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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Voices

Matchbreaker, matchbreaker

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Editorials

The deteriorating state of our union

President George W. Bush continued his assault on progress last night in a strong and forceful tone as he delivered his fifth State of the Union address.

Leisure

Brilliant sensations of color

If you’ve ever read “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats and wondered what the phrase “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” would look like in oil on canvas, look no further than Cézanne in Provence.

Editorials

Duke _doesn’t_ suck… and we still won

Many people-on this very campus-seem to be of the opinion that “DUKE SUCKS.” Well, Hoyas, Duke doesn’t suck. Duke is actually very good. And we still beat them.

News

Striving to be NORML, not normal

After a dorm room discussion with friends over the war on drugs, Matt Huppert (CAS ‘08) decided to start Georgetown University’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Sports

Hoyas oust number one Blue Devils

As Georgetown went into halftime with a 42-28 lead over the Duke Blue Devils, anyone in the sold-out crowd of 20,035 could tell that something special was unfolding.

News

Lively life conference

This past Sunday, a speaker at the Georgetown University Right to Life seventh Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life caused an unexpected stir among attendees with controversial rhetoric.

Features

The Color of Hip-Hop?

Examining race in the District’s campus hip-hop dance troupes

A hard hip-hop beat rattles the old speakers in two corners of the black-rubber-floored room. The windows, clouded with steam, drip with condensation as the members of Groove Theory, a primarily black hip-hop dance team at Georgetown University, swagger through heavy columns of hot air. The leader of the group runs back to the stereo to turn up the music as the dancers pop, lock, grind, wop and slide to Missy Elliot’s “Lose Control.”

Sports

Track dominates field at MD Invite

The Georgetown track & field team completed another impressive performance this past Saturday at the Maryland Invitational in Landover, Md. The Hoyas finished the indoor meet with nine top-four finishes, grabbing first place in four of the events.

News

New chaplain joins Hilltop

Casimir Stroick joined the Georgetown community as Copley Hall’s new fourth-floor chaplain at the beginning of this semester.