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Georgetown’s Doctrine of Medical Research

COVER BY SHANTI MANIAN The country’s oldest Catholic university has been conducting research on aborted fetal cell lines for several years. What might surprise you is that this research has been sanctioned by several Catholic bioethicists and even Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, leader of the Archdiocese of Washington. While the president of the United States struggles with questions of stem cells and cloning, Georgetown University Medical Center has become embroiled in a 25-year-old debate.

By the March 4, 2004

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The Flower Cartel

COVER BY CAMERON SMITH The scene is entirely too familiar to anyone who has been on a date in Georgetown: Two people are sitting at a table, chatting politely and enjoying their meals or a glass of wine, when a stranger ambles up to their table. Wearing a suede or leather jacket and armed with a wicker basket of roses, the new guest politely gestures and asks if one would like “a flower” for their companion.

By the February 26, 2004

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Choose your own Georgetown adventure!

After four long years, your high school career is coming to an end. You’ve been hard at work applying to college, and Georgetown is one of your top choices. But hold on there cowperson, it’s not as simple as that…

By the February 19, 2004

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Googling Love: Online dating exposed

COVER BY KIM RINEHIMER The rendezvous was altogether different from what I was used to seeing on the TV show “Blind Date,” except for the fact that I had never met him. Trying to remember the face I had seen in the photo, I examined the people inside the window and dug my mittened hands deep into my pockets.

By the February 12, 2004

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Fighting for the spotlight

COVER BY KAZUO OISHI Paul Hughes has a new toy. The HOG III lighting board controls an entire lighting system comprised of two “studio spot” units and two “studio color” units, but it looks more like a computer console in Star Trek. Two touch-screens rise above an assortment of dials, switches, slides and rollers.

By the February 5, 2004

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Projecting Fluff

COVER BY SHANTHI MANIAN Walking into Professor Sandra Horvath-Peterson’s classroom, you won’t see anything unusual. Some students pull out notebooks and rifle through pages, while others remain engrossed in lunch conversations. Standing by the podium, Horvath-Peterson chats easily with her students, who are quickly filling up the large ICC classroom.

By the January 29, 2004

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Seeking Asylum in Southeast

COVER BY SONIA SMITH Each weekday morning, John Hinckley, Jr. walks down the meandering road from the John Howard Pavilion to Building CT-6, where he works as librarian and archivist in the medical library. Here he sits among the stacks of psychiatric journals and medical textbooks, doused in florescent lighting, archiving documents and reading at his leisure.

By the January 22, 2004

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The Kennedys’ Jesuit

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Journalist Thomas Maier’s The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings, which chronicles the Kennedys through the lens of their Irish-Catholic roots, received significant press when it was released late last year because of its revealing portrait of Jackie Kennedy’s deteriorating mental health in the spring of 1964, after her husband’s assassination.

By the January 15, 2004

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It Was Like a Life

WINNER OF THE 2003 VOICE SHORT STORY CONTEST BY ANDREW J. WILSON As he awaits Sarah’s return home from her first semester at college, Jackson hopes that he and his daughter can go running together like old times. Just as Sarah has changed since she last left home, her parents have changed, too—without her knowing.

By the December 4, 2003

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Finding the perfect sound

COVER BY SONIA SMITH Georgetown students aren’t all careerists, even if the University’s scarce arts facilities make it seem that way. Now, the Georgetown’s most musically talented students have a new playground: three new recording studios and the production classes of Professor Robert Fair.

By the November 20, 2003

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Filling history’s attic

COVER BY MIKE DeBONIS It may look like the secret government warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it’s Lauinger Library’s Special Collection’s Department. That doesn’t mean you won’t find an original manuscript of Tom Sawyer, a lock of George Washington’s hair, the diaries of Graham Greene, or any of hundreds of thousands of other items.

By the November 13, 2003

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Finding that need for speed

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Ever think of doing something different with your degree? At Georgetown, Brendan Gaughan (MSB ‘97) was the guy who guarded Allen Iverson during basketball practice. Now he’s moved on to an even more challenging occupation: He’s a professional race truck driver.

By the November 6, 2003

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The best of …

COVER BY VOICE STAFF The Voice has searched far and wide-well, at least to U Street-to bring you “the best” of six categories: Leisure, Shopping, Characters, Wining and Dining, Bodily Pleasures, and yes, Georgetown.

By the October 30, 2003

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Recycling lies

COVER BY JULIA COOKE & SHANTHI MANIAN This year, the University reported recycling 15 percent of its waste—a number significantly reduced from the 43 percent reported in 1996. But even this lower figure does not accurately reflect the true recycling commitment at Georgetown. The numbers are wrong and the administration knows it.

By the October 23, 2003

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Drawing the lines

COVER BY MIKE DeBONIS Campus cops in D.C. are currently limited to patrolling their university’s property. Officers at many campuses across the nation, however, can go beyond those boundaries to protect their students living off campus. Will a long-standing struggle to expand those limits in the District finally succeed?

By the October 16, 2003

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Poker nights

COVER BY PAUL MCCARTHY Check or bet? Call or raise? Bluff or fold? Poker’s the new thing on and off campus—if you listen closely, you’ll hear the sounds of chips being stacked and wax playing cards gliding across the table. This is the story of one man’s journey through the exploding number of student poker games.

By the October 9, 2003

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The industry strikes back

COVER BY DAVE STROUP Since September, the RIAA has issued over 1600 subpoenas and 261 lawsuits. Students across the country have found themselves in the organization’s sights. What will happen if they come for you?

By the October 2, 2003

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Fall Fashion 2003: So hot right now

COVER BY VOICE LEISURE STAFF If you walked through Red Square last week, you were our guinea pig. Yes, you. After a careful analysis of field data collected by our expert fashion technicians, the results are in. While not much has changed over the past year, we think our astute observers picked up on the intricacies of all things hip. The results are in, and the Georgetown fashion flavor is hot, hot, hot.

By the September 25, 2003

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Off campus, on track

COVER BY BILL CLEVELAND Expanding the University is no longer just a matter of collecting funds and drawing plans. In recent years, a stronger neighborhood voice has forced the University to take the concerns of the surrounding community to heart. Now, with 90 percent of students on campus, has a new era of town-gown relations arrived?

By the September 18, 2003

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Our campus, our space

COVER The Southwest Quadrangle: A Review Essay BY ROB ANDERSON & MIKE DeBONIS Now nearly a month after the first of the Southwest Quadrangle’s 900 residents moved in, it is time to examine the campus’s most significant addition in 15 years—what works, what doesn’t; what’s inspiring, and what’s annoying.

By the September 11, 2003