Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

By the Numbers

1,000 Number of Georgetown students that live off-campus. 94 Number of houses the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspectorys attempted to inspect on Tuesday. 30 Number of houses actually inspected. 6 Number of households evicted due to “life safety” violations, like missing smoke detectors or improper wiring.

By the October 21, 2004

Voices

A Mother’s Agony, Her Daughter’s Pain

The mother of an unidentified Georgetown sexual assault victim relays her daughter’s story and explains how Kate Dieringer affected their lives.

By the October 21, 2004

Voices

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing

This summer, everyone from home told me how lucky I was to be going to Georgetown during an election year.

By the October 21, 2004

Voices

Fear and Barnacles

With my eyebrows furrowed, eyes narrowed and lips pouting, I portrayed the typically difficult child all too well.

By the October 21, 2004

Voices

Me vs. the “What ifs”

How can we really be sure that Georgetown is where we are meant to be?

By the October 21, 2004

Editorials

Medical Center mishaps

The Georgetown University Medical Center lost $20 million in the last fiscal year.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

Lights, camera, inaction

Although most recent robberies in Georgetown have had students as victims, crime is a community problem.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

6 Number of people beatified by Pope John Paul II last week.

By the October 14, 2004

Voices

How to save lives while lying down

Despite the curious spectacle of bulky men in spandex lifting heavy barbells while yelling in Greek or Chinese, I remained fixated on the steady stream of thick, red-black liquid oozing out of my right arm.

By the October 14, 2004

Voices

A prince finds some answers

I finally made rice and beans.

By the October 14, 2004

Voices

“i am”

Who am I? We’ve all heard the question. But is it something we are all constantly questioning and redefining? For me, proclaiming who I am became a process of understanding my space and place in a social context, and finally giving myself the agency to choose how I identify as a white, lesbian woman.

By the October 14, 2004

Editorials

Lock ’em out

Last weekend the University implemented new security procedures in the LXR-Nevils-Walsh complex in response to several armed robberies that occurred in West Georgetown over the past two weeks.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

Don’t call us, we’ll call you

No longer will families on the Federal “Do-Not-Call” list be confused as to whether the oven is buzzing or the phone is ringing.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

Space camp: even better than band camp

Last week, mankind made a giant leap forward-again.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

6 Number of Vice Presidents alive in 2004 98 Age of oldest Vice President when he died 14 Number of Vice Presidents who have been elected President 33 Percentage of... Read more

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

No whites allowed (but segregationists welcome)?

I wanted the sign as soon as I saw it. My wife and I were attending a black memorabilia fair at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland last spring, and on my way to the Negro Baseball League gear, I encountered a display of framed “Colored Only” signs that once infamously adorned restrooms, water fountains and other public facilities.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Throwing it into drive

The car roared, wheels spinning, and slammed through the garage wall and straight into my dinning room, knocking the china cabinet over along the way. Apparently, I’d mistakenly hit the gas and now the car, without a scratch on it, sat in my dining room, making a slow, shrill beeping noise.

By the October 7, 2004

Voices

Sex, drugs and sex on drugs

Hsssssssh.

I drag deeply on the mouthpiece, slowly counting down in my head as the acrid fumes fill my lungs, relaxing me. I exhale and lean my head back against my overstuffed chair. I let my eyes lazily drift around the room before slipping the inhaler back into my pocket.

By the October 7, 2004

Editorials

Student loan swindle

Add another tax-revenue draining loophole to the list of errors on the part of the federal government.

By the September 30, 2004

Editorials

Gunning for a change

Guns in the district? Thanks, but no thanks, Congress.

By the September 30, 2004