Archive

Students ‘die-in’ to protest potential war in Iraq

As the clock struck one on Wednesday, approximately 65 Georgetown students “died” for 15 minutes in Red Square, lying motionless on the red bricks to protest the potential war on Iraq. Protest leaders spoke against U.S. involvement in Iraq as more than 60 students looked on.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Ring around the remake

This is what you see before you die: The ocean surf lapping against the waterlogged carcass of a horse. A chair spinning upside down. A woman in black jumping off a windswept cliff. A glowing ring. These images, couched in the blue-gray hues of the video age, feature on a tape that kills its viewers in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Eggers, Giants bring quirks to GW

Like many smart, original shows before it, McSweeney’s vs. They Might Be Giants opted to skip Georgetown University on its national tour, and instead head straight to The George Washington University. Yet this might be the only way it has followed in the footsteps of others.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

‘Ultimate aphrodisiac’ has a price

“War criminal,” says writer Christopher Hitchens in a brief shot in the opening minutes of The Trials of Henry Kissinger, “isn’t a piece of rhetoric, it isn’t a metaphor, it’s a job description.” For several years now, this mercurial, chain-smoking Englishman has been trying to attach that “job description” to larger-than-life diplomat Kissinger.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Faith for evermore

Former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton started his own record label, Ipecac Recordings, intending to purge the music industry of its banal artistic talent and provide an antidote. Take a quick look, and you’ll find out there isn’t a better man to do it.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Looking for the lighter side of racism

If there’s one thing your coffee table needs this season, it’s a big book with the word “racism” on the cover. Ego Trip’s Big Book of Racism should fit the bill nicely. The book assembles a field of startlingly honest voices for a selection of lists and essays that seem to agree on at least one thing: Letting taste and political correctness reign in the discourse on race is pointless.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

A long overdue change

The statistics on sexual assault, while oft repeated, somehow never lose their ability to shock. Somewhere between one in four and one in five women is a victim of rape or attempted rape during her lifetime. The majority of these incidents involve young women, making college campuses one of the most dangerous environments for women.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Give them a refund

In 1935, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group that honors Confederate soldiers killed in the Civil War, donated $50,000 to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. This contribution covered one third of the building costs for Confederate Memorial Hall, a dormitory that provided free housing for female students who were studying to become teachers and were descendants of Confederates.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Wasting time

Last spring, Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez announced that he would hire a new part-time Special Assistant to the Vice President who would address the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. After months of discussion between the administration and the diversity working group about the creation of a resource center, both sides seemed to be content with the decision.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Campbell hopes for Olympics

In flip-flops and a button-down shirt, Andrew Campbell (SFS ‘06) of San Diego, Ca. looks like your average, laid-back first-year. You probably wouldn’t guess that he is one of the premier Laser class sailors in the world, the recent winner of the Youth Sailing International Sailing Federation World Championships and a U.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Hoyas reach for Big East tournaments

This fall, three Georgetown teams are vying for postseason appearances in the Big East Conference. While the Women’s Soccer team has already secured a berth, the fates of the Men’s Soccer and Women’s Volleyball teams have yet to be determined.

Men’s Soccer (5-8 overall, 3-4 Big East, Ninth in Conference)

The Georgetown Men’s Soccer team has five regular season games left.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Midnight in a not-so-perfect world

While most colleges were holding Midnight Madness last week, Georgetown postponed the unveiling of the basketball teams due to the threat of low attendance posed by Columbus Day weekend. The traditional start of the college basketball season, Midnight Madness stokes the coals of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming season.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

The Sports Sermon

He stares with his arms folded, never showing any emotion. Each week he leads his resurgent team out on the field with a brisk run. He is the best thing to happen to college football in the last 50 years and he knows it. What makes him the best is that he understands his job isn’t finished until Jan.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

We goin’ sizzla

I was fortunate enough to have good tickets to the Jazz-76ers preseason game this past weekend. From my seat, I couldn’t help but notice the ridiculous amount of trash talking on the court. John Stockton was running his little mouth, Karl Malone was staring people down, and Allen Iverson was being cocky as all hell.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Sexy Girl Scouts and bacon bits

Though some of us believe we are too old or too cool to still dress up, hot-pants Heidi and S&M Spiderwoman were already defying the norm of preppiness at the Guards last Saturday. Many more young women will freeze radiantly beneath pink wigs, feather boas, fish nets, fake eyelashes and little else Thursday through Saturday.

By the Voice Staff October 24, 2002

Features

Finding a Place for Campus Radio

Whether on not you have ever listened to Georgetown University’s Student Radio Station WGTB, it is undeniable that at one point in its history it had a strong presence not only on Georgetown’s campus, but on the entire D.C. area. During a time in the ‘70s the station broadcasted as far as Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia and had over 100,000 listeners.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

The Manassas diaries

There were four of us that early Monday morn, four sad bastards facing futures without certainty. There was Redding, the erstwhile philosophy student from Georgia who owned one too many scarves. There was Mike, a sexual deviant from Arizona with a quick wit and a goatee.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Letter to the Editor

I read with interest your editorial “Time to ask and tell” (Oct. 10, 2002). There are real costs to integrating the openly gay into the ranks. This is not to say that those costs may not be worthy of the goal, but let’s fully understand the ramifications of what you are advocating.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Now back it up

You might have heard of “Minnesota Nice,” but as far as I’m concerned, it stops right where my personal bubble starts. Throughout my childhood, I didn’t like to touch people in public. I’m not talking about regular public displays of affection, although I rarely support that either.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

We fear evil, for the Lord is not with us

They say we are given to experience God’s will only in very small ways. Well, dude, I ain’t feeling it at all. I’m pretty sure, in fact, that the will of God is entirely absent from my Henle home. No, I have not found Jesus, and I doubt he would dare set foot in my apartment, for the good Lord would shudder at the crime against nature that is Georgetown’s housing arrangements.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Gonzalez announces plan to hire new assistant

Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez announced Wednesday his intention to appoint Mary Dluhy as Special Assistant to the Vice President. Last March, Gonzalez created the position of Special Assistant to review the services provided by the University for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Georgetown to develop Arabic dialect programs

Georgetown’s Arabic Department will offer a class in the Iraqi dialect of Arabic during the three-week pre-session before summer classes next year. Professors are currently developing a course after receiving $180,000 in grant money from a U.S. Department of Education to the National Capital Language Resource Center.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Students participate in death penalty awareness

Georgetown’s Campaign to End the Death Penalty student group is observing Death Penalty Awareness Week, which began as an idea by Georgetown students two years ago and became a nationally observed event last year.

Two years ago, members of the group had the idea to designate one week of the year as a time to raise awareness about issues surrounding the death penalty.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002