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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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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NSO: Non-Sequitur Orientation

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

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

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What we will do in the name of self-image

t the shallowest level, body image obsession can be attributed to boredom and self-centeredness. The worrying is not really about how you look physically, it’s about how you feel about yourself.

By the April 21, 2005

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It’s springtime for Hitler … who knew he had a lisp?

If Adolf Hitler were gay, would he have acted or spoken any differently?

By the April 14, 2005

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Publicly resenting the past

For just under 10 minutes, I had read aloud an inflammatory valedictory address that berated my high school in front of a gathering of hundreds, with a line of administrators staring at my back.

By the April 14, 2005

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Southern-style Trucker Christianity

My brother once told me that there are only three types of people who ride Amtrak trains to North Carolina: indigent college kids like me, Southern psychos and convicts.

By the April 14, 2005

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Sibling rivalry: the cute blonde sister who gets everything

How your role in the family determines the person you become.

By the April 14, 2005

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My fellow graduates … up yours

Looking at all of you, I can’t help but reflect upon what got me to where I am today: Spite. Pure, simple, unadulterated spite.

By the April 7, 2005

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When all else fails, declare English

While most people on my floor are majoring in Government, International Business, or Something-Important-With-A-Big-Word-In-It, I am an English major.

By the April 7, 2005

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There’s no crying in baseball …

What I learned over time is that Little League is not supposed to be for self-growth, but for self-actualization. One realizes his lot in life pretty quickly on a Little League team

By the April 7, 2005

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Losing my religion, and finding it again

From age 13 through my first year of high school, I always went to church alone.

By the April 7, 2005