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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

Last days of summer

The anthropologist Arjun Appadurai suggests in his analysis of the age of globalization that we can trace the international flow of identities and culture by following a particular good or idea. We can note each permutation and appropriation of that idea as a unique glimpse into the lives of global consumers.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Fakemakers

When the football season begins anew, there are always a few tweaks that follow the first few weeks. Whether its Sunday afternoons or Tuesday nights at 9 p.m., serious tweakage needs to take place.

Kurt Warner went from the comfy confines of his starting position to the familiar surroundings of checkout lane nine.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

The Back Page

Classifieds Announcements Free Unclassifieds

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Editorials

Retraction

Last week’s edition of The Voice contained an editorial which criticized what we believed were ineffective modifications made to the lockdown policy (“Lockdown: a partial fix,” Sept. 11).

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Editorials

A campus wasteland

While walking her dog up the library steps on Sunday morning, a Georgetown resident looked down to see that she and her dog were wading through broken glass. To her left, underneath the benches on the landing, hundreds of beer cans were cluttered, remnants of a crazy Saturday night.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Editorials

Improving SafeRides

While a greater percentage of Georgetown University students are living on campus, the need for greater attention to off-campus safety issues remains as pressing as before. Just this week, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspected armed robber who entered a second-story residence early hours of the morning.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Thrifty thrills

A hefty price tag has come to denote the following: quality goods, a designer outfit, or a new piece of clothing that looks 20 years old. Evidence of this phenomenon abounds in stores like Abercrombie & Fitch and Urban Outfitters, where retailers strive to make costly clothes that look like they were produced decades ago.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Eat this

From Atkins to South Beach, there’s a diet out there for just about everyone. While most popular diets help you lose weight by controlling caloric intake and portion size, diet programs of the past took a much more effective approach: make the food so unappealing that you literally can’t eat it.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003

Being the top dog

Questions plague mankind. What are we doing here? What do we know? What are we waiting for? Topdog/Underdog, a fierce new play penned by Suzan-Lori Parks, follows closely in the footsteps of playwrights Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard by delving right into such inquiry.

By the Voice Staff September 18, 2003