Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Leisure

40 years from Lincoln’s steps

Although classes had begun only a day earlier, Georgetown students eager to celebrate Thursday’s 40th anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, formed a line that quickly wound around the Village C staircase.

Buses that could hold only 25 people came and went on 15-minute intervals, frustrating the growing crowd of students.

By the September 4, 2003

Sports

Field hockey starts season with a split

The first weekend of action is over for the Georgetown women’s field hockey team, and despite splitting a two-game series versus Longwood University and St. Joseph’s, the Hoyas showed enough offensive firepower to give them plenty of optimism for the rest of the season.

By the September 4, 2003

Leisure

Anne Frank, revisited

“I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death, I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness … yet if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.” These words, written by Anne Frank in her last diary entry, reveal the mind of a girl coming to terms with her extraordinary predicament.

By the September 4, 2003

Sports

A weekend to forget

Women’s Volleyball (1-2)

The Hoyas finished a disappointing 1-2 this past weekend at the Brion’s Grille/Doubletree Patriot Invitational at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. The homecourt advantage helped the George Mason Patriots, as they hit .347 for the match and handed Georgetown a 3-0 loss (30-19, 30-24, 30-26).

By the September 4, 2003

Leisure

Who is Harvey Pekar?

Although comics may be the oldest narrative medium, comic creators are still marginalized as creators of a preadolescent art form. In the 1960s, R. Crumb, founder of the underground comic book movement, helped change that impression by introducing over-the-top sexual perversion into comics, revolutionizing them for an adult audience while managing to stay within the familiar framework of larger-than-life archetypal characters and animals.

By the September 4, 2003

Features

A Guide to Your New Administrators

COVER COMPILED BY VOICE STAFF There’s lots of new faces on campus this year, and it’s not just the first-years. Check out our guide and spot your administrators in their natural habitat.

By the August 28, 2003

Editorials

Advocating for students

In July, Todd Olson became interim Vice President of Student Affairs after Juan Gonzales stepped down to take a position at Arizona State University. Olson brings a fair amount of experience to the job; he served as Associate Vice President for Student Affairs for Gonzales, and has had a great deal of interaction with student leaders.

By the August 28, 2003

News

Alumnus dies in UN explosion

Rick Hooper (MAAS ‘90) died Aug. 19, 2003 in the bombing of the United Nations offices in Baghdad. Hooper, 40, was working as assistant to the head of the U.N.’s special envoy, Kieran Prendergast. Temporarily replacing an assistant envoy, Hooper was planning on staying in Baghdad for only two weeks before continuing on to Palestine.

By the August 28, 2003

Editorials

Progress at MPD

Last week, the District’s transgender community suffered a rash of violent crime that left two transgender persons dead and one in the hospital.

On Aug. 16, Bella Evangelista was shot dead by a man who had solicited her for oral sex and later discovered she was transgender.

By the August 28, 2003

News

Changes to alcohol policy considered

NEWS BY SHANTHI MANIAN Students and faculty of the FRIENDS initiative submitted a proposal to Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson this week that would drastically change Georgetown’s alcohol policy. The document includes recommendations to eliminate Georgetown’s “dry dorm” policy, party registration and “beer gardens” which physically separate drinkers from non-drinkers at on-campus parties.

By the August 28, 2003