Voices

Voices is the Op-Ed and personal essay section of The Georgetown Voice. It features the real narratives of diverse students from nearly every corner on campus, seeking to tell some of the incredibly important and yet oft-unheard stories that affect life in and out of Georgetown.

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Cheat, Heckle, and Strip: Tabletop Gamesmanship 101

I’ve been an avid tabletop games player since before I can remember. I can thank my dad for this. Since I was just a baby, he taught me how to... Read more

By April 16, 2015

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Understanding service as an interaction, not a one-way action

This spring break, while on a Medical Brigades trip, I had the opportunity to interact with community members in the city of San Diego, Honduras. Medical Brigades is one of... Read more

By April 9, 2015

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The DNA dilemma: Trading privacy for some peace of mind

Have you seen the movie Zodiac? It’s a true story about the search for a serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles during the ‘60s and ‘70s. What sets it apart... Read more

By April 9, 2015

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Senior retrospective: Education outside the classroom

It was spring break of senior year when I stepped off of a plane in Rwanda on a trip with Georgetown. A few days earlier, I had been at the... Read more

By April 9, 2015

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Carrying On: The challenge of student media

Controversy. Clicks. Criticism. These buzzwords have come to define both the goals and perceptions of modern-day media, for better or for worse. And as I prepared to write my final... Read more

By April 9, 2015

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Carrying On: Risks, Rewards, and a Georgetown Education

Last fall, I got in a rather bizarre accident. It’s a long story, but it involves a trip to an apple farm, a hayride trailer carrying lots of innocent children... Read more

By March 26, 2015

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Beyond Borders: Undocumented and Traveling the World

I don’t know if it was my obsession with watching Pokémon or all the long nights I spent reading fantasy novels, but I’ve always had an insatiable thirst for adventure... Read more

By March 26, 2015

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Time for a New Deal: A student-first approach to the 2018 Campus Plan

With the first GAAP weekend just days away, Georgetown will soon be flooded with masses of accepted students anxious to get a first taste of the environment where they may... Read more

By March 26, 2015

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A Game of Homes: How You’ve Already Lost the Housing Lottery

That uncomfortable squirm in your stomach is not the 5th cup of coffee this time. Housing selection is upon us. It’s all most of us are thinking about, it’s largely... Read more

By March 26, 2015

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The Migrant Experience: Reflections from El Paso, Texas

Last week, I went to El Paso, Texas with twelve other Georgetown students on an Alternative Breaks trip. I left without any real expectations, except that it was something vaguely... Read more

By March 19, 2015

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Recovering the Long-Lost Art of Killing Time: A Primer for Hoyas

My spring break plans consisted of going to my house, catching up on sleep, and playing FIFA 15. It was a casual, ordinary spring break, except that my house happens... Read more

By March 19, 2015

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Carrying On: Gearing up for Graduation

Four years seemed eons away when I first stumbled onto the Hilltop as a confused freshman. Even now, with two months left before graduation, it is still hard to wrap... Read more

By March 19, 2015

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The Happiness Paradox

Why it’s hard to be happy at Georgetown, and how you can make it easier Being happy is hard. One would think that, after millenia on this planet, humanity would... Read more

By March 19, 2015

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After hate, a new imperative to embrace the ‘other’

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, I woke up to horrifying news: 23-year-old Deah Barkat, 21-year-old Yusor Abu-Salha, and 19-year-old Razan Abu-Salha—three Muslim students in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina—had... Read more

By March 5, 2015

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I want you: Apply to serve in Joe and Connor’s cabinet

Not a lot of people on campus really get what it’s like to be HoyaLink. Legally speaking, I am the third-oldest website in existence, right behind SovietSingles.com and AztecSwipe.gov. Oldies... Read more

By March 5, 2015

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Trevor and Omika connect to Georgetown one last time

With our tenure as GUSA President and Vice President coming to a close, we wanted to set aside some time to take stock of what’s surely been one of the... Read more

By March 5, 2015

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Where our smartphones fail us: ‘TTYL, but not face-to-face’

I find myself eating lunch alone in Leo’s once or twice a week. I can’t even imagine what I’d do with myself if I couldn’t look at Bleacher Report or... Read more

By February 26, 2015

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Reflecting on last week’s Page 13 cartoon

I can think of a lot of mistakes that I have made in my life. As a first grader, I earned myself detention after walking through a puddle an administrator... Read more

By February 26, 2015

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Carrying on: Politics at the Oscars

The subject of politics frequently finds its way into the Academy Awards, and the 2015 Oscars were no exception. Not even including red carpet movements such as #AskHerMore, this year’s... Read more

By February 26, 2015

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Pursuing a diversity requirement in the wake of ignorance

The Feb. 19 edition of this paper featured a racially insensitive cartoon called “Beating the Dead Horse,” depicting GUSA candidate Chris Wadibia, the only black man in the race, as a... Read more

By February 26, 2015