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Wilco reaps fruits of success, yuppies

Like conquering heroes surveying their newly-won realm, Wilco came to the 9:30 Club earlier this week for a pair of sold-out dates. After the impressive critical and commercial success of the band’s latest album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, as well as a well-received film documenting its making and the band’s most extensive mainstream press coverage to date, Wilco has reached a decidedly new audience since its swing through D.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Scoping the sniper

With the recent shootings in the D.C. suburbs, many residents are obviously concerned for their safety. We at Voice Leisure are likewise concerned about your safety, so we recommend that everyone avoid such everyday activities as filling your car with gas and shopping at Home Depot.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Babes in sniperland

Last week, Jon Stewart was breaking down the complexities of the news on The Daily Show?specifically the in, outs and what-have-yous of the potential war with Iraq. He discussed a barrage of acts including the War Powers Act, an anti-terrorism act and then the Sleater-Kinney Act.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

First-year elections still uncertain

Georgetown University Student Association representatives voted Wednesday night to leave the certification of GUSA first-year election results tabled until further notice. Due to allegations of racially offensive campaigning during the election, certification was originally delayed last week by GUSA to allow for further inquiry into possible misconduct.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Editorials

Radio free Georgetown

All radio stations, whether they are broadcast over AM/FM or the Internet, pay a royalty of 3.5 percent of all revenues to songwriters and producers. But now, the implementation of new royalty fees for Internet radio stations is putting the future of small stations like Georgetown’s WGTB in danger.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Editorials

At least they don’t sell crack

The Britney concert sold out before you realized she was coming to town. Dad wouldn’t let you charge those Caps tickets on his American Express. For whatever reason, you find yourself ticketless, standing in front of the MCI Center, talking to a guy on the sidewalk who is offering you decent seats for five bucks over what you would have paid at the box office.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Editorials

Worth it for the parking alone

With a potential $323 million budget deficit on its hands, the D.C. Council is looking for new ways to increase revenue. What better way to bring the city money then by raising parking fines? Well, how about expanding the city’s free parking privileges to include even more District employees at the same time?

According to the Washington Times, more than 1,000 city employees now enjoy parking perks.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Sports

Cross country prepares for NCAAs

The Georgetown men’s and women’s cross country teams will begin their final preparations for the NCAA Championships with two significant meets in the next three weeks?the Pre-NCAA meet at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. on Oct. 19 and the Big East Championship on Nov.

By the Voice Staff October 17, 2002

Features

Going Somewhere?

You’re coming back late from a club, and you just want to get home. Or you’re late for a job interview across town. Maybe you just don’t feel like navigating three different bus routes to get to your destination. Take a cab! But the system is so confusing, you’re worried about how much you’ll have to pay.

By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002

Straight from the child’s mouth herself

Stepping off the plane in Dallas last Friday amidst cowboy hats and wide-open spaces, I was immediately thrown into the pulsating mixture of my relatives?great aunts from California, second cousins from Oklahoma, parents from Missouri?all in Dallas to celebrate my great-grandmother’s 90th birthday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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