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For Those About to ROCK, We Salute You

Musicians prepare to go on stage to benefit D.C. Schools after weeks of intense preparation.

News

4,000 applications received for early action spots

Georgetown undergraduate early admissions have recovered from last year’s temporary decline in applications, according to statistics released by University admissions officials earlier this month.

News

Study abroad in Israel reinstated

The threat of instability in the Middle East will no longer deter Georgetown students from studying in Israel beginning this summer.

News

Booker prize shortlist announced at Georgetown

Lauinger Library played host to the publication of the 18 finalists for the first ever Man Booker International prize last Friday afternoon, which will be awarded in June 2005 in London.

News

In the wake of the Jan. 30 Iraqi elections

“I want the roots to grab hold. The case of Iraq is special, but I’m concerned. Is democracy really something we could expect?”

News

Re-imagining Georgetown

The “Re-Imagining Service at Georgetown” initiative and “The Run for Rigby” project have been awarded $2,500 and $1,500 respectively to subsidize their goals for the coming year.

News

Memorial service

With the Copley Formal Lounge filled almost to capacity, the Georgetown community gathered Wednesday to mourn the passing of Professor Hisham Sharabi.

News

Liberty from Leavey

The Voice’s bigger, uglier sister publication is all grown up and asking to move out from under the University’s wing.

Editorials

Re-check, please?

In yet another example of administrative fiscal irresponsibility, Georgetown’s Board of Directors voted to increase tuition last Tuesday.

Editorials

Bad delivery

The Examiner’s selective delivery route is unfair and racist, and District residents should boycott the paper until this policy ends.

Editorials

Attention, Wal-Mart workers

Apparently, if your company is big enough and rich enough, you can get away with anything.

Voices

What is Georgetown’s Jesuit Identity?

Sinfully secular or stiflingly Catholic?

Voices

Falling for a lazy, overweight, self-centered … cat?

Living with a cat that’s boss of the house, and knows it.

Voices

Jumping from a plane … with my mother

My mother asked me to go skydiving with her in the beginning of August, and I suspect her decision to do this came as a bit of a surprise to the both of us.

Voices

Wounded animals and accordions? Must be the Metro.

Forget Sartre, Tocqueville and Napoleon. The Metro is what I have learned best while abroad in Paris.

Leisure

Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive exhibit at the Hirshhorn

For Chinese-born “artistic engineer” Cai Guo-Qiang, an unrealized vision does not beget remorse, self-pity or disappointment.

Leisure

Getting Inside Deep Throat

Watching the new documentary Inside Deep Throat, I was struck by the idea that in the early ‘70s the best way to get into the legitimate film industry was through porn.

Leisure

Baby got Bak

Any certified Disney Classic in which a major character utters the line, “the fate of the village rests in your hands” had better have some major redeeming qualities.

Leisure

Indian Tacos

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

Editorials

By the numbers

$53 Million Record amount spent by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business interest group, lobbying the government. $59.5 Million Campaign contributions by all Labor interest groups in 2004 $.37... Read more

Editorials

Direct Quotes

“Softballs Edition”

Sports

Hoyas win third in a row against WVU, streak snapped at ND

Georgetown had its three-game conference win streak snapped Wednesday night as the men’s basketball team fell to host Notre Dame.

Sports

Hoyas drop two in a row to ND, UConn

After a three-game winning streak, the Georgetown women’s basketball team dropped two games this week, losing to No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 11 Connecticut.

Sports

Runnin’ down a dream

I have been a Georgetown men’s basketball fan my whole life.

Sports

We have a what?

Heck, I’m willing to wager that most Georgetown students aren’t really sure what water polo is.