Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Voices

Nothing but a pack of foma

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer engaged in the business of time. He was fascinated with humans’ harnessing of the natural world and their resulting alienation. He wrote stories entrenched in waves of political consciousness, telling tales of world destruction by an incidental afterthought as simple, at times, as the pushing of a button that could unleash the atom bomb.

By April 19, 2007

Editorials

Choose life—without abstinence

A Bush administration study released last week reminded us, once again, that science has proven that abstinence-only education policies don’t work.

By the April 19, 2007

Editorials

Relay for Life races against cancer

It’s Georgetown’s first year participating in Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society’s annual fundraiser, but students here have made a splash.

By the April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Thanks Tony: Imus should go

Thank you to Anthony Francavilla for his timely piece on Don Imus’ recent blunder. (“The Sports Sermon,” Sports, April 12, 2007)

By April 19, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Georgetown more diverse than Howard

The implication in the April 12 editorial that Howard University is a much more diverse campus than Georgetown is unfortunately not based in reality.

By April 19, 2007

Voices

Attention men: will date for food

It started last summer, when I was living in LXR sans meal-plan. My plan to take the GUTS bus to Safeway and cook my own food evaporated the moment I walked into Statistics with Exploratory Data Analysis. From that cursed day on, every spare moment was devoted to plotting regressions while murmuring, “O please dear God, Jesus, Allah, help me not to fail this class,” leaving me no time for my grand culinary plan. For about a week, my diet consisted primarily of microwave popcorn and the occasional Hershey’s bar from the first-floor vending machine.

By April 19, 2007

Voices

Ballin’ on a budget at G’town

April is the cruelest month. Just ask anyone rushing to finish those tax forms. While university undergrads are spared the brunt of this burden (possibly the best perk of not having any real career to speak of), April brings its own annoyance to many of us in the collegiate crowd: it’s when Georgetown wants those financial aid forms.

By April 19, 2007

Editorials

Get off at the last stop: Howard

Not many Georgetown students hop on the G2 Metro bus to get to Howard University’s campus.

By the April 12, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Stanton wrong about absinthe

I just read your piece, “Goes down easy,” (Leisure, March 29, 2007) about absinthe by Chris Stanton. Unfortunately very little of the information in it is at all accurate and appears to be gleaned from goth fan sites, not reliable sources.

By April 12, 2007

Voices

Phearsome Philly phandom

I hate the Phillies.

By April 12, 2007

Voices

U-Haul: not the mover for U

Moving can be a pain in the ass, especially when you have to do the job yourself. The myriad boxes, unwieldy dollies and delicate china sets will make you want to submerge yourself in a pool of packing peanuts, never to surface again. But depending on which do-it-yourself moving company you call, you may have another problem to add to the list—your truck blowing up.

By April 12, 2007

Voices

Carrying on: One word, just one word: plastics

Last Friday, I finally grasped that nothing I do will cure the undercurrent of stress and anxiety caused by my impending graduation and the future. Browsing through a New York Times blog called The Graduates during a break from the online job postings, I hoped to find a grain of truthful guidance through this agonizing transition. But I only found proof of the ubiquitous, undying nature of this malaise.

By April 12, 2007

Voices

My advice: You gotta want it, baby

What the hell are we doing here? We spend months studying at the library, thousands of dollars on caffeine to keep our minds focused and innumerable nights wide awake worrying about tests, quizzes and papers. We put in all of this effort for a solid academic experience and yet it seems that nobody wants to hire an inexperienced college graduate.

By April 12, 2007

Editorials

Patriot Act shuts up dissent

In a country where people are denied the right to travel without even being accused of a crime and government agents can secretly monitor your reading habits, it’s not surprising that an Islamic scholar like Tariq Ramadan was denied entry to the U.S.

By the April 12, 2007

Editorials

Girls just wanna have amendments

Sometimes, it’s just plain hard to be a woman.

By the April 12, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Southeast Safeway misrepresented

As a former Voice writer and current Southeast D.C. resident, my concern was with the portrayal of the Southeast Safeway, where I happen to shop. The experience reflected in the article is very different from my own and I get the feeling that your reporter got a distorted view of the store and the neighborhood during his or her brief stop.

By March 29, 2007

Letters to the Editor

Bush administration maintains double standard

To the editors, Regarding your March 22 editorial (“Bong hits for freedom of speech”): alcohol kills more people each year than all illegal drugs combined. Prescription overdose deaths are second... Read more

By March 29, 2007

Voices

This Georgetown Life: The things we do for money

This Georgetown Life is a collection of stories written by Georgetown students all based on the same theme. [Cue trendy jazz music.]

By the March 29, 2007

Voices

Teetering on the edge of victory

I try to be modest, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m the reason that the Hoyas are winning.

By March 29, 2007

Voices

Bush’s compromised justice

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales just can’t seem to catch a break.

By March 29, 2007