Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Editorials

Extortion not an option

Beginning in the fall of 2005, students hoping to study abroad will have to pay full Georgetown tuition. Currently, students pay the cost of their overseas program, plus a $3000 “administration fee” to Georgetown. Foreign universities, especially those in developing countries, are usually much cheaper, so students can end up paying very little for the semester or year overseas.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Cicadas to invade, frighten

Members of the Class of 2004 may graduate amidst a million uninvited winged guests. According to a United States Department of Agriculture press release, “billions of large, noisy, winged, red-eyed insects,” 17-year cicadas, will fill the skies in mid-May, mating and dying out in mid-June, potentially “occupying large swaths of the eastern United States.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Sunshine boy goes to hell

Sounds of giggling and squealing are leaking through the hall as the couple next door play around with the vibrating, coin-operated bed. I’m sitting in my room at the Hotel 69 doing homework, automatically making me the biggest loser in the building. It doesn’t matter that everyone else in the building is porking an aging hooker, it still has to be more fun than memorizing characters from a textbook by the dim lamplight.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Missing the veteran

Massive blocks of concrete are toppled into a giant heap, thick wires stick out at strange angles and bright blue Port-a-Potties outline the ruins. The site is entirely unrecognizable. The debris of Veteran’s Stadium, piled several hundred feet high on the asphalt, amounts to an estimated 70,000 cubic yards of material.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Spearhead with Mommy

“No thank you,” my mother said politely declining the joint a scrappy twenty-something stoner offered her. To some, it might seem bizarre to have complete strangers offer your parents drugs. By this point in the evening, though, nothing could faze me.

If someone had predicted this situation a mere week earlier, I would have bet my very life against them.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Enslaved by Zara

I see it. I am on a path toward it. Nothing will deter me now. With arms shaking under a load of acrylics and wool knits, I look straight ahead and imagine myself there-at the red and orange clothing rack across the room. The obstacles ahead present a challenge: meandering customers with wandering eyes, glancing at the shiny white walls in search of the perfect evening ensemble, a smart suit or a sales associate to assist them with their shopping needs.

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Men’s, women’s lacrosse heading in different directions

Two days saw two very different results for Georgetown’s lacrosse teams. While the no. 5 Georgetown men’s lacrosse team’s dominating 16-7 victory over the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers helped cement the Hoyas’ postseason hopes, the no. 7 women’s loss at no.

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Sailing team gusts to first

Without much recognition the Georgetown Saling team has proven that it is a force to be reckoned with. By plowing through a national qualifying tournament that Hoyas have attained a no. 1 collegiate ranking. The team’s national prominence has them poised to make a run in nationals one month from now.

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Hoyas get hammered by George Mason

The only challenge for the George Mason University baseball team was playing through the inclement weather during their 17-3 trampling of Georgeown. The local contest was played at Shirley Povich Field, Bethesda Md. on the eve of George Mason entering the national spotlight with votes in the AP poll.

By the April 29, 2004

Sports

Manning Up

When NFL commisioner Paul Tagliabue stepped to the mic at Madison Square Garden to announce that San Diego Chargers had selected Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning with the first pick in the 2004 draft, you could feel the Manning family’s heart palpatations.

By the April 29, 2004