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National Transportation Safety Board investigators are getting closer to pinpointing the cause of last week’s Metro crash...

This isn’t Swedish Black Metal, this is… Jay Reatard. Sunday Jay Reatard. The name alone sells it, and his unique mixture of punk, indie, and No Age-esque chaos has made him the new face of Pitchfork punk. Head to the Black Cat with $12 in hand for a hipster/punk-rock fest...

With Midnight Madness over three months away, Hoya fans are hard-pressed to find any new basketball information. So while yesterday’s Big East men’s schedule announcement doesn’t even include the dates of the match-ups, it’s more than enough to start speculating about next season...

Produce stands at the new Hardy School farmers’ market Until this year, Georgetown farmers’ market aficionados only had one option: the Wednesday afternoon market at Rose Park...

All Time Low have never been in their eponymous emotional state: their particular brand has always rung out with crisp dynamics and happily chanted choruses about girls and all the fun of summer...

Now that we’re keeping an updated campus crime map, we figured at the end of every month we should give you a roundup of what (and how many) dastardly deeds were committed on campus over the past month...

Free(dom). 4th of July The best day of the year for free events, and there is no better place in the country to celebrate the nation’s independence...

The Corp has recently received project approvals to move forward on their newest venture, a cafè in the Davis Performing Arts Center, according to Corp CEO Ryan Callahan (SFS ‘10). Callahan predicts that the new venue will be open by late October or early November...

Nathan Srinivas found out what Georgetown’s being a “global university” really means. Kelsey Ryan was not impressed by the programming at Yates. Carlos Leon-Ojeda witnessed the tragic demise of a GUTS bus...

Usually the only Georgetown athletes fortunate (or unfortunate, if you believe in the cover jinx) enough to see their name in Sports Illustrated are the University’s basketball stars...

Additional seating: A true menace to society The real fireworks at last nights meeting were over the proposed moratorium on additional seating for restaurants in the Georgetown Court complex near the intersection of Prospect St. and Wisconsin Ave...

Georgetown alum Saad Hariri was appointed Prime Minister of Lebanon this Saturday by the country’s president Michel Suleiman. Hariri is the son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005...

Last Friday’s thunderstorm caused four big trees in Burleith to fall, crushing the cars parked near them. Now some neighbors are suggesting that some of the damage could have been prevented if the D.C. government had been more responsive to complaints...

Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of the cult classic Arrested Development and a Georgetown grad, was recently interviewed by Mike Sacks for his new book “And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with Top Humor Writers About Their Craft.” “And Here’s the Kicker” is out in bookstores now, and its...

Photography by Hilary Nakasone

Lunch with the boss is a bold move. The Best of the Best Rescue Me “Disease” Tommy continues to deceive his family about the fact that he is drinking again...

TheHoya.com in happier times… For the past couple weeks we’ve been wondering what’s going on with the Hoya’s website. TheHoya.com has been displaying a variety of things—a standard issue “down for maintenance” message, ads for a web-hosting service and, briefly, their tech guy Ryan J...

Last night at the NBA Draft at WaMu Theater in New York City, DaJuan Summers was selected with the 35th overall pick by the Detroit Pistons. The Baltimore Sun quotes Summers as saying, “”I’m very excited. That’s where I wanted to go...

On Monday at about 5 p.m. two Red Line trains crashed into each other near the Fort Totten station, resulting in the deadliest crash in Metro’s 33 year history...

As anyone who has ever applied for financial aid knows, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not exactly user-friendly...

“This is a man with arms open wide/a sonic shoulder for you to cry,” Jeff Tweedy sings on “Wilco (the song),” the lead-off track from the alt-rocker’s seventh proper LP...

Vox is proud to present our first foray into the world of vlogging! We’re starting a new feature, Vox Talks, where every couple weeks we’ll go out on campus and ask students their thoughts about a current event...

About 50 students, alumni and other members of the Georgetown community attended Tuesday evening’s impromptu 11:15 p.m. Mass in honor of Father Thomas King. Father King, who passed away earlier that evening, was renown on campus for hosting late night Mass everyday during the school year...

This evening, Father Thomas King, S.J. passed away at 80. According to Voice photographer Helen Burton (MSB `11), he is rumored to have died of a heart attack. Representatives from the Office of Communications could not be reached at the time of this post...

The romcom staring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson that’s been shooting in D.C. for the past couple weeks will be filming in Georgetown tomorrow afternoon and evening...

