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Has the bubble burst?

With 13 minutes left in regulation in last Saturday’s game against rival Notre Dame, Fighting Irish power forward Ryan Humphrey collected his fourth foul, with the game tied at 61. Throughout the rest of the game, Georgetown Head Coach Craig Esherick instructed his team to pound the ball inside, trying to draw the final foul on Humphrey.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Indoor track scores at Armory Invitational

Last weekend, the Georgetown men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams competed at the second annual Armory Collegiate Invitational, which is regarded as the nation’s premier collegiate invitational of the season. Several runners posted NCAA provisional qualifying times and the women’s distance medley team ran the fastest time in the country this season.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Expos-

Last week, Bud Selig finally shelved all the contraction nonsense for the time being. Good news, Expos fan. Oh, how wonderful it will be to spend the upcoming season watching those magical marvels of baseball majesty … the Montreal Expos?

No, the Expos probably won’t excite many this season, but I’m glad that the contraction plan didn’t go through.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

The Sports Sermon

A small girl stands in her backyard with a bottle filled with soapy bubble fluid in her hand. She pulls the small plastic wand from the bottle, breathes in and blows out slowly, forcing the bubble fluid out of the wand and allowing a perfectly spherical bubble to escape.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Phans in Philly are chilly

City of Brotherly Love, my ass! This past weekend, the NBA All-Star game had the misfortune of being hosted in Philadelphia, a city that finds itself 200 years past its prime. Its only current claim to fame is that it sits astride I-95 on the way between New York and Washington.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Canadian lit. 101

A friend of mine called the other day, just to chat. We talked and gossiped for a while. Then she said, “Well, Jen, the real reason I called is because I was reorganizing my father’s bookshelves this morning, and I realized that when you write a book, I won’t know where to file it.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Eye of the tiger

Radical feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman once said, “I don’t want to be part of your revolution if I can’t dance.” Like other musicians with good politics who came before them, Le Tigre provides anthems for its target demographic. This threesome will be visiting with their multimedia slide show Wednesday at the Black Cat.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Sweet as citronella

There was a time in my life when the autumnal shades of melancholia seemed to settle upon my cognizance as if they were the brittle leaves that that sensuous season litters upon the sidewalks and streets of our homes, neighborhoods and parks; and if the degree to which the melancholia weighed upon my mind is at all in proportion to a quantity of those shed leaves, then I would place this cerebral organ in a rich birch forest in the deepest woods of New England (my salutations to the ancestral home of the American fall) in late August, when the winds begin to carry a touch of venom, and the sun grows bashful, subjecting itself to public scrutiny for increasingly shorter and shorter periods of time.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Wrapping it up at NGA

We can criticize and kvetch all we want, but in the end, we must face the truth: We absolutely delight in the fruits of the packaging, in the billions of dollars that make sure things look just right. Sure it’s wasteful, but who can deny the allure of a glistening pile of, say, empty presents in a Macy’s window display? This mystery of packaging?its textures and vibrance, its ability to seduce the eye?is perhaps what compels Christo and Jeanne-Claude to wrap, artistically speaking.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Te presento mi coochie snorcher

Just off the elevator on the third floor of Leavey, I picked up the audition material for The Vagina Monologues. I took my place amidst a dozen or so girls (women) waiting to be called in and turned my attention to the script. I got to word six. Then I stopped.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Finding a way forward

I prayed the other night.

I was lying in bed when it occurred to me how incredibly lucky I am to have a family, a group of friends and a campus community who care about and respect me in my entirety?and could care less if I like guys or girls. So I thanked God for that.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Korean film features big action, little message

A team of crouching police, weapons drawn, herds a wounded woman into a back alley. As they circle around her, guns aimed at her temples, her look changes from panic to a calm intensity. She spends a moment silently facing her captors and then makes her move.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Cherry Tree benefits from ringers

For a campus that otherwise shows little interest in student-led artistic activities, the Georgetown community has a peculiar fascination with a cappella music in all of its doo-wopping glory. One can find spontaneous outbursts of coordinated vocal seranades in many forms, from small-scale performances by the Saxatones to Sellinger sing-alongs with the Phantoms and Superfood.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Editorials

Two pages too little

Following several months of discussion between students and administrators, Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez rejected the proposal to create a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender resource center. Gonzalez, who had remained silent for weeks on the issue, issued a formal written response to GLBT committee members last Tuesday.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Editorials

Winning ugly

In an 11th hour effort to sink The Yard referendum, members of the Georgetown University Student Association convened late Sunday night to draft and send out e-mails to students condemning the attempts to create a new undergraduate governing body. The various e-mails, which went out to almost every student University-wide, all used varying language but contained the same message: Don’t vote for the Yard.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Photography

The Big Picture

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Features

A Brave New World of Information Technology

When the campus-wide Internet connection was accidentally severed on Tuesday of last week, the importance of technology in the lives of Georgetown University students had rarely been demonstrated so powerfully. Students were unable to send or receive email from family and others off-campus, nor were they able to conduct research, nor could they send Instant Messages to friends down the hall.

By the Voice Staff February 14, 2002

Lounge lizards

For years, the Washington, D.C. music scene has been known primarily for its reputation dating back to the early-’80s hardcore boom. Today, that reputation is beginning to change. While hardcore has fallen off to a degree, local electronic/dance artists have recently been making a name for D.

By the Voice Staff February 7, 2002

Editorials

GUSA Presidential Election Minutes: Feb. 3

Matthew Brennan (SFS ‘03)/Sean Hawks (CAS ‘04)

Brennan: so we bring a very good mindset to GUSA leadership. two viewpoints—I am a finance side, and Sean has a lot of GUSA experience. we have clear goals to achieve in the next year; if you look at our platform, its all things that can happen.

By the Voice Staff February 7, 2002

Women behind the lens

Every child has done it. Scanning through the tightly-packed shelves of yellow, bound magazines that your parents so religiously collected, hoping to pick out a volume of National Geographic filled with pictures of wild animals, exotic places and even bizarrely dressed, but usually undressed, people.

By the Voice Staff February 7, 2002

For Colored hits Walsh

Black Theater Ensemble’s performance of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is at times both strong and passionate, but mostly fails to rise above clunky predictability. Many of the production’s failings can be traced to the weakness of the play’s structure.

By the Voice Staff February 7, 2002