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GUSA election remains undecided

The Georgetown University Student Association Assembly struck down Adam Giblin and Eric Lashner’s election appeal Tuesday, finally leaving the election up to the Constitutional Council.

The Council’s decision will be the last step in an election process that has lasted months.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Hip, oh!

As an English major, I thrive on definitions. So let’s take, “hippie.” My friend Webster says it means “1. any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc., 2. any person having a similar lifestyle”. My friend The Hoya says it’s “Voice staff.”

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Lezh’ur Ledger

If you’re tired of having your closet cluttered up by old skin mags, or if renting a climate controlled mini storage unit isn’t stylish enough for your cultural debris, a truly viable option is now on the market. For a starting bid of merely six million $US (easily within reach for many young Georgetown heirs and heiresses), the Nebraska-based corporation Orbital Development is now accepting offers to launch precisely 22 pounds of cargo of your choosing into space, and to crash said payload directly into the moon.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

WGTB Recommends …

Unless you’re a troglodyte (we know some of them, it’s OK), you’ve noticed the oppressive gray skies and rainfall. The WGTB staff and Voice Leisure have joined forces to create a list of our favorite wet weather songs. Keep your May flowers to yourself.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Acts coming in April

List of shows from April 17-25, including Stereolab, Sleater-Kinney, Jurassic 5, and Blonde Redhead.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Death Cab for Cutie repeat

Despite moving from the Black Cat to the 9:30 Club, selling out at both venues, and having their television debut on CBS this January, Death Cab for Cutie doesn’t like to think of itself as a big deal. When asked about the band’s increasing popularity, new drummer Jason McGerr explained, “It’s cool. I would rather make a record and have a couple hundred thousand people have the option to get the music rather than not … But we haven’t changed the business formula, we haven’t sought out a huge, new audience.”

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

‘Wit’ deftly examines mortality

The certainty of death and the joy of eating popsicles. 17th century poetry and pelvic exams. This curious array of topics finds its way onstage in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, written by Georgetown graduate Margaret Edson (GRD ‘92) and presented by Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Voices

Education is costly, sleep is priceless

Once again, the time has come to register for classes. Most people pretend that they choose their classes for their academic value, challenging topics, famous professors or utility. Others, like me, will admit that although these concepts linger in the back of their minds, in truth, their registration choices are largely driven by an innate laziness.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Voices

GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!

Athletic traditionalists in America have decried the on-the-field antics of modern professional athletes, which they warn have trickled down to youth playing fields. They are nostalgic for the days when a player would just hand the ball back to the referee instead of working on his dance moves in the end zone.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Voices

Read into this writing

I’m reading a book, and it’s a good book, but that’s just the problem. In the thick of the text, when plots and characters and language merge, and when scenes connect and stories layer, it all makes just too much sense. The details fit too well. The book crested into its crescendo, and I felt pressed to escape back into reality, back into my own head where questions are more common than manicured realities.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Curling for Columbine

On a recent trip home I went to America’s largest running specialty store, RunTex in Austin, Tx. As a marathoner, I tend to log a good number of miles per week, which has recently caused a minor case of planter’s fascitis, which gradually causes a foot’s arch to collapse around weakened tendons, in my right foot.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Features

A Civil Right?

John (CAS’94) and Duncan (SFS ‘94) Crabtree-Ireland have considered themselves married since 1993. But in February, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave them the opportunity to put it on paper. At 9:13 a.m. on a bright San Francisco morning, city Assessor-Recorder Mabel Teng declared John and Duncan “spouses for life” and placed their marriage in the public record.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Sports Serm

“Our tables are smaller because we’re a European company; Europeans are smaller”- an idiotic IKEA saleswoman

Last week, an Ottawa radio commentator crossed the line when he jokingly suggested that Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer Tie Domi, beats his wife. Rather than dropping the gloves, Domi took the high road, saying the Ottawa Senator’s Peter Bondra’s referral to the Leafs-Senators playoff series as a “war” was disrespectful to Marines fighting in Iraq.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Terps egg Hoyas over Easter

The women’s lacrosse team pushed through wins against North Carolina and Boston College, but a loss in a highly touted game against Maryland may haunt the team heading into the seeding for the national tournament.

Junior midfielders Lauryn Bernier and Ali Chambers each scored a hat trick to lead second-ranked Georgetown to a 14-3 victory over No.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Men’s lacrosse catapults past Catamounts

Sometimes a single player can assert his will and completely dominate a game. In the men’s lacrosse game against Vermont last Saturday, that player was senior midfielder Walid Hajj.

Coming off a heartbreaking home loss to Navy, Georgetown’s men’s lacrosse team responded with a 13-5 rout over the Catamounts, who they had not played since 1993.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Crews walk through competition

With the fury of the underdog, the Georgetown men’s and women’s lightweight crews have started their seasons with key race wins. However, since both men’s programs had success at the Jesuit Invitational, the heavymeight men and openweight women’s programs have slipped in their early season marquee matchups.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Editorials

A little respect please

The University of Maryland has recently taken disciplinary measures against three students with disruptive conduct for shouting during a February 29 speech at the Stamp Student Union by Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife. Two of the students, Chuck DeVoe and Ryan Grim, each shouted a question at Cheney-one about gay marriage, the other about reparations payments for slaves’ descendants-while the third student, Michael Cawdery, shouted an obscenity.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 2004

Editorials

Williams hits a foul deal

In the most recent ploy to lure the Montreal Expos to the District, Mayor Anthony Williams has promised Major League Baseball a stadium with a nearly $400 million price tag. However, it remains unclear where this money would come from. Williams has said that the city can fully finance the construction of the stadium, yet he has not shared the details with the D.

By the Voice Staff April 15, 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

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

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

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 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