Archive

Living culturally

The American Culture and Politics Living and Learning Community that will debut in fall 2005 bears the mark of Stanford University’s integration of student and faculty life.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Sports

One more and that’s a streak, Hoyas win two straight

After losing the season opener to Temple at the MCI Center last Monday, the Georgetown men’s basketball team rebounded to win its last two games.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Angel Tree project promotes local literacy

This year the Christmases of children living in low income areas of D.C. might be a little brighter thanks to Georgetown’s Angel Tree book drive.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Georgetown AIDS Coalition commemorates World AIDS Day

There are 40 million people worldwide who suffer from HIV/AIDS, and the numbers are on the rise, with five million new infections each year.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Georgetown Ukrainians contemplate election

Over 4,800 miles away from a homeland mired in political crisis, Ukrainian students at Georgetown are awaiting the outcome of a struggle over their country’s leadership that may leave them without a unified nation to go home to.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Voices

Everything’s better in Japanese

I can’t read that sentence because I do not read, speak or understand Japanese.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Voices

A traditional Swedish-Japanese Thanksgiving

Being a Japanese-Swedish combo family means American traditions such as Thanksgiving should be meaningless.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Voices

Carrying On: Pondering mortality over sweet potatoes

The food grew cold as my family stared quietly at one another around the dinner table.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Features

Third Annual Voice Short Story Competition

Grand Prize Winner – “His Angels Close To Hand”

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

$10 Cost of “JFK Reloaded,” the JFK assassination computer game released last week. $32 million Budget of the Warren Commission’s investigation into JFK’s assassination, in today’s dollars. $100,000 Prize offered... Read more

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Gimme Shelter

What would you rather have in downtown Washington, a homeless shelter or a $6.2 million art museum?

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Five dollars too much

The City Museum closed its doors permanently last Monday, but in spite of the museum’s failure to attract attention, its goal was a worthy one in a city that documents the history of our nation but often forgets its own.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

No Student Left Alone

The Department of Education has proposed creating a new system to gather more data on students at colleges and universities. Unfortunately, the threat to student privacy makes this otherwise reasonable proposal untenable.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Leisure Ledger- Till Boredom do us Part

So this is college. We’re young, we’re hot and we’re poised to take over the world.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

You Taste Like a Burger- Fat-Elvis’ Love

I had no choice. By the end of our five fabulous days of Hurricane Isabelle last year, New South’s vending machine was nearly empty.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Street’s Disciple, Nas

Nas has been trying since 1994 to regain the mix of urban grit and brilliant wordplay that made his debut, Illmatic, an instant classic.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

The Futureheads, Futureheads

Once upon a time, circa 1966, there were pop rock bands with a fascinating gimmick: one person would sing and then an entirely different person would sing.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Earnestness not too important after all

It seems ironic that the titular lesson of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has been ignored in the play’s new Arena Stage adaptation.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

Kinsey puts the fun back in sex; Lithgow foiled again

In one of the most outrageously funny scenes in the new movie Kinsey, the professor Alfred Kinsey has a casual conversation with his wife and daughters about the physical nature of sex.

By the Voice Staff December 2, 2004

What can DPS do?

Earlier this week, my roommate noticed several men loitering suspiciously on the corner of T Street in Burleith.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Altruistic attorneys

Former Congressman, lawyer and political activist Fr. Robert Drinan, S.J. told a crowd of about 70 pre-law hopefuls Wednesday to engage in their communities and wage war on injustice.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Keep the flu from you

The University is hedging its bets on beating this winter’s flu through a pack of tissues, four hand sanitizers and an information card on ways to stay healthy.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004