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Saxa Politica

Perhaps the most shocking thing about hate crimes is that the capacity to commit them lies within all of us, as evidenced by the sheer number occurring on-campus each year. The constant presence of discrimination is evidence that being an intelligent and motivated student does not preclude hate.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Voices

When I was a hostage

I could see exactly what the hired guns planned to do with me when they opened the rear hatch of the Jeep.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Voices

The show goes on

One of the first opportunities my relocation afforded me was a chance to open for a magician-friend of mine for six shows in Bermuda.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

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Georgetown reacts to the Beslan massacre

The crowd of students and parents, shocked and dehydrated, huddled in the gymnasium as the terrorists draped wires around the room, connecting a series of bombs. This horrible image was only one of many to come out of Beslan, Russia this month.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Hoyas get trounced, look ahead to Colgate rematch

Before the Hoyas take the football field in upstate New York against Colgate this Saturday, the question will be: Who deserves to start at quarterback?

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Women’s soccer sunk by crosstown rival AU

The Georgetown women’s soccer team dropped to below .500 for the first time this season with a tough 3-1 loss at American University Tuesday afternoon.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Volleyball tournaments yield mixed results for Hoyas

Two weekends ago the women’s volleyball team went into the Georgetown Classic Volleyball Tournament without two of its team leaders.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

The Sports Sermon

It’s always fascinating to see people so desperate that any glimmer of hope transforms them into amazingly unrealistic individuals.

By George Tarnow September 23, 2004

Pumping iron

I took some time off from lifting, and I just tried to get back into the habit this week, but I did terribly. I felt very weak, and even my skinny friends were on my case. How can I get back to my old form fast?-Willis Tsai MSB ‘05 It’s always hard to start working out after some time off.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Civilizing underage drinking

Anyone who has been to a college campus on a weekend night knows that criminal penalties don’t do much to stop underage drinking.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Fight for your right

Student rights and responsibilities are a constant issue at Georgetown.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Should they stay or should they go now

What Novak forgets is that every day Bush dithers over his policy, people are dying.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

Features

Getting it online

It’s a tangled web we weave.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

Blogs, blogs and more blogs.

By the Voice Staff September 23, 2004

M. Butterfly floats like a you-know-what, stings like a bee

The themes that define M. Butterfly seem especially relevant in light of the issues of gay marriage and American arrogance in the international arena at the fore of national discussion today.

Arena Stage’s 2004-05 season opener comes with an inescapable warning.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

When old fashions come back to haunt new runways

They say it takes at least two years for style-changing runway fashions to trickle down the couture ladder to their toned-down, department-store offspring. The trends that appear on the street, recently characterized by ruffles, shoulder-baring tops and hoop earrings, are the diluted and more practical versions of their over-the-top runway cousins.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

Narcissistic visions of sex and politics: September Tapes

Forget hybrid cars. Hybrid films are replacing the environmentally-friendly vehicles with a trendiness all their own. An increasingly popular genre, hybrid movies are fictitious films masquerading as reality, often using untrained actors and actual footage.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

Narcissistic visions of sex and politics: The Brown Bunny

Sex can mean love, lust, obsession or even violence and domination. Plenty of movies explore the motives behind sex, but in The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo, the film’s writer, director, producer and lead actor, makes all these forces collide within the context of one relationship.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

Better Than Marriage

There’s an odd seasonality to concert schedules. Spring and early summer seem to bring more reunions, like those of the Pixies and Mission of Burma this year, while late summer and autumn bring more bands going on farewell tours and breaking up.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

The Lists

I will admit that I shamelessly stole this idea from McSweeney’s, a quarterly publication edited by Dave Eggers. That said, these lists are the product of at least 10 minutes of concentrated effort, during which I wracked my brain and tested the limits of my pop-culture knowledge.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

Two weeks worth of leisure-time activities

Thursday, Sept 16 Trashcan Sinatras, Roddy Hart, 9:30 Club, D.C. Friday, Sept 17 Lungfish, Black Cat, D.C. This long-running D.C. band continues to appeal to a devoted fan base with their distinctly original variety of slow, deliberate hardcore. Saturday, Sept 18 The Thrills, Black Cat, D.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

Students quiet about November election

As national politics took center stage on campus this week, students expressed conflicting opinions about the role of political parties on campus.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004

American University President faces off with graduate

Students have increasingly begun to post their own news on personal websites. This spring, Georgetown students and alumni, angered by the decline of the men’s basketball team, created an online petition calling for the University to fire Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the Voice Staff September 16, 2004