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GU officer loses as delegate

Georgetown graduate and former University employee Earnest W. Porta Jr. (SFS ‘86) ran and lost in Virginia’s House of Delegates elections Tuesday.

News

GU sponsors meditation conference

Med Center hosts discussion of spirituality and medicine

News

Students petition to re-open Darnall

After half a semester with only one dining hall on campus, students have had enough.

News

Rosa Parks honored

Georgetown honored deceased civil rights activist Rosa Parks with a memorial service Monday night.

News

Rangila rush

Waiting in line for an hour or more may no longer be the norm when buying tickets for Rangila.

News

Who’s got issues?

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

Features

Notes from the Underground

24 Hours in the tunnels

The first thing you notice is the hissing. As you step through the yawning metal door marked “Do Not Enter” into the network of heating maintenance tunnels beneath the center of campus, the steam pipes all around you emit a high, insistent whine punctuated by the occasional blast from a half-open valve. The path ahead stretches off into close, humid darkness on one side and the incandescent glare of naked light bulbs along a long, narrow corridor on the other. The passages are just barely wide enough for one person to walk through at a time, and they stretch onwards until the other end is little more than a smear of glowing color and shadow.

Leisure

Burt Bacharach gets down & dirty

Burt Bacharach talks with Voice Leisure Editor Chris Norton about his new album At This Time, the first political album of his career.

Leisure

_Shopgirl_ beats out the chick flick crowd

The old truism that the movie is never as good as the book proves happily untrue in the case of Shopgirl. The movie captures the tender, heartfelt nature that made Steve Martin’s novella a best-seller.

Leisure

Remain in “Light”

Sean Scully’s paintings, on display at The Phillips Collection, are based on a trip he made to Mexico some 20 years ago and the sumptuous shades of the Mayan ruins he encountered there.

Leisure

DJ Muggs and GZA, _Grandmasters_

Hip-hop vets GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill have teamed up in the strongest display of coastal unity since DJ Muggs dropped Soul Assassins in 1997.

Leisure

Akron/Family and Angels of Light, _Akron/Family and Angels of Light_

The year 2005 will go down as the year of the obscure folk-band collaboration.

Leisure

Halloween blues

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Sports

Hoyas drop regular season finale, begin conference tourney

The Georgetown University men’s soccer team finished the regular season on a disappointing note Saturday, getting shutout in a tough loss to No. 7 Connecticut.

Sports

Georgetown women end record-setting season

The Georgetown women’s soccer team’s season came to an end on Sunday after a loss to Notre Dame in the second round of the Big East Championship.

Sports

XC flys through Bronx

The Georgetown cross country team has been tearing up the turf this fall.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

I do ‘roids. Who doesn’t like sticking a needle in their butt?

Sports

Final fantasy

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

Voices

If GUSA streaked, would it be hot?

Replacing student government with something more meaningful

Voices

A Grateful Gourmand

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

What do you drive?

We called it the Bulldozer. A 2000-pound gas-slurping, tar-squashing, gravel-flinging workhouse for 15 straight years. As long as no one stole the battery.

Features

All in the Family

Georgetown extends family health coverage

Do a woman and her domestic partner constitute a family? Most liberal Americans would probably say they do. But what about a woman who lives with and takes care of her elderly mother? What about a brother who lives with his sister and helps raise her children?

These situations might be more complicated, but as of January 1, 2006, they too will be eligible for family health care coverage at Georgetown University. Under a new policy just approved by the President’s Executive Committee, Georgetown University employees can purchase a family health insurance policy that covers their domestic partner or adult tax dependent, as defined by federal tax law.

The policy marks a drastic change from that of previous years, which restricted benefits to “your legal spouse of opposite gender and your dependent children,” according to a Georgetown Human Resources web site. The new policy is gender-neutral and no longer requires that a family involve a marriage.

Many might be surprised to see this kind of policy at a Catholic university, in a time when the Catholic Church has been associated with the strong bolstering of traditional marriage and the persecution of homosexuals.

Voices

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: Although disappointed by the inaccuracies in the editorial “Tending to the Flock,” I must in charity believe that they are not intentional. I applaud The Voice’s concern... Read more

Editorials

Promote science on campus

It is difficult to dispute Georgetown’s relative inadequacy in terms of science facilities.

Editorials

A real American hero

In honoring Rosa Parks in The Capitol Rotunda, we as a nation have taken one more step towards an ideal we must never tire of pursuing.