Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Voices

Forget the fourth wall: Breaking Hollywood’s glass ceiling

The Bechdel Test was concocted by the eponymous Alison Bechdel as a method for determining how well a film represents female characters. Bechdel was a cartoonist who originally came up... Read more

By October 22, 2014

Voices

Outsmarting your cerebellum: Seizing both the day and night

No matter the diversity of interests at Georgetown, everybody from the athlete to the student guard to the poor soul in Lau at 3 in the morning has at least... Read more

By October 22, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: The sky is falling: Leaving red meat behind

It’s hard not to be pessimistic about the fate of the world, given the recent slate of depressing news—the Islamic State, protests in Hong Kong, Syria’s civil war, natural disasters,... Read more

By October 22, 2014

Editorials

ANC elections demand more GU student-neighborhood engagement

Georgetown shares little more than a name with the community that surrounds it. While students inhabit streets, sidewalks, and buildings alongside neighborhood residents, their political interactions are limited. The Advisory... Read more

By the October 16, 2014

Editorials

In VA case, racial gerrymandering corrosive to American democracy

Last week, a panel of federal judges ruled Virginia Republicans’ newly redrawn congressional district map unconstitutional on the grounds that it sequestered a large swath of the state’s voting-age African-American... Read more

By the October 16, 2014

Editorials

U.S. media outlets that cultivate Ebola fear distract from real issue

Ebola has made its way to the U.S. Two cases have emerged on American soil thus far. Two nurses who helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man visiting family... Read more

By the October 16, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: Coffee cultures representative of larger differences

  Having lived for an extended period of time in three major cities, and having visited many more, I’ve found that the best way to really understand a city and... Read more

By October 15, 2014

Voices

Forgetting the camera and gaining a formative experience

  Forgetting my camera was the best thing I ever did.  I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2011. There was an exhibition of world-famous artist Dale... Read more

By October 15, 2014

Voices

O’Donovan’s on the Waterfront: Hoping for dining changes on campus

  “Leave the cooking and dishes to us—you’ve already got a lot on your plate,” reads one of the many cheerful blue and orange acrylic signs on the tables of... Read more

By October 15, 2014

Voices

In an age of connectivity, connections are harder to make than ever

  A few years ago, I began realizing how casually certain words are used in our culture. It began with the word “love.”  In high school, girls I hardly spent... Read more

By October 15, 2014

Editorials

GU’s proposed third-year meal plan extorts students, demands action

Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Business Services Joelle Wiese revealed yesterday to the Voice that Georgetown is considering implementing a third-year meal plan requirement. Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor... Read more

By the October 9, 2014

Editorials

GU academic departments fight grade inflation, but issues remain

With midterm season descending upon the Hilltop, grades have sprung to the forefront of every Georgetown student’s mind. While those pulling all-nighters on the second floor of Lauinger Library likely... Read more

By the October 9, 2014

Editorials

Catholic U’s canceled Milk screening, advocacy policy lag behind

Administrators of the Catholic University of America last week postponed a screening of Milk, a biographical film detailing the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to... Read more

By the October 9, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: Humanity’s good nature revealed in marathons

It was an impossibly perfect day. The April air was cold against perspiring legs and raw against expiring lungs. The entire city of Boston was in the streets, offering encouragement... Read more

By October 8, 2014

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The man in the mirror: Feeling the pressures of adulthood

Attention Georgetown students and faculty: I don’t like the way I look. Crazy, groundbreaking, and all-around unheard of, I’m sure, but bear with me. Ragging on one’s own physical appearance... Read more

By October 8, 2014

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Pigeonholing ‘typical’ Hoyas should not unify student body

We all know the image of the typical Georgetown student. He comes from a northeastern prep school. He wears flip-flops when it’s warm and boat shoes at all other times.... Read more

By October 8, 2014

Voices

Excessive, aimless workloads displacing creativity on the Hilltop

          I was passively scrolling through Tumblr with five reading assignments open in adjacent tabs when my roommates asked me when I was going to bake... Read more

By October 8, 2014

Editorials

District police body cameras offer promising solution to misconduct

D.C. police began wearing body cameras yesterday as part of a six-month pilot program that spreads dozens of camera-equipped officers across the city’s seven police districts. This is a common-sense, pragmatic,... Read more

By the October 2, 2014

Editorials

SafeRides program’s inefficiencies do disservice to GU students

SafeRides is a valuable program run by the Georgetown University Police Department that gives students, staff, and faculty the option to avoid walking alone at night. Although the Georgetown neighborhood... Read more

By the October 2, 2014

Editorials

New D.C. paid family leave program provides a model for the nation

Yesterday, District government employees received a much-needed and long-overdue boon to their occupational benefits—the ability to apply for up to eight weeks of paid family leave. Announced Tuesday by D.C. Mayor Vincent... Read more

By the October 2, 2014