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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No whites allowed (but segregationists welcome)?

I wanted the sign as soon as I saw it. My wife and I were attending a black memorabilia fair at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland last spring, and on my way to the Negro Baseball League gear, I encountered a display of framed “Colored Only” signs that once infamously adorned restrooms, water fountains and other public facilities.

By the October 7, 2004

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Throwing it into drive

The car roared, wheels spinning, and slammed through the garage wall and straight into my dinning room, knocking the china cabinet over along the way. Apparently, I’d mistakenly hit the gas and now the car, without a scratch on it, sat in my dining room, making a slow, shrill beeping noise.

By the October 7, 2004

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Sex, drugs and sex on drugs

Hsssssssh.

I drag deeply on the mouthpiece, slowly counting down in my head as the acrid fumes fill my lungs, relaxing me. I exhale and lean my head back against my overstuffed chair. I let my eyes lazily drift around the room before slipping the inhaler back into my pocket.

By the October 7, 2004

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What would Georgia O’Keeffe have majored in?

Unlike a School of Foreign Service junior politico or a pre-med science prodigy, I came to college armed only with the vague notion that I liked “the humanities.”

By the September 30, 2004

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There’s no place like it

To my surprise, I discovered that I don’t wake up happy very often anymore.

By the September 30, 2004

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Tall tales in a fly-over state

Wisconsin is one of those states that I just never thought I’d visit.

By the September 30, 2004

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When I was a hostage

I could see exactly what the hired guns planned to do with me when they opened the rear hatch of the Jeep.

By the September 23, 2004

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The show goes on

One of the first opportunities my relocation afforded me was a chance to open for a magician-friend of mine for six shows in Bermuda.

By the September 23, 2004

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Georgetown reacts to the Beslan massacre

The crowd of students and parents, shocked and dehydrated, huddled in the gymnasium as the terrorists draped wires around the room, connecting a series of bombs. This horrible image was only one of many to come out of Beslan, Russia this month.

By the September 23, 2004

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Makes me want to Ralph

Why a vote for Nader is a vote for nonsense

By the September 16, 2004

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Reservoir hot dog

A man with a hot dog suit. And a gun.

By the September 16, 2004

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A practical guide for hurricane season

Forget the duct tape, grab the wine!

By the September 16, 2004

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This has all been wonderful, but now I’m on my way

A phish-head learns to accept change and move on

By the September 9, 2004

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My year a-bored

I was burned out with school, burned out on drugs and needed time to find my chi.

By the September 9, 2004

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Carrying On: What’s wrong with being a little childish?

The author reverts to childhood while abroad

By the September 9, 2004

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Watch out for the ether bunny

Hi everyone! It’s Joan Rivers here at the Apocalypse, where it’s not just a parade of the damned, but of the damned good looking! I can’t even tell you how hard it is to get in these gates, but luckily we’re inside where I’ll be keeping my wrinkled, corpse-like finger on the pulse of what’s hot and what’s not.

By the September 2, 2004

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Republicans Welcome: Where to Stay at the RNC

Would you like clean sheets with that?

By the September 2, 2004

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Carrying On: The plums I carried in Uzbekistan

While planning my trip to Uzbekistan, I imagined many possible scenarios for what this country would be like. Most of them involved camels, naan, irrigation and Soviet-induced ecological catastrophe. Somehow, the predicament of being compelled to pick fruit while wearing a polka-dotted skirt and strappy sandals was not one of the images I had in mind.

By the September 2, 2004

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Understanding the two faces of Chile

Can a torture camp ever really become a “Park of Peace”?

By the August 26, 2004

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First-years: Listen to us, you fools

Climb down the Exorcist steps. Take a romantic stroll around the monuments by moonlight. Climb the John Carroll statue. Eat a Chicken Madness. If you don’t, you may be a terrorist.

By the August 26, 2004