Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Leisure

Eat this

From Atkins to South Beach, there’s a diet out there for just about everyone. While most popular diets help you lose weight by controlling caloric intake and portion size, diet programs of the past took a much more effective approach: make the food so unappealing that you literally can’t eat it.

By the September 18, 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

Editorials

Retraction

Last week’s edition of The Voice contained an editorial which criticized what we believed were ineffective modifications made to the lockdown policy (“Lockdown: a partial fix,” Sept. 11).

By the September 18, 2003

Sports

Men’s soccer bounces back from shutout

SPORTS BY CACILDA TEIXEIRA The Georgetown men’s soccer team bounced back nicely from a 3-0 shutout at St. John’s on Saturday to win their second game of the season 3-1 against Towson University at North Kehoe Field on Tuesday. The Hoyas improved to 2-2-2 overall and 0-1 in the Big East.

By the September 18, 2003