Tim wrote a good article about hangover cures in this week’s Voice, but it’s nothing you wouldn’t find on About.com. [Ed. note: Will, I’m going to make you mail all the subscriptions this week…] I’m confused as to why he didn’t mention the best way to eliminate a hangover since I think I told him about it. In my experience, the best way to feel great the morning after is liberal application of Vitamin B-12.

My cousin tipped me off to B-12, and she lives in Madison, Wisconsin. They’re hardly teetotalers. Here is the University of Wisconsin-endorsed schedule.

Ideally, you’ll take one or two pills before you start drinking, one when you’re drunk, and another in the morning if you need it. You probably won’t, though, because B-12 is a miracle drug.

Now, B-12 won’t eliminate your hangover entirely. You’ll have the hangover you’d have if you had about 5 beers. It’ll clear up by late morning. I don’t know why it works, but it does.

When I share this secret with people, they sometimes say they’d rather drink water. I would suggest that the water scheme is unreliable and requires bathroom trips and a roommate uninterested in Brita. Why not just swallow a pill?

I’m still up for a Bloody Mary, though.

-Will Sommer, blog editor

I know it feels like forever since last Thursday, but there’s finally a new Voice to make you, in the words of Kanye, harder, better, faster, stronger. You may want to pick it up to read on Friday night, since the new party rules have effectively killed the campus party scene, Kate Mays reports. Other highlights include:

-Four months after a fire threatened its existence, Phil Perry finds Eastern Market thriving even as rebuilding continues. Chalk up a victory for community spirit and fresh, delicious produce.

-Boldly going where no Hoya has gone in over 50 years, Alex Buzbee comes justaboutthisclose to making the Redskins, Anthony Francavilla reports. Could he end up playing on Sundays?

-University President Jack DeGioia speaks about college rankings, alcohol policy, lecturing in China and more. John Lawless has him On the Record for you.

-Has the “new” Leo’s been sufficiently ruined for you? Sara Carothers suggests something completely different: Malaysian.

-The Villa is one way to get a culture exchange in Italy. Answering a job offer in an unsolicited e-mail and boarding a bus to nowhere in particular is another, Sarah Harman found out this summer.

-The Voice Ed Board puzzles over the relaxed SFS language requirement. This may be a Catholic school, but speaking in tongues is an acquired skill these days.

That’s just a small sampling of the flavors that make up this week’s tasty issue. Thanks again for reading, and hit us up with any news tips, comments, questions or concerns.
-Mike Stewart, Managing Editor

Attending an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting is like watching My Super Sweet Sixteen. You endure the dullness, the conspicuous consumption, and the tantrums for gems that last only one or two minutes. While Tuesday’s meeting didn’t yield a Jenna-Lowenstein-as-Judas-goat moment, it did reveal a surprising administration plan: Georgetown might pave over Leavey Esplanade with tennis courts.

In a presentation to the ANC about new construction, University Architect Alan Brangman assured the neighborhood their access to the tennis courts near McDonough won’t end when the athletic training facility is built over the courts. He said new courts will either be built on the MSB building’s parking lot, near Keogh field, or on top of Leavey Esplanade. He also called the Esplanade a mini-golf course, which seems like a better use for it than more tennis courts.

Linda Greenan, the university’s Assistant Vice President for External Relations, explained to the meeting that “nobody ever uses” the Esplanade.

Use fluctuates with the weather, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say nobody ever uses the Esplanade. People sunbathe and study on it in April and May, and several organizations have big meals there, including Fast-a-thon. Once the science and MSB buildings are built, more people will be around Leavey. With an increase in traffic to the Esplanade, why would the university be eager to give up our green space to casual neighborhood athletes?
-Will Sommer, blog editor

Not that this is bash Aramark day, but I ventured into Donny’s (Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall, get it?) today and was confronted with cold, cooked, broccoli. For some reason, I love broccoli, but either have it cold and raw or cooked and hot. Nothing’s worse than something that is both cold and mushy. How are you finding the new dining hall?

- Tim Fernholz, Editor in Chief

Aramark’s takeover of Leo’s is just okay, despite the sublime pasta bar. It’s going to take at least a semester before we see real changes, but more worrisome is Aramark’s old habit for questionable business practices–and a more recent taste for covering it up online.

Wikipedia’s entry on Aramark has a short section on corporate malfeasance: Aramark overcharged a prison $2 million, it’s been firing people unfairly at a hospital, and it withheld tips from hotel employees. Things might be much worse, though, because someone at an Aramark IP address has been editing damaging entries from the Wikipedia page.

This news comes from Wikiscanner, a website that links IP addresses to the anonymous edits they make. It’s not necessarily an Aramark employee or company sanctioned, but who besides an Aramark employee can use their internet access? Aramark’s vandal isn’t so much sinister as clumsy–any amateur wiki prankster knows not to just delete paragraphs. One person using an Aramark computer deleted huge chunks of the corporate malfeasance section. Later, some PR boiler plate was inserted that inadvertently referred to “our” employees.

Amusing as Aramark’s antics are, Georgetown can’t afford repeats of either their corporate dirty tricks or bumbling disinformation.
-Will Sommer, blog editor

Perhaps David Vitter isn’t the only government employee paying for sex in Washington. The Washington Times is reporting that several D.C. firehouses are being investigated for hosting female EMTs and their male johns. The Times said some firemen bought servicing.
There’s a familiar DC-is-so-whacky, Marion Barry vibe to the story, but what kind of city pays its EMTs so poorly that they need to sell themselves?

Via Why I Hate DC
-Will Sommer, blog editor