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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


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.

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.

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.

Sports

Hoyas mauled by Panthers

The Georgetown women’s basketball team lost their fourth straight game on Wednesday night at McDonough Arena as visiting Pittsburgh dominated the Hoyas 91-72. Sophomore guard Mary Lisicky led all scorers with 27 points in the defeat. The loss drops the Hoyas to 11-6 (2-4 Big East).

News

Matthews makes a hard call

“This school must be great if you have the money. If you don’t, it must be horrible.” Chris Matthews, known for his outbursts, blurted this out not twenty minutes into the live taping of his program Hardball at Georgetown last Wednesday. During a commercial break while the microphone was off, Matthews leaned over to his two panelists and told told them what he really thought.

Sports

Thank me later

Forget football. The game to which I devoted so much time, energy, and money for pitchers has broken my heart and left me for dead. As if it wasn’t bad enough that I went to the final game at the Vet expecting to tear up the seats as the final whistle blew, I had to then sit through a boring three-hour craptacle some people call the Super Bowl.

Features

On the Road to the Supreme Court

You have 30 minutes to present the most important argument of your life. You try to keep your carefully constructed thoughts in order, but you cannot stop the barrage of questions from the top nine legal minds in the country. You have never argued in a court like this before.

Leisure

This German festival lacks sausage

What would you do with a hundred dollars? You probably wouldn’t make a short indie film in German. And that’s exactly why you’re not featured in 99 Euro Films (euro is the European word for dollar), a collection of shorts being shown as part of Visions Cinema’s week-long New Films from Germany series.

Leisure

Protest fashion worth fighting for

With an estimated 259,342 people in attendance, this weekend’s anti-war protests grabbed the attention of many a District resident. However, none were more impressed than D.C.’s fashion gurus, who were stunned by the arrival of this season’s protest couture.

Leisure

Shake that thang

Remember when you were a little kid and there just seemed to be absolutely nothing to do? You would walk around sighing, lamenting your existence because life was so damn dull. Remember what your mom, clearly oblivious to your utter unhappiness, used to give as “advice”? Let me refresh your memory—”Make your own fun!” Interestingly enough, Mom’s words are coming back to haunt all the indie rock kids, because kids are sick of moping (Chris Carraba eat your heart out).