Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Editorials

Guard-ing student opinion

At the beginning of the school year, the administration implemented a new safety policy which restricts student access to dormitories and other campus buildings. Unlike the old policy, which allowed students to enter all residence halls with a valid Georgetown ID, the new policy restricts entrance to residents of the building.

News

Sanchez: Free trade for Bolivia

Free trade between the United States and Bolivia is necessary in order to increase Bolivia’s stability, said the President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in a speech in Gaston Hall on Monday.

Sanchez spoke of the multitude of problems facing Bolivia, its relationship with the United States and the need to halt threats to globalization, free market economies and democratic principles.

Editorials

Out and a Scout

Last week, a D.C. appellate court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America did not violate D.C. law when it did not allow two gay men to become Scout leaders. This ruling overturned the District’s Commission on Human Rights’ order that the Boy Scouts reinstate the men.

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.

Sports

Hoyas advance in Big East

The Georgetown Men’s Soccer team defeated Big East rival Notre Dame 2-1 on Saturday in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Notre Dame’s Alumni Field in South Bend, Ind. Junior defender Carl Skanderup scored the game-winning goal in overtime to launch the Hoyas into the Big East semi-finals for the third time in five years.

Sports

Back it up

Statistics from this past weekend in the NFL: Marc Bulger 36 of 48, 453 yards and four touchdowns; Tommy Maddox 28 of 41, 473 yards and four touchdowns. What do these two quarterbacks have in common, besides breaking franchise records? They were both sitting on their respective team’s benches at the beginning of the NFL season, not expecting to play at all this year.

Sports

Women’s volleyball misses postseason

This year’s women’s volleyball team more resembles the 16-13 team from two seasons ago than the 1999 squad that made the NCAA Tournament or last year’s team, which made an appearance in the Big East Championship. With two games left, the Hoyas are out of contention for the Big East Tournament, currently standing at sixth in a conference where only the top four of 14 advance.

Sports

Hoffman’s steady career ends

Senior defender Casey Hoffman has many nicknames. Head Coach Diane Drake calls her the Cal Ripken of the Georgetown women’s soccer team because she started every game of her collegiate career and missed only one practice in four years. Drake also teasingly calls her Mute, for her quiet, uncomplaining leadership style.

Leisure

Falsettos delivers false promises

Just where did the lesbians next door come from and why should we care about them? It’s a question you will end up pondering towards the end of the ponderous Mask & Bauble production of Falsettos, an overlong musical whose size couldn’t be overcome, even with some good performances.

Features

Talking to each other

The tensest moments of recent public conflict between student groups involved the politics of the Middle East. Groups such as the Muslim Student Association, the Jewish Student Association, the Young Arab Leadership Alliance and the Georgetown Israel Alliance have been especially active on campus in recent years, staging events, bringing speakers to campus and trying to foster debate or at least raise awareness of what they see as an important issue on a seemingly daily basis.