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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Bagel Watch

Voice Fiction

By the September 15, 2005

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Theyre tryin to wash us away

Remembering the intact culture of a city in ruin

By the September 8, 2005

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Playing Favorites

Teaching swimming and learning about autism

By the September 8, 2005

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Meditations on a Friday Afternoon

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior

By the September 8, 2005

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Nothing’s the matter with Kansas

Defending the people of the Midwest from undeserved insults

By the September 1, 2005

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Baby got ballroom

Ballroom dancing’s increasing popularity highlights original worth

By the September 1, 2005

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Taking it slow

“Did you come?”

By the September 1, 2005

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My summer in photos

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior

By the September 1, 2005

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NSO: Non-Sequitur Orientation

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

By the August 25, 2005

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Dance in decline

Younger generation misses out on a treasured pasttime

By the August 25, 2005

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The young man and the sea

“So, how exactly do we get back?” I stared at the slowly diminishing strip of beach trees where our friends had shrunk to sand-grain size and tried not to think about Sarah’s question.

By the August 25, 2005

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The lonesome crowded west

Chama, N.M. and Silverton, Colo. are train towns. Their entire economies depend on attracting riders to their historic narrow gauge railroads, which climb high through the San Juan Mountains.

By the August 25, 2005

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Terms of endearment

The challenges of a new identity

By the April 28, 2005

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Recognizing Israels Arabs

Resisting exclusion in the Middle East and on campus

By the April 28, 2005

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I know what you did last summer

I like to consider my job professional people-watching.

By the April 28, 2005

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City of lost children – Making the most of a Georgetown education

Carrying On – A rotating column by senior Voice staffers

By the April 28, 2005

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Run for Rigby

By the April 28, 2005

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Drifting away from Jesus: my quest for excommunication

If it’s Jesus you’re interested in, become a Protestant.

By the April 21, 2005

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Unfounded suspicion or intuition?

I wanted to approach her, but wondered whether it was appropriate, as she had not yet confided in me. How was I even to try to comprehend what she was enduring?

By the April 21, 2005

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Unemployment ain’t so bad: take no guff from these swine

As a graduating senior, I can think of nothing worse than discussing my life with elder acquaintances who inevitably bestow the following words of wisdom upon me: “I hope you’ve had fun because the college years will be the best ones of your life.”

By the April 21, 2005