Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

Election reform needed in GUSA

Thought the 2000 Gore-Bush election fiasco was bad? What about the still-undecided bare-knuckles boxing match between Al Franken and Senator Norm Coleman for a Minnesota Senate seat? The United States... Read more

By the January 29, 2009

Editorials

Don’t give up the fight (with the ANC)

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission meets just two blocks away from campus at the nearby Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, but many Georgetown students are unaware of the Commission’s influence on campus... Read more

By the January 29, 2009

Editorials

University must diversify its portfolio

From its description, you might think the over 300 page SCUnity report released Tuesday, covered in the Voice’s feature this week, was the fruit of exhaustive labor by dedicated Georgetown... Read more

By the January 29, 2009

Editorials

University must side with students

Two sides are bitterly divided over an historic claim to a homeland. Both allege the other is infringing upon their basic rights, and while there has been scattered dialogue between... Read more

By the January 22, 2009

Editorials

Let’s talk about sex(ual orientation)

Earlier this month, leaders of campus religious groups found a peculiar invitation waiting in their inboxes. In the email, University President John DeGioia encouraged chaplains from each Campus Ministry to... Read more

By the January 22, 2009

Editorials

Hoping for a healthy dose of reality

President Barack Obama injected a healthy dose of realism into American political discourse with his Inaugural address on Tuesday. After eight years marked by hubris, deception, and a lack of... Read more

By the January 22, 2009

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The greatest campus publications you aren’t reading

When was the last time you read a campus journal, or even considered reading one? Probably not recently.

By January 22, 2009

Voices

America: the sum of her ideals, not her leaders

In preparation for the new administration, read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence again carefully, and keep those documents in mind as you follow the events of the next four years.

By January 22, 2009

Voices

Jazz on the road less traveled

The northern New England jazz scene is eerily, icily quiet, but Adric Rosen has spent the past two and a half years trying to liven it up.

By January 22, 2009

Voices

I don’t want to grind, so let’s party like it’s 1929

How do you initiate dancing with another individual? If you’re a guy, you most likely place yourself strategically behind a girl and pull her posterior region into your crotch.

By January 22, 2009

Editorials

MPD disorients with CrimeMap

Tasked with protecting the nation’s capitol, one would think that the Metropolitan Police Department would do anything it could to make its job a little easier. But in the first... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Editorials

Help keep gunstores off our streets

The gun show is coming to D.C. A few weeks ago, the D.C. Zoning Commission ruled that gun stores will be allowed along major commercial corridors throughout the city, a... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Editorials

Achieving peace at Georgetown

As the violence in Gaza stretches into its fourth week, signs of the conflict are seeping into campus life. On Monday, Students for Justice in Palestine gathered in a pro-Palestinian... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Voices

If you like everyone … do you like anyone?

Is being judgmental really what’s wrong this country? I’m actually proud of being judgmental—though, perhaps “discerning” is a better word.

By January 15, 2009

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Alaska: neither lipstick, nor pitbulls, nor Sarah Palin

The meaning of my Alaskan identity changed on a Friday afternoon last semester in Walsh 392. That day, John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. In a matter of mere hours, strangers and friends alike stopped asking me about frigid temperatures and polar bears, and began inquiring about my opinion of Sarah Palin.

By January 15, 2009

Voices

Fleeting impressions from the souls of Marrakesh

Street performers in every city, great and small, charm the penniless and the penny-plenty, the foreign and the familiar, the old and the young alike, in a shameless effort to earn a few dollars.

By January 15, 2009

Editorials

Bus us from the hilltop to the hill

Georgetown should offer shuttle buses to and from the inauguration to ensure that its students are able to attend the ceremonies, regardless of the state Metro is in.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

Make our (meager) 3 study days count

Georgetown administrators should recognize the pressures on students’ time during study days and prohibit professors from assigning papers to be due during study days.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

DPS needs to deliver on RAD pledge

If DPS really wants to reduce sexual assault at Georgetown, it should start offering the RAD program within the first month of next semester.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

Before SAC, clubs tread lightly

In the midst of controversial discussions between the Georgetown University Student Association and the Student Activities Commission over the SAC chair selection process student clubs, which receive their funding from... Read more

By December 4, 2008