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Get Served: Dining out in D.C.

Miss home cooking already? Well quit crying about it and check out The Voice’s round-up of local restaurants. You’re sure to have a dining experience that will put your mom’s skills to shame.

By the August 26, 2004

News

DOE overturns sexual assault policy

The U.S. Department of Education informed the University July 16 that it could not force sexual assault victims to keep the names of their assailants secret.

By the August 26, 2004

News

Godfrey settles in as new head of Campus Ministry

Fr. Timothy Godfrey, S.J. stepped into the role of Georgetown’s Director of Campus Ministry in July.

By the August 26, 2004

News

NEWS HITS

Georgetown Drops In U.S. News Rankings. You should lock your doors. Pakisan honors professor. CAPS Director heading to Princeton.

By the August 26, 2004

News

Chevy Chase opens branch in Leavey

Members of the University community now have the choice between a new Chevy Chase Bank branch in the Leavey Center and the Georgetown University Alumni Student Federal Credit Union.

By the August 26, 2004

News

S&P drops Georgetown’s credit rating

Georgetown’s credit rating drops. Woops.

By the August 26, 2004

News

Saxa Politica: Promoting Pluralism

Fighting racism, et al. with Pluralism

By the August 26, 2004

Leisure

Orozco’s reflections of reality

Mexican photographer’s simple images convey complex ideas at the Hirshhorn Museum

By the August 26, 2004

Leisure

“Garden State” better than the Garden State

“Garden State” walks a well-worn path: a long absent, brooding, twenty-something loner returns to his troubled family to make peace with his relatives and, subsequently, himself.

By the August 26, 2004

Leisure

Better than Marriage: Trash Talkin’

One woman, an airplane and a trashy magazine.

By the August 26, 2004

Leisure

The hottest albums you missed over the summer

Sick of Lil’ John’s platinum fronts? Here are seven album recommendations from our music gurus to overcome the doldrums of pop radio.

By the August 26, 2004

Leisure

Lez’her Ledger

D.C. is home to restaurants both good and evil, cheap and pricey, but the problem with being a student is obvious: we can’t quite afford the good, pricey ones.

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

Georgetown quarterbacks in familiar territory

In each of the past two seasons, the senior quarterback had found himself in the thick of a season-starting quarterback controversy. This year is no different.

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

Do the Athletic Department Shuffle!

Since the firing of men’s basketball Head Coach Craig Esherick last spring, the Athletic Department has undergone a significant reorganization, touching Head Coaches in many different programs, the Associate Athletic Director and the Athletic Director.

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

New athletic facility plans released

After much speculation about the fate of Georgetown’s aging sports facilities, the Athletic Department has released new plans.

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

Run ’til your Pretty: Pumping Iron

The Georgetown Voice’s new fitness column!

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

The one basketball organization struggling more than Georgetown these days is well, the United States Olympic team.

By August 26, 2004

Sports

Pete Rose Central

Hoyas (favorites)/ Dookies (Underdogs)/ Margin (duh): Larry Brown Pistons/ Larry Brown USA/ Heart Mia Hamm/ Paul Hamm/ Still more famous Dream Team ‘92/ Dream Team ‘04/ R-E-S-P-E-C-T Athens/ Sydney/ Less crowded

By the August 26, 2004

Sports

Fortnightly Footnotes

Every other week Voice sports picks the best of the best in GU athletics

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Kissinger shies from criticism

Last Friday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cancelled a lecture just hours before he was scheduled to arrive in Gaston Hall. In a letter sent to campus media, Ambassador Howard B. Shaffer, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, wrote that Kissinger cancelled after learning of a planned protest by GU Peace Action.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Extortion not an option

Beginning in the fall of 2005, students hoping to study abroad will have to pay full Georgetown tuition. Currently, students pay the cost of their overseas program, plus a $3000 “administration fee” to Georgetown. Foreign universities, especially those in developing countries, are usually much cheaper, so students can end up paying very little for the semester or year overseas.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Cicadas to invade, frighten

Members of the Class of 2004 may graduate amidst a million uninvited winged guests. According to a United States Department of Agriculture press release, “billions of large, noisy, winged, red-eyed insects,” 17-year cicadas, will fill the skies in mid-May, mating and dying out in mid-June, potentially “occupying large swaths of the eastern United States.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Sunshine boy goes to hell

Sounds of giggling and squealing are leaking through the hall as the couple next door play around with the vibrating, coin-operated bed. I’m sitting in my room at the Hotel 69 doing homework, automatically making me the biggest loser in the building. It doesn’t matter that everyone else in the building is porking an aging hooker, it still has to be more fun than memorizing characters from a textbook by the dim lamplight.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Missing the veteran

Massive blocks of concrete are toppled into a giant heap, thick wires stick out at strange angles and bright blue Port-a-Potties outline the ruins. The site is entirely unrecognizable. The debris of Veteran’s Stadium, piled several hundred feet high on the asphalt, amounts to an estimated 70,000 cubic yards of material.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Spearhead with Mommy

“No thank you,” my mother said politely declining the joint a scrappy twenty-something stoner offered her. To some, it might seem bizarre to have complete strangers offer your parents drugs. By this point in the evening, though, nothing could faze me.

If someone had predicted this situation a mere week earlier, I would have bet my very life against them.

By the April 29, 2004