Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.



Voices

Blame the left

Today I find that the consequences for my dominant left hand may be more severe than bumping elbows at the dinner table. In fact, it may kill me.

Voices

Good day sunshine

Carrying On – a rotating column by senior voice staffers

Voices

Security issues

I am one of those who gets worried every time your eyes wonder elsewhere during conversation: I am insecure.

Editorials

A mess in the Anacostia

One and a half billion gallons of sewage and storm water flow into the Anacostia River every year.

Editorials

The business school’s future

Big things are expected from the tenure of the new business school Dean, George Daly.

Editorials

Students short-shrifted again

Never before has the price of attending college been higher. Yet Congress wants to dramatically cut financial aid programs.

Voices

The next pandemic

Fears of the avian flu lead to U.S. fears of unpreparedness

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My home in the Delta

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Voices

Born for lovin’

Ernesto gave his $15 to the communist couple. I couldn’t believe it, though I should have expected it.

Voices

Cell, sweet cell

As I come down the small ramp that leads to the Village C patio, my heart starts to drop.

Editorials

Blocking up the driveway

More parking could become available in the Georgetown neighborhood. First, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission must make the right decision.

Editorials

Fencing in freedom

On Sunday’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon sponsored the “America Supports You Freedom Walk.” Superficially a stirring patriotic display, the event became a crass attempt at memorializing that fateful day.

Editorials

Sweeping the Constituiton under the rug

The continuing detention of Jose Padilla without criminal charges is an indefensible affront to civil liberties and an unreasonable bow to the pressures of terror.

Voices

I am so out of tune with you

Past and present music help a relationship grow

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Go away, I’m only sleeping

Carrying on – a rotating coluumn by voice senior staffers

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Letters to the Editor

Pravin Rajan (SFS ‘07); Jay LaMonica (SFS ‘76)

Voices

Bagel Watch

Voice Fiction

Editorials

Poorly timed responses

Georgetown University and its student body seem to be doing all they can to help the victims of what may become the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Editorials

Incompetence during a crisis

Scattered among the wrecked homes and lives in Hurricane Katrina’s wake is an additional casualty: Faith in the administration of the federal government.

Editorials

A failure to communicate

Seeing the havoc and pain caused by questionable emergency preparedness and response planning in New Orleans should spur the Georgetown community to examine the efficacy of the university’s own emergency management plan.