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Women’s soccer rides shaky road to respectability

Coming into this season, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (5-5-0 overall, 2-1 BE) had nowhere to go but up.

By the October 7, 2004

Sports

Bison stampede Hoyas, losing streak reaches four

Despite a strong defensive effort, dismal special teams play and an offense lacking in production, the Georgetown football team (1-4 overall, 0-3 PL) lost 35-19 to Bucknell (3-1 overall, 1-0 PL) Saturday on Harbin Field.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Solid wage increase

Most of Georgetown’s staff goes largely unnoticed by the student body.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Iraq at center of student political debate

The Georgetown College Republicans performed strongly Monday in a debate against the College Democrats over the safety of America in the wake of the Iraq war.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Teh elected as junior class GUSA rep

Kah Yee Teh (SFS ‘06) won Tuesday’s Georgetown University Student Association election for Junior Class Representative.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Another round of RIAA lawsuits begin, subpeonas to follow

The latest wave of the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuits began on Tuesday, and at least one Georgetown student became the target of a copyright infringement lawsuit.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Expos exported in likely D.C. move

Major League Baseball announced its decision to move the Montreal Expos to the District of Columbia last Wednesday in a phone call to city hall following a competition among several North American cities.

By the October 7, 2004

News

Criminal upsurge leads to increased security

The Department of Public Safety has decided to impose stricter security policies around three University buildings, after five violent crimes were reported by students in the last month.

By the October 7, 2004

News

GU solidarity triumphs and workers see living wage

After growing pressure from the Georgetown Solidarity Committee’s Living Wage Campaign, Senior Vice President and Administrative Officer Spiros Dimolitsas sent a letter to the GSC detailing a change in University policy towards contract workers Tuesday.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Sex, drugs and sex on drugs

Hsssssssh.

I drag deeply on the mouthpiece, slowly counting down in my head as the acrid fumes fill my lungs, relaxing me. I exhale and lean my head back against my overstuffed chair. I let my eyes lazily drift around the room before slipping the inhaler back into my pocket.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Throwing it into drive

The car roared, wheels spinning, and slammed through the garage wall and straight into my dinning room, knocking the china cabinet over along the way. Apparently, I’d mistakenly hit the gas and now the car, without a scratch on it, sat in my dining room, making a slow, shrill beeping noise.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

No whites allowed (but segregationists welcome)?

I wanted the sign as soon as I saw it. My wife and I were attending a black memorabilia fair at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland last spring, and on my way to the Negro Baseball League gear, I encountered a display of framed “Colored Only” signs that once infamously adorned restrooms, water fountains and other public facilities.

By the October 7, 2004

Leisure

Better than marriage

Gossiping is known to win friends fast and lose them faster.

By the October 7, 2004

Leisure

Rockstar camp

Somewhere in the West Virginia hills there exists a camp.

By the October 7, 2004

Leisure

Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man

Even if you are unfamiliar with the name, you almost certainly know the image.

By the October 7, 2004

Leisure

Aunt Dan and Lemon will make your sensibilities pucker up

Looks can be deceiving in Mask and Bauble’s first production of the year, Aunt Dan and Lemon.

By the October 7, 2004

Leisure

Calder and Mir?: modernism with a friendly twist

“You stud” and “A slap on the butt to you” characterized the trans-Atlantic postcard exchanges between Joan Mir? and Alexander Calder, a Spaniard and an American whose artistic cooperation and firm friendship spanned oceans, decades and even a world war.

By the October 7, 2004

Features

National Museum of the American Indian enriches America’s view of the past

Two Voice writers take on the new National Museum of the American Indian

By the September 30, 2004

Leisure

A fond farewell

The suicide of beloved singer-songwriter Elliott Smith last fall shocked and saddened fans everywhere.

By the September 30, 2004

Leisure

Straits of Malaya offers food and fun

As temporary residents of the District, many Georgetown students have little knowledge of the history of classic but below-the-radar area restaurants.

By the September 30, 2004

Leisure

A motive to shake your money maker

Michael Pearsall (MSB ‘06) and his band Motive are learning the sacrifices that come with putting together a successful rock/pop band.

By the September 30, 2004

Leisure

Nicotina has Diego Luna, and that’s about it

Smoke permeates Nicotina, Hugo Rodriguez’s middling second film.

By the September 30, 2004

Leisure

Shaun of the Dead eerily funny

Trying to classify Shaun of the Dead is nearly impossible.

By the September 30, 2004

Sports

Curses be damned

In his book, True Believers, Joe Queenan asks, “Why do fans live and die with their teams?”

By the September 30, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

There are rare moments when great figures in history collide in epic battles that will be remembered as the defining moment in their legacies.

By September 30, 2004