Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Editorials

Communication is security

When Jeremy Dorfman (CAS ‘06) took his own life late Saturday night, he left a campus not only in mourning but also in confusion. University administrators quickly released relevant facts and gathered support services for students and should be congratulated for their prompt response.

By the January 16, 2003

Editorials

Don’t forget about us

On Jan. 7, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch was chosen to succeed Peter Pulsifer as Chairman of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, which includes Georgetown and Burleith. Birch will lead an ANC that would seem on first glance to be less student friendly.

By the January 16, 2003

Editorials

Dead men walking

The legacy of former Illinois Governor George Ryan will be difficult to determine. During his four-year term, Ryan switched from staunchly supporting capital punishment to become a key advocate of death penalty reform. Adding to this transformation was his announcement last weekend that he would empty Illinois’ death row.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

Men’s basketball ransacked by Pirates

Tuesday night, the Georgetown men’s basketball team (9-3 overall, 1-1 Big East) completed its strangest week in recent memory, losing to the Seton Hall Pirates (6-7 overall, 1-3 Big East) 68-54 in Big East Conference play.

The week began Sunday with Georgetown winning in overtime against West Virginia, the Hoyas’ first win in their last five OT games, followed by a highly publicized tirade by usually mild-mannered Head Coach Craig Esherick over officiating.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

All-American Sicher strikes a balance

Georgetown track and field co-captain Erin Sicher is a three-time All-American who runs 70 miles a week. She was a member of the outdoor 4×800 meter relay team that won the Big East Championship in 2001 and she just earned her first individual All-American honor in cross country this fall.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

Orangewomen juiced, lots of pulp

In the first of two games on its Big East road trip, the Hoyas women’s basketball team knocked off Syracuse 82-75 in overtime on Wednesday night. Junior forward Rebekkah Brunson led the Hoyas with 25 points and 15 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

The Esherant

After the Hoyas’ overtime victory against West Virginia last Saturday, a tall white guy, eyes burning and voice cracking, told the MCI Center pressroom how he truly felt:

“For the referees in our league, and for our league, and for the adults that run our league to expect Mike Sweetney to put up with the contact that he has to put up in the post when he goes up to shoot, and to put up with the contact he has to absorb and deal with and be happy about and not have a referee call a foul, and then [to have] that same 20-year old watch our perimeter people guard people … and get called for hand-checking every time we put our hands on somebody else is just absolutely, absolutely crazy.

By the January 16, 2003

Sports

The Sports Sermon

In honor of Training Day’s debut on HBO, where it will inevitably be run over and over and over again until Ethan Hawke’s mustache actually seems attractive, this week The Serm divides the sporting world using “Denzel Terms.” As he said, you can either be two things in this raw and rugged life—a wolf or a sheep.

By the January 16, 2003

Leisure

Audience touched by Angels

Controversy is always hot, and the one surrounding Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is alone enough to incite interest in Mask & Bauble’s newest production. A drama that circles around the theme of homosexual love, Angels in America is directed by Caitlin Lowans (SFS ‘03), who proposed producing the play after the disappointing outcome of the LGBTQ resource center campaign.

By the January 16, 2003

Leisure

Film websites the perfect cure for the work ethic

One week into the semester and you’ve already run out of ways to procrastinate? No problem. A couple of websites exist that, once discovered, promise to kidnap and murder every second of your free time—Ifilm.com and AtomFilms.com. The former advertises itself as possessing the “world’s largest collection of short films and movie clips available to watch online” and the latter is semi-serious, chock full of truncated pieces of cinematic glory.

By the January 16, 2003