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They will like us when we win

Recently I have found myself arguing with my parents about the situation in Iraq. They believe that the Bush Administration is being too aggressive, and that France, Germany and Russia are taking the right approach. As a result, I find myself leaning toward supporting war solely out of spite.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Leisure

Quixotic quest ends in failure, fun

Video killed the radio star, curiosity killed the cat and bad luck and a lack of funds killed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the latest would-be joint from offbeat director Terry Gilliam. The only thing that remains of the director’s vision for a film version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s documentary Lost in La Mancha—a detailed account of the dissolution of one director’s dream.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Finding myself, between the sheets

Back in one of my high school English classes we read the great American novel, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby isn’t just any book to Manhasset, the town I grew up in. The novel takes place on our shore and surrounding locations. Seventy-eight years after its publication, the social mores of the novel survive.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Track 03–The Scientist

Snow means real life is paralyzed; the only way to spend a day pent up inside your house, because you can’t open your front door, is doing nothing at all. I watched Empire Records, and it was phenomenal. I’d forgotten how much I love AC/DC and Coyote Shivers, the flannel shirts and long greasy hair.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Features

Slam!

It may seem odd to rank poets like sports teams, but slam isn’t just art, it’s a competition. In an official poetry slam, a poet must present an original composition, no longer than three minutes and without using any props, music, or costumes. Five audience members are chosen at random to serve as judges and they rate each poem on a scale of one to ten. Unlike purely written poetry, just as much emphasis is placed on bodily movement and intonation as on the poem’s content.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Hoyas keep Big East Tournament hopes alive

With 6:30 left in the Georgetown men’s basketball team’s (13-11 overall, 5-8 Big East) 71-56 romp over Providence (13-12 overall, 6-8 Big East) on Tuesday, Friars’ sophomore forward Ryan Gomes backed down Hoyas’ junior forward Mike Sweetney. Over the past five minutes, the two 6-7 behemoths had combined to score 18 of the game’s last 19 points and Gomes was looking for more.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Women’s lacrosse opens season with blowout

The women’s lacrosse team kicked off the preseason with a bang on Tuesday, beating Big East foe Virginia Tech 17-5 at the University of Maryland’s Artificial Turf Facility.

Junior midfielder Anouk Peters and sophomore midfielder Ali Chambers finished with four goals each to lead all scorers.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

GUSA candidates disqualified, voting botched

Two GUSA presidential tickets were disqualified Tuesday night for inappropriate campaigning following an election mishap that prevented at least 300 students from voting.

Soon after declaring Brian Morgenstern (CAS OE05) and Steve de Man (CAS OE04) the winners of GUSA1s executive elections, the six executive candidates were ushered into the glass-walled GUSA office for a closed meeting.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Georgetown responds to threat of war

At Georgetown University, as in many communities across the country, people are preparing for war. Students and staff are designing evacuation routes, designating meeting points and buying duct tape in record numbers.

3We have completely sold out of duct tape, and are ordering more,2 said Meg Gardner, the supply buyer for the Georgetown bookstore.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Hoyas schooled by UConn, 97-57

As 1,879 noisy fans looked on in a packed McDonough Arena, the Georgetown women’s basketball team (14-11 overall, 5-9 Big East) meekly handed No. 1 Connecticut its 65th straight win last night, 97-57. Though junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led all scorers with 20 points, the Hoyas lost their second consecutive game by 40 points or more.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Only first-years eligible for dorms

Although the Office of Housing announced earlier this year that all students who want to live on campus would be guaranteed housing, the sign-up for residence hall room selection will be limited to students in the class of 2006.

According to an e-mail sent to students Wednesday by the Office of Housing Services, the desire for on-campus housing exceeds the actual availability of housing.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Growing Pains

Over the last 20 years, Georgetown has built a new student center, an Intercultural Center, and a dormitory. Over the next 10 years, the University wants to build a Performing Arts Center, a new facility for the McDonough School of Business and a new science building.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

DeGioia supports affirmative action

University President John J. DeGioia strongly stated Georgetown1s commitment to affirmative action in a speech delivered Tuesday evening in Gaston Hall, calling the policy 3critical to achieving our educational mission.2

The Supreme Court of the United States is currently examining affirmative action in public universities.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Merkel criticizes anti-war Germany

Dr. Angela Merkel, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany1s opposition party, discussed the future of Germany and Europe, and criticized Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der1s anti-war stance in a speech Tuesday afternoon.

Speaking in Copley Formal Lounge, Merkel criticized the German adoption of 3Sonderweg,2 the anti-war approach of Schr?der1s government, which has considerably strained U.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

The Sports Sermon

When we say dynasty, what pops into your mind? The Bulls? The Yankees? Bad soap operas?

Well, how about a women’s basketball team? No? Am I exposing your innate gender preferences, your enormous lack of respect for the opposite sex? Or are you a woman? Were you actually thinking about women in the first place? Am I confusing the hell out of you? Are you wearing any pants?

Well, before you answer no, let us get back to the point.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Performing Arts decision delayed

The D.C. Zoning Commission decided not to vote on the requested delay in the construction of the Georgetown University Performing Arts Center at its regular meeting Monday night.

The Zoning Commission decided to allow the University to file further information regarding the compliance issues, according to Director of Off-Campus Student Life Jeanne Lord.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

Three years later

In October, the Office of Housing and Conference Services announced in a broadcast e-mail that the University would be able to provide on-campus housing to all students during the 2003-2004 school year. It thought the completion of the Southwest Quadrangle project in the fall of 2003 would provide the extra space needed to house all students on campus.

By the Voice Staff February 27, 2003

How to fulfill a service requirement

You could easily waste a week questioning the merit of mandatory community service. While this may satisfy some deep philosophical need, it is a waste of time. The nuns will not back down. You might as well get it over with. First and most importantly: Get a friend in on it, preferably one with a good sense of humor.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

I hate ‘Kumbaya’

I got a letter in the mail the other day. Usually, seeing my name on an envelope is like my birthday and Halloween all in one, but reading this particular letter was punishing, mean, even degrading. I, after all, was the one who had written it. When I wrote that letter, Father Pat promised me two things.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Earth-shattering epiphany

Who would have thought that a single color could be so loaded? Sure, plenty of colors mean something, make instant connections in your mind, but those tend to be cursory. Green, blue and yellow may mean something, but they don’t make a statement about you.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Get out that Starter jacket

I got it in my head that I had to look north as I decided where to attend college last year. As I explained to distressed parents and pets alike, “It’s just not cold enough for me in D.C.; I need sub-zero temperatures and blankets of snow from the second week in October to the last week in April to function.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

I kid you not

This past weekend, as I was standing behind my apartment and staring up at the trees that laid bare by the winter’s cold, I came to an important understanding about my life: I cannot have children. This sudden awareness of my procreational limitations was not an epiphany gained from watching the neighborhood squirrels.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

My new weather control device is unstoppable

My new weather-control device is unstoppable. After years of top-secret research and development and months of focus-group testing on Kurdish tribesmen, I have tasted the succulent nectar of world domination just days before your President begins dropping bombs on my swimming pools.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003