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The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Voices

If GUSA streaked, would it be hot?

Replacing student government with something more meaningful

News

Wisey’s Jr.

After more than five decades as a unique Georgetown favorite, Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli is opening a second store.

Voices

A Grateful Gourmand

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

News

Performing Arts Center to open

After months of construction, Georgetown’s new peforming arts center will open its doors next week.

Leisure

_Shopgirl_ beats out the chick flick crowd

The old truism that the movie is never as good as the book proves happily untrue in the case of Shopgirl. The movie captures the tender, heartfelt nature that made Steve Martin’s novella a best-seller.

Voices

What do you drive?

We called it the Bulldozer. A 2000-pound gas-slurping, tar-squashing, gravel-flinging workhouse for 15 straight years. As long as no one stole the battery.

News

New wheels for GERMS

Georgetown’s ailing ambulance fleet received a much-needed new edition when Unit Eight, a brand-new Type III ambulance, arrived on campus Sunday night.

Leisure

Remain in “Light”

Sean Scully’s paintings, on display at The Phillips Collection, are based on a trip he made to Mexico some 20 years ago and the sumptuous shades of the Mayan ruins he encountered there.

Features

All in the Family

Georgetown extends family health coverage

Do a woman and her domestic partner constitute a family? Most liberal Americans would probably say they do. But what about a woman who lives with and takes care of her elderly mother? What about a brother who lives with his sister and helps raise her children?

These situations might be more complicated, but as of January 1, 2006, they too will be eligible for family health care coverage at Georgetown University. Under a new policy just approved by the President’s Executive Committee, Georgetown University employees can purchase a family health insurance policy that covers their domestic partner or adult tax dependent, as defined by federal tax law.

The policy marks a drastic change from that of previous years, which restricted benefits to “your legal spouse of opposite gender and your dependent children,” according to a Georgetown Human Resources web site. The new policy is gender-neutral and no longer requires that a family involve a marriage.

Many might be surprised to see this kind of policy at a Catholic university, in a time when the Catholic Church has been associated with the strong bolstering of traditional marriage and the persecution of homosexuals.

News

Homeless Hoyas?

Saxa Politica – bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news