Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

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

Leisure

WGTB Recommends

The WGTB Music Department and Voice Leisure have collaborated on a list of 15 albums coming out this summer to tide you over until you get back to campus.

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

Leisure

2004 World Championship for Global Hegemony

Voice Leisure, in conjunction with Martha Stewart, now hiding out in Leavey 424, presents the 2004 World Championship for Global Hegemony. Submit your completed brackets to Leavey 413 to win a cash prize.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Kissinger shies from criticism

Last Friday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cancelled a lecture just hours before he was scheduled to arrive in Gaston Hall. In a letter sent to campus media, Ambassador Howard B. Shaffer, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, wrote that Kissinger cancelled after learning of a planned protest by GU Peace Action.

By the April 29, 2004

News

Two titans of Georgetown to leave

Boxing Priest to Leave for Loyola

Rev. Kevin Wildes S.J. holds a short mass in his New South residence every Tuesday. But no matter how exciting his weekly sermons, Tuesday’s mass never draws a crowd like his occasional boxing lessons on Sunday nights.

“Our joke was always ‘Tuesdays are for mass, but Sunday is boxing day,’” said New South resident Patrick Morissey, (SFS ‘07).

By the April 29, 2004

Features

2004 Voice Photo Contest Winners

The Voice presents the winners of its 2004 photo contest.

By the April 29, 2004

Features

Spiraling beyond the spread

With a nervous tapping foot, I couldn’t take it any longer. In the middle of a movie I got up and left the theater, allegedly to use the bathroom. Leaving my seat, palms sweaty with anticipation, I pulled out my phone while jogging down the steps. As soon as I was in cell phone- range, I dialed a friend and demanded he check the score of the Cornell vs.

By the April 22, 2004

Leisure

“Kill Bill Vol. 2′ rampages

Quention Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown breathed new life into stagnant genres with ironic reverence and a distinct presentation. The director, who himself imitates old films with refreshing originality, has his own host of mimics (ahem, Guy Ritchie) who put the cinematic pieces in place but miss what that makes Tarantino’s work challenging and delectable.

By the April 22, 2004

Voices

Veggie nuts

Alex Johnston (SFS ‘07) plans on taking next year off to pursue an exciting career in the budding “nutraceutical industry.” Then he plans on retiring. “My parents made me promise that after I retire I’ll come back to my studies,” he says. But that doesn’t make it any easier for a budding millionaire to concentrate on school.

By the April 22, 2004