Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Voices

Sibling rivalry: the cute blonde sister who gets everything

How your role in the family determines the person you become.

By the April 14, 2005

Voices

It’s springtime for Hitler … who knew he had a lisp?

If Adolf Hitler were gay, would he have acted or spoken any differently?

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

Junked Adjunct

Outraged students are now organizing and circulating petitions, but these groups should be reevaluating the target of their attention: the adjunct professor system.

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

Pro-Life? Pro-Nuance.

The sad reality is that women are still harassed and raped in our society, choices still need to be made, and a society that respects life must also support decisions that are made for a good life.

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

Planning for Success

Four years can change a lot in a relationship. In the relationship between the University and the Georgetown community, four years can mean a lawsuit, a court order and, last week, the approval of a plan that will move the relationship further down the road.

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

By the Numbers

$25,000-$30,000 Cost of a new car for the Department of Public Safety $4,500-$7,000 Cost of a new “Chariot” Scooter for the Department of Public Safety Priceless Cost of seeing the... Read more

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

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“Your Cover is Blown Edition”

By the April 14, 2005

Voices

Publicly resenting the past

For just under 10 minutes, I had read aloud an inflammatory valedictory address that berated my high school in front of a gathering of hundreds, with a line of administrators staring at my back.

By the April 14, 2005

Voices

Southern-style Trucker Christianity

My brother once told me that there are only three types of people who ride Amtrak trains to North Carolina: indigent college kids like me, Southern psychos and convicts.

By the April 14, 2005

Editorials

Georgetown of Arabia

With the proposed expansion of Georgetown to a campus in Doha, Qatar’s Education City, the University seems to be making a sound choice.

By the April 7, 2005

Editorials

This Arabic Department isn’t funded by Qatar

Though it looks like Georgetown will soon be setting up shop in the Middle East, the University is not making new progress on the home campus in the Arabic Department.

By the April 7, 2005

Editorials

Where will all the hot librarians go?

The lights are going off earlier and earlier in America’s public libraries these days.

By the April 7, 2005

Editorials

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“Justifiable Homicide Edition”

By the April 7, 2005

Editorials

By the Numbers

1,000,000 Number of mourners viewing the Pope’s body in Rome. 3 Number of U.S. Presidents viewing the Pope’s body in Rome. 1 Number of Popes known by Georgetown undergraduates during... Read more

By the April 7, 2005

Voices

My fellow graduates … up yours

Looking at all of you, I can’t help but reflect upon what got me to where I am today: Spite. Pure, simple, unadulterated spite.

By the April 7, 2005

Voices

When all else fails, declare English

While most people on my floor are majoring in Government, International Business, or Something-Important-With-A-Big-Word-In-It, I am an English major.

By the April 7, 2005

Voices

There’s no crying in baseball …

What I learned over time is that Little League is not supposed to be for self-growth, but for self-actualization. One realizes his lot in life pretty quickly on a Little League team

By the April 7, 2005

Voices

Losing my religion, and finding it again

From age 13 through my first year of high school, I always went to church alone.

By the April 7, 2005

Voices

Correction

The Georgetown Voice takes all mistakes seriously. We correct all errors of substance in our stories and publish appropriate clarifications as soon as possible. The article entitled “Welcome to the Lunch Bunch” (Voices, March 17, 2005) should have been identified as fiction.

By the April 7, 2005

Editorials

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Seal Clubbing Edition

By the March 31, 2005