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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Leisure

Find the fish

If you like seafood, gritty urban warehouses and legendary Washington traditions, then take some time this weekend to check out two of the more culturally diverse places to be found within the District’s auspicious confines—Maine Avenue Fish Market and Capital City Market, also known as the D.

By the January 30, 2003

News

GU hosts Afghan students

Georgetown is hosting a program for a small group of students from Afghanistan this week, continuing its involvement in U.S. Afghan relations. The Afghan students arrived last Friday for a week-long program entitled “Blueprint for the Future—Connecting Afghan and American College Students,” where they are working with Georgetown students to draft a document on Afghanistan’s redevelopment.

By the January 30, 2003

Sports

Hoyas fall in OT, NCAAs in serious doubt

“The season’s not over,” said Georgetown Head Coach Craig Esherick after the Hoyas’ (10-6 overall, 2-4 Big East) 93-82 overtime loss to Seton Hall (8-9 overall, 3-4 Big East) last night at the MCI Center.

Unfortunately, with torturous, heartbreaking losses as the norm rather than the exception, it is becoming much harder to believe him.

By the January 30, 2003

News

Kerry calls for multilateralism

After the events of Sept. 11, leaders in the United States need to have a coherent vision of how to interact with the world, Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a speech last Thursday in Gaston Hall.

In the speech, which was sponsored by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and The Edmund A.

By the January 30, 2003

Sports

Esherick’s Island

Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a Georgetown team … They’re struggling through their ups and downs to try to reach a dream. Our season started out OK as Georgetown won eight straight, Although the teams the Hoyas played were really not that great.

By the January 30, 2003

Leisure

Bash delves, emotes, disturbs

For a campus where fraternities and sororities do not officially exist, there has been a recent influx of things Greek at Georgetown. Bash, Neil LaBute’s examination of psychology on the edge, is laden with allusions to ancient Greece: fate, mythology, classical tragedy and even a “Delphi University.

By the January 30, 2003

News

AFIRMS releases second report

Advocates for Improved Response Methods to Sexual Assault, a recently formed student group, released a second report on the University’s sexual assault policy yesterday. The report examines the adjudication process and offers solutions to perceived problems.

By the January 23, 2003

Editorials

Size matters

Last Saturday in front of the United States Capitol, protesters, including over 100 Georgetown students, demonstrated against the impending war against Iraq. Lots of protesters. Just how many protesters, or even a rough approximation of the number, nobody knows.

By the January 23, 2003

Voices

Losing it, whatever it is

The first movie that a friend of mine recalls watching as a child was a gay porn flick. Telling me this story, he remarked that while he had most likely been introduced to Sesame Street before John Holmes, puppets didn’t make quite the same impression. My friend described it as akin to watching Freud’s primal scene with a twist: He wakes up one night and goes over to his door, which is partly open.

By the January 23, 2003

Leisure

Mugging at the library

The Corp’s most recent business endeavor, a caf? on the second floor of Lauinger Library, opened Tuesday to mild, librarian-approved fanfare. Midnight Mug brings the number of caf?s on this campus to four, if you count the Starbucks in Leavey.

If the number of caf?s per capita is an indicator of general pleasantness, it would seem that as a university, we are doing fairly well.

By the January 23, 2003