Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Voices

Burning down the house

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Features

Roses, the Blue, Lilies, the Gray

Crew fight songs, haunted houses and strict rules characterized Georgetown at the very beginning.

News

On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

Voices

Behind the scenes at Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

The cluttered floor is lined with flavored lubricants in candy-like storage boxes, colored condoms and black t-shirts with pink writing stating, “Be Nice to Sex Workers.”

Sports

Best in show: Owens, Green lead Hoyas over Terriers

For a team that played its way out of an NCAA bid, the Georgetown men’s basketball team showed no signs of malaise as they throttled visiting Boston University 64-34 in Wednesday’s National Invitation Tournament first round.

Leisure

Nobody Knows why this movie was made

As far as movie premises go, it’s hard to beat the ingenuity of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows.

News

GU to sell ramshackle Wormley School

Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.

Leisure

Bloc Party, Silent Alarm, Vice

Hipsters everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. Just as they’re getting bored with the dance-rock of Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party is ready to take its place.

News

Laura Bush Headlines UNESCO Conference

“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.

Editorials

A higher standard

The days of the stereotypically stupid student athlete may be drawing to an end.