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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Testing teachers’ tolerance

It’s Education Week, a week of lectures and panels put on by the D.C. Schools Project and D.C. Reads, and Georgetown students have been exploring issues like racial diversity, income... Read more

By November 14, 2012

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Life lessons from Georgetown’s own lifelong learner

Every so often, and more frequently now that I’m a senior, I find myself in a bit of an academic rut. Whenever it happens, I tend to take a step... Read more

By November 14, 2012

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A History of Bro’s

Frederick Douglass once perspicaciously noted that “food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.” Okay, now that I’ve gotten all the bros to stop reading, I’m going to explain how... Read more

By November 7, 2012

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Disenfranchised doyenne fumes at dark side of democracy

The U.S. is infamous for its low voter turnout. The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance ranks it 120th out of 169 voting countries, putting it behind such bastions of... Read more

By November 7, 2012

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Late? Look no further, laggard learner, than collective action

After my freshman year in college, high-brow, intangible theories were dead to me. I took a full course load of philosophy and liberal arts courses that left me begging for... Read more

By November 7, 2012

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Four more years for the foremost, forthright President

Presidential elections often become glorified popularity contests, where questions like “Who would I rather have a beer with?” determine who obtains the most important job in the world. However in... Read more

By October 31, 2012

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My man Mitt’s vision of the right, rosy, Republican future

The other day I was reading an article in which the author discussed the effectiveness of receiving email endorsements for President Barack Obama from political and public figures like Sandra... Read more

By October 31, 2012

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Going Green: A progressive’s plea for a new party

As it turns out, President Obama was spot-on when he said Mitt Romney wanted to bring back the “economic policies of the 1920s” during their final debate—he’s just not the... Read more

By October 31, 2012

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International indifference

When I declared a Government major late in my sophomore year, I had only completed one class in the department and was in the middle of another. In attempt to... Read more

By October 31, 2012

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“Personally pro-life”: Unity required among Catholics

At the Vice Presidential debate a few weeks ago, the candidates were asked, among other questions, to reflect on their Catholic faiths and the role faith has played in shaping... Read more

By October 24, 2012

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Catalogue backlog

Early adulthood is a time of both self-discovery and self-doubt, so it’s by no means a new phenomenon that a work of art defines and inspires solidarity within a generation... Read more

By October 24, 2012

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The horror! British-style austerity looms over USA

It was in the throes of the civil rights movement during the ‘60s that Bob Dylan first sang “The Times They Are  a-Changin’,” but things haven’t exactly gone static since... Read more

By October 24, 2012

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America’s heirs apparent actually important, need to be sane

In less than three weeks Americans will go to the polls with but one idea in mind: who will be the next president of the United States. Little thought will... Read more

By October 24, 2012

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Winter of our discontent: Facts absent from election

Nobody panic when I tell you this, but we’re less than three weeks away from the election. I know. I freaked out when I realized that, too. We’re within a... Read more

By October 17, 2012

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Et tu, Jim Belushi?

On Sunday morning, life was going incredibly well; my weekend included partying on a bus with my Danish friends, conversing with a British drug dealer about his problems getting laid,... Read more

By October 17, 2012

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A laowai’s struggle to adapt or die in the Chinese job market

Whenever I tell someone that I speak Chinese, I get the usual chorus of “oohs” and “aahs,” and the occasional demand to say “I like to eat hamburgers” in Mandarin.... Read more

By October 17, 2012

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An iPhone by any other name would be as sweet

“Whoa, what’s that thing?” a friend asked me when I pulled out my phone in Leo’s a few days ago, “It’s like a brick.  Why don’t you have an iPhone?” ... Read more

By October 17, 2012

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Standardize this! A frustrated student’s plea for change

I had one of the most upsetting experiences of my college life the other afternoon. Sitting at my desk, eyes glazed over, staring at the mind-numbingly boring online lecture for... Read more

By October 10, 2012

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The truth hurler on the ditch

This past weekend, I went to Syracuse to visit a friend. Every time I was introduced to someone, and they found out I go to Georgetown, I’d get an “Oh…... Read more

By October 10, 2012

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Adrift in a sea of causes, Occupy needs to set a course

October 1st marked the one-year anniversary of Occupy D.C. and, in celebration of the movement, the group occupied a number of lobbying firms, banks, etc. around K Street. The lobbying... Read more

By October 10, 2012