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Liquid Lunchables

If the D.C. bar scene was a collection of packable lunch items, The Tombs would be the peanut butter sandwich?reliable and tasty. But the same lunch everyday gets boring. Sometimes you need to throw in a Lunchable or a Snack Pak. If the Tombs has been the center of your diet, it’s time to mix in some new ingredients.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Guard-ing student opinion

At the beginning of the school year, the administration implemented a new safety policy which restricts student access to dormitories and other campus buildings. Unlike the old policy, which allowed students to enter all residence halls with a valid Georgetown ID, the new policy restricts entrance to residents of the building.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

News

Sanchez: Free trade for Bolivia

Free trade between the United States and Bolivia is necessary in order to increase Bolivia’s stability, said the President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in a speech in Gaston Hall on Monday.

Sanchez spoke of the multitude of problems facing Bolivia, its relationship with the United States and the need to halt threats to globalization, free market economies and democratic principles.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Out and a Scout

Last week, a D.C. appellate court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America did not violate D.C. law when it did not allow two gay men to become Scout leaders. This ruling overturned the District’s Commission on Human Rights’ order that the Boy Scouts reinstate the men.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

The Sports Sermon

Word. The Serm gave up on pro football this week after the Redskins put out the most boring NFL performance since [insert any Ravens game from 2000 here]. We vomited and left to seek sporting pleasure in other arenas.

College football sucks, too. Ohio State just isn’t fun anymore without losers like Andy Katzenmoyer around, Miami’s going to win anyway, and how about those Hokies? Wow.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Hoyas advance in Big East

The Georgetown Men’s Soccer team defeated Big East rival Notre Dame 2-1 on Saturday in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Notre Dame’s Alumni Field in South Bend, Ind. Junior defender Carl Skanderup scored the game-winning goal in overtime to launch the Hoyas into the Big East semi-finals for the third time in five years.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Back it up

Statistics from this past weekend in the NFL: Marc Bulger 36 of 48, 453 yards and four touchdowns; Tommy Maddox 28 of 41, 473 yards and four touchdowns. What do these two quarterbacks have in common, besides breaking franchise records? They were both sitting on their respective team’s benches at the beginning of the NFL season, not expecting to play at all this year.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Women’s volleyball misses postseason

This year’s women’s volleyball team more resembles the 16-13 team from two seasons ago than the 1999 squad that made the NCAA Tournament or last year’s team, which made an appearance in the Big East Championship. With two games left, the Hoyas are out of contention for the Big East Tournament, currently standing at sixth in a conference where only the top four of 14 advance.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Hoffman’s steady career ends

Senior defender Casey Hoffman has many nicknames. Head Coach Diane Drake calls her the Cal Ripken of the Georgetown women’s soccer team because she started every game of her collegiate career and missed only one practice in four years. Drake also teasingly calls her Mute, for her quiet, uncomplaining leadership style.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Falsettos delivers false promises

Just where did the lesbians next door come from and why should we care about them? It’s a question you will end up pondering towards the end of the ponderous Mask & Bauble production of Falsettos, an overlong musical whose size couldn’t be overcome, even with some good performances.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Features

Talking to each other

The tensest moments of recent public conflict between student groups involved the politics of the Middle East. Groups such as the Muslim Student Association, the Jewish Student Association, the Young Arab Leadership Alliance and the Georgetown Israel Alliance have been especially active on campus in recent years, staging events, bringing speakers to campus and trying to foster debate or at least raise awareness of what they see as an important issue on a seemingly daily basis.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

‘Gonna make you sweat, bay-bee!’

“You have a sweating problem, Peter,” one of my friends told me a few weeks ago while recounting a list of my flaws. I could not disagree. While a sweat problem is better than, say, a smack problem or a child-molesting problem, it’s still an issue. I should clarify.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

Letter to the Editor

Georgetown University has a secret court system on campus that adjudicates crimes as serious as rape and murder. While they describe it as an “educational system” that doesn’t function as a substitute for a court of law, the reality is that it does.

For some crime victims, like rape victim Kate Dieringer, who spoke out in the Voice (“The girl who whimpered rape,” Oct.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

The struggle for art in a corporate world

Langa is a black township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Driving into the township, coming off the exit ramp from the N2, you are greeted by a sign. A large billboard advertising Coca-Cola (certainly not a unique image in the iconographic landscape of South Africa) underlines the phrase “Welcome to Langa.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

The forgotten people

The Palestinian-Israeli crisis is arguably the most divisive, hotly contested conflict of the last half-century. Centered on land sacred to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the conflict has immense political and religious consequences and interests at stake.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

Hope you like dorms, kids

Starting next year, there will be no more sophomore apartment lottery, no more exiled first-years will be holed up on the first floor of Darnall, and seniors will be partying it up in Village B.

Last week, the Office of Housing and Conference Services informed undergraduates that it can now guarantee four years of on-campus housing to all interested students.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

Justice for all … even snipers

The arrest of sniper suspects John Muhammed and John Malvo at first seemed to have ended the story of violence that gripped the D.C. area for over three weeks. However, the suspects have now been linked to other crimes across the nation, leading the Justice Department to debate where the two men should first be tried.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

Metrobusted

It’s dark, cold and raining, and you are in downtown D.C. All you want to do is get back to Georgetown, but there’s no way you’re walking more than 30 blocks in weather like this. The solution? Take the bus. Although this may seem like a straightforward process, a recent survey of bus service shows that riding the Metrobus isn’t all that easy, or even that safe.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

Frida keeps its plot in the gutter

Frida Kahlo was a lover, not an artist. On occasion, between bisexual liaisons and frequent battles with her unfaithful husband, she painted. This is what Julie Taymor leads audiences to believe in her new film Frida. The long-awaited biopic is a kitchen sink of non-discrimination, focusing on everything except that which is most important—the paintings.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

With New Day, Gray’s soul tires out

The year 2000 was replete with heartwarming success stories of musical perseverance: Eminem, the Faint and Radiohead all broke big after long paying their dues outside of the top 40. The real winners of that year, however, were Moby and David Gray. Both stories had a touch of romance, desperation and American (er, Irish) spirit to them, as each artist broke through, neither relying on the strength of an edgy new sound nor the wake of industry buzz and beginners luck.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

‘Cope’-ing with success

Whether or not you’ve heard of Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, it’s likely that you will hear a lot of him in the coming months. The D.C. native’s new self-titled album has been acclaimed by the Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many others. Cope’s video for the song “If There’s Love” off his album has been in heavy rotation on M2 and is featured on the network’s new compilation.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002