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Hampton and Torres declared winners

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR The latest winners of the 2004 Georgetown University Student Association election are Kelley Hampton and Luis Torres, but this may change on Sunday. The Election Commission will finally consider runners-up Adam Giblin and Eric Lashner’s appeal, originally placed the day after the election.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

Tests reveal lead in townhouse water

NEWS BY CLAIRE D’EMIC Unsafe levels of lead were found in the water in several University townhouses, University spokesperson Julie Bataille said Tuesday. However, University officials have already acted to correct the problem. Tests performed over spring break reveal that seven of the 71 university owned townhouses have lead levels exceeding 15 parts per billion in tap water.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

GU Law Professor succeeds Areen

Alexander Aleinikoff will succeed the popular Judith Areen as head of Georgetown’s Law Center, the University announced last Thursday. A former Georgetown Law professor, Aleinikoff will assume the office this June.

Aleinikoff first joined the Georgetown faculty as an adjunct professor of law in 1997.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

Anglican Archbishop addresses atheism

The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Head Primate of all England took the stage at a packed and attentive Gaston Hall to promote interreligious dialogue Monday.

The modestly dressed man, a noted scholar and professor of theology at Oxford University, did not look like the religious leader of over 73 million Anglicans worldwide.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

GU students arrested at GW

D.C. Metropolitan Police arrested Georgetown students Mike Wilson (CAS’05) and Ev Yankey (CAS ‘06) at a protest at the George Washington University campus Monday. Yankey and Wilson were arrested along with nine GW students and face misdemeanor charges after they defied police orders at a protest for workers’ rights at GW.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

Seek Principle

The Hoya’s assault on Kelley Hampton and Luis Torres in their editorial section Tuesday was bitter, vindictive and borderline libelous. But while the editors of Georgetown University’s newspaper of record filled their pages with Academy-esque attacks on two individuals’ character, they missed a wider discussion about due process versus the good of the community.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

Men’s lacrosse be-devils Duke again

Georgetown Senior midfielder Walid Hajj is a 2004 pre-season All-American. With 3:14 remaining in Sunday’s game against no. 7 Duke, he showed why he deserved the honors.

Hajj scored his only goal of Sunday’s game on a rocket of a shot deep in the fourth quarter.

By the Voice Staff April 1, 2004

Features

Going for Glory

COVER BY CAMERON SMITH It is 5:45 a.m. when the alarm sounds, and Brad Kuntscher (CAS ‘05) rolls over to momentarily ignore its incessant screeching. He knows he must get up, so he slowly rolls out of bed, throws on the day-old spandex he left out beside his bed, and jogs out the door towards another morning practice on the Potomac.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Editorials

A taxing decision for DC

Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle dismissed a lawsuit filed by Mayor Anthony Williams and the D.C. Council that sought to overturn the the 1974 ban on commuter taxes, which prevent the District from imposing a commuter tax on Maryland and Virginia residents who work in D.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Editorials

A positive shift for MD prisons

The state of Maryland has increased the budget for criminal rehabilitation for the next fiscal year, while decreasing expenditures on prisons. Governor Robert Ehrlich, Jr. announced the plan as a way to reaffirm his administration’s commitment to rehabilitate nonviolent offenders, who consist mostly of drug users.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Men’s lacrosse squeaks past Hobart

Entering Saturday’s contest against Hobart, the no. 6 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team knew that they had more to lose by falling than their unheralded opponent. However, head Coach Dave Urick also had particular motivation to win the game, having come to Georgetown from Hobart, where he won 10 consecutive Division III national titles for the school.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Women’s lacrosse holds off devils, riding on top

SPORTS BY VINCENT MCGILL The women’s lacrosse team entered a tough two-week stretch against top-10 opponents this past Sunday against Duke. The no. 2 Hoyas remained undefeated after a highly contested match but the victory was hard fought.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

GU baseball surpasses 2003 win total

Junior Catcher Andrew Cleary’s two-run homerun was the difference in Georgetown’s 3-1 victory over visiting Navy. The win takes the Hoyas to 11-2 at their home field in Bethesda, Md. (15-11 overall). Senior ace pitcher Kevin Field pitched a one-two-three first inning in his return from a shoulder inning.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Curling For Columbine

“It’s an open and national search, and the search begins immediately,” said University President John J. DeGioia on the head coaching vacancy at Georgetown. The real question is, does Georgetown have the prestige to get what it desperately needs: a marquee coach to turn around the sputtering program?

I asked Mike Wilbon of the Washington Post and ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption” this question, and his response was an unambiguous, “Hell yes.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Sports Sermon

“If Bonds is using steroids because his head keeps getting bigger, why doesn’t anyone accuse Jay Leno.”-Bill Simmons

I enjoy watching sports, especially the NCAA college basketball tournament. The first couple of days, though, have always been a little annoying.

By Cameron Smith March 25, 2004

Communist ball games

VOICES BY JULIA COOKE The first time my friends and I tried to go to a baseball game here in Cuba, we rode the bus for 45 minutes, got off at the wrong stop, and walked to the stadium, which turned out to be deserted. “No hay,” a guard at the stadium told us, “no more.” Instead of happily watching a baseball game we were stranded in the outskirts of the city.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Georgetown’s basketball webpage of record

John Reagan is into Georgetown basketball. He graduated from the McDonough School of Business in 1984, having capped off his senior year by taking one of the University’s charter flights to Seattle, where he slept on the floor of a local gym with other fans and watched the Hoyas win their only national championship.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

All the news that’s fit to ignore

Imagine an entire country where the only inhabitants are 14-year-olds. Gossip lurks behind every corner. The system of government features a roomful of uptight, insecure representatives shouting insults at one another. Almost everyone is in need of braces.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Letter to the Editor

“Classroom incident misrepresented”

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We correct all errors of substance in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

Editorials

Limiting working groups

Three weeks after a coalition of students presented the administration with proposals to increase tolerance within the Georgetown community, the administration responded in a meeting with student leaders. Their response was swift, genuine and, for the most part, positive.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004

RIAA lawsuits strike Georgetown

NEWS BY SHANTHI MANIAN The Recording Industry Association of America has brought its fight against file-sharing to university networks, and Georgetown is on the hit list. University Spokesperson Julie Green Bataille confirmed Tuesday that three Georgetown network users are being sued in the latest round of RIAA legal action.

By the Voice Staff March 25, 2004