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News

Alumni dedicate Sept. 11 memorial park

Around 100 members of the Georgetown community gathered in the newly completed Memorial Park in West Georgetown for an opening ceremony Saturday. The park, dedicated to members of the Georgetown community who died on Sept. 11, is a result of the Senior Class Gift of 2002 and the efforts of the Alumni Association.

Leisure

Buzz is dead; long live Buzz

Last Wednesday, Buzzlife Promotions announced that Buzz, its weekly club event at D.C.’s Nation, was canceled without future plans to resume. Buzz had been held every Friday night at Nation (1014 Half St., S.E.) for the past nine years and had come to be regarded as one of the premier club events in the United States.

Voices

Exterminators of the world, unite!

I used to pride myself on thinking that I didn’t hate anything. Were there things that I strongly disliked? Of course. I could rattle off a somewhat excessive list of what I abhorred, detested and generally despised with little prompting. But I did not hate.

News

Condom distribution in dorms questioned

Hyas for Choice, a student group that has traditionally distributed contraceptives outside dorm room doors, must decide on a new method due to recent conflict with University policy. In past years, members of Hyas for Choice, a non-University sponsored group, had taped condoms to their doors for students to take.

Editorials

CSJ: Keep students in mind

In the spring of 2001, Kathleen Maas-Weigert was named director of Georgetown’s newly founded Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service. The Office of Volunteer and Public Service, which operates the majority of the University’s service programs, was placed under this new expansion.

Features

Fall Fashion Extravaganza

Here at Voice Fashion, we spend a lot of time researching the Next Big Thing. But when not researching the Next Big Thing, we are making fun of the way some people dress. Why? Because they deserve it. Some Georgetown students have lots of disposable income to dispose on fashion, which therefore makes our campus susceptible to ridiculous fashion mishaps spewed half-gestated from the overtanned heads of Tommy, Ralph and Calvin.

News

Club Union votes against lockdown policy

The Georgetown Club and Activities Union voted unanimously Tuesday night to send a letter to the University administration expressing concern over the new lock-down policy on campus.

The letter follows one sent by the Georgetown University Student Association last Friday that expressed identical concerns.

Leisure

Ladytron: Rehash or renaissance?

So new wave is back. This whole ‘80s revivalist thing and all its oft-cited trappings?President Bush, corporate greed and, just maybe, a decent Georgetown basketball team?have tracked a parallel course across lesser-known music circles through media spanning from Omaha indie new wavers The Faint to Brooklyn’s electro club renaissance.

Sports

Voice Sports Homecoming Blow Out!

As the homecoming crowd of 1,749 began to filter out of Harbin Field, the question of the day began to fly around Lot T: “Who won?”

In what was an unusually hot afternoon in mid-September, the Georgetown Hoyas football team continued its streak of wins on Homecoming weekend.

News

Crew boathouse planned for 2004

On Sept. 9, Georgetown University and the National Park Service submitted applications requesting that a 1.09 acre parcel of land be zoned for the future site of the Georgetown University Boathouse.

The land, which is one-quarter mile from the Key Bridge and borders the Washington Canoe Club, the Capital Crescent Trail and the Potomac River, is currently owned by the U.