Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.



Editorials

A new look for the Corp in ’05

Vital Vittles, Movie Mayhem and Uncommon Grounds have made major changes over the summer, both in their facilities and their practices.

Voices

The young man and the sea

“So, how exactly do we get back?” I stared at the slowly diminishing strip of beach trees where our friends had shrunk to sand-grain size and tried not to think about Sarah’s question.

Voices

The lonesome crowded west

Chama, N.M. and Silverton, Colo. are train towns. Their entire economies depend on attracting riders to their historic narrow gauge railroads, which climb high through the San Juan Mountains.

Voices

NSO: Non-Sequitur Orientation

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

Editorials

MPD putters along

Instead of preventing car theft, the Metropolitan Police Department has allowed a potentially successful program to stall because of technical problems and a fear of lawsuits.

Editorials

The Music Department hits a low note

Almost 18 months ago a Voice cover story trumpeted the rise of a program in digital music making led by Adjunct Professor Robert Fair.

Editorials

Do the right thing

Sometimes the requirement for modern scholars to ‘publish or perish’ pressures authors into unethical short-cuts, plagiarism or ‘ghostwriting,’ ...

Voices

Terms of endearment

The challenges of a new identity

Editorials

An accident waiting to happen

One puncture in a 90-ton railroad tanker full of chlorine gas and 100,000 people could die in downtown Washington D.C.

Voices

Recognizing Israels Arabs

Resisting exclusion in the Middle East and on campus

Editorials

By the Numbers

2,131,180 U.S. prison population in the middle of 2004 3.5 percent Average annual increase in the U.S. prison population since 1995 33 percent Fall in the rate of violent crimes... Read more

Voices

I know what you did last summer

I like to consider my job professional people-watching.

Editorials

Direct Quote

“Decent Republicans Edition”

Voices

City of lost children – Making the most of a Georgetown education

Carrying On – A rotating column by senior Voice staffers

Editorials

Shutting down the truth

When you were issued a bad report card in elementary school, you had to bring it back to the teacher with your parents’ signature. That way, you couldn’t hide it from them. But if you’re the President of the United States, hiding your evaluations is apparently just fine.

Editorials

How to pay for T and A

Is a teaching assistant a worker or a student, and do they have the right to unionize?

Editorials

The Funny Third: Pro-Environment, Anti-Foolish

Georgetown University has always had a deep and abiding concern for the environment … sort of.

Voices

Drifting away from Jesus: my quest for excommunication

If it’s Jesus you’re interested in, become a Protestant.

Editorials

By the Numbers

63 percent Percentage of American Catholics who believe the new pope should give laymen a larger voice in Church policy. 60 percent Percentage of American Catholics who believe the new... Read more