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There’s bad taste … and there’s this

Once, John Waters was a director who existed on the fringes of culture. Now, he has a hit show on Broadway. From the underbelly of artistic legitimacy to the pinnacle of commercial acceptance, John Waters’ current status provokes only mouth-gaping confusion when one is confronted with what is considered his debut film, Pink Flamingos.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Chomsky meets Kaplan in strange new book

It’s fair to say that recent events have not treated Marxism very well. Communism as a global ideological force has long since collapsed, replaced by the triumph of global capitalism. Ten years ago, Francis Fukayama took a page out of Marx and Hegel’s book and declared human society to be at the “end of history.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Indie label offers its young

We’ve all seen them: Fluorescent bubble letters explode onto our television screen, followed by snippets of videos, catching impassioned artists shooting sultry looks. Brittany, Kylie, Hanson, even K-Ci & JoJo. An announcer shouts that this $20 disc is the key to a sweet party.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Q&A: this is for U

As I cruised down the streets of Gainesville, Fla. during a summer road-trip with John, my long-time best friend, one question plagued us. We’d roll down the windows, hang out of them and blare either the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the Faint while we checked out the people walking to and from the University of Florida campus.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

NME gushes; we vomit

In art as in life, the problem with being ahead of your time is that you tend to wallow in poverty and obscurity because the rest of the world doesn’t care about you. In our day and age, the problem has been partially remedied. Between the magic of the Internet and the compulsions of hipsters who have nothing better to do with their lives, there are seemingly millions of people spending all of their time trying to find the next obscure, unknown and unloved but nonetheless culturally significant “big thing.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Volleyball goes 1-2 over weekend

Only returning four players from last year’s Big East Tournament runner-up, the Georgetown Women’s Volleyball team opened up its season this past weekend in East Lansing, Mich. at the Coca-Cola/Michigan State University Volleyball Classic, going 1-2.

The tournament featured the No.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

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By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Free Unclassifieds

REVENGE!

Thank you for bringing him into my life

Classic rock it, while we have a chance

Only losers CHOOSE to go to foam parties.

Whoa-oh-oh-oh

Sean … it’s just Jarosch

You Southern girls are disgusting.

Why are you watching me iron?

Don’t give Bonus no lines, and keep your hands to yourself.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Women’s soccer wins first home game

The Georgetown women’s soccer team defeated Howard University 9-5 yesterday in its first home game, rebounding from last weekend’s loss to William and Mary and evening their record at 1-1.

The Hoyas came out strong, with junior midfielder Courtney Shaub scoring the first goal less than two minutes into the game.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Editorials

Where are we GOing?

The promise of the Georgetown One Card was enough to make all Georgetown students salivate. Finally, there would no longer be a need to carry a separate laundry card, printing card and ID card, to get a stick-on barcode to check out books from the library, and to use a University ID number, which happened to be most people’s social security number, for Munch Money purchases.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Editorials

Wanted: police protection

On Sept. 25, thousands of protesters are expected to flock to the District to protest the latest round of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings. In the past the city has responded admirably, providing enough police officers to create a safe environment without being threatening or constricting.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Editorials

This joke is played out

Poverty and homelessness are a major problem in the District. According to the D.C.-area non-profit group Help the Homeless, as of 1999 almost one-fifth of the city’s population lived in poverty. Nearly one-quarter of the city’s renters could not afford a one-bedroom apartment.

By the Voice Staff September 5, 2002

Features

Documenting the D.C. go-go scene

Most Georgetown students come to the District?and leave?without ever knowing that go-go, a form of music that has united three generations of black Washingtonians, exists. If not for a chance exposure, Nick Shumaker (CAS ‘01), one of the creators of The Pocket, a documentary about D.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

The Sports Sermon

He stands at 6-foot-5 and 225 chiseled pounds with a white-bread face and golden hair. He is a red-shirt senior at USC, one of the greatest college football schools of all time. His name is Carson Palmer and in past years he would have been a top-5 draft choice with his pedigree.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Former Hoyas hopeful for another chance

In Part One of our series, the Voice introduced former Georgetown athletes Marc Samuel and Tyler Purtill who are vying for NFL kicking jobs. Both were signed as undrafted free-agents?Samuel, the Hoyas’ kicker last year, with the Buffalo Bills and Purtill, a former goalie with the soccer team, with the Carolina Panthers.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Cook cleared to play for Hoyas

The NCAA and the Conference Commissioners’ Association granted first-year guard Ashanti Cook an unqualified release from his commitment to the University of New Mexico on Monday, freeing him to play for the Hoyas in the 2002-3 season.

“Ashanti has been completely released from his prior commitments,” said Head Coach Craig Esherick.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Minor allegiance

Major League Baseball is poised for its first work stoppage since the supposedly disastrous 1994 strike, and so baseball-loving Americans like you and I should be crying in whatever we happen to be drinking.

Not me, though. I’ve still got minor-league ball.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Letter from the Editor

It is a classic trap that we all fall into: Working hard on day-to-day tasks, with our vision steered toward the future, we forget why we are doing what we are doing. We remember the past only casually, having noted our successes and our failures, what has worked and what hasn’t.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Holly: Best in show

Sometime before my brother and I were born, my parents made a pact that our family would never have a pet. They were too much trouble, my parents reasoned, and kids never took care of them even if they promised that they would. It always seemed so out of the question that I never pushed the issue.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

A healthy portion of denial … on the side

As much as I would like to think that I’m not a fan of sappy movies, I am. Granted, my dad usually finds in me a willing movie-buddy when a new action film comes out, but I’d just as soon watch a Meg Ryan chick flick (well, maybe not Kate and Leopold). So imagine my glee this summer when I learned that my friend had never seen When Harry Met Sally.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

It was three o’clock in the morning, and after having spent hours conversing in French and sipping French wine with other students, my words in French were leaving my mouth in much the same fashion that boulders leave mountains. That’s when I decided it was time to go to bed.

By the Voice Staff August 29, 2002