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Sports

Da Scoop: Women’s soccer ends season with a win

Women’s Field Hockey (5-12-0)

The Georgetown field hockey team suffered two losses this past week to Temple and Appalachian State. The team failed to hold on to a 2-0 lead against the Mountaineers, losing 5-2 on Friday. On Sunday the Hoyas dropped a 3-1 decision to Temple.

By the October 30, 2003

Features

The best of …

COVER BY VOICE STAFF The Voice has searched far and wide-well, at least to U Street-to bring you “the best” of six categories: Leisure, Shopping, Characters, Wining and Dining, Bodily Pleasures, and yes, Georgetown.

By the October 30, 2003

Sports

Drew or Zo: Pick your poison

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH The Hoyas may not enter Harbin Field through a shroud of smoke and hoopla as many of today’s top Division I football programs do. Nonetheless, Head Coach Bob Benson’s squad fields a pair of quarterbacks who possess the same multi-faceted arsenal as many of the football slingers for the nation’s largest programs.

By the October 30, 2003

News

Georgetown men discuss sexual assault

Responding to statistics that show that 95 percent of sexual assaults are committed by men, a group of male Georgetown students and faculty decided last Wednesday that the burden is on them to respond to the recurring problem of sexual assault on campus.

Ben Cody (CAS ‘05), the meeting’s organizer, said that he hoped an environment without women would allow Georgetown men to comfortably share their views on an often difficult and painful subject.

By the October 30, 2003

Leisure

‘Without Me’ reflects on loss of self

LEISURE BY ABBY LAVIN A few minutes into My Life Without Me audience members may get the sense that something is a bit unusual. With its gloomy setting, odd inflections in the actors’ voices, and a vaguely unsettling atmosphere, the movie seems to be taking place in some sort of alternate universe. Gradually, it all begins to make sense: It’s Canadian.

By the October 30, 2003

News

Students rally to bring troops home

NEWS BY LAUREN TANICK Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the Washington Monument last Saturday to demand the end of the United States’ occupation of Iraq. Several dozen Georgetown students attended the rally, joining a diverse crowd of objectors hailing from all over the nation.

By the October 30, 2003

Leisure

Anti-Flag singer blasts right-wing ‘punks’

It is impossible to categorize Pittsburgh’s Anti-Flag as anything but a punk rock band. From their mohawks and clever pseudonyms to their music and politics, Anti-Flag adheres so closely to the genre’s template that, after nearly a decade of recording and touring, the band’s prominent stature among the Warped Tour demographic is to be expected.

By the October 30, 2003

News

Washington, R.I.P.

J. Edgar Hoover was known as a man who did not take no for an answer. As a result, not many politicians had the courage to stand up to him. One D.C. politician did, however-Walter E. Washington. Washington, who died Monday, was the first elected mayor of the District and the first African-American to lead a major U.

By the October 30, 2003

Leisure

Local music at Midnight Mug

Less than a year old, Midnight Mug has created a reason other than studying to go to the library. In an effort to bring more art to campus, Midnight Mug opens its doors every Thursday to aspiring local musicians such as Spencer Bates.

Bates’ performance there last week was one of the best of the semester.

By the October 30, 2003

Sports

Hoops is here

Hoops hysteria is upon us. Well, maybe not hysteria, but hyper-sensitivity at least. With the Kobe Bryant trial and concurrent Kobe-versus-Shaq star wars taking place, the Staples Center just overstepped Hollywood and Vine to become the melodrama center of So-Cal.

By the October 30, 2003