The staff of The Georgetown Voice.
Walking through the Govinda Gallery’s current exhibition, Rolling Stones 40×20, you immediately begin to wonder what you’re not seeing. Of course, there’s a picture of Keith Richards snorting coke at Joshua Tree National Park, prints from the wine-soaked debauchery of the Beggar’s Banquet album shoot and countless images of Mick Jagger in various states of intoxication and subsequent hangover.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
The Georgetown Men’s basketball team will be holding open tryouts for this year’s team on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Current full time students are eligible to try out. Candidates should assemble in the lobby of McDonough Arena, bring their student ID, athletic gear and be prepared to tryout.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
The Georgetown University Student Association met with key University administrators last week to present its case against the current lockdown policy, which limits access to campus dormitories to residents of those buildings. The meeting was considered successful by both parties, and montly meetings are planned for the forseeable future.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
Matt Miller, the bassist for Sparta, recently spoke to Voice Leisure about the band’s current tour. Formed from the remains of the band At the Drive-In, Sparta has since signed to Dreamworks Records and released an EP, Austere, and a new album, Wiretap Scars.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
University President John J. DeGioia declined to sign a statement decrying discrimination against Jewish students on college campuses. The statement, which appeared in an advertisement in the New York Times on Sunday, was signed by 300 university presidents and written in conjunction with the American Jewish Council.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
In the past five years, coffee prices have plummeted 70 percent, plunging 25 million Third World coffee farmers into poverty. Small farmers, unable to transport their own coffee, are forced to pay exorbitant amounts to middlemen. As a result, farmers who should be receiving a fair “living wage” of $1.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
The School of Nursing and Health Studies welcomed its newest member, GUS Junior, yesterday with a party and demonstration of GUS’s features.
GUS, the Georgetown University Simulator, is a 5-foot-9-inch, 175-pound full-sized simulated patient. Yesterday GUS’s brain lay on the counter as SNHS administrators led a tour past his body.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
On Oct. 4, more than 100 students and faculty members at the Georgetown University Law Center gathered to protest the presence of Judge Advocacy Group representatives at the annual Government Interview Week. The demonstrators argued that the presence of the group, which discriminates against homosexuals in the form of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, violates University anti-discrimination policy.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
Professors and students at the Georgetown Law Center have protested the presence of military recruiters last Friday, claiming that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which addresses sexual orientation, is discriminatory.
Seventy-five faculty members at the Law Center signed a resolution recently that called for a reversal of the policy.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002
Mayor Anthony Williams said at a news conference last Monday that United States citizenship should not be the standard for voting in municipal elections in Washington, D.C. He hopes to enfranchise all taxpaying residents of the District of Columbia. In 1991, Takoma Park, Maryland became the first municipality to allow immigrants to vote in local elections.
By the Voice Staff October 10, 2002