summer reading isn’t just for sixth graders. Shortly after enrolling, the class of 2010 discovered that they had to read Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin” and write a short paper about the book before seeing Atwood speak in Gaston Hall on Sept. 9th.

By Anna Bank August 31, 2006

Features

State of Alert—D.C.’s Response to the Crime Emergency

Welcome back to Washington, averaging more than a murder per day during the first 11 days of July 2006. Police Chief Charles Ramsey has declared it a “crime emergency.”

The District of Columbia saw 14 homicides between July 1st and 11th, from the murder of John Jackson by automatic weapon fire in Southeast to the stabbing of Alan Senitt on Q street in Georgetown.

By Michael Bruns August 31, 2006

Livin’ in an Amish Paradise

Carrying On: a rotating column by Voice senior staffers

By Noreen Malone August 31, 2006

Notes from the underground

One woman’s descent into the addictive world of internet fandom

By Nicole Bush August 31, 2006

Waking up on Easter Island

On a chilly Easter Island morning, my dad and I cut through the wind toward the sunrise on a bent and broken scooter; he drove, I clung to the jump seat. As the sky filled with gold and faded into blue, I gripped onto my father’s jacket with frozen hands and hunched behind him to avoid the wind.

By Austin Richardson August 31, 2006

The Aussie Animosity

“Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!” The chanting sounded like the din of a sporting event. With Australian flags draped over them, the crowd could have been on its way to a rugby match. But, the shouts continued, “Lebs go home!” they roared.

By Kathryn Brand August 31, 2006

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

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By Perry Collins August 31, 2006

Where are those 30,000 ATMs?

Last year the Georgetown University Alumni & Student Federal Credit Union joined the AllPoint ATM network in response to the results of a customer survey. None of the estimated 30,000 ATMs however, are closer than four blocks from campus. The new ATMs are in various convenience stores and businesses around the country. Any service charge is reimbursed electronically by the network. The nearest to campus are located in Tara Salon & Spa at the bottom of M Street and in Georgetown Auto on Wisconsin Avenue. “It’s kind of the outside perimeter,” Chief Information Officer Cyril Vergis said of the new ATMs. He hopes to eventually have closer machines, such as on M St. and Wisconsin. “We’re trying to work our way into that grid,” he said. GUASFCU charges $.75 for the use of non-member ATMs.

By Michael Bruns August 31, 2006

Editorials

Taking a nibble out of crime

The most recent Georgetown shooting was simply a high-profile example of what the latest statistics bear out: the “crime emergency” measures have been but a flashy Day-Glo band-aid pasted over a gushing wound that requires major surgery.

By the Editorial Board August 24, 2006

Editorials

Chartered flight to nowhere

This month, D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey called on the City Council to place a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools. This proactive effort is a major change in the most extensive charter market in the country, and one that could save the faltering D.C. public school system.

By the Editorial Board August 24, 2006

Editorials

Playing hardball with the cable bill

Peter Angelos and Comcast have teamed up to combine two great American pastimes—baseball and screwing the little guy.

By the Editorial Board August 24, 2006

Carrying On: 23 is the loneliest number

For me, The Moment came in Leo’s. A few weeks after starting at Georgetown, a handful of hallmates and I were at lunch, still getting to know each other. The conversation turned to high schools. The stories of my suburban public school were uninteresting at best, but one guy, the product of an elite northern prep school, said something that stuck with me.

By Mike Stewart August 24, 2006

After hours: some things should stay at the office

My office at the Democratic Party of Georgia is smaller than a Village A bedroom and I share it with three other researchers. I drew the short straw and was stuck with the desk that blocked the doorway into the room. Everyday coworkers have to decide whether to give me the crotch or the ass as they brush the back of my head on their way in and out of the room.

By Ryan Lupton August 24, 2006

Yo’ momma (and yo’ daddy too)

After dropping my oldest brother off at college, my mother proceeded to cry the entire ride home, silently sniffling as she navigated her way through Ohio cornfields in her red Suburban. Ten years later, after emptying the same, slightly beleaguered car, I stood facing my parents on Healy Lawn.

By admin August 24, 2006

Peace in the Middle East?

Israel’s recent war with Hezbollah left the Middle East and the world less safe and derailed a Middle East peace process that had been, for once, looking more hopeful than not.

By Michael Ruthenberg-Marshall August 24, 2006

Hoya football gets new leader in Coach Kelly

Georgetown’s football team is coming into the 2006 season with a new leader and a new attitude. Coach Kevin Kelly will be at the helm with headphones on and clipboard in hand coaching this team towards what he hopes to be their first winning season since joining the Patriot League in 2000.

By Phil Perry August 24, 2006

Coach Wiese ready to kick it around with men’s soccer

Motivated? Check. Loves the university? Check. Winning pedigree? Check. When you’re Georgetown Director of Athletics Bernard Muir, you can’t help but think you have tabbed the perfect man to fill the shoes of the Hoyas’ winningest men’s soccer coach in school history. For the first time in 22 years, a new field general will be roaming the sideline, as Brian Wiese was named the 13th head coach in 52 seasons of men’s soccer on the Hilltop on March 1.

By John Cantalupi August 24, 2006

Women’s soccer ranked 5th in BE

If last Saturday’s exhibition game against William and Mary is any indication of things to come, the Georgetown women’s soccer team can look forward to a strong season. Despite a scoreless tie, junior goalkeeper Jade Higgins believes the shutout is a good sign.

By Kathryn Brand August 24, 2006

The Sports Sermon

Ever wonder what it would be like to be the best at what you do? It has to be a great feeling, a feeling Tiger Woods is extremely familiar with. Woods is not only the best golfer, but the best athlete ever.

By Mike Kuebler August 24, 2006

The other football

Putting from the Rough—a weekly take on sports

By Dante Randazzo August 24, 2006

FAST BREAK

Hoyas ranked 10th by NCSA

By Mike Kuebler August 24, 2006

Thieves raid Wisconsin jeweler

A Georgetown jewelry store was robbed Sunday afternoon in a violent heist that left one of the shop’s owners critically wounded and launched a district-wide search for the trio of suspects..

By Anna Ziajka August 24, 2006

Georgetown in the eyes of the law

The Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission has requested that 13 security cameras be placed at various locations in and around the West Georgetown and Burleith neighborhoods.

By Michael Bruns August 24, 2006