Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

Coordinating change

Bill McCoy joined the Georgetown staff on Aug. 2, but his hiring alone does not solve the problems facing Georgetown’s LGBTQ students.

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

Free facials for RNC journalists. Bush twins still dumb.

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Watch out for the ether bunny

Hi everyone! It’s Joan Rivers here at the Apocalypse, where it’s not just a parade of the damned, but of the damned good looking! I can’t even tell you how hard it is to get in these gates, but luckily we’re inside where I’ll be keeping my wrinkled, corpse-like finger on the pulse of what’s hot and what’s not.

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Republicans Welcome: Where to Stay at the RNC

Would you like clean sheets with that?

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Carrying On: The plums I carried in Uzbekistan

While planning my trip to Uzbekistan, I imagined many possible scenarios for what this country would be like. Most of them involved camels, naan, irrigation and Soviet-induced ecological catastrophe. Somehow, the predicament of being compelled to pick fruit while wearing a polka-dotted skirt and strappy sandals was not one of the images I had in mind.

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

A sensible disclosure policy, finally

The Department of Education orders Georgetown to modify its disclosure policy concerning sexual assault cases.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Bank on it

Students should insure that GUASFCU remains a campus fixture, but one with improved services.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Register now or forever hold your peace

Register to vote. No really, register to vote right now.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

172 The number of New Student Orientation Advisors

5,000 The number of box lunches for the NSO Goodbye lunch

1,000 The number of cups ordered for NSO Casino Night

1,980 The number of incoming first-year and transfer students

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

Understanding the two faces of Chile

Can a torture camp ever really become a “Park of Peace”?

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

First-years: Listen to us, you fools

Climb down the Exorcist steps. Take a romantic stroll around the monuments by moonlight. Climb the John Carroll statue. Eat a Chicken Madness. If you don’t, you may be a terrorist.

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

I only get the negatives: confessions of a bitter break up

Like the headline says, confessions of a bitter break up

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Extortion not an option

Beginning in the fall of 2005, students hoping to study abroad will have to pay full Georgetown tuition. Currently, students pay the cost of their overseas program, plus a $3000 “administration fee” to Georgetown. Foreign universities, especially those in developing countries, are usually much cheaper, so students can end up paying very little for the semester or year overseas.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Cicadas to invade, frighten

Members of the Class of 2004 may graduate amidst a million uninvited winged guests. According to a United States Department of Agriculture press release, “billions of large, noisy, winged, red-eyed insects,” 17-year cicadas, will fill the skies in mid-May, mating and dying out in mid-June, potentially “occupying large swaths of the eastern United States.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Sunshine boy goes to hell

Sounds of giggling and squealing are leaking through the hall as the couple next door play around with the vibrating, coin-operated bed. I’m sitting in my room at the Hotel 69 doing homework, automatically making me the biggest loser in the building. It doesn’t matter that everyone else in the building is porking an aging hooker, it still has to be more fun than memorizing characters from a textbook by the dim lamplight.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Missing the veteran

Massive blocks of concrete are toppled into a giant heap, thick wires stick out at strange angles and bright blue Port-a-Potties outline the ruins. The site is entirely unrecognizable. The debris of Veteran’s Stadium, piled several hundred feet high on the asphalt, amounts to an estimated 70,000 cubic yards of material.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Spearhead with Mommy

“No thank you,” my mother said politely declining the joint a scrappy twenty-something stoner offered her. To some, it might seem bizarre to have complete strangers offer your parents drugs. By this point in the evening, though, nothing could faze me.

If someone had predicted this situation a mere week earlier, I would have bet my very life against them.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Enslaved by Zara

I see it. I am on a path toward it. Nothing will deter me now. With arms shaking under a load of acrylics and wool knits, I look straight ahead and imagine myself there-at the red and orange clothing rack across the room. The obstacles ahead present a challenge: meandering customers with wandering eyes, glancing at the shiny white walls in search of the perfect evening ensemble, a smart suit or a sales associate to assist them with their shopping needs.

By the April 29, 2004

Editorials

Kissinger shies from criticism

Last Friday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cancelled a lecture just hours before he was scheduled to arrive in Gaston Hall. In a letter sent to campus media, Ambassador Howard B. Shaffer, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, wrote that Kissinger cancelled after learning of a planned protest by GU Peace Action.

By the April 29, 2004

Voices

Veggie nuts

Alex Johnston (SFS ‘07) plans on taking next year off to pursue an exciting career in the budding “nutraceutical industry.” Then he plans on retiring. “My parents made me promise that after I retire I’ll come back to my studies,” he says. But that doesn’t make it any easier for a budding millionaire to concentrate on school.

By the April 22, 2004