At a recent meeting, the board of directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities announced that they would like to see a reexamination of the 2004 “Catholics in Political Life” statement. The 2004 statement was released by the U.S...

The two million dollar man How much does a Final Four basketball coach cost? About $2 million, if the coach is John Thompson III...

Last week, we learned that UIS will finally be making the switch to GMail by the end of the summer. How would you have made the long-awaited announcement...

The Georgetown Business Improvement District, an association of neighborhood business owners, is devoting $100,000 to hire off-duty police officers to patrol the neighborhood, according to the Georgetown Current (PDF)...

A new study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that binge drinking, drunk driving and alcohol-related deaths among college students rose over the past decade...

The Mars Volta has always had a unique way of doing things...

Want a shot at your own 15 seconds of internet micro-micro-fame? Start following us on Twitter (GtownVoxPop) and, if you’re connected to Georgetown, we’ll return the favor and you’ll automatically be in the running! Kristin Janiszewski had a strange encounter while working at Vittles...

At the Nationwide race a couple weekends ago, Brendan Gaughan (MSB ‘97)—who played on the Georgetown basketball team with Allen Iverson and has since become a successful NASCAR driver—got into a crash with Marc Davis, whose car is sponsored by Howard University...

Earlier this week, Georgetown named Mehran Kamrava interim dean of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Not knowing much about SFS-Q or Dr...

Have you ever wondered what the most popular study abroad destinations are for Georgetown students? Ever wished you could see a graphic breakdown of which regions are the most popular? Well, this is your lucky day...

Behavior we suggest you avoid This evening, the Assistant Vice President of Student Health sent out a broadcast email saying that on Friday and this morning, D.C. health officials confirmed that three members of the “University community” had contracted H1N1, or swine flu...

Perhaps not 100% reliable The world of Higher Education has been in a tizzy lately over a couple allegations of ranking rigging. I know what you’re thinking: ‘What? The U.S...

Photography by Helen Burton

Wait, you guys are still here? The Best of the Best Pushing Daisies “Water and Power” Emerson finally has a chance to see his kidnapped daughter once again, if he can solve a murder...

These cuties will give you one hell of a Rubdown. Sunday Spencer Krug is one of the ultimate indie musicians, able to put out killer songs with an array of different bands...

In the interest of keeping you informed about the fine city we live in, Vox is starting a new feature, the District Digest, which will be a quick-and-easy guide to the most interesting and important D.C. stories of the week...

The Examiner, the right-tilting daily known for its dogged free delivery, has recently started running a “Georgetown University Examiner” column on its website...

You’ve come a long way, baby The Wisconsin Safeway has been closed for about a month and a half and construction has started in earnest. Unsurprisingly, it’s already started to irk the neighbors...

There is a lot about Mos Def’s latest release, The Ecstatic, that simply doesn’t fit in with the rest of his catalog...

Although yield statistics won’t be finalized until August when the new freshmen actually show up on campus and the Office of Admissions was unwilling to give us preliminary numbers about what percentage of applicants sent their commitment checks in, we were able to get some data about the number...

Money had value even before it had this face. Money What would a capitalist society be without money? We love getting it and we love spending it; our eyes and are hearts are green with desire...

A few weeks ago, we found out that Georgetown was going to be participating the Yellow Ribbon program, a voluntary tuition assistance program for veterans. The program allows private colleges to enter into dollar-for-dollar matching agreements with the U.S...

Lau, you filthy, filthy library, you! Over at one of City Paper’s blogs, the Sexist, Amanda Hess has been doing a series on glory holes and public sex in D.C. in honor of “Glory Hole Month.” Today, she set her sights on the offerings of local colleges...

Want a shot at your own 15 seconds of internet micro-micro-fame? Start following us on Twitter (GtownVoxPop) and, if you’re connected to Georgetown, we’ll return the favor and you’ll automatically be in the running! Former Voicer Phil Perry was impressed by JT Jr.’s patriotic lunch choice...

Although the prognosis was positive a few months ago when Obama took office and the Democrats swept Congress, it looks like the quest for D.C. voting rights has been derailed once again...

Only for the fortunate few, now more than ever The recession has led to a lot of hardship and disappointment all around. This year’s crop of high school seniors deciding where to go to college are in a particular bind, having to reconcile their academic dreams with economic realities...

Recently, the must-read blog in D.C. has been Spotted: DC Summer Interns. With its catty tales of intern foibles, the blog is a fun place to read bitter Hill staffers bashing the teenagers half a step below them. It’s pretty entertaining as is, but how could we make it even better? Madlib it...

