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How to make Hoya love

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and I make the ladies sweat. That’s why the Voice begged me to write this article. What, the editors wondered, can we find out about “the life of love” from the hottest thing to hit the Georgetown campus since Tabasco and Jesuits? Plenty, I say.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Kickin’ it in the badlands

I think my erudite and well-read English professor should start pronouncing Gustav Flaubert’s name in a cheap, Americanized fashion: Flaw-burt. He should continue his French literary name-dropping as usual but just mispronounce Flaubert’s name on purpose: Bordieu, Foucault, Sartre, Flaw-burt.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Just four rugs?

“Excuse me, is this your child?” the waiter asked. We must have been an odd sight—an American couple dining at a Dallas family restaurant with what appeared to be a gangly six-year-old Brit. After being assured that I was not, in fact, the victim of an elaborate trans-Atlantic kidnapping scheme and that we had just lived abroad for a while, he left us alone without informing the police.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Letter to the Editor

As members of Advocates for Improved Response Methods to Sexual Assault (AFIRMS), we applaud the Georgetown Voice for its endorsement of our proposed changes to the sexual assault policy. The editors have clearly examined our reports carefully with the interests of students in mind.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Letter to the Editor

Mike DeBonis’ column (“Trash Talk,” Feb. 6) was reasonably well-written, which is to be applauded. However, the sanctimonious attitude he exhibits is not. The article ends with the paragraph, “Do yourself a favor if you’re a talk radio junkie or a HoyaTalk regular: Break out of the cycle and take a few minutes to get the real story.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Proposed free, confidential HIV testing denied

Funding for proposed free and confidential HIV screening in the Student Primary Care Clinic was denied by the University Wednesday afternoon, presenting a major setback to the year and a half long effort.

Doctors at the clinic, in conjunction with organizations such as the Student Health Advisory Board and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Working Group, have been working on the project which, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Dr.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Clinton hosts Young Adult Symposium on campus

President Bill Clinton (SFS ‘68) took the stage in Gaston Hall on Tuesday to cries of “four more years!” Clinton gave the keynote address at his first annual Young Adult Symposium, a conference focused on solving youth issues in the United States, to the enthusiastic group.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

GUSA supports Fair Trade

The Georgetown University Student Association unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night recommending that the University sell Fair Trade coffee at all coffee shops, cafeterias and catering services at Georgetown.

Currently Uncommon Grounds, Midnight Mug, the Starbucks in the Leavey Center, New South Cafeteria and Marriott catering services offer Fair Trade coffee when requested.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Students robbed one block from campus

On Feb. 2, two students were robbed less than a block from Healy Gates where a Department of Public Safety patrol car is permanently stationed. The students were approached around 5 a.m. on the 3600 block of O Street by two black men in their twenties, one of whom claimed to be a student, according to Lt.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Provost looks to hire associates

The Office of the Provost hopes to hire two new Associate Provosts by March or April, said Provost James O’Donnell. O’Donnell stated that the two full-time positions are not new and were left vacant by his predecessor, Dr. Dorothy Brown, in order to give him the freedom to choose his own staff.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Dluhy hopes to foster communication

Despite protests from both students and faculty about the creation of her position, newly appointed Special Assistant to the Vice President Mary Dluhy said that she is confident that she is both needed on campus and qualified to work with Georgetown students.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

GU leads in fuel cell technology

Georgetown has agreed to provide the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority with a fuel cell bus to be used on Metrobus routes beginning this spring.

According to a Metro press release, they are currently modifying the bus to make it compatible with Metro transit buses.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Spending responsibly

Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez is no stranger to budgeting crises. Gonzalez was asked to come to Georgetown at a time when the University was making historic financial changes. Yet Gonzalez has made questionable additions to Student Affairs while neglecting valid student needs.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Editorials

Free and anonymous

Unfortunately for students, on-campus HIV testing is neither cheap nor anonymous. Currently, the Student Primary Care Clinic does offer testing, but a recently proposed plan would have made it both free and anonymous for students. However, once again the University proved itself incapable of meeting student needs by denying funding for the plan yesterday.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Editorials

An inexcusable mistake

On Feb. 5, students were unable to access their Georgetown University e-mail accounts for approximately 14 hours. The administration shut down GUMail in order to remove a message sent out to the University community, which contained confidential and sensitive information about three students.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Editorials

Better than hydro

In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush explained his National Energy Policy, an energy plan which breaks definitively with Republicans of the past who have not advocated environmentally-friendly policies. Bush claims that he has presented an energy plan that is environmentally sound and progressive in the development of “technology and innovation,” citing his effort to earmark $1.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

‘Russian Ark’ stays afloat

St. Petersburg has some self-esteem issues. Perched precipitously between Russia and Europe both geographically and culturally, it has long wavered between the “civilized” yearnings of Peter the Great and the revolutionary tendencies that renamed it Leningrad.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

Poetry and politics at Uncommon Grounds

The kid looked like Eminem. Forearms flailing rhythmically yet with restraint. Steady wide-eyed gaze emphatic and penetrating. He had the flow, the excessive hyperactive energy, the uncanny sense for timing and shifting intonation, the brilliant lyrical subtlety .

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003

The definitive OK Go

OK Go’s hit single, “Get Over It,” is tearing up both alternative and mainstream radio nationwide. The band’s founding members, now in their late twenties, met at music camp when they were twelve and stayed in touch by exchanging mix-tapes through high school, reconvening after college to pursue rock-stardom.

By the Voice Staff February 13, 2003