Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Features

2004 Voice Photo Contest Winners

The Voice presents the winners of its 2004 photo contest.

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.

News

Two Hoyas on two sides as protesters flood National Mall

Rebecca Danis (SFS ‘06) and Kristina Gupta (CAS ‘05) would not normally find themselves at the same protest. On Sunday, however, they took opposing sides at the March for Women’s Lives.

Several hundred thousand protesters, some of whom came from as far as Washington State and Alaska, marched on the National mall, where a rally featured celebrity speakers such as Whoopi Goldberg, Sen.

News

Georgetown mourns loss of sophomore

Michal Subczynski (SFS ‘06), a brilliant and ambitious John Carroll Scholar, was found dead early Monday morning in Virginia. The cause of his death remains unknown, but the U.S. Park Police are conducting an investigation.

Subczynski’s body was found on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, a road that passes underneath the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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.

News

GUSA turmoil over: Hampton and Torres win

Ending a two-month saga, Kelley Hampton (SFS ‘05) and Luis Torres (CAS ‘05) were sworn in as the 2004-2005 GUSA executives Tuesday night. The GUSA Assembly met to hear the findings of the Constitutional Council and to certify the results of the disputed election.

Voices

All the best cheerleaders get murdered

In 1991, a Mrs. Wanda Halloway was imprisoned for six months for plotting to kill Verna Heath, a prospective cheerleader, in an attempt to clear a spot for her own daughter on the cheerleading squad. This sordid tale has recently been adapted into a made-for-TV-movie.

Leisure

Some retro sneaker savoir-faire

Ahhh, springtime is here again. Squirrels are hopping, dogs are chasing them, and you’re chasing all the hottest new fashions. Spring is the perfect time for bringing out those spanking new classic athletic kicks that you’ve had stored away in your closet for playing ultimate frisbee or pick-up basketball.

What’s that, you don’t have a new pair yet? No worries, our Athletic Shoe Critic will talk you through it. After all, there’s a whole world of new-retro hotness out there, and we wouldn’t want anyone getting lost in the sea of sneakers abundant in Georgetown and Internet shopping.

Voices

Another pint for the expatriate

It was beautiful, really. Craning my neck to see past the crowd, I spotted my friend take hold of the two pints of Guinness from the bar and begin to weave his way through the throngs of the tipsy back to our table. He bumped into people, sure-it was impossible not to-but not even a drop of foam, let alone beer, skated down the sides of the glasses.