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Sports Sermon: UCONN

OK, everyone call off the rest of the season. It’s time to name a champ. UCONN is better than anyone else in the country is. Far better. In fact they may be the best college hoops team to come along in a decade. Now, the serm doesn’t want to curse them into losses, (remember that Fear Da’ Frogs article?), but we don’t think that’s possible.

By Cameron Smith January 15, 2004

Brunson, Hoyas Hopeful

Led by the outstanding play of senior forward Rebekkah Brunson, over the winter recess Georgetown’s women’s basketball team emerged as a legitimate contender for the NCAA tournament while the rest of the student body vacillated between listlessly watching television and attempting to “make out” with high school crushes.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Features

The Kennedys’ Jesuit

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Journalist Thomas Maier’s The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, which chronicles the Kennedys through the lens of their Irish-Catholic roots, received significant press when it was released late last year because of its revealing portrait of Jackie Kennedy’s deteriorating mental health in the spring of 1964, after her husband’s assassination.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Curling For Columbine: Rocket Home

Retirement can be a funny thing. When a plastic surgeon retires, for example, that’s it. No more boob jobs, facelifts, or tummy tucks. They sit home, collect some money and dedicate hours to become crossword puzzle aficionados.

Yet when many star athletes announce their retirement, it’s like a Georgetown student saying they aren’t going to drink for a while after spring break because they need to recover … right.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Potential Unmet with Current Hoyas

Just by listening to the Georgetown match up against the top ranked University of Connecticut, one could feel the stark contrast between programs. The Huskies continued their run of blowing out opponents after defeating a quality Oklahoma squad, while the Hoyas lost their third straight conference game.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

After MEAC Ease, Big East Troubles

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH And then came the inevitable Georgetown Big East slide.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Ditching the District

This Tuesday, D.C. voters had the chance to participate in the District’s inaugural “Presidential Preference Primary.” By placing the District’s primary before the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, District officials hoped to attract national attention to its lack of congressional voting rights.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Don’t vouch for this

On Jan. 9, President Bush urged the Senate to pass a bill allotting 14 million tax dollars a year to low-income D.C. parents who want to send their children to private schools. This school voucher bill, which was approved by the House of Representatives on Dec.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

Two up on the town

In the continuing battle between Hoya and Townie, the University has recently pulled ahead with several victories. On Dec. 4, the D.C. Court of Appeals struck down several D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment provisions instituted against the University’s most recent 10-year plan.

By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004

News

Boathouse approved; enrollment cap axed

NEWS EXTRA BY MIKE DeBONIS Georgetown University has received a pair of holiday gifts early this December: The D.C. Zoning Commission approved plans for a new GU boathouse Thursday evening, and on Dec. 4, the D.C. Court of Appeals invalidated several controversial conditions that the Board of Zoning Adjustment imposed on approval of the University’s campus plan earlier this year.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Bushgiving in Baghdad

On Thanksgiving, President George W. Bush took a trip to Iraq. Arriving at the former Saddam

International Airport under cover of darkness, he spent a few top-secret hours with American troops stationed in Baghdad. He posed with the troops, and with a turkey, and then headed back to the United States.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Accidental press conference

The rector of Georgetown’s Jesuit community, Rev. Brian McDermott, S.J., apologized to the Kennedy family last week for the University’s release of Jackie Kennedy’s personal correspondences with the late Rev. Richard McSorley, S.J. The damage had already been done, but McDermott tried to rectify the situation as much as possible.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Features

It Was Like a Life

WINNER OF THE 2003 VOICE SHORT STORY CONTEST BY ANDREW J. WILSON As he awaits Sarah’s return home from her first semester at college, Jackson hopes that he and his daughter can go running together like old times. Just as Sarah has changed since she last left home, her parents have changed, too—without her knowing.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Censorship in Red Square?

Students passing through Red Square on Thursday, Nov. 21 undoubtedly noticed representatives from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property waving a large red flag and handing out pamphlets. The following Tuesday, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson addressed the situation in a campus-wide e-mail, denouncing the outside organization’s distribution of “offensive and hateful material that attacked gays and lesbians.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Museum that

Even though it contains both my first and last names, the Smithsonian Institute and the fleet of museums that bear its name just don’t cut it anymore. Museum of Natural History, spare us the giant squid, please-not interested. And the Hope Diamond? How very Home Shopping Network of you.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Critical Voices

The bored, angry masses of America’s white suburban youth should be disappointed by the release of Thursday’s lackluster new album, War All the Time. Coming off their subtlely powerful last effort, Full Collapse, they aimed for a higher, more beautiful sound-and fell flat on their face.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Critical Voices

The Unicorns are pop music, in the way that makes you want to give music one more chance. A much maligned institution, pop is so overabundant that we’re almost justified in taking extreme measures with the entire genre. But before we had to do something drastic (prog-rock ain’t worth it kids), Canada came to our rescue.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003

Ted Leo needs the Pharmacists

Before the well dressed, skinny tie-wearing mod rock and power pop revivalists of the last few years, there was Ted Leo. One of today’s indie rock elder statesmen, Leo has been getting attention since playing New York’s hardcore scene in the late ‘80s. Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead, the recent EP from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, his current band, reflects Leo’s constantly expanding ability to write complex, catchy, affecting songs.

By the Voice Staff December 4, 2003