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Bracket Racket

Putting from the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Leisure

An ethical reflection of the Holocaust

The collaboration of Georgetown’s theater department and Nomadic Theater, Dr. Korczak and the Children, explores the reality of the Holocaust without resorting to bland melodrama through the use of innovative storytelling techniques and strong acting.

Leisure

_The Voice_ gets past the outer cuteness

Lyricist and vocalist Jof Owens sat down with The Voice before opening for James Blunt at the 9:30 Club on March 13 to discuss Calvin and Hobbes, the darker themes of his music and the importance of remaining a kid at heart.

Leisure

Lez’hur Ledger: Learning from Flava

The sheer ridiculousness of the concept that someone would find Flava attractive initially turned me off from the show, but somehow I found myself watching.

Leisure

Mad fresh, yo!

Steak Out – a biweekly column about food

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.

Voices

The cornfields of Sinaloa

Running far in a far away land

Voices

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.

Voices

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.

Voices

Olympian levels of bad behavior

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

News

GUSA election set to repeat

Assembly pushes constitutional limits in certification vote

News

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.

News

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.

News

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.

News

News Hit

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

News

The negotiator

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

Editorials

GUSA hits reset button on election

On Tuesday night, the GUSA Assembly voted not to certify the results of last month’s presidential election. Instead, the assembly agreed to move towards a new election for the organization’s executives.

Editorials

Tuition hike info needs to be public

The recent decision to increase undergraduate tuition by six percent has sparked student indignation and anger.

Editorials

Minutemen launch an attack on reason

A controversial group opposed to illegal immigration, originally founded in Northern Virginia, crossed over the border this past week to protest government-funded day-laborer centers in Montgomery County, Md.

Leisure

Sugimoto illuminates the District

Containing roughly 120 of Sugimoto’s black-and-white photographs, the retrospective exhibit at the Hirshhorn is a significant, detailed overview of the artist’s career.

Leisure

“The Lights” shines with optimism, humanity

Grey’s image-laden prophesy provides the basis of Theatre SÜndenfall’s latest opus, “The Lights are going out all over Europe: A Danse Macabre,” a play that recounts the crisis of 1914 in Europe that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

Leisure

Drunk pop rock

Georgetown singers and musicians got a chance to strut their stuff in front of a packed crowd at the 31st annual Cabaret concert, held at LuLu’s Mardi Gras Club last Thursday and Friday, to benefit the D.C Schools Project.

Leisure

Heaven on M St.

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Leisure

Mogwai, _Mr. Beast_

Critical Voices