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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Sports

What’s your f-f-fantasy

There are 45 seconds left on the clock and the Philadelphia Eagles are up 52-14 on the New York Giants. The G-men have the ball at their 20-yard line. The offense steps onto the field against the Eagles third-string defense. Why am I so intrigued? Why do I refuse to change the channel to a more competitive game? Because I have Jeremy Shockey, the Giants tight end, on my fantasy football team and he needs only 10 more yards to put him over 100 yards receiving for the day: 100-plus yards means big points for my fantasy football team.

By the September 5, 2002

News

Mayor supports student involvement in ANC

D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams praised student involvement in local politics at the Campaign Georgetown meeting Monday night. Williams, who is a candidate in the upcoming November elections, also discussed the progress made during his term as mayor.

Volunteerism is essential to student relations with the community, Williams said.

By the September 5, 2002

News

University rejoins library consortium

Georgetown announced this week that it has rejoined the Washington Research Library Consortium, which will allow students, faculty and staff to share library resources with D.C.-area universities.

Membership in the WRLC permits Georgetown affiliates to access resources at American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Marymount University and the University of the District of Columbia.

By the September 5, 2002

News

Track team wants use of field

Georgetown University wants to renovate and lease the track at nearby Ellington Field for the next five years, as the University no longer has an on-campus track. Ellington Field is at the intersection of 38th and R Streets in Burleith, a short distance from the Medical Center.

By the September 5, 2002

News

Bedfellows?

On Tuesday the Advisory Neighborhood Commission voted in favor of a resolution supporting an act that could do more for Georgetown students’ safety than the Emergency Preparedness Committee ever could. That is, if the Department of Public Safety and the Metropolitan Police Department find themselves to be good bedfellows.

By the September 5, 2002

News

DPS could increase jurisdiction

University Department of Public Safety Officers could see an increase in off-campus jurisdiction and potentially share equipment and training with the Metropolitan Police Department if an act is passed by the D.C. City Council. The Committee on the Judiciary will have an open hearing on the Omnibus Public Safety Agency Reform Amendment Act of 2002 on Sept.

By the September 5, 2002

News

Three students to run in ANC elections

Three students, Eric Lashner (CAS ‘05), Mike Griffin (CAS ‘05) and Michael Glick (CAS ‘05), have declared their candidacy for the Nov. 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E elections.

Lashner and Griffin will submit paperwork by this Friday’s deadline in order to be placed on the ballot, while Glick is running as a write-in candidate and will not submit paperwork.

By the September 5, 2002

Leisure

There’s bad taste … and there’s this

Once, John Waters was a director who existed on the fringes of culture. Now, he has a hit show on Broadway. From the underbelly of artistic legitimacy to the pinnacle of commercial acceptance, John Waters’ current status provokes only mouth-gaping confusion when one is confronted with what is considered his debut film, Pink Flamingos.

By the September 5, 2002

Leisure

Chomsky meets Kaplan in strange new book

It’s fair to say that recent events have not treated Marxism very well. Communism as a global ideological force has long since collapsed, replaced by the triumph of global capitalism. Ten years ago, Francis Fukayama took a page out of Marx and Hegel’s book and declared human society to be at the “end of history.

By the September 5, 2002

Leisure

Indie label offers its young

We’ve all seen them: Fluorescent bubble letters explode onto our television screen, followed by snippets of videos, catching impassioned artists shooting sultry looks. Brittany, Kylie, Hanson, even K-Ci & JoJo. An announcer shouts that this $20 disc is the key to a sweet party.

By the September 5, 2002