Archive

Georgetown students STAND for Darfur

As 1.4 million Darfurian refugees have been terrorized and driven from their homes, a group of Georgetown students has made it its purpose to publicize the atrocities in Sudan to the Georgetown community.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

What is a Liberal?

What exactly is a “liberal”?

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Bow wow… letters from the dog park

Yesterday the biggest dog in the neighborhood, a six-year-old Great Dane named Salisbury, tried to mount my friend’s Jack Russell pup.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Congratulations, You’re an Asshole

“He’s an asshole… You’re so much better than him.” Almost every woman has heard it once.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Thanksgiving debunked

Like many Americans, you’re probably looking forward to the government-sanctioned gluttony fest known as Thanksgiving.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Features

The making of Boxers and Ballerinas

Georgetown graduates Brit Marling and Mike Cahill directed Boxers & Ballerinas, a documentary about Cuban youth in both Cuba and Miami. Along with the film’s producer, Nick Shumaker, also a Georgetown alum, they gambled on an evolving idea that took them, over the course of two years, to a marketable, full-length documentary.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

The Sports Sermon

In this week’s edition of ESPN’s The Magazine, former Ohio State running back, Maurice Clarett, speaks about the rampant NCAA abuses that led to his suspension this year.

By Brandon Sloane November 18, 2004

Hoyas robbed in OT by Pirates in Big East Semifinals

After making it to the brink of its first Big East finals appearance since 1999, the Georgetown men’s soccer team fell just short against No. 18 Seton Hall on Friday evening, dropping a heartbreaking 1-0 overtime contest.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Voice Obituaries

It seems appropriate that Voice Leisure do our part to properly memorialize the recently deceased.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Early Christmas

Walking down M Street with a friend on Sunday afternoon on my way to Barnes & Noble, I found myself with an extra spring in my step, a nicer demeanor towards strangers and a particular attention to small children and dogs of all shapes and sizes.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

There’s more shakin’ with the South Asians

Every year since its inception nine years ago, Rangila has sold out Gaston Hall. Is the show worth the hype?

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Sideways: divorce, depression and pinot noir

What do I have in common with a middle-aged balding man from California?

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

What in Tarnation could be more depressing?

Jonathan Caouette’s debut film Tarnation, acclaimed for being the first film made entirely with Apple computer program iMovie, details Caouette’s troubling upbringing and the continuous decline of his small-town Texas family.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Behind the scenes with Bill Shapland

In 1973, Georgetown looked nothing like it does today.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Will there be a second Thompson dynasty?

Upon his arrival Thompson immediately sought to create an environment that would signal how different 2004 would be.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

By the numbers and Direct quote

90 Number of American casualties in Iraq in the first 17 days of November. 5.53 Average number of soldiers killed per day in November. 1211 Number of American soldiers killed... Read more

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

The Funny Third – You’ve got the fever, we’ve got the cure

This week a star-studded coalition of health-related campus organizations surprised the University by coming out with a strong anti-Influenza policy.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Red light special

A bill to extend the expiration date of cameras on red lights in several Northern Virginia communities was rejected on Monday by the Virginia House of Delegates.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Home improvement

For sophomores and juniors who plan to live on-campus next year, the wait to choose their housing is over.

By the Voice Staff November 18, 2004

Features

Feelin’ Blue featuring Deborah Tannen, Mark Lance, Dan Porterfield and others

A week after the re-election of George W. Bush, members of the Georgetown community are feeling as blue as ever. Professors and students tackle the questions of what went wrong and what should happen in the future.

By the Voice Staff November 11, 2004

Obsessed no longer

Twenty-two years after he was committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast D.C., John Hinckley Jr. wants a little freedom.

By the Voice Staff November 11, 2004

Dirty no longer

Georgetown students, faculty and staff gathered outside the newly finished lobby of New South to rededicate the residence hall on Monday.

By the Voice Staff November 11, 2004

GU runs dry

A break in a water main affected every building on the Georgetown campus and severely limited water service to the Georgetown area Monday, according to Georgetown University Director of Media Relations Laura Cavender.

By the Voice Staff November 11, 2004