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The Sports Sermon

It’s the time of the year at Georgetown when everyone starts to become irritable. Midterms are in full effect, it’s starting to get cold, and you’ve had enough of your roommates’ dirty dishes in the sink. How do we at the sermon handle our angst? We sublimate our anger onto a famous athlete.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Fantasy X

Behind college dorm room doors and across the suburban wasteland of America, physically inadequate, nearsighted sports-geeks gulp Surge late into the night, filling their heads with arcane statistics, squinting their washed-out faces in the pale blue glow of computer monitors tuned to ESPN.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

The ball was bigger in this case

Another basketball season is rapidly approaching. I’m not talking about the basketball played by our beloved Hoyas over at the MCI Center. No, this game is played in the humid squalor of Yates with no spectators other than those who happen to be working out on the exercise machines above the courts.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Hoyas drop to four games under .500

The Georgetown Hoyas men’s soccer team was shutout yesterday by the No. 6 Maryland Terrapins 2-0 on North Kehoe Field, in a game marked by the Terrapins’ command of the ball. The loss brings Georgetown’s record to 4-8 overall and 2-3 in the Big East.

From the start, Maryland controlled the tempo.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Workshed!

There are things that happen in October that don’t really happen any other time of the year: Columbus does a little jig in his grave as we celebrate his blatant acts of genocide, little kids run around with Pok?man dolls or Gamecubes or whatever kids salivate over these days, and Safeway beefs up its usually shabby supply of candy so we can continue to be nutritionally deprived, but with a more diverse selection.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Editorials

Voting rights for all

Mayor Anthony Williams said at a news conference last Monday that United States citizenship should not be the standard for voting in municipal elections in Washington, D.C. He hopes to enfranchise all taxpaying residents of the District of Columbia. In 1991, Takoma Park, Maryland became the first municipality to allow immigrants to vote in local elections.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Editorials

Time to ask and tell

On Oct. 4, more than 100 students and faculty members at the Georgetown University Law Center gathered to protest the presence of Judge Advocacy Group representatives at the annual Government Interview Week. The demonstrators argued that the presence of the group, which discriminates against homosexuals in the form of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, violates University anti-discrimination policy.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Editorials

Fair Trade, fair choice

In the past five years, coffee prices have plummeted 70 percent, plunging 25 million Third World coffee farmers into poverty. Small farmers, unable to transport their own coffee, are forced to pay exorbitant amounts to middlemen. As a result, farmers who should be receiving a fair “living wage” of $1.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Sparta hits the road

Matt Miller, the bassist for Sparta, recently spoke to Voice Leisure about the band’s current tour. Formed from the remains of the band At the Drive-In, Sparta has since signed to Dreamworks Records and released an EP, Austere, and a new album, Wiretap Scars.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Stones still alive in photos

Walking through the Govinda Gallery’s current exhibition, Rolling Stones 40×20, you immediately begin to wonder what you’re not seeing. Of course, there’s a picture of Keith Richards snorting coke at Joshua Tree National Park, prints from the wine-soaked debauchery of the Beggar’s Banquet album shoot and countless images of Mick Jagger in various states of intoxication and subsequent hangover.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Beck shows different face on new album

Is irony dead? After the tragic events of last Sept. 11, it was easy to postulate that the stock-in-trade of several lettered generations would be thrown asunder in a grand upwelling of earnestness. Even if by all accounts irony remains alive and well, it seems Beck chose to heed that memo regardless.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Picasso ducks in to ponder, titillate

When one begins to question the multi-faceted nature of inspiration and creativity, whether artistic, scientific or purely commercial, there are several things that one must keep in mind. First, such a difficult question is best left in the able hands of someone like Steve Martin, and second, any reasonable response must be tempered with a fair amount of dick jokes.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Students protest potential war on Iraq

On Wednesday afternoon a telephone stood in the center of Red Square next to a poster that read, “The U.S. must not attack Iraq.”

The Young Arab Leadership Alliance set up the event to enable students to call their senators’ offices to voice their oppositiong to the potential attack on Iraq.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Civil liberties discussed

Students were asked to sign a subpoena from the “Court of Public Opinion” for Attorney General John Ashcroft at a forum held Monday night by the College Democrats.

The fake subpoena called for Ashcroft to answer questions regarding the government’s refusal to release the names of those held without evidence linking them to terrorism.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Appiah speaks on social identities

Ethnic and social identities should be more clearly defined for the success of individuals in those groups, said Kwame Anthony Appiah in a lecture entitled “On Being Oneself” on Monday.

“I think it’s very suitable to discuss soul-making here, beneath all these Jesuit names,” commented Appiah upon taking the podium in Gaston Hall.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Victims

The innocent people murdered while performing their everyday activities remind us that we are not immune from danger no matter where we go. Parents hugging their children a second time before sending them off to school, secretly praying that they will return home safely.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Military recruiters spark debate at Law Center

Professors and students at the Georgetown Law Center have protested the presence of military recruiters last Friday, claiming that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which addresses sexual orientation, is discriminatory.

Seventy-five faculty members at the Law Center signed a resolution recently that called for a reversal of the policy.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

SNHS welcomes GUS, Centennial Celebration

The School of Nursing and Health Studies welcomed its newest member, GUS Junior, yesterday with a party and demonstration of GUS’s features.

GUS, the Georgetown University Simulator, is a 5-foot-9-inch, 175-pound full-sized simulated patient. Yesterday GUS’s brain lay on the counter as SNHS administrators led a tour past his body.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

DeGioia declines to sign letter

University President John J. DeGioia declined to sign a statement decrying discrimination against Jewish students on college campuses. The statement, which appeared in an advertisement in the New York Times on Sunday, was signed by 300 university presidents and written in conjunction with the American Jewish Council.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

GUSA, administrators discuss safety policy

The Georgetown University Student Association met with key University administrators last week to present its case against the current lockdown policy, which limits access to campus dormitories to residents of those buildings. The meeting was considered successful by both parties, and montly meetings are planned for the forseeable future.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

In defense of IMF/World Bank protesters

The recent editorial, “Leave the McDonald’s alone,” (Sept. 26, 2002) is yet another instance of the biased, close-minded and poorly reported media representations of anti-corporate globalization protests that have dominated coverage since 1999. The editorial consisted of nothing but fabrications, counterintuitive inferences and baseless accusations, while managing to ignore completely any of the real issues.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Red dragon, yellow news

On Monday morning, Oct. 7, a 13-year-old boy was shot in the chest as his mother dropped him off in front of his middle school in Bowie, Md. The boy was the eighth victim in a series of sniper-style shootings that have left six dead and two seriously wounded in the suburbs of our nation’s capital over the past week.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Most likely to secede

Last spring, I was abroad in Santiago, Chile, and while I was there I dated a television producer. He was then working on a WWF-style wrestling show, the first of its kind to air in Chile. One night, during a pretty intense argument, he told me that as a television producer surrounded by beautiful people, he had options?he could date girls 10 times better looking than I was.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002