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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Voices

Letter to the Editor

In response to your article “Out and a Scout” (Nov. 14), I, an Eagle Scout, would like to address a few issues that were omitted. The issue of homosexual scoutmasters runs much deeper than the moral objection on the surface. For one, a scout’s parents have a legitimate objection to allowing a homosexual to have unlimited access to their boy four to six times a month, especially on overnight camp-outs.

Sports

The Sports Sermon

IUPUI means something, but we’re not sure what. We are also confused how St. Peter’s was able to lose to Xavier the other night; we figured they’d be friends. We can’t even pronounce Quinnipiac, but somehow they’re playing UConn next week.

Yes, it’s that time of the year again: the beginning of the men’s college basketball season.

Voices

Over the river and through the woods

As Thanksgiving break nears, I am counting down the days until I can sit on the couch and have members of my family bring me things. However, earlier this semester my mom told me that the family would be spending the holiday at my grandfather’s house in Florida, which only means one thing: road trip.

Editorials

Care to buy a calendar?

Georgetown University is in the throes of an identity crisis. It is famous, but relatively poor. It is well-regarded, but slipping in rank. Solutions that address the root of the problem have ranged from fiscal cuts to a reorganization of the University’s entire mission.

Voices

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We will correct all factual mistakes in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. In “Rangila expands its focus,” on Nov. 14, the Voice incorrectly referred to Vidhya Iyer (CAS ‘03) as Bidhya Iyer.

Editorials

This stadium is no home run

In his quest for a legacy beyond being “the mayor who isn’t Marion Barry,” Mayor Anthony Williams has made acquiring a major league baseball team for D.C. a major priority. In 2000, when the nation was still tipsy with cash from the tech boom, he pledged $200 million of the District’s money to build a baseball stadium in the city.

Features

Unsung Heroes

Over the past ten years, the men’s and women’s cross country teams have been among the most successful and least recognized programs at Georgetown. Both teams started the season ranked in the top 10 nationally, but have struggled to live up to their expectations this fall.

Leisure

Urban Fare brings the city to …

Urban Fare 3 opened to a packed crowd in Gaston Hall this past Friday, bursting with fresh energy as talented performers brought a number of diverse acts. Full of noteworty performances, the night’s highlights included the poetry of Jessica Rucker (SFS ‘05), Becky Katz COL ‘06) and Lensa Fufa (CAS ‘04).

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Word. The Serm gave up on pro football this week after the Redskins put out the most boring NFL performance since [insert any Ravens game from 2000 here]. We vomited and left to seek sporting pleasure in other arenas.

College football sucks, too. Ohio State just isn’t fun anymore without losers like Andy Katzenmoyer around, Miami’s going to win anyway, and how about those Hokies? Wow.

News

Club Union protests lockdown policy Wednesday

Holding posters with slogans such as “Down with the lockdown” and ”$36,000 a year and we can’t visit our friends,” Georgetown students protested the continuing 24-hour lockdown on Wednesday afternoon in Red Square.

The protesters, organized by the Georgetown University Student Association’s Club Union, distributed the office phone numbers of administrators involved in the lockdown policy, so that students could call and explain the shortcomings of the policy to them,

“There is no real avenue for people who are locked out of the dorms to do anything,” GUSA Historian Adam Doverspike (SFS ‘03) said.