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Shake that thang

Remember when you were a little kid and there just seemed to be absolutely nothing to do? You would walk around sighing, lamenting your existence because life was so damn dull. Remember what your mom, clearly oblivious to your utter unhappiness, used to give as “advice”? Let me refresh your memory—”Make your own fun!” Interestingly enough, Mom’s words are coming back to haunt all the indie rock kids, because kids are sick of moping (Chris Carraba eat your heart out).

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

This German festival lacks sausage

What would you do with a hundred dollars? You probably wouldn’t make a short indie film in German. And that’s exactly why you’re not featured in 99 Euro Films (euro is the European word for dollar), a collection of shorts being shown as part of Visions Cinema’s week-long New Films from Germany series.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Mugging at the library

The Corp’s most recent business endeavor, a caf? on the second floor of Lauinger Library, opened Tuesday to mild, librarian-approved fanfare. Midnight Mug brings the number of caf?s on this campus to four, if you count the Starbucks in Leavey.

If the number of caf?s per capita is an indicator of general pleasantness, it would seem that as a university, we are doing fairly well.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

AFIRMS releases second report

Advocates for Improved Response Methods to Sexual Assault, a recently formed student group, released a second report on the University’s sexual assault policy yesterday. The report examines the adjudication process and offers solutions to perceived problems.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

GU students join anti-war protests

Not every student on the bus to the MCI center on Saturday morning was headed to the men’s basketball game. Instead, about 100 Georgetown students headed to the protests on the National Mall, which drew an estimated 200,000 participants despite the cold.

Unlike the International Monetary Fund protests in October, which were only attended by about 2,000 people, the threat of war caused increased participation, according to Mike Wilson (CAS ‘05), a member of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee and Peace Action.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

OIP attempts to determine value of study abroad

Starting this semester, approximately 1000 students from four universities including Georgetown will participate in a research project that will try to determine the value of studying abroad for undergraduate students.

The Office of International Programs at Georgetown is heading the study, which will examine what students learn abroad and the conditions that support this learning, according to Director of International Programs Michael Vande Berg.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Students bring Fair Trade chocolate to campus

Georgetown Students for Fair Trade, a group that has worked to offer fair trade coffee on the Georgetown campus since last spring, has now expanded into a national organization and recently widened its campaign to include chocolate products. From Jan. 20 to Feb.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

What would MLK do?

The anti-war movement has gone mainstream.

Last Saturday’s anti-war protest in downtown Washington brought out somewhere between 30,000 and 500,000 people. No matter what the exact number, the crowd included both the usual and some not-so-usual groups of protesters.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Arts center approval challenged

Community representatives have submitted complaints to the D.C. Zoning Commission requesting a delay in the approval of the University’s Performing Arts Center, construction of which was originally scheduled to begin this spring. They claimed that the University is not meeting conditions that the Board of Zoning Adjustment imposed last March, including an enrollment cap and a requirement that student vehicles be registered.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Law Center Dean resigns after 15 years

Judith Areen, Dean of the Law Center and executive vice president for Law Center affairs, submitted her resignation on January 10. She plans to leave her post at the end of her term, in June 2004.

Areen has served three five-year terms as dean and plans to remain on the staff of the Law Center after taking a one- year sabbatical.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Roberta Flack: singer, storyteller, enchantress

Roberta Flack performed Monday on the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration sponsored by the President’s Office. The performance set an attendance record, drawing over 8,000 students and other fans of Flack’s music together to celebrate the life of Dr.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Protest fashion worth fighting for

With an estimated 259,342 people in attendance, this weekend’s anti-war protests grabbed the attention of many a District resident. However, none were more impressed than D.C.’s fashion gurus, who were stunned by the arrival of this season’s protest couture.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Features

On the Road to the Supreme Court

You have 30 minutes to present the most important argument of your life. You try to keep your carefully constructed thoughts in order, but you cannot stop the barrage of questions from the top nine legal minds in the country. You have never argued in a court like this before.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Losing it, whatever it is

The first movie that a friend of mine recalls watching as a child was a gay porn flick. Telling me this story, he remarked that while he had most likely been introduced to Sesame Street before John Holmes, puppets didn’t make quite the same impression. My friend described it as akin to watching Freud’s primal scene with a twist: He wakes up one night and goes over to his door, which is partly open.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

This protest’s for you

Last weekend the traveling protest carnival arrived in D.C. again, and the preemptive analyses of Peter Hamby (Cultural Revolution, Jan. 16) and Scott Matthews (“I love sweatshops,” Jan. 16) were right—dead right. Their light-hearted and entirely uncontradictory essays in last week’s issue of the Voice truly provoked deep introspection amidst the activist community at Georgetown and struck a note of discord within the greater peace and anti-globalization movements, to whom the articles were mass e-mailed.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Taming old variables

“What if we moved back to New South? Would that be amazing, or just horrific?” asked my roommate one night as we walked back from the cafeteria. Devoted New South ex-residents, we began reminiscing about the fun we’d had there—being thrown in the shower at 2 a.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Confessions of a lazy mind

Picture this: It’s a little after midnight early Wednesday morning, and you have a column and a three-page thesis outline due later that day. So what do you do? Well, if you’re me, you sit down with your too-often shirtless roommate and watch A Walk To Remember, based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks.

By the Voice Staff January 23, 2003

Revolucion! Kind of.

The intended purpose of this godforsaken column is to promote off-campus activities. While it rarely lives up to its “revolutionary” moniker, this week’s installment should provide the opportunity for you to really get out there and make change and inspire true revolution.

By the Voice Staff January 16, 2003

Leisure Ledger

*Vagina Monologues auditions were held this week, and the e-mail promised that “every vagina will be heard.” We’re pretty sure they prefer to be called women now. *Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball is scheduled to host a live show in Gaston Hall on Wednesday, Jan.

By the Voice Staff January 16, 2003

Porkestra plays music, comes w/ rice

Tonight the Grog & Tankard bar in Upper Georgetown will feature three local bands-~~The Bicycle Thieves, Alfonso Velez and Moo Shoo Porkestra~~-in a benefit for D.C.-area AIDS relief organizations. Composed largely of Georgetown students, Moo Shoo Porkestra is a five-piece rock band that includes lead guitarist Dave Salvo (COL ‘05), guitarist Aaron Shneyer (COL ‘05), bassist Justin Shuster (COL ‘05), trombonist Ted Berg (COL ‘03) and drummer Matt Harty, a senior at American University.

By the Voice Staff January 16, 2003

Morcheeba–ha, get it?

The term trip-hop, for those readers who are neither British nor constantly depressed, refers to a style of music consisting of mellow, bass-heavy hip-hop beats and vocals that ranging anywhere from soulful, sultry singing to rapping with emphasis on flow (depending on the group).

By the Voice Staff January 16, 2003

Film websites the perfect cure for the work ethic

One week into the semester and you’ve already run out of ways to procrastinate? No problem. A couple of websites exist that, once discovered, promise to kidnap and murder every second of your free time—Ifilm.com and AtomFilms.com. The former advertises itself as possessing the “world’s largest collection of short films and movie clips available to watch online” and the latter is semi-serious, chock full of truncated pieces of cinematic glory.

By the Voice Staff January 16, 2003