Editorial Board

The Editorial Board is the official opinion of the Georgetown Voice. Its current composition can be found on the masthead. The Board strives to publish critical analyses of events at both Georgetown and in the wider D.C. community. We welcome everyone from all backgrounds and experience levels to join us!

Editorials

GU scheduling gobbles up entire fall semester

Next Monday, students at top universities across the country will pack their bags and head home, but many Georgetown students will be stuck on the Hilltop until classes end on Wednesday. In fact, many Hoyas will not even have the opportunity to visit their families this Thanksgiving. And none have had more than a long weekend off from Georgetown’s grueling fall semester.

By the November 18, 2010

Editorials

Proposed funding reform (mostly) a safe bet

Many student clubs at Georgetown struggle to make do with meager budgets. As a response, the Georgetown University Student Association’s Finance and Appropriations Committee has floated the possibility of raising the annual Student Activity Fee to increase the amount of funding available to student clubs.

By the November 11, 2010

Editorials

Time to get serious about online textbook listings

As we begin the process of pre-registration this week, students are once again being forced to make important academic decisions based on inadequate information. Many courses on MyAccess violate federal law by not specifying the required textbooks.

By the November 11, 2010

Editorials

AU candidates should learn from mistakes

On Nov. 2, Georgetown students elected Jake Sticka (COL ’13) to be one of seven commissioners on Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission. Sticka will now represent students on crucial issues ranging from alcohol licenses to the University’s construction plans for the next decade.

By the November 11, 2010

Editorials

A liberal’s guide to the new Republican majority

After two years of scaling back reforms to meet the demands of Republican dissent and obstruction, Democrats find themselves once more in the minority in the U.S. House of Representatives. They now face the same choice Republicans did two years ago: either return to the core values of their party, or continue attempting bipartisanship.

By the November 4, 2010

Editorials

University keeps mum on DMT contradictions

Now that almost two weeks have passed since Charles Smith (SFS ‘14) and his friend John Perrone were caught cooking dimethyltryptamine in Smith’s dorm room, a clearer picture of the dramatic, early-morning evacuation of Harbin Hall and their arrest has emerged. Unfortunately, very few of the facts we now know have come from Georgetown itself.

By the November 4, 2010

Editorials

Searching for a Rabbi, students find their voice

eorgetown’s Rabbi Harold White has left a lasting legacy at this university. The community will be sad to see him go, but White’s departure may leave the community with one last gift. To select his replacement, the University is using a student-driven process—one that would serve as an excellent model for future hiring decisions.

By the November 4, 2010

Editorials

Aramark cooks up healthy profits, but lousy food

Aramark, Georgetown’s dining services provider, has sacrificed both quality and variety to achieve cost savings for itself, a fact that is plain from student responses to the ongoing Campus Dining Survey.For example, of the 690 students that had completed the survey as of Wednesday night, only eight percent were “happy with Leo’s.”

By the October 28, 2010

Editorials

Alarming errors in University’s DMT response

Early Saturday morning, residents of Harbin Hall woke to the sounds of Department of Public Safety and Metropolitan Police Department officers shouting and pounding on their doors. Authorities had found a dimethyltryptamine lab, which contained several highly flammable and explosive chemicals needed to produce the illegal drug, in a room on the ninth floor.

By the October 28, 2010

Editorials

Future funding reform not a SAFE bet for GUSA

The University owes its students $3 million, plus nine years’ interest. That’s the sum it promised to contribute to the Student Activity Fee Endowment in 2001. But it never did, and for the last 10 years, the Student Activities Fee Endowment has stagnated without its support. With that money, the endowment today would be much closer to maturing.

By the October 28, 2010