Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Sports

The true courtside seats

Everyone always thinks the best seats at a basketball game are those $1000 courtside seats where all the celebrities pay big bucks to sit. You know which ones I’m taking about.

Just think?Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle are shown every weekend on NBC sitting in those “prime” seats at the Lakers games, while Spike Lee sits courtside at all the Knicks games with that damn orange towel draped over his head which he insists on waving around like he’s the expert on all Knick matters.

Editorials

Bilingualism gets the boot

The Claremont Academy and Early Childhood Center in Arlington Country has recently instituted a new policy that prohibits its employees from speaking Spanish to parents without a supervisor or interpreter present.

“Everyone needs to be able to know what the employees are saying to the parents” according to the center’s director Patti Macie Monday in a Washington Post article.

News

Time to step up

Last week, a letter was written to the editor of the Voice concerning the previous Saxa Politica column entitled, “What Security?” In the letter, Department of Public Safety Communications Officer... Read more

Free Unclassifieds

Free Unclassifieds

J-bo Anne?Too bad that was the best party we’ve ever been to in our lives … 1234?I love you Kevbot?No way in hell will it ever happen. Happy 20th Birthday,... Read more

Leisure

Funny things not happening at Poulton

In its second production of the season, Mask and Bauble offers its audience a campy and slapstick musical performance that will at least entertain the actors’ friends. A Funny Thing... Read more

Features

Her Quiet Revolution

“GEORGETOWN BREAKS TRADITION, ALLOWS WOMEN INTO COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES” said the headline of the press release from the Georgetown University news service on Sept. 19, 1968. It went... Read more

Sports

A November to remember

The 1986 Mets team video, which I’ve seen somewhere north of Little Man Tate and somewhere south of Pam Anderson’s home video collection, begins with an ominous montage. We see... Read more

News

Students discuss GU-community relations

Last night, a student committee presented a list of proposals on how to improve current student-community relations to an audience of Georgetown residents. The committee called for better education of... Read more

Leisure

West Winging it

The West Wing has had nothing short of a religious viewership since its debut in 1999, with sharp writing and enjoyable policy debates. The show has also managed to narrow... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Sportswriters love to turn what is routine into hyperbole?and what is exceptional into poetry. Sometimes, this is done well. The Washington Post’s Shirley Povich wrote simply about players such as... Read more