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Voice Obituaries

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

By the November 18, 2004

Sports

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 November 18, 2004

Sports

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 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 November 18, 2004

Voices

Thanksgiving debunked

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

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

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 November 18, 2004

Voices

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 November 18, 2004

Voices

What is a Liberal?

What exactly is a “liberal”?

By the November 18, 2004

News

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 November 18, 2004

News

GUSA bylaw bash looks for election reform

As Georgetown University Student Association representatives filed out of their meeting Tuesday night, having tabled their long-awaited election bylaw reforms for another week, a plate of brownies lay untouched in the corner.

By the November 18, 2004

News

Lights out for Copley during weekend transformer failure

Many Georgetown students, staff and faculty were left in the dark for much of the weekend when a power outage hit several buildings on campus.

By the November 18, 2004

News

Yasir Arafat’s legacy spurs debate among Georgetown students

The debate over the legacy of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, who died last week, has reached Georgetown, where students still hope for peace in spite of conflicts over the controversial figure.

By the November 18, 2004

News

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 November 18, 2004

News

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 November 18, 2004

News

What can DPS do?

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

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Does anyone else feel a draft in here?

I’m not worried about being drafted. I’m confident that if there is a draft and my number is called, I will be laughed out of the boardroom once they see the results of my physical examination.

By the November 11, 2004

Voices

The six stages of Bush-based blues

Nauseous, short of breath and a little dizzy, I jumped out of bed and e-mailed a Canadian I’d met while traveling in Europe this past summer.

By the November 11, 2004

Voices

Tales from a Kerry supporter in France

I have had the unique pleasure of being a French major during George W. Bush’s reign.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

The Love of the Nightingale is a brutal love

Using silence onstage, particularly the silencing of women, The Love of the Nightingale initiates dialogue offstage.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Graphic novel Persepolis 2 puts the “see” in Farsi

It seems counterintuitive that Persepolis 2, a comic book originally published in France and written by someone born in the Axis of Evil, could win mainstream popularity and conspicuous Barnes and Noble displays.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

New Yorker comes to visit subscribers

Print reporters do not often have the opportunity to bask in the glow of an adoring public.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Resfest shorts spread digital love to D.C.

Resfest 2004, a visual and aural field day, shakes you like a Six Flags roller coaster for the eyes and ears.

By the November 11, 2004

Leisure

Better than Marriage

A column in the Oct. 31 edition of the New York Times by music critic Kelefah Sanneh has been the subject of great debate among music critics for its attack on “rockists,” or those who have a bias towards rock over other forms of popular music.

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Our lavender nation

In the days following the election, we all saw maps of the United States with each state colored the way its Electoral votes were cast: red for Bush or blue for Kerry

By the November 11, 2004

Editorials

Something rotten in the state of Jersey

New Jersey Democratic governor Jim McGreevey will resign on Monday in the wake of a sex scandal that erupted this summer and exposed his homosexuality to the public.

By the November 11, 2004