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 Voice Staff 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 Voice Staff 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 Voice Staff October 7, 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 Voice Staff 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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

Editorials

Space camp: even better than band camp

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

By the Voice Staff 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 Voice Staff October 7, 2004

Voices

There’s no place like it

To my surprise, I discovered that I don’t wake up happy very often anymore.

By the Voice Staff September 30, 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 Voice Staff September 30, 2004

Editorials

Gunning for a change

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

By the Voice Staff September 30, 2004

Editorials

Field of dreams, schools of nightmares

Baseball, but still no books.

By the Voice Staff September 30, 2004

Voices

Tall tales in a fly-over state

Wisconsin is one of those states that I just never thought I’d visit.

By the Voice Staff September 30, 2004

Voices

What would Georgia O’Keeffe have majored in?

Unlike a School of Foreign Service junior politico or a pre-med science prodigy, I came to college armed only with the vague notion that I liked “the humanities.”

By the Voice Staff September 30, 2004

Editorials

Civilizing underage drinking

Anyone who has been to a college campus on a weekend night knows that criminal penalties don’t do much to stop underage drinking.