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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Sports

Biles, Hoyas seek elusive title

If you ask most casual sports fans on campus what the national ranking of Georgetown women’s lacrosse team is, they’ll tell you that it’s No. 4. But ask the same person how the team got there and you’ll be met with a slightly less certain answer. Look no further than senior defender Melissa Biles, who hopes to parlay defense into the Hoyas’ first NCAA National Championship.

By the March 20, 2003

News

Don’t front

“As a university we need to place ourselves on the cutting edge of change, to be part of this city’s historic quest for racial, social, economic and political justice,” said University President John J. DeGioia two days before his inauguration in 2001. On the eve of his Presidency, DeGioia committed himself to enacting social change.

By the March 20, 2003

Sports

Bye bye, Esh

This season, I quietly sat back and watched the continued demise of Hoyas basketball. There was a time when ballers grew up dreaming of wearing the blue and gray. We?ve all seen Above the Rim—Birdie and Kyle knew what was up. But what once was up has come crashing down.

By the March 20, 2003

Features

Finding his Strength

Georgetown senior sprinter Michael Williams lost his mother months before entering college. Since then, Williams has battled to fulfill her final wish—his graduation.

By the March 20, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

“Our nation enters this war reluctantly,” Bush says. “We will accept no outcome but victory.” Well George, there is but one way to ensure victory. It is not through war, it is not through dirty bombs or shivs in the belly. It is not through carpet bombing or Tomahawk cruise missiles.

By the March 20, 2003

Leisure

‘Spider’ spins a stultifying story

There’s something wrong with Spider, not the least of which is his name. Dubbed so for his love of all things arachnid, Dennis “Spider” Cleg remembers building webs of natty string in his room. He also remembers his father doing something awful to his mother.

By the March 20, 2003

Editorials

Same work, same wage

Every morning, Georgetown students walk into clean, sanitary classrooms and bathrooms all over campus. They have air-conditioned dorm rooms in the fall and clear walkways in the winter. But even as students are enjoying these indispensable services, many of those who provide them are not paid enough to feed and house their families and access basic health care.

By the March 20, 2003

Sports

No. 3 Women’s lacrosse beats William and Mary

Baseball (1-2, 0-0 Big East)—As if having their home field turned into a parking lot and finishing last year with a 9-47 record wasn’t enough, Georgetown baseball has started off this season playing only three of their scheduled 14 games to date due to inclement weather.

By the March 6, 2003

Voices

What would Jesus do?

Millions of dollars have been made from selling T-shirts, wristbands and bumper stickers inscribed with the letters “WWJD” short for “What Would Jesus Do?” A recent ad campaign aimed at curbing the use of gas-guzzling SUVs implied that Jesus would drive a more fuel-efficient vehicle out of his love for the environment and rhetorically asked, “What would Jesus drive?” Since the American public and marketing firms have poured millions of dollars into the idea of what Jesus would do, it is sensible to explore this question when we stand at the precipice of a major war led by a self-proclaimed Christian whose outbursts of evangelicalism are more frequent than Bob Dole’s erections.

By the March 6, 2003

Sports

Patrick Ewing for Head Coach

As a young sports fanatic growing up in Brooklyn, I had many New York sports heroes. Don Mattingly, Mark Messier, Lawrence Taylor … the list goes on. One man however, stood above them all, literally and figuratively. This man was a 7-foot-tall Jamaican basketball player out of Georgetown University.

By the March 6, 2003