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Team opens season with D.C. College Cup

The Georgetown men’s soccer team returns this season a year older and a year wiser.

“The year of experience that we got last year was vital,” said Senior defender and co-captain Carl Skanderup.

When it comes to experience, Skanderup is somewhat alone with only keeper Tim O’Hagan and midfielder David Eder returning for their senior season.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Lukezic gears up for cross country season

SPORTS BY JONATHAN BROMMA After a season that included a second consecutive Men’s Junior National title in the 1500 meters and an All-American performance in the same event at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Chris Lukezic returns to the hilltop recharged and enthusiastic about a year that holds great promise for both him and his track teammates.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Cycling enthusiasts get their fix with Tour

Every July, the media covers the oft-neglected sport of cycling. American excitement about the Tour de France has risen steadily as Lance Armstrong comes closer and closer to becoming the greatest cyclist of all time. Casual fans enjoy sporadic articles about the “drive for five,” Lance and the United States Postal team’s push for five consecutive tour victories.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

The Sports Sermon

Lazy? Underachieving? Looking to lead the easy, dissolute life among peers of similarly lax worldviews? Are you a major league baseball team? Then do I have the perfect destination for you-the Centrals.

That’s right, folks. If you aren’t into the whole “playing to win” thing, check the central divisions of your respective leagues.

By Mike DeBonis August 28, 2003

GU as 7-Eleven?

If you’ve read this week’s cover story about the bevy of new administrators this year, one thought may well have struck you square: When did our top-tier national research university turn into a 7-Eleven? Perhaps that’s an exaggeration: the new Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall may have Starbucks coffee with boutique flavored syrups, but there are no blue raspberry Slurpees yet.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Dieringer prepares to face her fears

The Georgetown student who allegedly sexually assaulted Kate Dieringer (NHS ‘05) last year is back on campus this year.” People keep telling me I won’t run into him on campus, but I’m sure I’ll see him all of the time-in Leavey, in the library, in the cafeteria, in Booey’s, in Wisey’s,” said Dieringer.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Alumnus dies in UN explosion

Rick Hooper (MAAS ‘90) died Aug. 19, 2003 in the bombing of the United Nations offices in Baghdad. Hooper, 40, was working as assistant to the head of the U.N.’s special envoy, Kieran Prendergast. Temporarily replacing an assistant envoy, Hooper was planning on staying in Baghdad for only two weeks before continuing on to Palestine.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Changes to alcohol policy considered

NEWS BY SHANTHI MANIAN Students and faculty of the FRIENDS initiative submitted a proposal to Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson this week that would drastically change Georgetown’s alcohol policy. The document includes recommendations to eliminate Georgetown’s “dry dorm” policy, party registration and “beer gardens” which physically separate drinkers from non-drinkers at on-campus parties.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

GU honors King’s legacy

Georgetown is sponsoring an event this evening to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Civil rights activist Ossie Davis will speak at the Kennedy Center, followed by a performance by the Georgetown Gospel Choir.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Students robbed in Burleith

An armed assailant robbed two Georgetown students of their purses this week. At approximately 11:45 p.m. Tuesday night, the two students were approached by an armed suspect while they walked down the 3300 block of “O” Street, N.W. The suspect demanded their purses and they turned them over.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Queue and not you

LEISURE BY SONIA SMITH The day before Q and Not U was supposed to embark on their spring tour of the United States, drummer John Davis broke his foot while playing street hockey. While the timing of this break was certainly unfortunate-~~all the spring shows had to be cancelled to give Davis’ foot time to heal~~-Davis managed to find something positive about the situation.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Better than nothing

You’re excited to be back on campus. You’re looking to get out, and you hear about a cheap, on-campus show of a band that you vaguely remember. What was the name of that song? “Good.” And the band name? Better than Ezra. Unfortunately, neither “good,” “better,” or “best” is an appropriate adjective for the NSO show this past Sunday in McDonough Gymnasium.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Summer leftovers

While many Georgetown students doubtlessly spent this summer backpacking through barren stretches of Central Asia and others kept busy idling by pools in The Gambia with boarding school friends, others (like myself) spent the bulk of the summer doing mind-numbing office work in the District.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Urban underbelly

by Tali Trigg

Imagine traveling around the world trying to find the ugliest possible places. Then imagine trying to simultaneously convey the ironic beauty and underlying destruction of these places. Edward Burtynsky, a Toronto photographer, has managed to do both by expertly locating and portraying sites that bear terrible witness to man’s excess of industrial waste.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Bye Wesley

If you’re like most people, you arrived at college and spent your first five minutes of high-bandwidth-induced euphoria downloading important-sounding music you had always meant to learn to appreciate, like Bob Marley’s Legend. Then your music-stealing tastes turned to novelty songs, and you spent the rest of freshman year clogging the network by downloading such tracks as King Missle’s “Detachable Penis.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Free Unclassifieds

Four cities, four bases… coincidence?

I don’t want to live at the whim of my tooth.

Bes-It was great to see you. It was really the only thing to do at that point. Keep in touch.

Kak-You better call on Wednesday nights. What will I do without the standing offer for the tracheotomy?

Shoop-a-doop with the stroup-a-doop.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Features

A Guide to Your New Administrators

COVER COMPILED BY VOICE STAFF There’s lots of new faces on campus this year, and it’s not just the first-years. Check out our guide and spot your administrators in their natural habitat.

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2003

Stoking the engines of hate

VOICES BY REV. EDWARD J. INGEBRETSEN, A.C.C. I write this as a priest. It may be that the homosexual is, as Vatican documents repeat, “inordinately disordered.” But what is rarely noted is the surely disordered, even pathological, reaction to the mere presence of the homosexual in Church contexts. In the words of the old curse, dogs bark and people run screaming from the street when the homosexual voice is heard.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003

The she that isn’t me

When summer comes along, temperatures and hormone levels rise and clothing and inhibitions are minimal, which causes a temporary cease-fire in the battle between the sexes. Like many girls, I met a guy this summer, a singer/songwriter who spent his summer living in Manhattan trying to “break into the music business.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003

Let’s hope it’s genetic

Every summer, my family, including my aunt, uncle and two cousins go on vacation for a week in August. While there are usually eight travelers in all, my mom and my aunt, affectionately called “the Pearson twins,” in honor of their maiden name, run the trip with an iron fist.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003

Features

The College alienated

COVER BY MIKE DeBONIS Georgetown College expected Cardinal Francis Arinze to talk about cooperation, but it only got controversy.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003

Discouraging lunacy

In 1973, New York University professor Oscar Newman published a book called Defensible Space, in which he analyzed the spatial layout of a number of housing projects, mostly in New York City, and compared their designs with their crime rates and their level of safety as perceived by residents.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003

Juan’s gone, Olson steps in as interim V.P.

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON Former Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Juan Gonzalez unexpectedly ended his tenure at the University this summer to take a position as Vice President for Student Affairs at Arizona State University. Former Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Todd Olson is now serving as the interim Vice President for Student Affairs.

By the Voice Staff August 21, 2003