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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Natural tendency toward drinking on campus being taken lightly

In the fall of 2011, I arrived at Georgetown. I was full of excitement for the grand adventure I was going to embark on at this lauded institution. I had... Read more

By September 10, 2014

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Leaving Domestic Spheres of Thought

  “Personally, I think the Cuban revolution did a lot of good. I really like Castro,” my host mom says in Spanish on one of my first nights studying abroad... Read more

By September 4, 2014

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‘You Are Beautiful’ Campaigns Setting Ugly Standards

“If you can squeeze it, we can freeze it!” If driving through beauty-obsessed Los Angeles alone didn’t make me feel bad enough about myself, seeing this ad for liposuction plastered... Read more

By September 4, 2014

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‘I Can’t Allow My Grief to Stop Me From Living My Life’

  My dad and I had been at the hospital for a few hours when it started to rain. The doctors had just turned off all the machines and the... Read more

By September 4, 2014

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The Importance of Being Earnest: Modern Authenticity

  As the world becomes increasingly populated, it simultaneously becomes increasingly competitive. The college admissions process is a kind of funnel for this competitiveness, a checkpoint through which only a... Read more

By September 4, 2014

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The road to peace in the Middle East lies with the secular left

  The Middle East is often portrayed by mainstream Western media as a culturally backwards region: overtly religious, rife sectarian conflict, and a hotbed for terrorism. If we take a... Read more

By August 28, 2014

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Thin shaming is just as harmful as other forms of harassment

  Toward the end of my final year of high school, I was accosted by a friend in such an unexpected way that it has stuck with me to this... Read more

By August 28, 2014

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Carrying On: Chipotle changing the face of fast food

  As Hoyas migrate back to the Hilltop for fall classes, how we occupied ourselves for the past three months is sure to be a choice topic of conversation. What... Read more

By August 28, 2014

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Economic privilege alone is not a reason to be ashamed

  “Where do you come from?” has been a difficult question for me to answer for as long as I can remember, because my birthplace, where I last lived, and... Read more

By August 28, 2014

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Childish Gambino’s promotional scheme misses the mark

The versatile performer, who got his start as a writer on 30 Rock, has pretty much been everywhere and doing everything. But lately, we’ve seen a lot less of him... Read more

By April 24, 2014

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Got 99 problems and one percent feminism is all of them

On April 12, Georgetown University’s Women in Leadership hosted their inaugural Own It Summit. Tickets for the event sold out within 24 hours, hundreds of students and community members attended... Read more

By April 24, 2014

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Carrying On: Don’t stop believin’

Religion is everywhere. It’s a highly relevant topic in world history and in our lives, irrespective of our relationship with it. I learned this truth at a young age: Easter... Read more

By April 24, 2014

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H*ya Saxa: A senior’s reflection on ‘success’ past the Hilltop

Something I’ve noticed during my four years at Georgetown: students here will check and recheck their decisions to make sure they’re doing the right thing at the right time. I’d... Read more

By April 24, 2014

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From digits to dehumanization: Minor League Baseball

Before the summer of 2012, I couldn’t have told you jack-crap about the sport of baseball. I had played in rec leagues back in middle school, but never really caught... Read more

By April 10, 2014

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Carrying On: The walls are closing in

Imagine a massive intergalactic trash compactor, Star Wars Episode IV-style. You and me, and the rest of the world’s population, are caught inside. The wealthiest of the bunch have managed... Read more

By April 10, 2014

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Empowering student tenants through support and advocacy

On October 17, 2004, nearly 100 firefighters were called to the 3300 block of Prospect Street after an anonymous 911 call alerted authorities of a blaze burning through the townhouse... Read more

By and April 10, 2014

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Structural violence in Panama: Native tribes’ legacy of starvation

¿Hay más pantalones? For the indigenous people of Latin America, resources are sparse.  Four years ago, I started the first of several travels to Santiago, an inland Panamanian town, to... Read more

By April 10, 2014

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Implications of poverty reach deeper than students’ wallets

Although middle school lunchroom politics should be far beneath Georgetown students, cafeterias can still feel like bizarre social experiments, with students segregating themselves into groups by clubs, gender, and race.... Read more

By April 2, 2014

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Carrying On: Activism across decades

My generation can be divided into two types of people: those who care about making the world a better place and those who just don’t. Of those of us who... Read more

By April 2, 2014

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Cura Technologis: Online classes abandon the ‘whole person’

“Go to class at the beach. Go to class on top of the Eiffel Tower. Go to class during your lunch break,” a March 18 email from Georgetown promised. According... Read more

By April 2, 2014