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Voices

Southern-style Trucker Christianity

My brother once told me that there are only three types of people who ride Amtrak trains to North Carolina: indigent college kids like me, Southern psychos and convicts.

Voices

Publicly resenting the past

For just under 10 minutes, I had read aloud an inflammatory valedictory address that berated my high school in front of a gathering of hundreds, with a line of administrators staring at my back.

Voices

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes all mistakes seriously. We correct all errors of substance in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. The article entitled “Welcome to the Lunch Bunch” (Voices, March 17, 2005) should have been identified as fiction.

News

Awarded or ignored

Georgetown honored this year’s recipients of the 2005 Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting John Burns and Seymour Hersh at a ceremony Tuesday in the ICC Auditorium.

News

GU remembers Pope

In honor of the April 2 death of Pope John Paul II, Georgetown University held a memorial Mass yesterday in Gaston Hall.

News

Mind the GAAP

Saxa Politica – Bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news and politics

News

Arabic Department: supply falls short of demand

As interest in field increases, department funds can’t keep up

News

Bomb threat proves false alarm

The phone call that forced 700 students out of their beds in the early hours of the morning last Sunday turned out to be a mere false alarm.

News

Ukrainian Pres. speaks to cost of freedom

Yushchenko addresses GU in hopes that partnership will flourish

News

Wait listee stakes a claim on Copley Lawn

High school senior, University differ on how to get in the game

Editorials

By the Numbers

1,000,000 Number of mourners viewing the Pope’s body in Rome. 3 Number of U.S. Presidents viewing the Pope’s body in Rome. 1 Number of Popes known by Georgetown undergraduates during... Read more

Editorials

Direct Quote

“Justifiable Homicide Edition”

Editorials

Where will all the hot librarians go?

The lights are going off earlier and earlier in America’s public libraries these days.

Editorials

This Arabic Department isn’t funded by Qatar

Though it looks like Georgetown will soon be setting up shop in the Middle East, the University is not making new progress on the home campus in the Arabic Department.

Editorials

Georgetown of Arabia

With the proposed expansion of Georgetown to a campus in Doha, Qatar’s Education City, the University seems to be making a sound choice.

Features

Founding McGeorgetown

Franchising the University Experience Welcome to Education City – A Georgetown Campus in Qatar

Leisure

Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Aesop Rock

In anticipation of his show Tuesday, April 12 at the 9:30 Club, Voice Leisure called Ian Bavitz up in New York to talk about the stress of a rap career, the pains of transcribing and his feelings on touring.

Leisure

Manzana Lift

You Taste Like A Burger – a rotating column about eating leisurely

Leisure

Fiery Furnaces less frightening than name suggests

In anticipation of their show this Friday at the 9:30 Club, Voice Leisure called up Matthew in Brooklyn and talked about his favorite music, touring and the difficulties of recording an album with your grandmother.

Leisure

Spot-on performances make for a deadly Assassins

Just as every hero has his villain, politicians have their assassins.

Leisure

Sin City: a bucket-full of blood-soaked fun

I was never much of a comic book reader as a kid. But after years of watching friends read violent and dark comics, I decided to give them a chance, and I fell in love.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

I’m tired of writing the s-word and you’re all tired of reading about the s-word.

Sports

Diaper Dandies

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

Sports

Baseball follows 13-inning heartbreak with rout of Coppin State

The Georgetown men’s baseball team took out all their frustration in a 16-2 shellacking of Coppin State.

Sports

Georgetown rugby advances to National Elite Eight

The Georgetown club rugby team earned their first trip to the National Elite Eight this weekend with a victory over Salisbury State in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Finals.