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Standard Affluence Test

This intense preparation, coupled with the general discrepancy in education in the United States, has left a yawning gap between the scores of poorer students, especially blacks and Hispanics, and those of the wealthy. Despite the new revision of the test, not enough is being done to address the inequality in education in our country.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Hungry for compromise

Now, both the Living Wage Coalition and the University administration are slowing down the process towards a viable living wage proposal. It’s time to remember that both groups have reasonable goals and both deserve a reasonable compromise.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Voices

Behind the scenes at Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

The cluttered floor is lined with flavored lubricants in candy-like storage boxes, colored condoms and black t-shirts with pink writing stating, “Be Nice to Sex Workers.”

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Voices

Burning down the house

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Voices

Dear Diary, spring break was awesome

VOICE FICTION

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Death by committee

City on a Hill: A bi-weekly column on D.C. news and politics

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Saddam’s chief of protocol

“It was really the republic of fear. If you whispered, just whispered, something against the regime, you were finished.”

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

PhD in Liberal Studies

Georgetown’s new Doctor of Liberal Studies program, a PhD degree, will accept the first 10 students ever to pursue such a degree in North America beginning in fall 2005.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

OIP Director to leave Georgetown for CIEE

After spending the past four years at Georgetown as the Director of International Programs and leading a multi-university research project to measure the effects of study abroad on students, Dr. Michael Vande Berg will leave Georgetown in April.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Contracted workers speak at Living Wage rally

The Living Wage Coalition united 24 student organizations in a rally in Red Square yesterday to express support for the effort to raise the “poverty-level” wages of subcontracted workers.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Laura Bush Headlines UNESCO Conference

“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

GU to sell ramshackle Wormley School

Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Features

A Message from the Workers

Four Georgetown employees share their individual need for a living wage and charge the university with irresponsibility.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Tourney Update

The four-game losing streak has been nothing short of a death sentence for the Hoyas.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

The Sports Sermon

Temple Head Coach John Chaney proved why he is still and always will be a hall of fame coach.

By Brandon Sloane March 3, 2005

Zip it, or I’ll break your hip

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Viewpoint: Rice still hot, not fried

What is next for Jerry Rice? After being released from the Seattle Seahawks earlier this week, that has become a question to which no one, Rice included, knows the answer.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Hoyas continue late-season slide at UConn, 83-64

The men’s basketball team continued their late-season slide Wednesday night, losing their fourth consecutive game to No.16 Connecticut .

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Direct Quote

“Wisdom and Guidance Edition”

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005