Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Editorials

Election totals aren’t a private affair

After suffering considerable criticism, the Election Commission should be applauded for withdrawing its suggestion that it might withhold all numerical results in the upcoming GUSA executive election. However, it should continue to release full numerical results—not just percentages.

News

Whose sweat are you wearing?

Georgetown committee monitors workers’ rights

Editorials

Ignoring Iran could be a deadly decision

President George W. Bush has always claimed he can recognize and defeat threats more effectively than his political rivals. Unfortunately, he has yet to succeed on the latter and tends to bungle the former.

News

Orator against AIDS

UNAIDS Special Envoy shares his story

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.”

Voices

Saudiana: _Syriana_ as non-fiction

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers