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Don’t wash my square

Red Square’s “free speech zone” designation has been an easy way to foster debate on campus. Give students the freedom to voice their views, and they will usually take care of the rest. But the system does require a few controls. Otherwise, Red Square’s various capacities as message-board, canvas, stage, stump, science-fair-project-presentation area, etc.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Why can’t we stay?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Although the good doctor was most certainly not referring to Georgetown students right to live in high-priced community housing, the point still stands.

The West Cloisters Homeowner’s Association voted Wednesday on a measure to prohibit more than three unrelated individuals from living in a Cloisters residence.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

The darker side

On March 28, D.C. Inspector General Charles Maddox released a 514-page report detailing a series of fundraising inproprieties in the office of Mayor Anthony Williams. According to the report, mayoral aides tapped the accounts of local nonprofits for events and programs that were often politically beneficial for Williams and vigorously solicited donations from organizations with a business interest in the District government.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Cloisters defer vote on occupancy policy

The Cloisters West Homeowners Association referred to committee an amendment which could eventually prevent students from living in the Cloisters, a private residential community on Reservoir Road.

According to the association’s president, Jim Kinsella, the association decided Wednesday to defer voting on the amendment, which would prevent more than three unrelated persons from living together in a Cloister townhouse.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

YALA demonstrators show support for Palestine

Shouts of “Free, free Palestine!”, and waving red, white, green and black Palestinian flags filled Red Square yesterday at noon. Simultaneously, a group of approximately 40 black-clad Arab-American students and supporters joined hands, creating an outward facing circle to show their unity in ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

University honors long-serving faculty

The Georgetown academic community gathered in Gaston Hall on Tuesday night to celebrate the contributions of long-time University faculty and staff in the Annual Faculty Convocation.

Provost Dorothy Brown opened the ceremony with introductions for the invocation by Imam Yahya Hendi and a benediction by Rev.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Forgotten

My guess is that in the four years I’ve been here, at least 900 people in the District have been murdered. In the first three months of this year, there have been over 50 homicides, up 13 percent from the same time last year. Among the recent victims:

Saturday, March 23: Corey Harvell, 24, died from a gunshot wound to the head in Southeast.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Osbournes bites head off clich?s

Eleven years after The Real World introduced the idea of reality TV, the form has come to dominate television. Most of these shows, The Real World included, consist of contrived scenarios that have become sordid at best. Fear Factor and Survivor, for example, are goal-oriented; the cast members are pitted against one another in sometimes nasty competitions for money.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Gomez peppers new LP with sundry influences

It’s hard to tell whether Britain is a conqueror or the serially invaded, imperialist or napkin for every culture’s coffee spill. No wonder they really love Gomez over there. The third proper full-length album from these Manchester lads, In Our Gun, continually stalks the fine line between being influenced by other artists and blatantly ripping them off.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Goya’s still got it

The exhibition, Goya: Images of Women, is an outstanding show at once witty, sensual and highly thoughtful. Displayed first in Spain, the exhibition comes to the National Gallery from Madrid’s premier art museum, El Prado. You might only recall Goya (Francisco Goya y Lucientes) from his celebrated paintings, two of the most stunning in the exhibition?the Maja Desnuda (Naked Maja) and the Maja Vestida (Clothed Maja).

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Voices carry on 14th

This week, grab that $1.10 and take the G2 Metrobus down to 14th Street. Strong and exciting women’s performance nights are just springing up all over the place there, and I suggest you catch them while they last. The first of the two, Mothertongue, is a women’s spoken word night.

By the Voice Staff April 11, 2002

Photography

The Big Picture

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

How are we doing?

As part of the reaccreditation process by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Georgetown last month released a self-study report that looks into various components of University life and offers over 100 specific recommendations for suggested improvement.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Marijuana: Why not?

District of Columbia voters will have the chance to vote, perhaps as early as November, on the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes following a March 28 ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan.

Sullivan overturned a federal law known as the Barr Amendment that forbade the District from placing the question on the ballot, decreeing that the Barr Amendment limited free speech and he judged that “the Constitution does not allow Congress to pre-clear acceptable viewpoints for public debate and expression.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Crack kills

Show us an efficient super-criminal with civic aspirations, and we’ll show you a way to get this city running tight as a drum. Unfortunately, all anybody’s been able to show us is last week’s Metro section story in the Washington Post detailing former D.C.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Features

Twenty-seven years of tradition dribbles down the drain

For the past 27 years, most people could count on three things occurring in life: death, taxes and Georgetown making a men’s postseason basketball tournament. On March 10, 2002, the list was down to two when Georgetown decided not to participate in the National Invitation Tournament.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

ANC supports New South student activity space

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission passed a motion on Tuesday expressing their support of the renovation of New South cafeteria into student space after the completion of the Southwest Quadrangle in 2003.

The motion was presented by ANC Commissioner Justin Wagner (CAS ‘03).

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Progressive Career Fair rescheduled

The Progressive Career Fair has been rescheduled for April 11, after being postponed by Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez in February.

The Progressive Career Fair, originally sponsored by GU Pride and H*yas for Choice, was to feature employers such as Amnesty International, Catholics for Free Choice and the American Civil Liberties Union.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Panelists discuss U.S. image abroad

“Our overwhelming strength may be a cause for resentment, but it may also be a reason for other countries to want to be with us rather than against us,” said Marjorie Ransom, moderator and project director of the panel series entitled “Talking with the Islamic World: Is the Message Getting Through?” On Tuesday, panelists discussed U.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Sharpton: Lack of race in politics

The Reverend Al Sharpton assailed the Democratic and Republican parties for failing to address the issue of race in Americans politics. In an address to an enthusiastic crowd in Gaston Hall on March 25, Sharpton called for increased dialogue regarding the economic, social and political inequalities that continue to plague African-American communities today.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

Getting along … really

In recent years, students typically haven’t had their best college experiences dealing with the outside community.

Neighbors have railed against student underage drinking. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a local political body responsible for making policy around Georgetown, has made a concerted effort over the past few years to stop the annual block party.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002

MPD prepares for D.C. protests

The Metropolitan Police Department is cancelling all leave and days off for its officers between April 19 and 23 in preparation for the thousands of protestors expected to come to the District to protest the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank scheduled for those days.

By the Voice Staff April 4, 2002