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The Sports Sermon

OK, ladies and gentlemen, let’s play Six Degrees of Sports Separation, Thanksgiving Edition. We’re taking suggestions from the audience. Anyone? Where should we start?

Yes, you there. The man with no penis. Yes, you in the Kansas sweatshirt.

“Can you talk about Kirk Hinrich?”

Ah, the elfish one himself.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Strokes finish too quickly, fail to satisfy

The Strokes’ concert last Tuesday was a safe bet for D.C. kids with a curfew: By 11:30 p.m. ushers were already yelling for the hangers-on to clear the building. After playing a 50-minute set with no encore, the Strokes had cleared D.A.R. Constitution Hall in record time.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

More art, less matter

While the shopping opportunities on Wisconsin Ave. and M St. are the best around, art galleries in Georgetown are somewhat sparse. You have to look a little harder in order to find some substance beneath the overpriced clothes and trendy restaraunts. The Addison/Ripley Georgetown gallery on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Reservoir Road fits nicely into the void left by these other shops.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Santarchy 101

This Saturday, Dec. 7, if you’re in the vicinity of the Georgetown Park Mall around 5 p.m., you might be in for a treat, as Santa Claus is scheduled to pay a visit. Actually, about 40 Santas should be around, but they won’t be handing out any sugar plums or candy canes.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Interpol: Not strokes

Perhaps the best thing about the whole Strokes/New York underground music “revival” is that it has brought a bunch of bands that are a whole damn lot better than the Strokes into the mainstream. Although those guys think they’re cool with that scraggly-haired thrift-store alcoholic image they stole from CBGB circa.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

I Go Walking After Midnight

At the moment he knows three things. He knows his watch reads 3:08 a.m., he knows he’s walking, and he knows it’s cold. Jesus it’s cold. That’s for sure. Nothing could be as certain as that right now …

He knows of lots of other stuff. He knows of his name, for example.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Burn

They’re torching bums in Brooklyn. That’s what I hear anyway, I haven’t seen it myself. It’s too dangerous to take the subway even if you pay the men at the turnstile for protection, and cabs are no better now that the gangs have started firing on them.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

The Blind Man Dance

Take me down, Take me down. Oh won’t you please take me home. The silence in the whorehouse makes itself present again and so I quietly sing aloud. I mimic Axl Rose’s scratch that is repeating in my head, a mental hiccup from earlier when we had entered dark European bars in search of girls who would not understand that we are unimpressive.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Editorials

This sanction is a sham

Two weeks ago, the parents of David Shick, a Georgetown student killed during an alcohol-fueled fight behind Lauinger Library in Feb. 2000, released the results of the University’s disciplinary hearing concerning his death. The “respondent,” the University adjudication system’s equivalent of a defendant, was found responsible, and was ordered to write a ten-page reflection paper and to serve a conditional suspension.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Editorials

One asinine law

The Supreme Court’s docket for the coming term will include a case that deals with two gay men convicted of sodomy in Texas. You may be surprised to learn that sodomy, generally defined as oral or anal sex between adults, is still illegal in 15 states. The Supreme Court ruled 16 years ago that states had a right to regulate “public morals” and upheld sodomy laws.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Editorials

3,000 sheets to the wind

A war is being waged on the Georgetown campus, a war for the hearts and minds of students, a war over, well, war. In the weeks before a Thanksgiving cease-fire the action intensified with new rounds of flyers fired off daily by Georgetown Peace Action and the College Republicans.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

I dreamed a little dream gone wrong

I know a lot of people that have Attention Deficit Disorder, and they are some of the most interesting and creative people I have ever met. I, however, seem to have the opposite problem. I am able to focus on incredibly boring material for long periods of time.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Letter to the Editor

In response to your article “Out and a Scout” (Nov. 14), I, an Eagle Scout, would like to address a few issues that were omitted. The issue of homosexual scoutmasters runs much deeper than the moral objection on the surface. For one, a scout’s parents have a legitimate objection to allowing a homosexual to have unlimited access to their boy four to six times a month, especially on overnight camp-outs.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Over the river and through the woods

As Thanksgiving break nears, I am counting down the days until I can sit on the couch and have members of my family bring me things. However, earlier this semester my mom told me that the family would be spending the holiday at my grandfather’s house in Florida, which only means one thing: road trip.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We will correct all factual mistakes in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. In “Rangila expands its focus,” on Nov. 14, the Voice incorrectly referred to Vidhya Iyer (CAS ‘03) as Bidhya Iyer.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Unsung Heroes

Over the past ten years, the men’s and women’s cross country teams have been among the most successful and least recognized programs at Georgetown. Both teams started the season ranked in the top 10 nationally, but have struggled to live up to their expectations this fall.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

News

Student wins USAID award

by Amy Wittenbach

Tutoring children in D.C. is one of Georgetown’s most popular service activities, with over 400 students participating in programs like D.C. Reads and Sursum Corda. But for first-year student Kay Lauren Miller (CAS ‘06), fighting illiteracy did not start in college.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

News

PLO advisor advocates equality

Diana Buttu, a Canadian Palestinian who is legal counsel to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said on Tuesday that she believes Israelis and Palestinians may move toward equal citizenship rather than equal statehood. Sponsored by Students for Middle East Peace, Buttu spoke to over 50 students on the past, present and future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

News

Money woes for Metro

There’s good news and bad news about the future of transportation in the District. The good news is that the Washington Metro Area Transit Association plans to spent $12.2 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand Metro services in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Curtin wins Big East Rookie of the Year

First-year back Jeff Curtin was named Big East Rookie of the Year last Thursday, the first Hoya to win the award since 1988. Curtin has been the quiet defensive workhorse of the team amassing player of the week awards and helping the Hoyas turn around their season, which culminated in a trip to the Big East Tournament semifinals for the third time in five years.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Nguyen makes future look bright

While the women’s volleyball team did not make the Big East Tournament this season, the future of the team looks bright. The Hoyas already have last season’s Big East Rookie of the Year, sophomore middle blocker Sara Albert, and this year first-year outside hitter Natasha Nguyen has perfomed just as well.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Putting the ‘bling’ back in sports gambling

I’ve had an epiphany after two and a half years at Georgetown: Kids love to gamble on sports. You may be saying “Thanks, Captain Obvious,” but the situation is becoming perilous, as nobody seems to be winning. I hear a lot of stories about kids losing $100 here, $250 there, so I’m pretty sure it’s not just my group of friends who are degenerates.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Instant classic

Be thankful, fair readers, for the cable gods have looked upon us with favor. I don’t mean back-to-back episodes of Trading Spaces every Saturday night. I don’t mean the all-too-overdue addition of VH1 to the Hoyanet lineup, enabling Behind the Music addicts from New South to Darnall to get their fix.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002