Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


News

Weekend worries administrators

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON Maybe it was the nice weather over the three-day weekend, or maybe it was just the back-to-school excitement. But whatever it was, Georgetown students partied hard last weekend, according to members of the Student Neighborhood Assistance Program (SNAP).

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Happy Birthday, Judy!

I don’t get many things right the first time In fact, I’m told that a lot

What the f.

Does 27 off-suit make you sick? Have you seen the movie Rounders over 20 times? E-mail Rounders101@hotmail.com if you’re down.

Godspeed the U.S.

Voices

Style versus substance

You’re a little hungry. What’s the first thing you think of? New South, but that was last year. This year’s first-years will never have to experience our spectacular old dining hall with its one-way-in, one-way-out door, long lines and dirty, sticky floors.

News

Student hit by Mercedes SLK

A vehicle hit transfer student Theo Novak (CAS ‘05) while he crossed 35th Street late Sunday night. Novak, who lives near the intersection of 35th and O Streets, was walking across 35th Street with a group of about four other students night when a woman driving a white Mercedes SLK ran the stop sign and struck him in the left knee.

Voices

More trite senior nostalgia

VOICES by IAN BOURLAND The rhetoric of official university statements, student-group campaigns and mass e-mails has always tended to ring hollow for me, as my eyes glide uncomprehending past assurances of the strength of our traditions and bonds as an intellectual and interpersonal community.

News

New web site launches today

Georgetown is expected to launch a new website today that will consolidate the health and safety resources available to Georgetown students onto one easy-to-use website. The site, be.georgetown.edu, contain contact and location information for University health, counseling and wellness services, and will include general information about issues that affect students, ranging from alcohol abuse and sexually transmitted infections to acne and homesickness.

Editorials

A badly needed facility

Georgetown University is in the process of becoming a very different place. The recently completed Southwest Quadrangle is only one part of a larger University expansion plan, one which will eventually give the campus such badly needed facilities as a performing arts center and an on-campus basketball arena.

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$1.2 million grant awarded to GU

Georgetown University’s Community Research and Learning Network (CoRAL) received a $1.2 million dollar grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Wednesday. According to Kathleen Maas Weigert, the Director for the Center for Social Justice, Research, Teaching and Service, the grant money will allow for new full-time staff positions and for new paid student positions.

Editorials

Health site a strong resource

Today, Georgetown will launch a new website, be.georgetown.edu, which consolidates all University health resources into one website for students. Collectively called the “Safety Net,” these resources address physical and mental health issues ranging from travel medicine to tips for boosting your immunity.

News

DC on Speed

Big Brother is watching you, but not in the way you might expect. It isn’t through John Ashcroft’s hidden cameras in smoke detectors, but rather through a system established to monitor traffic. And this time big brother doesn’t want you to obey-he wants you to pay.