The absurdity of the new, potentially permanent Dupont GUTS bus route, discussed at the 10 year campus plan meeting, caught the attention of Greater Greater Washington, a wonky, “smart growth” blog about D.C...

There’s a new study out from the University of California at Irvine about sexual orientation and the college experience. The results of the the study, which is based on surveys from more than 40,000 college students, are pretty interesting...

I’ve got all the friends I need. The Best of the Best Pushing Daisies “Window Dressed to Kill” Emerson enlists Chuck’s help in solving the murder of a window dresser and Ned and Olive pretend to be a couple...

Photography by Jack Murray and Helen Burton

If you’re unemployed, like 9.1 % of the American workforce, or bankrupt, like General Motors, it may be hard to convince yourself to fork over $12.99 at Best Buy or iTunes for a CD...

Oh, Blonde Charity Mafia, what will our summer be without you...

Brace yourselves, it’s that time of year again… With intern season officially upon us, it’s about time the local blogosphere came out with its annual anti-intern novelty blog (because what’s a D.C. summer if not a chance to hone your superiority complex?)...

Seeing as the entire upcoming week of shows at the 9:30 Club has already sold out (tough luck for Jenny Lewis, The Hold Steady, TV on the Radio and Santigold fans), I hereby suggest checking that venue’s website more than a week in advance...

A common gripe around pre-registration time and add/drop period is the scarcity of syllabi for Georgetown classes. Anecdotally, we all know the syllabus situation is pretty dire, but just how bad is it...

As Kate mentioned on Tuesday, at Saturday’s community meeting Georgetown’s permanent residents were just as down on the University’s affect on local traffic as they were on its students’ behavior...

The American Enterprise Institute just released a study of graduation rates of four-year colleges, “Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (And Which Don’t).” The results, which are based on the percentage of students who graduate within six years, show...

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Rancid’s name gives them a persona that should be looked at with immediate disgust. They’ve played a particular brand of street punk for the past 18 years, and something tells me that the disgustingness is starting to fade...

With Athletic Director Bernard Muir’s departing for the greener fields of the University of Delaware in about a month, Georgetown has appointed Dan Porterfield Interim AD, according to an article in Blue & Gray (in print only, not online yet)...

View Georgetown Voice Crime Map: April 2009 in a larger map The April crime map For our summer project, Vox has decided to start maintaining a campus crime map. We’ll be using the information from DPS’s digital crime log to create a visualization of campus incidents for each month...

Last year’s Live! On Woodrow Wilson Plaza finale, featuring Chuck Brow Free Movies In an economy like this, who wants to drop $10 on a movie that you’re unsure of in the first place...

Leslie Gordon found that the prep follows you wherever you go. Alexa Rozell reunited with an old foe. ...

Fun Fact: Everyone in D.C. looks like this In its annual American Fitness Index the American College of Sports Medicine reported that Washington, D.C is the healthiest city in the United States...

The University is formulating its 2010 Campus Plan, which, once it passes ANC and D.C. Zoning Commission muster, will dictate how the University can expand over the next decade. Previous Campus Plans excluded neighborhood input in their planning stages, much to the neighbors’ dismay...

If your campus plan appetite was whetted by Molly’s post yesterday and you need something to tide you over until tomorrow when Kate Mays tackles the student housing issues discussed at the meeting, check out the album of potential plans Vox scanned from a packet distributed at Saturday’s...

Georgetown’s been known for some serious dance skills over the past few years due to fantastic performances at Midnight Madnesses over the last few years—take, for instance, Jerry Rice cranking that Soulja Boy or Nikita Mescheriakov proving he’s as cool as ice with his moves...

The end has come for @JackDeGioia, our humdrum president’s hilarious Twitter doppleganger. Things began to look grim when the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the University of Texas at Austin’s president’s pseudo-Twitter was shut down last Thursday...

The University is formulating its 2010 Campus Plan, which, once it passes ANC and D.C. Zoning Commission muster, will dictate how the University can expand over the next decade. Previous Campus Plans excluded neighborhood input in their planning stages, much to the neighbors’ dismay...

I’m not jealous, just curious… The Best of the Best Greek “Social Studies” As midterms loom at Cyprus-Rhodes University, Rusty and Cappie must decide whether some is better than none when it comes to their lady loves...

This year’s Teach for America statistics are in and Georgetown has a predictably strong showing...

Alumni Events were a staple on campus this weekend.