Voice Staff

Campus lockdown policy will end

NEWS BY ROB ANDERSON In an effort to better “balance the need for safety with the interest of fostering community,” Georgetown will relax its residence hall access policies starting Sept. 12, according to a campus wide e-mail sent yesterday by Senior Vice President Spiros Dimolitsas and Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

Features

A boathouse at last?

COVER BY MIKE DeBONIS For decades, Georgetown crew has been dreaming of a grand new home. That dream may soon be realized, but not without one more battle.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

Voices

Celebrating the return of irony

After Sept. 11 2001, one pundit claimed that the stark presentation of good (courageous firefighters) versus evil (you know who), and its rude reminder of that seemingly forgotten but rather grave matter of “life and death”, brought to America “the end of the age of irony.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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).

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

Free Unclassifieds

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003

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.

By the Voice Staff September 4, 2003