The staff of The Georgetown Voice.
Retirement can be a funny thing. When a plastic surgeon retires, for example, that’s it. No more boob jobs, facelifts, or tummy tucks. They sit home, collect some money and dedicate hours to become crossword puzzle aficionados.
Yet when many star athletes announce their retirement, it’s like a Georgetown student saying they aren’t going to drink for a while after spring break because they need to recover … right.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
The Georgetown University Women’s Center will welcome Dr. Jill Holmes Robinson as its new Director on Feb. 1. Robinson, who holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia, specializes in university counseling and student affairs administration, and has experience in counseling issues pertaining specifically to women.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Journalist Thomas Maier’s The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, which chronicles the Kennedys through the lens of their Irish-Catholic roots, received significant press when it was released late last year because of its revealing portrait of Jackie Kennedy’s deteriorating mental health in the spring of 1964, after her husband’s assassination.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
The family holiday gathering is the perfect setting for all Hoyas preparing for a life in politics and diplomacy. Along with dry small talk with distant relatives and the forced laughs masking “that thing we don’t mention in front of uncle Jim,” there is the inevitable period of questoning.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
Led by the outstanding play of senior forward Rebekkah Brunson, over the winter recess Georgetown’s women’s basketball team emerged as a legitimate contender for the NCAA tournament while the rest of the student body vacillated between listlessly watching television and attempting to “make out” with high school crushes.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
LEISURE BY PRIYA BAPAT Mask and Bauble’s third production of the season, The Apple Cart, is an updated take on playwright George Bernard Shaw’s vision of the future.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
VOICES BY BILL CLEVELAND Tuesday night Georgetown students gathered for “The Real State of the Union,” a panel discussion with several writers for the Atlantic Monthly.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
Over the summer, my hometown newspaper ran an article about the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report that Bush’s constant message of Saddam Hussein’s threat to the U.S. and the world was essentially fabricated outraged me, but I was more upset by the story’s placement.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
Can you close your eyes and picture a scarier, more dangerous America? An America in which the ideas of The Nation or Marx’s Kapital had won the day, a world in which leftism had gone so far, become so extreme, that electing even a moderate conservative to national office proved impossible?
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004
1. The Meadowlands, The Wrens, Absolutely Kosher New Jersey based indie rockers return from seven years of silence with a masterpiece proving that the guitar is alive and kicking. Complex melodies ranging from quiet, intricate beauty to sublime hurricanes of overdriven six-string glory flow together into a single, cohesive opus of the slow decay of suburban nine to five life.
By the Voice Staff January 15, 2004