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‘Cat celebrates

If you went to Georgetown ten years ago, you would have just traded in your acid-washed jeans for plaid flannel shirts, and would be rocking hard to Nirvana. If anything, Georgetown today is more Avril than Kurt; the only plaid on campus exists in the form of miniskirts.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Editorials

Father Pat: You’ll be missed

Ask a first-year student to name a Jesuit priest at Georgetown, and “Father Pat” will most likely be their response. What’s really surprising is that he could probably name them as well. Rev. Patrick Conroy, S.J. has been well known during his years at Georgetown as a Jesuit who knows students, and the students will miss him when he leaves for Jesuit High School in Oregon in December.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

RJD2 revealed

Hip-hop’s underground rattled when rapper El-P ever so bluntly declared on his acclaimed solo debut last year, Fantastic Damage: ” Signed to Rawkus? I’d rather be mouth fucked by Nazis unconscious.” Rawkus Records, the home of late-90s landmarks Soundbombing, Mos Def and El-P’s group Company Flow, was losing its grip on the ” it” label for underground hip-hop.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Editorials

When bedfellows unite

The Knights of Columbus, and AFIRMS are about as dissimilar as any two campus groups at Georgetown. The first is a longstanding pro-life Catholic fraternity, the second a group of mostly female students committed to changing the University’s policies regarding sexual assault.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Editorials

Ready for Isabel

Empirical evidence has now demonstrated that, like werewolves in a full moon, Georgetown students go insane during hurricanes. On Thursday night, in the thick of Isabel, students were doing things that they probably need to do more often-mud wrestling on the front lawn, bonging beers in the driving wind on Village A’s rooftops accompanied by chants of “IS-A-BEL! IS-A-BEL!”, making out in the rain, and generally rocking like a hurricane.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

A bride in Jerusalem

It’s morning. Roll out of bed. Walk out the door. Five soldiers with Kalashnikovs lounge idly against the rubble of a stone wall, joking among themselves while they carefully watch your apartment complex.

No, it’s not DPS on a power trip, at least not this time.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

G’town warehouse hosts film fest

LEISURE BY CHRIS NORTON AND MARY KATHERINE STUMP An non-air-conditioned warehouse with exposed plumbing isn’t the ideal location to hold a film festival. But with the south of France already taken, this warehouse, situated next to Blues Alley, was the next logical choice.

By Mary Katherine Stump and Chris Norton September 25, 2003

Making the call

Jim O’Donnell got out of bed Friday morning, walked outside his Georgetown waterfront home and saw something he wasn’t quite expecting: warm breezes and blue skies. “My first reaction was, I felt a little sheepish,” said O’Donnell, executive vice president and University provost.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Students survive Burleith blackout

NEWS BY JANE ULANOVA While some carefree Georgetown students spent the hurricane rolling around in the mud like happy little piglets, students living outside the campus bubble were busy stumbling over furniture in the dark. The survivors of Burleith Blackout 2003, which started last Thursday night and lasted until Tuesday evening, got to watch the campus twinkle its tantalizing lights as they remained powerless.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Student panel raises sexual assault awareness

NEWS BY SHANTHI MANIAN Four students spoke about the effects of sexual assault on survivors as well as on their friends and colleagues in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday night. Speaking to more than one hundred students, faculty, and administrators, participants said that they hoped to increase awareness and prompt discussion about sexual assaults on campus.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

GU grad replaces Ann Landers

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR Are you a 40-year-old man who has never dated anyone over 25 and is hung up on your 19 year-old ex-girlfriend? Are you an ultra-religious twenty-something virgin who is having trouble meeting women? Do middle-aged men often harass you when you go for jogs? Need some advice? Georgetown graduate Amy Dickinson (CAS ‘81) will surely have your answer.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Election commission combats negative campaigning

When the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on October 2 a new Georgetown University Student Association campaign season will be inaugurated. If it’s anything like the last, it will be four days of cutthroat flyer-hanging, poster-making, hand-shaking and, perhaps, even name-calling.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

New South planning underway

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON To a campus ever pressed for space, an unused 30,000 square feet almost seems like a sin. Moving one step forward towards absolution, University officials met with an architectural firm yesterday to begin the process of redeveloping the space left vacant when the University’s main cafeteria moved from New South to the newly constructed Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. Dining Hall.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Fantasy Land

This is my sixth year playing fantasy football. It’s getting out of contol. This year, I’m in four fantasy football leagues. I’m hooked, and I might need help.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term “fantasy football,” it’s time to get familiar. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be in charge of a team of superstars, or ever yearned for a new outlet to talk trash, fantasy football is for you.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

The Sports Sermon

“Dear God, please, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far far away from here.”

Jenny, the sermon is with you. We need to get far, far away from Philly as soon as possible, or else we’re going to cry.

First, it was the Eagles getting to the brink of the Super Bowl, now it’s the Phillies waiting til the last week of the season to let their playoff-hungry fans down.

By Paul McCarthy September 25, 2003

After Isabel, mixed results

Women’s soccer (2-5-0)

The Hoyas continued to bounce back from a shaky start to the season by shutting out the host Syracuse Orangemen 2-0 for their second straight win. Though Syracuse st a strong tempo, Georgetown struck first. Senior Courtney Schaub scored off first-year Chrissy Skogen’s corner kick 31 minutes into the first half.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Men’s soccer splits in Big East action

With a 1-0 loss to the Boston College Eagles in Chestnut Hill, Mass. on Sunday, and a dramatic 2-1 victory against the Virginia Tech Hokies yesterday afternoon at home, the Hoyas’ record stands at 1-2 in the Big East.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Mistakes prove costly for winless Hoyas

SPORTS BY GEORGE TARNOW In a scene reminiscent of the two-minute drill Colgate executed against the Hoyas in week one, Georgetown could not stop Monmouth when it counted most, and the football team lost their third straight game, 12-10.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Features

Fall Fashion 2003: So hot right now

COVER BY VOICE LEISURE STAFF If you walked through Red Square last week, you were our guinea pig. Yes, you. After a careful analysis of field data collected by our expert fashion technicians, the results are in. While not much has changed over the past year, we think our astute observers picked up on the intricacies of all things hip. The results are in, and the Georgetown fashion flavor is hot, hot, hot.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Letters to the Editor

I was disappointed to see Dave Stroup’s column on vouchers (“Vouching for D.C.,”News, Sept. 18) that amounted not only to a thinly veiled attack on school choice.

By Paul McCarthy September 25, 2003

Oh, Isabel

VOICES BY VANESSA MACHIR Let me explain something. I do not strip. I do not get naked. Unless nudity is an intrinsic requirement of a situation, the clothes stay on at all times. Not during the most aggressive heat strokes or my most embarrassingly drunken moments have I ever felt the urge to disrobe.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

A culinary renaissance

My personal and highly arbitrary definition of art is that it is something that brings the viewer or participant a little closer to the sacred that resides within the artist. When art was the subject of countless philosophers’ attentions, it was relegated to four basic spheres: visual, auditory, performative, and rhetorical.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003