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

Blue congress should end D.C.’s voting blues

No city appears poised to benefit more from the sudden collapse of the GOP’s hold on Congress in last week’s midterm elections than Washington, D.C. Newly empowered Democrats plan to... Read more

By the November 16, 2006

Editorials

DCRA versus fools on the hill

In last week’s issue, The Voice called on students to come together in a union and force landlords near the University to provide something that should be a given: safe... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Editorials

You say you want a revolution

In 1994, Republicans swept into majority status in the House and the Senate largely on the strength of their ideas. The Contract with America was a detailed and comprehensive plan... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Editorials

Gym class: we can work it out

In the Jesuit educational tradition, Georgetown University makes a commitment to the development of the entire person—mind, body and spirit. This seems clear to anyone who has been to Yates... Read more

By the November 9, 2006

Editorials

Channeling Jimmy Hoffa: Unionize

The paucity of University living spaces forces many rising seniors to find off-campus housing in an annual process that increasingly resembles the state of nature: nasty, brutish and short. The... Read more

By the November 2, 2006

Editorials

The Corp is searching for a hungry heart

For the first week of freshman year, the fro-yo shines like manna from heaven, the omelette station seems gourmet, and the chicken fingers taste like none you’ve ever nibbled on... Read more

By the November 2, 2006

Editorials

‘Cause we don’t want no one minute man

One of the basic tenets of a rational philosophy is that no opinion, no matter how incorrect, should be silenced. An open and rational debate allows the truth to shine... Read more

By the November 2, 2006

Editorials

Recognize Gallaudet’s demands

Dr. Jane K. Fernandes has generated so much heartfelt and intense opposition from both students and faculty that she cannot become the next president without thorough consideration of other options.

By the October 26, 2006

Editorials

Hoyas for intellectual choice

A frightening trend is emerging among Catholic colleges, one that flies in the face of the open dialogue so vital to academic discourse.

By the October 26, 2006

Editorials

Generation Y: A giant pat on our own backs

Sick of sanctimonious baby boomers blaming our generation’s political apathy for the sad state of the country’s affairs? Well, now you’ve got a rebuttal to hurl back at the next grey-ponytailed ex-radical who asks where your conscience is: we’re better people than they are. Numbers don’t lie.

By the October 26, 2006