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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Editorials

Crack kills

Show us an efficient super-criminal with civic aspirations, and we’ll show you a way to get this city running tight as a drum. Unfortunately, all anybody’s been able to show us is last week’s Metro section story in the Washington Post detailing former D.C.

By the April 4, 2002

Voices

Asking for a definition

Things couldn’t get much worse for the Catholic Church. In the past few years, a spate of scholarly books have taken the ecclesiastic hierarchy to task for its abominable treatment of European Jewry during the Holocaust; similar tomes have unraveled the manufactured mythology the Church used to quell critics past and present regarding its collaboration with Italian and German fascism.

By the April 4, 2002

Leisure

Panic Room hits buttons

Ah, the lives of rich eccentrics! With plenty of expendable capital, they’re free to do such strange things as build secret steel-clad “panic rooms” designed to protect them just in case their Upper West Side “townstones” are ever invaded. Not only does this provide some measure of security to these senile financiers, but it also serves as a fantastically convenient plot device in the new movie Panic Room.

By the April 4, 2002

Features

Twenty-seven years of tradition dribbles down the drain

For the past 27 years, most people could count on three things occurring in life: death, taxes and Georgetown making a men’s postseason basketball tournament. On March 10, 2002, the list was down to two when Georgetown decided not to participate in the National Invitation Tournament.

By the April 4, 2002

Voices

Letter to the editor

I am writing this letter in response to the Mar. 21 article, “Finding a place in Asian-America” by Andrew Lin. In it, Lin derides the Asian-American youth scene in Los Angeles and describes his (unsuccessful) attempt to escape it by enrolling at Georgetown.

By the April 4, 2002

Leisure

Up, up, and away

As seems to be regularly the case this time of year, musical offerings in the Washington area over the next week largely range from inanely innocuous (The Big Wu, Dave Matthews) to the inadvisably incessant (Ani DiFranco) and on to the irredeemably intolerable (Dashboard Confessional).

By the April 4, 2002

News

ANC supports New South student activity space

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission passed a motion on Tuesday expressing their support of the renovation of New South cafeteria into student space after the completion of the Southwest Quadrangle in 2003.

The motion was presented by ANC Commissioner Justin Wagner (CAS ‘03).

By the April 4, 2002

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Announcements

Upcoming Women’s Center Events: ? GU Women Authors Series: Dr. Marcia Morris, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, will discuss her new book, The Literature of Roguery in 17th and 18th Century Russia. Monday, April 8, 7 p.m. 327 Leavey. ? Telling Her Story: Dr.

By the April 4, 2002

News

Progressive Career Fair rescheduled

The Progressive Career Fair has been rescheduled for April 11, after being postponed by Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez in February.

The Progressive Career Fair, originally sponsored by GU Pride and H*yas for Choice, was to feature employers such as Amnesty International, Catholics for Free Choice and the American Civil Liberties Union.

By the April 4, 2002

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Speaking of pot pourri …

J-bo Anne?The past is almost done. The future is almost here. How very profound.?D-bo

Justain & A-bo Anne?Have fun in the Rock.?Love, the Trick.

Buy a sponge, bitch!

Ma, Pup, Shepp, X, Dan and Liz?here we go again!!!?noodle

Brian’s weekly “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue” Poem Roses are red, Violets are blue, My poems are usually better, but this one will have to do.

By the April 4, 2002