Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.


Leisure

Epileptic a shaky, uncontrollable read

For a respite from reality, few things beat a good comic book.

Features

A Message from the Workers

Four Georgetown employees share their individual need for a living wage and charge the university with irresponsibility.

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.

Leisure

The Evens, The Evens, Dischord

I met rock star, record producer, label head and certifiable legend Ian MacKaye at a show once in an abandoned school in Northeast D.C. during the wee hours of the morning.

News

Contracted workers speak at Living Wage rally

The Living Wage Coalition united 24 student organizations in a rally in Red Square yesterday to express support for the effort to raise the “poverty-level” wages of subcontracted workers.

Editorials

The University sells out

Choosing to sell the Wormley school shows that this administration still hasn’t learned the lessons of Georgetown history.