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News

MLK speaker: Americans need to reprioritize

The people of the United States need to rethink their standards and get their priorities straight, said Reverend Jamal-Harrison Bryant at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration service on Tuesday. Bryant, who is from the Empowerment Temple of Baltimore, gave the keynote sermon at the celebration in Gaston Hall, which also included performances by the Georgetown Gospel Choir and Black Movements dance troupe.

By the January 24, 2002

Voices

Talking loud in church

On Sunday Cardinal Theodore McCarrick presided at a Eucharist in St. William’s Chapel, at which 21 students?some, though not all, lesbian and gay?remained standing throughout the liturgy. Their silent presence drew attention, a handout said, to Georgetown’s failure to address “the needs of its students without regard to age, sex, religion, race, sexual orientation, handicap, color, national or ethnic origin.

By the January 24, 2002

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Announcements

Dr. Richard P. Keeling, executive editor of the “American Journal of College Health,” will deliver the keynote address during Georgetown University’s “Health, Safety and Justice Week,” on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Copley Formal Lounge. Keeling will discuss what it means to be safe in a college environment and the health choices students make surrounding major issues, specifically alcohol.

By the January 17, 2002

News

Violent crime in Georgetown down

The number of violent crimes in the Georgetown area has dropped by 12 percent in the past year, according to Metropolitan Police Department Commander Peter Newsham of the 2nd district. His comments came at a meeting with the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, the Citizens Association of Georgetown and area residents, who met on Tuesday to discuss area safety concerns.

By the January 17, 2002

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By the January 17, 2002

Sports

Hoyas turn season around, win two straight

With 11:07 remaining in the Hoyas’ 84-58 win over Seton Hall on Wednesday night, Pirates senior guard Ty Shine stood at the three-point line, tying his shoe, as an entire sports arena exploded with applause. Could Shine’s looping motion possibly be this transfixing?

Moments earlier, Georgetown senior point guard Kevin Braswell had done the stuff of playground legend?and literally faked Shine out of one of his Nikes?on a crossover dribble just beyond the three point line.

By the January 17, 2002

Features

Are you sure you didn’t plagiarize? The computer is.

When University of Virginia Professor Lou Bloomfield first heard that students were recycling term papers in his popular physics class, he spent a night designing a computer program to check for plagiarism. His class, called “How Things Work,” was billed as physics for non-scientists, and drew a crowd of 500 students each semester.

By the January 17, 2002

Leisure

Schreifels strikes a chord

Walter Schreifels of Rival Schools is a rock star. Not in that good-looking, sings-to-the-camera, ladies’-man kind of way—although this writer finds the first to be true. Instead, he is the kind of rock star that has vision in his blood and determination behind his eyes—undoubtedly the product of a 15-year music career.

By the January 17, 2002

News

DPS sexual harassment case filed

Former Department of Public Safety officer Wanda Wright has brought sexual harassment charges against various officials in the department. Wright has since resigned from her position at the University.

Both DPS Director William Tucker and Associate Director Darryl Harrison did not return calls to the Voice by press time.

By the January 17, 2002

Editorials

One war’s enough

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) stressed in his speech Monday in Gaston Hall that the war on terrorism “will not be over until Saddam Hussein is removed from power.”

Lieberman reminded audience members that Saddam already “has the means?chemical and biological weapons that he hasn’t hesitated to use .

By the January 17, 2002