“And it all started with the Voice!”

The Voice is looking for students who are good with numbers and sales to work on our business staff. Work hard here and who knows, maybe you’ll be running naked women on page 3 and menacing the New York Times.

Interested? Apply by sending an email to thevoice at georgetown.edu.

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With soul music blaring in the background, Michael Eric Dyson stepped on the stage of Gaston Hall this evening to address several hundred members of the Georgetown community. Blending humor and poignant insights into American society, Dr. Dyson delivered a lecture entitled “No Dreams Deferred?: Black Aspirations form Martin Luther King Jr. to Jay-Z.”

Dr. Dyson began the lecture with a reference to Martin Luther King’s dream for the “American experiment” and the obstacles that stood in the way for his generation. He went on to traverse the next forty of years of American history by incorporating literary quotations, rap lyrics, and historical insights.

The speech even carried a political bent as Dyson reflected on the significance of Senator Obama’s candidacy for President forty years after Dr. King’s assassination. By the end of his thirty minute speech, it was easy to see why Cornell West called him “the most talented rhetorical acrobat in the academy.”

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This is big for us.

VP for Student Affairs Todd Olson said at today’s press conference on Leo’s food poisoning that Leo’s will open, at the earliest, tomorrow after breakfast. During the delay, university officials and the DC Department of Health will try to find the source of the germs. Apparently, the question is whether the contamination comes from the way the food is prepared or whether it was already contaminated when it arrived.

Also, Georgetown’s refusing to call it food poisoning, opting instead for gastroenteritis. 88 students in the hospital with “gastroenteritis”. That number doesn’t include students who felt sick but didn’t go to the hospital.

 Update 5:20 p.m.:  It’s up to 96 people, according to an email sent by Olson moments ago.

As of 3:30p.m. medical professionals inform us that approximately 96 students have now been treated for gastroenteritis, with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea or dehydration.  These students are being treated and released; no one has been admitted to the hospital for additional care.  The number of students seeking treatment has decreased over the course of the day.  In comparison to the students seen last night, today most are being treated more for dehydration and less for active vomiting and diarrhea.

Unpleasant.

At least 25 Georgetown students were hospitalized late last night after eating at Leo’s dining hall, according to a University broadcast email. Voice writer Vivian Chen was told she was victim number fifteen when she walked into the Georgetown Hospital last night at about 2:00 a.m, where she joined other students waiting in the emergency room.

The food poisoning wasn’t limited to Grab N Go, as Adha Mengis (COL ‘11) discovered. Tuesday night, after eating in the main dining hall of Leo’s, he found himself unable to sleep due to severe stomach spasms.

Meanwhile, Leo’s has been shut down, with Altagracia and DPS Officer David Budd guarding the doors. Officer Budd is sends groups of annoyed student to the Leavey Center, where Budd says students who show their GoCards are treated to free food. Thanks, Georgetown, but no thanks.

Is anyone else weirded out by the way Jack looks in this picture, from the 2008 Homecoming promotional materials? The drawing’s sexualized enough, what with the high school graduation attire on the girl in the picture. Why did Jack have to be looking up her skirt too?

Also, if you’re going to do a house-of-mirrors thing and have the picture inside the picture, as in the girl holding the picture of her and Jack, you have to go big. No third-picture-is-brown foolishness.