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“Social Insecurity Edition”

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

By the Numbers

23/64 Fraction of teams in the Men’s NCAA Basketball tournament that cannot graduate 50 percent of their players. 6/64 Fraction of teams in the Women’s NCAA Basketball tournament that cannot... Read more

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Global Hegemony: The Battle for World Domination

The Bracket

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

The Decemberists, Picaresque

Critical Voices

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

The Kills, No Wow

Critical Voices

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Cake column

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

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Surviving Iraq in Gunner Palace

In September 2003, director Mike Tucker and his co-director and wife Petra Epperlein moved into the bombed-out former “love shack” of Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday Hussein, to document the lives of the soldiers involved in the Iraqi conflict.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

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