Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Editorials

The new town-gown order

Earlier this month, a sign displaying “Read Orwell” adorned the Virginia approach to the Key Bridge. Clearly Georgetown University’s neighbors have taken the graffiti artist’s advice: They’ve been reading their Orwell, and they like what they read.

Recently, members of the Alliance for Local Living proposed that neighborhood residents take personal initiative and videotape what they deem to be inappropriate student behavior off campus.

By the January 29, 2004

News

Growing up

Last December, as I anxiously waited in a jam-packed theater for the lights to dim and “The Return of the King” to start, I suddenly noticed some youngsters yelling the word “penis” louder and louder.

The routine is familiar to me because I too was once a perpetrator.

By the January 29, 2004

Editorials

Buses on the right route

Last Saturday, GUSA sponsored a pilot program to investigate whether the University should invest in Saturday night bus transportation for students to Dupont Circle. Despite difficulty in locating funding for this program, GUSA should be commended for its efforts towards improving transportation, an issue that students value, and the University should learn from GUSA’s initiative and allocate funds for expanded bus service on the weekends.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

‘Beyond Therapy’ digs deeper

LEISURE BY JENNY MATTHEWS Beyond Therapy is a cynical comedy that tells the story of a man and a woman who meet through a personal ad. Playwright Christopher Durang uses the relationship between Bruce and Prudence and their respective therapists to offer a mean but comedic perspective on the limited usefulness of therapy.

By the January 29, 2004

Editorials

Arriving at Lands’ End

On Jan. 22, Georgetown University cancelled its apparel contract with Lands’ End Inc. indefinitely. Georgetown’s Licensing Oversight Committee recommended termination of Lands’ End’s contract because of the company’s inability to verify its compliance with the workers’ rights outlined in Georgetown’s Code of Conduct for Licensees.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

The Unicorns are people too

February and March are shaping up to be a couple of excellent months for concerts in D.C. The Shins are playing two shows at the Black Cat, Super Furry Animals have an evening at the 9:30 Club, Atmosphere is coming back and there are a few band-packed weekends in March that will make indie-rock fans go crazy.

By the January 29, 2004

Voices

Wesley and me

VOICES BY JASON MAURICE Jan. 17: “Welcome to Manchester, where it’s a balmy 16 degrees. Anything you leave on the plane will be divided among the flight attendants.” And thus the cheery Southwest crew introduces Ariane and me to New Hampshire, where we are spending the weekend with our friend Hillary, the Women’s Outreach Coordinator for Wesley Clark.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

Daniel Wallace–catch of the day

Daniel Wallace, author of the New York Times best-seller Big Fish, the inspiration for the recent film starring Ewan McGregor, is neither a Southern writer nor a Playboy bunny: “the two titles are similar in that they are more limiting than anything-automatically as a Southern writer, and as a Playboy bunny, there are certain expectations of you,” said Wallace.

By the January 29, 2004

Voices

Reconsidering civil war

War has been the name of the game for humanity’s most recent spin around the sun. American soldiers have been sent to oust a dictator from the lands of wind and sands, and democratic battles are being waged against Iran and North Korea. Never before has an entire continent made a concentrated and personal attack on a leader in the way that Europe threatened Bush with steel tariffs.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

Travel ‘Through the Lens’

It’s never easy to summarize one hundred years. For National Geographic, a magazine translated into 20 languages and read by over 40 million yearly, this task involved paring down the 10.5 million published and unpublished images in the society’s archive-a priceless record of world history-into 250 images.

By the January 29, 2004