Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Features

Fall Fashion 2003: So hot right now

COVER BY VOICE LEISURE STAFF If you walked through Red Square last week, you were our guinea pig. Yes, you. After a careful analysis of field data collected by our expert fashion technicians, the results are in. While not much has changed over the past year, we think our astute observers picked up on the intricacies of all things hip. The results are in, and the Georgetown fashion flavor is hot, hot, hot.

By the September 25, 2003

Leisure

A bride in Jerusalem

It’s morning. Roll out of bed. Walk out the door. Five soldiers with Kalashnikovs lounge idly against the rubble of a stone wall, joking among themselves while they carefully watch your apartment complex.

No, it’s not DPS on a power trip, at least not this time.

By the September 25, 2003

Sports

Mistakes prove costly for winless Hoyas

SPORTS BY GEORGE TARNOW In a scene reminiscent of the two-minute drill Colgate executed against the Hoyas in week one, Georgetown could not stop Monmouth when it counted most, and the football team lost their third straight game, 12-10.

By the September 25, 2003

News

GU battens down for Isabel

NEWS BY LAUREN TANICK Meteorologists, city officials and university administrators all agree: Isabel’s coming, and she’s packing a punch. Enough punch, it seems, for the University to close Thursday to accommodate commuting faculty and staff. According to the Weather Channel, the hurricane is predicted to bring gale force winds and heavy rains by Friday afternoon.

By the September 18, 2003

Leisure

Thrifty thrills

A hefty price tag has come to denote the following: quality goods, a designer outfit, or a new piece of clothing that looks 20 years old. Evidence of this phenomenon abounds in stores like Abercrombie & Fitch and Urban Outfitters, where retailers strive to make costly clothes that look like they were produced decades ago.

By the September 18, 2003

Voices

The great Bengali monsoon wedding

There is a scene in Mira Nair’s film, Monsoon Wedding, where the bridegroom asks his fianc?, handpicked by his parents, about the odd similarity between an arranged marriage and a “love match?” “Well, how much more risky can this arranged marriage thing be from meeting one night in a noisy and smoky bar and hooking up?” he asks.

By the September 18, 2003

Editorials

Improving SafeRides

While a greater percentage of Georgetown University students are living on campus, the need for greater attention to off-campus safety issues remains as pressing as before. Just this week, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspected armed robber who entered a second-story residence early hours of the morning.

By the September 18, 2003

Voices

Letter to the Editor

I want to congratulate Rob Anderson and Mike DeBonis on their centerfold article on the Southwest Quadrangle (“Our campus, our space,” Cover, Sept. 11). It is well written and shows considerable knowledge of architecture. And I laughed out loud when I read, “If God is in the architectural details, Georgetown lost its faith long ago.

By the September 18, 2003

Editorials

A campus wasteland

While walking her dog up the library steps on Sunday morning, a Georgetown resident looked down to see that she and her dog were wading through broken glass. To her left, underneath the benches on the landing, hundreds of beer cans were cluttered, remnants of a crazy Saturday night.

By the September 18, 2003

Features

Off campus, on track

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Expanding the University is no longer just a matter of collecting funds and drawing plans. In recent years, a stronger neighborhood voice has forced the University to take the concerns of the surrounding community to heart. Now, with 90 percent of students on campus, has a new era of town-gown relations arrived?

By the September 18, 2003