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Fair trade coffee campaign finds success at GU

Georgetown Students for Fair Trade have made considerable progress toward their goal of having Georgetown’s campus serve only Fair Trade-certified coffee. Fair Trade guarantees farmers a higher wage and meets higher product standards.

New South, the Center Grill and Buzz now serve the coffee.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

GUSA disagrees with lockdown policy

The Georgetown University Student Association sent a letter to University President John J. DeGioia Friday expressing concern regarding the new student safety policies on campus. As of the beginning of this school year, students no longer have 24-hour access to University buildings other than their own on-campus residence buildings.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Do unto others …

On a January night in 1998, top-level Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze slammed his Ford Taurus into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue just blocks from Dupont Circle, killing a 16-year-old Maryland girl. Makharadze, who was driving drunk, initially claimed diplomatic immunity from arrest.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Oops, they did it again

Ah, election season, when voters’ fancies once again decide the fate of the free world. Or, alternatively, when unusable machines and untrained poll workers threaten to wipe out 250 years of democratic progress, as was the case in the most recent Florida primaries.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Let’s get it online

The promise is as familiar as that of a milkshake machine at New South. For years Georgetown University Student Association candidates have been plastering the walls of our dorms with the pledge to create mandatory University-wide online syllabi for classes.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

That new fall feeling

The Fairline Parkway’s self-titled debut album off Atlanta-based Lazyline Records is meant for autumn. It is a “comfort album” for when the weather starts to get chilly and the schoolwork starts to pile up. Like an overcast day, The Fairline Parkway makes you want to turn off the heat, curl up and contemplate the mysteries of life with your closest friends .

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Studio reveals Privates

In the contemporary world, Europeans and Americans continually search for ways to come to terms with a shameful history of colonialism and domination. Rather than critically examine this embarrassing past, however, most Westerners are content to compartmentalize and bury the sordid topic altogether.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Black House brings slammers to campus

Our ability to use language is one of our defining characteristics as a species. From sounds that become morphemes, morphemes that become words and words that combine to form complex narratives and dialogues, we convey our innermost thoughts and intellectual workings through language.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Kaydee tested, Mason approved?

As a sophomore, David Appelbaum (CAS ‘03) wrote an article in The Hoya chronicling the lack of academic and technical support for filmmaking at Georgetown. Tonight, having overcome the very barriers cited in that article two years ago, his new film Representing You will premiere in front of a Georgetown audience.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Give this seat to a senior

“Compaq Presario … yup … 1275 … Celeron processor ? C-E-L-E-R-O-N. Yes, they still make those.” The hip technology that once made us the bees knees on campus now dates us as the older generation of students. Once beautiful computer desktops now look gray and boxy next to the smart-looking flat screen thingamajigs that the new students have purchased.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

There would be other vines

You got a urinary tract infection when you were at school. You divulge the details to me over coffee, leaning in against the edge of the table, the two top buttons of your cardigan in view. You laugh out loud because it’s been so long since you’ve talked about piss.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Barefoot and pregnant?

I am done with white girls and I am definitely done with cellulite. All I want these days is a nice down-to-earth Taiwanese girl who can make me traditional Taiwanese dinners. Is this asking for too much? I greet this question with a resounding no?I mean, packing lunches and cuisine with a more pan-Asian flavor is strictly optional (knowing how to cook up a mean dika misua may be a requisite but unagi-don or dolsot bibimbop is entirely up to her).

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

I’m sorry, something came up

This past weekend a group of friends and I went to see Swimfan at Union Station. As we were leaving the theater and entering the Metro station, we saw something fall in front of us, and it took me about 10 full seconds to realize that it was vomit. A guy in front of us was sprayed, looked up and shouted, “I can feel your pain, but Goddamn.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

Features

The Corporate University

Georgetown University is a Catholic and Jesuit, student-centered research university … Georgetown educates women and men to be reflective life-long learners, to be responsible and active participants in civic life and to live generously in service to others.

By the Voice Staff September 19, 2002

The benefits of a full-on homestay

I was supposed to leave for England later this month in order to begin a year abroad at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. Yes, I was mere weeks away from gowns, tea, cake, cloudy weather and all of the other attendant debauchery of the U.K. experience when I made my decision to cast it all aside in favor of other pursuits, the first of which is a few weeks abroad at a little place called my parents’ house in Denver.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

Unfriendly borders

Exactly one year after the attacks of Sept. 11, the federal government has inaugurated a new, more stringent system for screening immigrants at some ports of entry to the United States. Immigration agents must now fingerprint and photograph foreigners who fit certain criteria for potential terrorist activity, criteria that the Justice Department refuses to disclose.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

DPS, spread your wings

The D.C. City Council is scheduled to vote next week on a bill that would allow extended cooperation between campus police and the Washington Metropolitan Police force. The bill would potentially allow the Department of Public Safety to extend its patrol to areas outside of campus that are heavily populated by students, such as Burleith and West Georgetown.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

It’s a campus, not a prison

In a misguided attempt to make campus safer, the University has attempted to increase security by implementing a 24-hour lock down policy at all dorms. This means that students’ GOCards only allow them access to the building in which they live. Last year’s policy stated that students with a valid Georgetown ID could enter any dorm between 8:30 a.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

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By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

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By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

Announcements

Come! Cheap treasures, Clothes, Knick-knacks, Jewlery, Furniture at the Burleith Flea Market on Sunday, September 14 located on 36th Street between S and T Streets. If you want to participate, setup begins at 8 a.m. For more information, call Marjorie Wol

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

Chaplain encourages reflection

Interim University Chaplain Scott Pilarz, S.J. wants Campus Ministry to “galvanize energy across campus” this year, he said in a meeting with the Voice on Tuesday.

Pilarz said that he wants to ensure that the programs Campus Ministry offers encourage spirituality and allow for reflection.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002

City on the Hill

It seems we may have moved into some sort of a time warp. Voters across the nation woke up Tuesday morning, went to their local polling precincts and learned the results later that evening or read about them the next day. But things were different in the District: While we know who probably didn’t win the Democratic mayoral primary, we don’t know who did.

By the Voice Staff September 12, 2002