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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.

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Billy Boyd rocking D.C.!!!

Cori?I love you; Ron is nothing; I think I have more money than Ron.?MJT

Midnight golfer? Yes, he is a midnight golfer.

To RB?Thank you for coming to our ice-cream social.

Mayor?Never turn down the Whitney Houston.

Yes that’s hoemotional.

Leisure

A twist of fate

When George Bush choked on a pretzel Sunday, media outlets across the world exploded in speculation. Was this a conspiracy? Is there a cover-up? Yet we at The Voice Leisure section choose to dig deeper?we mine the pits of sound bytes and news releases that have swallowed pundit and wonk alike.

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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Leisure

Where the ladies are

In the past year, Ladyfest, a female-run music festival that originated in Olympia, Wash., has become kind of a hippie-mom version of the riot-grrrl aesthetic, fashioning that “you ain’t it, la la la” feeling into a self-reliant community, complete with radical-feminist workshops, spoken-word slams and good old-fashioned boy bashing.

Leisure

Arcadia a literate trip into the past

There has been a link between landscaping and scholarship dating back to the Greeks. In the Golden Age, Socrates had his classes among the trees, giving rise to the phrase “The Groves of Academe.” In the present age, Tom Stoppard sets his satire/treatise of the academic world in a Devonshire manor house famous for its beautiful and literarily significant garden.

News

Governor supports profiling

U.S. airport security should abandon random checks in favor of stricter searches of people who fit the description of terrorists, said Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating (CAS ‘66). On Wednesday, Keating shared his experience with terrorism in Oklahoma as well as his views on U.

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Turkey program suspended

Due to parental safety concerns after Sept. 11, nearly all participants withdrew from this spring semester’s Alanya study abroad program in Turkey, causing the Office of International Programs to temporarily cancel the program for the year.

According to Debbie Brown, associate director of Overseas Studies, the University did not suspend the program on its own accord, but was forced to when the number of students enrolled fell to two or three.

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DeGioia promotes unpopular administrator

A petition signed by 45 faculty members of the Georgetown University Medical Center was sent to University President John J. DeGioia’s office in December. The petition was signed in protest of DeGioia’s recent decision to appoint current Executive Vice President for Health Studies Sam Wiesel to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Dean of Clinical Affairs.