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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Leisure

Politics, biology collide at Corcoran

Molecular Invasion, a new exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery, is possibly one of the more bizarre art attractions currently showing in the D.C. area. Presented by the Critical Art Ensemble, the project is a loud, brazen criticism of the environmental effects of advances in biotechnology.

News

All students guaranteed housing next year

All students who want to live on-campus are guaranteed housing next year regardless of their previously allotted years of eligibility, based on the findings of the Housing Advisory Committee, composed of both students and administrators. As of press time, e-mails announcing the change were scheduled to be sent to sophomores and juniors this morning from Director of Housing Services Shirley Menendez.

Leisure

I (heart) D.C.

Every year at this time in New York City, thousands of musicians and indie rock fans gather together for the College Music Journal Music Marathon. The event’s bands all play in separate venues and it’s a great way to check out all the different clubs in New York, while hearing everything from Chemical Brothers to Ugly Casanova, to anything put out by Saddle Creek.

News

Arts expansion includes new facility, major

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve plans for the Georgetown Performing Arts Center. Final approval awaits a hearing before the Board of Zoning Adjustment scheduled for Dec. 5.

The Performing Arts Center, a part of the Georgetown University Campus 2000 Plan, will be the first building in University history dedicated entirely to the performing arts.

Leisure

… but Theatrical Shorts falls short

Nomadic Theater’s Theatrical Shorts present six plays written by a variety of playwrights?August Strindberg, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter?and is directed by Professor Baker-White, a professor in the Department of Art, Music and Theater. The actors make an admirable effort, but they frequently demonstrate an inability to subsist on the mere scraps and bare bones with which they are provided.

Editorials

Sexy Girl Scouts and bacon bits

Though some of us believe we are too old or too cool to still dress up, hot-pants Heidi and S&M Spiderwoman were already defying the norm of preppiness at the Guards last Saturday. Many more young women will freeze radiantly beneath pink wigs, feather boas, fish nets, fake eyelashes and little else Thursday through Saturday.

Voices

The girl who whimpered rape

We enter an apartment; why are we alone? After this my memory is muddled, hazy. I vividly see myself entering the doorway. My smile fades, I feel frightened. Through a cloud of alcohol … he is on top of me. I open and close my eyes, lethargic and sedated.

Leisure

Faith for evermore

Former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton started his own record label, Ipecac Recordings, intending to purge the music industry of its banal artistic talent and provide an antidote. Take a quick look, and you’ll find out there isn’t a better man to do it.

Voices

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes mistakes seriously. We will correct all mistakes of fact in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. “Students participate in death penalty awareness,” which appeared in the Oct. 17 issue of the Voice, incorrectly referred to the speaker at “Live from Death Row,” as a pardoned death row inmate.

Leisure

Looking for the lighter side of racism

If there’s one thing your coffee table needs this season, it’s a big book with the word “racism” on the cover. Ego Trip’s Big Book of Racism should fit the bill nicely. The book assembles a field of startlingly honest voices for a selection of lists and essays that seem to agree on at least one thing: Letting taste and political correctness reign in the discourse on race is pointless.