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BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

172 The number of New Student Orientation Advisors

5,000 The number of box lunches for the NSO Goodbye lunch

1,000 The number of cups ordered for NSO Casino Night

1,980 The number of incoming first-year and transfer students

Voices

Understanding the two faces of Chile

Can a torture camp ever really become a “Park of Peace”?

Voices

First-years: Listen to us, you fools

Climb down the Exorcist steps. Take a romantic stroll around the monuments by moonlight. Climb the John Carroll statue. Eat a Chicken Madness. If you don’t, you may be a terrorist.

Voices

I only get the negatives: confessions of a bitter break up

Like the headline says, confessions of a bitter break up

Features

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.

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.

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.

News

NEWS HITS

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

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.

News

S&P drops Georgetown’s credit rating

Georgetown’s credit rating drops. Woops.

News

Saxa Politica: Promoting Pluralism

Fighting racism, et al. with Pluralism

Leisure

Orozco’s reflections of reality

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

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.

Leisure

Better than Marriage: Trash Talkin’

One woman, an airplane and a trashy magazine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sports

Run ’til your Pretty: Pumping Iron

The Georgetown Voice’s new fitness column!

Sports

The Sports Sermon

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

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

Sports

Fortnightly Footnotes

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

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.

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.