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All the best cheerleaders get murdered

In 1991, a Mrs. Wanda Halloway was imprisoned for six months for plotting to kill Verna Heath, a prospective cheerleader, in an attempt to clear a spot for her own daughter on the cheerleading squad. This sordid tale has recently been adapted into a made-for-TV-movie.

By the Voice Staff April 22, 2004

Veggie nuts

Alex Johnston (SFS ‘07) plans on taking next year off to pursue an exciting career in the budding “nutraceutical industry.” Then he plans on retiring. “My parents made me promise that after I retire I’ll come back to my studies,” he says. But that doesn’t make it any easier for a budding millionaire to concentrate on school.

By the Voice Staff April 22, 2004

Features

Spiraling beyond the spread

With a nervous tapping foot, I couldn’t take it any longer. In the middle of a movie I got up and left the theater, allegedly to use the bathroom. Leaving my seat, palms sweaty with anticipation, I pulled out my phone while jogging down the steps. As soon as I was in cell phone- range, I dialed a friend and demanded he check the score of the Cornell vs.

By the Voice Staff April 22, 2004

Stroup effect

When I was growing up, I got used to being near the end of the alphabet. While I didn’t have it as bad as the people with surnames ending in Y or Z, I was still envious of the Allens and Browns. I spent my days in public schools sitting with the same people, always near the back of the classroom.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Flags number abortions

On April 13th, roughly 3,600 pink and blue flags occupied Copley lawn as part of Georgetown University’s Right to Life flag day. The flags, part of a larger protest against abortion, represented the 3,600 abortions that are performed daily in the United States

Members of Right to Life stood in the rain, handing out flyers to students who passed by.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Scranton paper banned after Hoya spoof

The Aquinas, a student run newspaper at Scranton University was shut down last week after releasing an April Fools’ Day Issue which parodied The Hoya.

The newspaper was renamed The Hoya for the issue and contained stories with fake authors that made fun of college administrators and sensitive religious and political issues.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Meeting over campus hate

Emotions ran high at the Riverside Lounge Wednesday as students and top University administrators discussed ways to address hate incidents on campus. Even as Vice-President of Student Affairs Todd Olson stressed open dialogue and the accurate reporting of hate incidents, several students demanded that the University take greater action to combat a perceived atmosphere of intolerance.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Kerry calls for fiscal responsibility

A capacity crowd in Gaston Hall watched John Kerry reveal his proposal to reduce the Federal Government’s budget deficit last Wednesday. While activists, souvenir vendors, press trucks, and a long line of last minute ticket seekers idled in the sun outside Kerry forcefully attacked President Bush’s handling of the economy as misguided and harmful.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

GUSA election remains undecided

The Georgetown University Student Association Assembly struck down Adam Giblin and Eric Lashner’s election appeal Tuesday, finally leaving the election up to the Constitutional Council.

The Council’s decision will be the last step in an election process that has lasted months.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Hip, oh!

As an English major, I thrive on definitions. So let’s take, “hippie.” My friend Webster says it means “1. any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc., 2. any person having a similar lifestyle”. My friend The Hoya says it’s “Voice staff.”

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Lezh’ur Ledger

If you’re tired of having your closet cluttered up by old skin mags, or if renting a climate controlled mini storage unit isn’t stylish enough for your cultural debris, a truly viable option is now on the market. For a starting bid of merely six million $US (easily within reach for many young Georgetown heirs and heiresses), the Nebraska-based corporation Orbital Development is now accepting offers to launch precisely 22 pounds of cargo of your choosing into space, and to crash said payload directly into the moon.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

WGTB Recommends …

Unless you’re a troglodyte (we know some of them, it’s OK), you’ve noticed the oppressive gray skies and rainfall. The WGTB staff and Voice Leisure have joined forces to create a list of our favorite wet weather songs. Keep your May flowers to yourself.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Acts coming in April

List of shows from April 17-25, including Stereolab, Sleater-Kinney, Jurassic 5, and Blonde Redhead.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Death Cab for Cutie repeat

Despite moving from the Black Cat to the 9:30 Club, selling out at both venues, and having their television debut on CBS this January, Death Cab for Cutie doesn’t like to think of itself as a big deal. When asked about the band’s increasing popularity, new drummer Jason McGerr explained, “It’s cool. I would rather make a record and have a couple hundred thousand people have the option to get the music rather than not … But we haven’t changed the business formula, we haven’t sought out a huge, new audience.”

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

‘Wit’ deftly examines mortality

The certainty of death and the joy of eating popsicles. 17th century poetry and pelvic exams. This curious array of topics finds its way onstage in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, written by Georgetown graduate Margaret Edson (GRD ‘92) and presented by Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Education is costly, sleep is priceless

Once again, the time has come to register for classes. Most people pretend that they choose their classes for their academic value, challenging topics, famous professors or utility. Others, like me, will admit that although these concepts linger in the back of their minds, in truth, their registration choices are largely driven by an innate laziness.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Athletic traditionalists in America have decried the on-the-field antics of modern professional athletes, which they warn have trickled down to youth playing fields. They are nostalgic for the days when a player would just hand the ball back to the referee instead of working on his dance moves in the end zone.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Read into this writing

I’m reading a book, and it’s a good book, but that’s just the problem. In the thick of the text, when plots and characters and language merge, and when scenes connect and stories layer, it all makes just too much sense. The details fit too well. The book crested into its crescendo, and I felt pressed to escape back into reality, back into my own head where questions are more common than manicured realities.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Curling for Columbine

On a recent trip home I went to America’s largest running specialty store, RunTex in Austin, Tx. As a marathoner, I tend to log a good number of miles per week, which has recently caused a minor case of planter’s fascitis, which gradually causes a foot’s arch to collapse around weakened tendons, in my right foot.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Features

A Civil Right?

John (CAS’94) and Duncan (SFS ‘94) Crabtree-Ireland have considered themselves married since 1993. But in February, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave them the opportunity to put it on paper. At 9:13 a.m. on a bright San Francisco morning, city Assessor-Recorder Mabel Teng declared John and Duncan “spouses for life” and placed their marriage in the public record.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Sports Serm

“Our tables are smaller because we’re a European company; Europeans are smaller”- an idiotic IKEA saleswoman

Last week, an Ottawa radio commentator crossed the line when he jokingly suggested that Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer Tie Domi, beats his wife. Rather than dropping the gloves, Domi took the high road, saying the Ottawa Senator’s Peter Bondra’s referral to the Leafs-Senators playoff series as a “war” was disrespectful to Marines fighting in Iraq.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Terps egg Hoyas over Easter

The women’s lacrosse team pushed through wins against North Carolina and Boston College, but a loss in a highly touted game against Maryland may haunt the team heading into the seeding for the national tournament.

Junior midfielders Lauryn Bernier and Ali Chambers each scored a hat trick to lead second-ranked Georgetown to a 14-3 victory over No.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Men’s lacrosse catapults past Catamounts

Sometimes a single player can assert his will and completely dominate a game. In the men’s lacrosse game against Vermont last Saturday, that player was senior midfielder Walid Hajj.

Coming off a heartbreaking home loss to Navy, Georgetown’s men’s lacrosse team responded with a 13-5 rout over the Catamounts, who they had not played since 1993.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004