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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

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

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

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

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

The Back Page

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By the Voice Staff September 18, 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

Football loses opening-day nailbiter

SPORTS BY GEORGE TARNOW The Georgetown Hoyas, and most of the 2,406 fans in attendance, were looking for revenge when they met the Colgate Raiders this past Saturday in the season opener on Harbin Field. Revenge was in the cards until the Raider struck with six seconds left in the game, and stole a victory, 20-19.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

The war on sharing

VOICES BY DAVE STROUP This Tuesday signified a landmark victory for copyright integrity and intellectual property security worldwide. The Recording Industry Association of America settled with Brianna LaHara, a resident of a Manhattan housing project. Like many who fall between the cracks of society and turn to crime, LaHara led a double life. By day, she attended middle school and was on the honor roll. By night, she was one of the nation’s most wanted music pirates.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Letter to the Editor

I find it ironic that Dave Stroup’s Sept. 4 article “D.C. on Speed” appears in the same issue as an article regarding an injury to a fellow student due to a careless and speeding driver (“Student hit by Mercedes SLK,” News). While I take issue with Stroup’s factually and legally unfounded assertion that Attorney General Ashcroft is hiding “cameras in smoke detectors,” it is his closing editorialization-”the system is flawed”-that is inappropriate in a news article.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Correction

In “A boathouse at last?” (Cover, Sept. 4), the statement, “Various planning and historic preservation groups, such as the Old Georgetown Board, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the Georgetown Waterfront Commission and the National Capital Planning Commission, gave their enthusiastic approval to the boathouse plans,” is incorrect.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Our worsening body image

Cultural elites-and by elites I basically mean yuppies-love to compete. Some might say that’s why they’re rich. You go to Georgetown, so you’ve probably noticed this. They compete for everything. Schools, grades, clothes, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, rings, rocks, cars, apartments, starter mansions, pets, children, and finally schools for their children.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Dumb and Dubya

The President of the United States, George W. Bush, is not blessed with “darn good intelligence,” and I’m not talking about the CIA reports he was given. That’s right, he is not a smart man. The most common reaction to the above assertion goes something like this: “That’s not true.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Free Unclassifieds

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Does 27 off-suit make you sick? have you seen the movie Rounders over 20 times? E-mail rounders101@hotmail.com if you’re down.

-“You didn’t count the compressions!” -“Bitch, please.”

Delightfully campy.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

First-year forward Schramm steps up

First-year Hoyas forward Ricky Schramm does not look intimidating on the soccer field. He’s 5-foot-11, 155 pounds, and average size. What he lacks in size, however, he makes up for in ability and personal style.

“Ricky is somebody you wouldn’t want to play against,” said Head Coach Keith Tabatznik.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Men’s soccer struggles on road

Coming off the D.C. College Cup tournament win Labor Day weekend, the Georgetown men’s soccer team posted a disappointing follow-up, tying Indiana University and losing to Boston University in the UC/Adidas classic Friday and Saturday in Storrs, Conn.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

The Sports Sermon

So how was it? The first hang-over sitting on-the-couch, hand-down-the boxers Sunday of football watching? Holla! We struggle getting out of bed for our 1:15 classes, but you know we jumped out of bed at noon for some football watching.

By Paul McCarthy September 11, 2003

Run for it

Don’t be fooled by the sunny weather. Fall is coming, and it’s coming fast. Come November, you’ll either stop exercising (yeah, you know I’m talking about you) or you’ll be regulated to the likes of a lab rat, helplessly treadmilling within the musky environs of Yates Fieldhouse.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003

Britney does D.C.

LEISURE BY JULIA COOKE Football is the quintessential American sport. It makes sense, then, that the Capitol would be the backdrop for the NFL-America rally that took place last Thursday evening on the National Mall.

By the Voice Staff September 11, 2003