Voice Staff

New South planning underway

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON To a campus ever pressed for space, an unused 30,000 square feet almost seems like a sin. Moving one step forward towards absolution, University officials met with an architectural firm yesterday to begin the process of redeveloping the space left vacant when the University’s main cafeteria moved from New South to the newly constructed Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. Dining Hall.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Leisure

‘Cat celebrates

If you went to Georgetown ten years ago, you would have just traded in your acid-washed jeans for plaid flannel shirts, and would be rocking hard to Nirvana. If anything, Georgetown today is more Avril than Kurt; the only plaid on campus exists in the form of miniskirts.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

News

Election commission combats negative campaigning

When the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on October 2 a new Georgetown University Student Association campaign season will be inaugurated. If it’s anything like the last, it will be four days of cutthroat flyer-hanging, poster-making, hand-shaking and, perhaps, even name-calling.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

The Back Page

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By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

News

GU grad replaces Ann Landers

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR Are you a 40-year-old man who has never dated anyone over 25 and is hung up on your 19 year-old ex-girlfriend? Are you an ultra-religious twenty-something virgin who is having trouble meeting women? Do middle-aged men often harass you when you go for jogs? Need some advice? Georgetown graduate Amy Dickinson (CAS ‘81) will surely have your answer.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Voices

Last days of summer

The anthropologist Arjun Appadurai suggests in his analysis of the age of globalization that we can trace the international flow of identities and culture by following a particular good or idea. We can note each permutation and appropriation of that idea as a unique glimpse into the lives of global consumers.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

News

Student panel raises sexual assault awareness

NEWS BY SHANTHI MANIAN Four students spoke about the effects of sexual assault on survivors as well as on their friends and colleagues in Copley Formal Lounge on Wednesday night. Speaking to more than one hundred students, faculty, and administrators, participants said that they hoped to increase awareness and prompt discussion about sexual assaults on campus.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Voices

A culinary renaissance

My personal and highly arbitrary definition of art is that it is something that brings the viewer or participant a little closer to the sacred that resides within the artist. When art was the subject of countless philosophers’ attentions, it was relegated to four basic spheres: visual, auditory, performative, and rhetorical.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

News

Students survive Burleith blackout

NEWS BY JANE ULANOVA While some carefree Georgetown students spent the hurricane rolling around in the mud like happy little piglets, students living outside the campus bubble were busy stumbling over furniture in the dark. The survivors of Burleith Blackout 2003, which started last Thursday night and lasted until Tuesday evening, got to watch the campus twinkle its tantalizing lights as they remained powerless.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003

Voices

Oh, Isabel

VOICES BY VANESSA MACHIR Let me explain something. I do not strip. I do not get naked. Unless nudity is an intrinsic requirement of a situation, the clothes stay on at all times. Not during the most aggressive heat strokes or my most embarrassingly drunken moments have I ever felt the urge to disrobe.

By the Voice Staff September 25, 2003