Archive

Fresh Reps

Four first-year representatives were officially sworn into the Georgetown University Student Association Tuesday.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Editorials

Lights, camera, inaction

Although most recent robberies in Georgetown have had students as victims, crime is a community problem.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Affirmative Reaction

Conservative author and speaker David Horowitz will discuss academic freedom on college campuses at 7 p.m. tonight in St. Mary’s hall.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Automatic failure

Semiautomatic weapons may become legal for the first time in nearly 30 years in the District of Columbia.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

6 Number of people beatified by Pope John Paul II last week.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Georgetown football wins; Homecoming weekend a success

No matter how many points the Georgetown football team put on the scoreboard Saturday, they couldn’t break the spirit of the Virginia Military Institute’s … band.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Men’s soccer downs Rutgers, continues win streak

The Georgetown men’s soccer team extended its season-high winning streak to five games with a 3-2 win at Rutgers Wednesday.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

Run ’til You’re Pretty

Just as the season has changed from summer to autum, and by D.C. standards, almost winter, the seasons of sports have changed as well.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

The Sports Sermon

Steroids have become somewhat of a comedic subject in our society today.

By George Tarnow October 14, 2004

Features

The Medical Center is still struggling. Why should you care?

Due to Georgetown University medical center’s continuing losses, $28 million will go down the drain this fiscal year.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

How to save lives while lying down

Despite the curious spectacle of bulky men in spandex lifting heavy barbells while yelling in Greek or Chinese, I remained fixated on the steady stream of thick, red-black liquid oozing out of my right arm.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

A prince finds some answers

I finally made rice and beans.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

“i am”

Who am I? We’ve all heard the question. But is it something we are all constantly questioning and redefining? For me, proclaiming who I am became a process of understanding my space and place in a social context, and finally giving myself the agency to choose how I identify as a white, lesbian woman.

By the Voice Staff October 14, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man

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

By the Voice Staff October 7, 2004

Rockstar camp

Somewhere in the West Virginia hills there exists a camp.

By the Voice Staff October 7, 2004

Better than marriage

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

By the Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004