Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.



Voices

Time doesn’t heal all wounds

After visiting India and Senegal this past year, the question I got most often was, “What was it like? Was it hard seeing such abject poverty?”

Voices

Biting the hand that feeds us

Carrying On: A rotating column by Voice senior staffers

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Single and ready to mingle

“Where do you live?” It’s a question that I am met with daily.

Editorials

Recognize Gallaudet’s demands

Dr. Jane K. Fernandes has generated so much heartfelt and intense opposition from both students and faculty that she cannot become the next president without thorough consideration of other options.

Editorials

Hoyas for intellectual choice

A frightening trend is emerging among Catholic colleges, one that flies in the face of the open dialogue so vital to academic discourse.

Editorials

Generation Y: A giant pat on our own backs

Sick of sanctimonious baby boomers blaming our generation’s political apathy for the sad state of the country’s affairs? Well, now you’ve got a rebuttal to hurl back at the next grey-ponytailed ex-radical who asks where your conscience is: we’re better people than they are. Numbers don’t lie.

Voices

What are you doing about Iraq?

Examining the role of students in protests against the war.

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Fall into food: we’re bringing comfort back

There is no greater or more constant pleasure than in an apple.

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I’m so lonely. Please talk back…please

Carrying On: a rotating column by Voice senior staffers.

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Examining the ills of North Korea

Usually, I wouldn’t be excited to watch the TV screens while tearing away at one of the cardio machines in Yates at seven in the morning.

Editorials

Support the Gallaudet protestors

Students and faculty at Gallaudet University here in the District, the world’s only deaf liberal arts university, are enraged that even in a place where American Sign Language is the lingua franca, their voices are being ignored.

Editorials

Get rid of bureaucratic writer’s block

The Writing Center could be a far more valuable resource if it undertook bureaucratic reforms that allow more freedom for a symbiotic and fruitful cooperation among professors, tutors and students.

Editorials

Postage: 39 cents. Democracy: Priceless.

At this pivotal juncture in American politics, it is imperative that Georgetown students register to vote and send in their absentee ballots.

Voices

The importance of being Ernest

At my parents’ house last week, I mostly slept on the couch and watched television, flipping through movie channels and pausing on each one.

Voices

The long black veil: Britain’s culture clash

How dangerous is a piece of fabric over a women’s face to the cohesiveness of society?

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Letter to the editor: What Hoya crew has to say

When I transferred to Georgetown this year on a U.S. Army scholarship, I was determined to remain a varsity athlete, but to participate in a sport that would be flexible enough to work with my busy ROTC training schedule.

Voices

The shock of it all: study abroad myths dispelled

Carrying On: a rotating column by Voice senior staffers.

Editorials

Awaken the silent majority

If there is any struggle that university students should be organizing and rallying against, the war in Iraq is it.

Editorials

“i am.” not to be judged by Foley’s IM

In the aftermath of the Mark Foley sex scandal, accusations flew around Washington as political leaders struggled to figure out just who to blame for Foley’s cyber-exploitation of congressional pages. The real culprit, many in the conservative movement insist, is none other than their favorite scapegoat.

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Ask Annabelle, she knows best

Dear Annabelle: Is it wrong to have a sexual fantasy about a Jesuit? Sincerely, Fantasizing in philosophy Dear Fantasizing: Absolutely not. There is nothing more tantalizing than something you can’t... Read more