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Hoyas quarterback search continues

Georgetown Football Head Coach Bob Benson has pushed back naming a starting quarterback until this weekend, after the team scrimmages against Shepherd College, a highly-ranked Division II team Saturday. The spot was left vacant after Sean Peterson’s graduation in the spring.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

It was three o’clock in the morning, and after having spent hours conversing in French and sipping French wine with other students, my words in French were leaving my mouth in much the same fashion that boulders leave mountains. That’s when I decided it was time to go to bed.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

A healthy portion of denial … on the side

As much as I would like to think that I’m not a fan of sappy movies, I am. Granted, my dad usually finds in me a willing movie-buddy when a new action film comes out, but I’d just as soon watch a Meg Ryan chick flick (well, maybe not Kate and Leopold). So imagine my glee this summer when I learned that my friend had never seen When Harry Met Sally.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Holly: Best in show

Sometime before my brother and I were born, my parents made a pact that our family would never have a pet. They were too much trouble, my parents reasoned, and kids never took care of them even if they promised that they would. It always seemed so out of the question that I never pushed the issue.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Letter from the Editor

It is a classic trap that we all fall into: Working hard on day-to-day tasks, with our vision steered toward the future, we forget why we are doing what we are doing. We remember the past only casually, having noted our successes and our failures, what has worked and what hasn’t.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Minor allegiance

Major League Baseball is poised for its first work stoppage since the supposedly disastrous 1994 strike, and so baseball-loving Americans like you and I should be crying in whatever we happen to be drinking.

Not me, though. I’ve still got minor-league ball.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Cook cleared to play for Hoyas

The NCAA and the Conference Commissioners’ Association granted first-year guard Ashanti Cook an unqualified release from his commitment to the University of New Mexico on Monday, freeing him to play for the Hoyas in the 2002-3 season.

“Ashanti has been completely released from his prior commitments,” said Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Former Hoyas hopeful for another chance

In Part One of our series, the Voice introduced former Georgetown athletes Marc Samuel and Tyler Purtill who are vying for NFL kicking jobs. Both were signed as undrafted free-agents?Samuel, the Hoyas’ kicker last year, with the Buffalo Bills and Purtill, a former goalie with the soccer team, with the Carolina Panthers.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

The Sports Sermon

He stands at 6-foot-5 and 225 chiseled pounds with a white-bread face and golden hair. He is a red-shirt senior at USC, one of the greatest college football schools of all time. His name is Carson Palmer and in past years he would have been a top-5 draft choice with his pedigree.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Features

Documenting the D.C. go-go scene

Most Georgetown students come to the District?and leave?without ever knowing that go-go, a form of music that has united three generations of black Washingtonians, exists. If not for a chance exposure, Nick Shumaker (CAS ‘01), one of the creators of The Pocket, a documentary about D.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Editorials

Uproar in North Carolina

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was sued this summer for assigning 4,200 incoming first-years and transfers a book on the Koran as part of its First Year Book program, where students write an essay about a text and participate in a group discussion.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Editorials

Asking to be written off

To the majority of Americans, talk of Washington, D.C. politics conjures one name?Marion Barry?and that name represents almost comical levels of corruption and mismanagement, overshadowing sometimes-great accomplishments. These days, Barry has for the most part left public life in the city he ran for nearly two decades, but events this summer proved his specter remains in the worst ways.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Editorials

Gimme a U, gimme an I …

To most incoming first-years, the shiny new iMac computers in Sellinger lounge and on the lower floors of ICC represent one of the many novelties of university life. They inspire a vision of grandeur: They are part of an institution on the cutting edge of technology that constantly provides up-to-date means for carrying out a quest for knowledge.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

An American renaissance

In light of the War on Terrorism and growing socio-political cynicism, it’s time for our nation to embark on a cultural and political renaissance to recapture the rich tapestry of human creativity within American society. The noble quest to elevate the public’s understanding and appreciation of its particular heritage is not novel.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Misleading the American public

Cut to an an 18-year-old girl with a pale complexion. She says, “I helped kill a judge.” Cut to a young dark-skinned girl aged no more than 15. She states: “I help blow up buildings.” Cut to yet another girl who looks about 20 years old. Very proudly and without any sign of remorse, she says, “My life, my body.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

For your entertainment

“You have to promise me that you won’t get six more earrings, an eyebrow ring or anything like that,” the store manager of the f.y.e. chain music store at my local mall said as she was about to hire me for the summer. “Sure,” I said smiling, picturing Ozzy Osbourne’s gratuitously tattooed forearms.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Youth is wasted on me

To an objective onlooker, it would seem that I am turning into an old man. Don’t get me wrong, my wardrobe, in response to nearly eight weeks of indentured servitude in the foreign policy community, resembles that of a misguided eighth grader/rave hooligan (I don’t know which is worse).

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Right to Respect

Citizen organizations of Georgetown, one. Georgetown students, zero.

The D.C. Court of Appeals’ June 20 decision to deny the University’s request for stay for portions of the University’s Ten-Year Plan comes as another victory for the non-student residents of the surrounding Georgetown community who view students as negative addition to the neighborhood.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Leisure

Brothers of invention

For those of us whose late-summer cultural highlight was the premiere of Blue Crush, it is none to soon to be back in the District. A good jumping-off point for live shows this fall will be next Wednesday, Aug. 28, at the 9:30 Club, when the Soledad Brothers open for Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Leisure

Summer books gone wild!

Prague by Arthur Phillips Random House, $24.99 In his posthumously published memoirs of life in 1920s Paris, Hemingway wrote, “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

GU hosts summit on Afghanistan

Georgetown University played a significant role in U.S.-Afghan relations over the summer by hosting the Afghanistan-America Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction. Top Afghan and U.S. government officials as well as U.S. policymakers and experts convened for the first time in the United States on July 24 and 25 to discuss pressing issues facing Afghanistan’s new government.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

GOCard replaces old student ID

Georgetown University is continuing the process of fully incorporating the GOCard, a new student identification card that offers more services than the former student ID.

The old IDs will not open any campus dorms in the near future, according to Margie Bryant of the Office of Auxillary Services, which is heading the GOCard program.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002

Leisure

RJD2’s Deadringer: Everyone loves it but us

So-called underground hip-hop has gotten big pushes from New York’s Definitive Jux records, the home of DJ and producer RJD2. RJ has done some great work in the past; his remix of “The F-Word” pushed the envelope of Harlem rap act Cannibal Ox’ murky, moody machine funk, while “June” brought heartbreaking guitar to what was possibly Copywrite’s only introspective moment on the mic, ever.

By the Voice Staff August 22, 2002