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Committee questions postponement of career fair

The Speech and Expression Committee has questioned the decision of Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez to cancel the Progressive Career Fair last Wednesday. Gonzalez told career fair organizers that he wanted to delay the career fair until further notice, due to concerns that certain organizations being represented might advocate issues contrary to Catholic teaching.

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Albright criticizes Bush’s use of ‘axis of evil’

The Bush administration’s use of the phrase “axis of evil” to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea was a mistake, said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Tuesday in Gaston Hall. Albright’s remarks followed her inauguration as the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy.

News

Pickard shares insights on FBI

Thomas Pickard, the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from June 25, 2001 to Sept. 4, 2001, encouraged students on Monday to pursue a life of government service to help eliminate the global problems which led to the terrorist events of Sept.

Sports

Hoyas gain momentum on the way to New York

Immediately before the CBS telecast of last Sunday’s Georgetown vs. Syracuse game, the network was airing a pivotal Big 10 clash between Michigan State?a team on the NCAA Tournament bubble?and Indiana, a virtual lock to make the field of 65 this year.

Near the end of this game, MSU held a three-point advantage, and with five seconds left, Indiana called a timeout, to which the CBS announcer commented, “This is plenty of time to get off a good shot.

News

The politics of The West Wing

The appearance of The West Wing cast members Bradley Whitford, John Spencer, Janel Moloney, producer Lou Wells and former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart in ICC Auditorium on Sunday was reminiscent of a walk down the red carpet. In a casual setting, the actors and producer of the NBC series shared their ideas and experiences from the show with Georgetown students in a discussion moderated by Lockhart.

News

Panel discusses racial profiling

“Sept. 11 has fleshed out where people sit on the fence of racial profiling,” according to Keenan Keller, minority counselor to the House Judiciary Committee. Keller addressed approximately 50 people last Thursday as part of a panel discussing racial profiling.

News

Fed Up

A few billion here, a few billion there, Hill-topers say, and pretty soon we’re talking about real money. That’s a weight off my back?I certainly don’t want them fretting about responsible spending. No doubt this year’s $4 million earmarked in the transportation bill for bike paths is a non-negotiable.

Leisure

Masterpieces hit Phillips

Picasso was a genius. Monet revolutionized art. Rodin reinvented emotion. Perhaps these revelations aren’t new or quite newsworthy, but they should be. Regardless of how well-known the great artists of the 18th and 19th centuries are, you can never know them well enough.

Features

The Girls Next Door

If you live in Darnall, they are in your backyard. If you live at 35th and Q streets, they are out your front window, but for most here on campus, they are the “Girls Next Door.” You see them prancing around in their pleated skirts or out on the lacrosse field in the afternoon.

Leisure

Denzel’s latest tackles health policy

Hopefully, your local hospital gives out free health care. Hope Memorial Hospital does not, and one dying little boy doesn’t have time to wait for the medical system to change, and neither does his determined father. John Q. looks at John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington), a hard-working factory employee and even harder-working family man, who is having trouble doing either effectively after having his hours trimmed back at work.

Leisure

Emo sideman hits the country with solo album

Rock ‘n’ roll has taken a turn for the generic, with emo ascending the Top 40 faster than you can say “smells like another Dookie,” but Cub Country has resisted this trend by taking a sharp dive into the South. Not that anyone can blame the band, as Southern influence has expanded outside its borders with the sleeper success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which compiled a variety of bluegrass-twinged country tunes.

Leisure

New Indian film colorful

With the world’s eyes fixed rigidly on the Asian subcontinent, it is quite fascinating to note the powerful contrasts that exist in the region. In India, the world’s largest democracy, there still exists a semblance of the age-old stratified caste system. In the streets of its larger cities, Hindi is heard spoken beside English?that leftover remnant of British colonialism.

Leisure

The dialectic of rock

Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that all great art emerged from the clash within man between the Apollonian impulse of order and Dionysian impulse of lust. Rock is certainly no exception, but from case to case, one impulse seems to trump the other. After all, rock spans a great range of sounds, from the gentlest folk ballad to the loudest misanthropic metal freakout.

Leisure

A tale of two Johns

This week has seen some exciting developments in the lives of two distinguished members of the Georgetown community, both named John. The new film John Q. may at first glance be a stirring tale of a man determined to save his son at all costs, but this morality play has a Georgetown connection.

Crosswords

The Voice Crossword Puzzle

Across 1. Eyelid growth 5. “Fool’s Gold” singer Greenwood 8. Relating to pores 14. Personal green 15. __ Aboard! 16. Acetone is one 17. Transformed into geologic needles 19. Cure 20. Soap partner 21. An acid 22. Strangely 24. Give a poor review 25. Practice fighting 28.

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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Editorials

Out with the old, in with the new

The Voice traditionally evaluates the performance of the outgoing Georgetown University Student Association executives by comparing their original campaign goals with their actual accomplishments. For former GUSA President Ryan DuBose (CAS ‘02) and former Vice President Brian Walsh (CAS ‘02), however, this kind of comparison would not provide a completely fair assessment of their administration.

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No matter what anybody says, Kaydee Bridges will never be as hot as Ryan DuBose.

Cause I’m easy, easy like Sunday morning There’s no way I would choose sketchy club guys over you, but news is still cooler.

311?Here’s to the Axis of Evil

Freshmen rock the Voice.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

This shouldn’t have happened. At this point in the season, our Hoya basketball team should be 11-2 in the Big East, 20-5 overall, dominating the conference and playing for a No. 2 or 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Instead, we are 6-7 in the Big East and 15-10 overall with no chance of making the Big Dance aside from a shocking victory in the Big East Tournament in two weeks.

Sports

Tournament hopes fizzle

With three minutes left in the first half of Georgetown’s contest against the Connecticut Huskies on Tuesday night, first-year guard Tony Bethel got the ball in the open court and flew, much to the delight of the packed student section. He threaded a beautiful pass right through a Huskies defender to fellow first-year Drew Hall for an easy lay-up to put the Hoyas up, 37-28.

Sports

Hoya baseball looks for improvement

After opening the season with five tough losses, the Georgetown baseball team will look to a mix of senior leadership and first-year talent to improve its results.

For the second straight season, the Hoyas dropped their first two games to William and Mary, 11-0 and 5-4.

Sports

Olympic blues

What’s the deal with the two-man luge? I mean, the one-man luge seems silly enough since it’s basically just glorified sledding, but why add a second man? I mean, how do you find a partner for the two man luge? I assume that the U.S. luge team assigns partners based on skill level or whatever, but wouldn’t that first trial run with another spandex-clad man laying directly on top of you seem kind of awkward, regardless of your sexual orientation? Do they spend time getting to know each other beforehand?

Outside of the several minutes every day I spend pondering these questions, the 2002 Olympics have yet to win my attention at all.

Voices

Eyewitness to persecution

The Chinese government, under the direction of Jiang Zemin, has been persecuting Falung Gong for over two and a half years. Falun Gong practitioners in China are beaten, tortured, raped and slandered by a massive propaganda campaign for following a spiritual practice.