Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

News

Senate investigates GU alum

Prominent Georgetown Alum Manuel Miranda (SFS ‘82) is caught at the center of a Capital Hill controversy over the improper circulation of Democrats’ memos. Sergant-at-arms William Pickle is investigating how correspondence between Democratic Judiciary Committee members was leaked to the press.

By the January 29, 2004

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

Voices

Letter to the Editor

Corruption and inefficiency plague public schools

By the January 22, 2004

Leisure

Sleep When You’re Dead

A resident of Georgetown for decades, Mrs. Colette English returns to Richmond every other month to visit the community of friends and acquaintances she left behind there and to comment on the city’s creeping southernness and decay. The traffic is “interminable,” she broods, now accustomed to the assertive driving of Washington.

By the January 22, 2004

Features

Seeking Asylum in Southeast

COVER BY SONIA SMITH Each weekday morning, John Hinckley, Jr. walks down the meandering road from the John Howard Pavilion to Building CT-6, where he works as librarian and archivist in the medical library. Here he sits among the stacks of psychiatric journals and medical textbooks, doused in florescent lighting, archiving documents and reading at his leisure.

By the January 22, 2004

News

We All Recall

It has been over three months since California Governor Gray Davis was ousted in an unprecedented recall election. Now, there is another recall effort afoot right here in the District. A citizens’ group calling themselves “Save our City” has organized an effort to unseat D.

By the January 22, 2004

Leisure

Nothing Shrouds ‘The Fog of War’

LEISURE BY LAUREN GASKILL Robert McNamara playing himself, outbursts of the director’s voice off-screen and montages that blend historical and artistic images make “The Fog of War” different from other, dry documentaries. Accompanied by the urgent and innovative score of Philip Glass (“The Hours”), McNamara recalls his wartime exploits with prompts from director Errol Morris.

By the January 22, 2004