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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

Three manhole covers explode

Three manholes exploded yesterday afternoon on the 3200 block of M Street. Authorities closed the block to automotive and pedestrian traffic, causing major travel delays and driving detours for rush-hour drivers.

The explosions occurred at approximately 4:30 p.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Students protest, counter protest at French embassy

College Republicans from Georgetown University and American University clashed with members of Georgetown Peace Action at a protest in front of the French embassy last Thursday.

The rally, planned by the College Republicans to protest France’s refusal to support war with Iraq, was interrupted by chants of “Listen to France, give peace a chance” and “Drop Bush not Bombs,” as about a dozen members of Georgetown Peace Action held a simultaneous counterprotest in support of France’s decision to oppose military action in Iraq.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

White snow, dark politics

I arrived at Union Station early Monday morning determined to make it back to Georgetown. I had just traveled on a sold-out Amtrak train packed with homebound Washingtonians hoping to beat the worst of the storm.

The station was packed with hundreds of travelers settling in for the night: a family with a baby had secured a corner to sleep in; a throng of students huddled in the waiting area; an elderly couple dozed off on a wooden bench.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Hoya Kids permit upheld by court

On Thursday, Feb. 6, the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld a building permit which allows Georgetown to host a child-care center on campus. The permit was challenged by local residents after being upheld by the Board of Zoning Adjustment in 1997.

Hoya Kids Learning Center, located in Poulton Hall, offers day care and preschool services for up to 58 children of University students, faculty and staff, including hospital staff.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

First GAAP weekend begins Friday

Two hundred prospective Georgetown students will be on campus this weekend to take part in the Georgetown Admissions Ambassadors Program’s first student-parent activities of the year.

Prospective students who were accepted in the early admissions process were invited to attend either the February early admissions GAAP weekend or one of three GAAP weekends held in April.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Popular campus figure arrested

John Sullivan, the panhandler often seen outside of Wisemiller’s Deli, was arrested Saturday, Feb. 1 by undercover policemen.

According to Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Brian Bray, Sullivan was arrested on a bench warrant issued by a D.C. judge after he failed to appear in court on a drug posession charge.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

GUSA executive campaigns kick off

This year’s Georgetown University Student Association executive race began with five tickets bidding for the top GUSA offices, but by Wednesday night’s debate in Sellinger Lounge, only three remained.

The candidates are Steve Palmese (MSB ‘04) and Tim Nunziata (MSB ‘04), Brian Morgenstern (CAS ‘05) and Steve de Man (CAS ‘04) and Rob Hutton (SFS ‘04) and Nazareth Haysbert (CAS ‘05).

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Editorials

Vote Morgenstern/de Man

Being an effective leader of the Georgetown University Student Association has nothing to do with slick politicking or bold promises of reform. It requires a strong working knowledge of the University’s administrative system and experience with using GUSA to implement change.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Editorials

Get on your feet

As part of Georgetown’s increased security efforts in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a Department of Public Safety vehicle has been stationed at University entrances, Healy Gates and Reservoir Road, 24-hours a day. While the car adequately addresses campus traffic control, it has not been as successful at policing crimes occurring near campus: On Feb.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

‘One Acts’ offer quick, dirty theater

“Because television sucks” is the slogan for Mask & Bauble’s Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival this year. But even if you don’t want to watch television that sucks, decent actors trying to pull off plays that suck may not be enough to draw you off the couch.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Bourke-White exhibition shows the unexpected

You’ve seen her photos before. The picture of Gandhi sitting by his spinning wheel, those snapshots of DC-4s traveling high above Manhattan or the one of a female photographer kneeling on a skyscraper gargoyle. That last one’s actually not a picture she took, but a picture of her.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Kickin’ it with Cody ChesnuTT

Donray Von, the cousin-turned-manager of rocker Cody ChesnuTT, sat silently backstage at a table eating buffalo wings an hour before ChesnuTT was to perform at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va. earlier this month. The Birchmere’s promoter sat down on a couch next to the table and talked with Von for a few minutes.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

’80s bands, again

Bands from the ‘80s are pissed. Wouldn’t you be if a bunch of ex-hardcore and emo kids hijacked your sound and called it their own? Maybe that’s why such groups as Wire, Television and Mission of Burma are reuniting. It can’t be for the cash, right? In any case, this Friday all the kids under 30 who never got to see Mission of Burma in the band’s heyday can drag their young butts down to the 9:30 Club and watch the aging legends roll out some classic tunes.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003

Mr. Lif gets political

Independent emcee Mr. Lif is an emerging underground rapper who is making a name for himself by incorporating political awareness with his purist hip-hop formula of rapid-fire, innovative lyrics and hard-hitting beats. His latest LP, I Phantom on Definitive Jux records, has received critical acclaim and is his best-selling to date.

By the Voice Staff February 20, 2003