Before you head out of town, grab a copy of the Voice—it’ll make your plane/train/car/bus ride so much more enjoyable.

– Kate Mays checks out the students, neighbors, landlords and administrators who mix it up daily in the backstreets of West Georgetown and Burleith in this week’s cover story.

– Though the Hoya called for University VP for Auxilliary Services Margie Bryant to resign for her lack of progress on key projects, it turns out her main problem might be communicating with students. Or is it that she also works full time as a realtor?

– GU Cycling is taking off, with a second place finish in their first race as a team. Anthony Francavilla checks the tires.

– Check out reviews of the new Arcade Fire and !!! albums. Yes, !!!.

– Dan Newman: Park Ranger. And, yes, we’re awaiting your letters about Brendan Brown’s piece on Iran.

– The Voice Ed Board wants better campus mail. Oh, and they’ve got a soft spot for J Wall, too.

Have a good spring break, everybody. Look forward to an extra large, chock-full-of-news issue of the Voice when you get back.

Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor

Over at The New Republic’s Open University blog, Georgetown Professor Michael Kazin (a former member of Students for a Democratic Society) wonders where radical student activists have gone, using Georgetown as an example of school without protests:

It’s possible that a campus in D.C. where both George Tenet and Madeleine Albright are faculty members and where Bill Clinton gives a speech every semester or so isn’t the best place to find a groundswell of independent activism. Or maybe “the student movement” has become mostly a subject for historical study, a phenomenon that crested decades ago and survives more as a desire of the left—young and old—than as a prospect for the future. Read the rest of this entry »