Dear Voice,

You still publish a second-rate paper and come off like whiny brats. Call us when you can finish a year in the black. I won’t hold my breath waiting.

Sincerely,
Fiore Mastroianni

Why so salty Fiore??

Good job, guys!!

Way to go Fiore! You really showed the Voice with your witty, factual response.

Arguing over the internet is pointless. Besides, you have an office to clean. Tootles.

I’m so proud.

Arguing with you, Tom, is pointless.
What is important, though, is that Voice staffers have no business in The Hoya office like that. It is not public space and may contain important and/or staff-only information. Furthermore, by entering as those staffers did, they become suspects if anything is missing/broken in the office now.
The Hoya aspires to be a professional college paper. You, Tom, seem to be content with amateur hour and your weekly rag, suitable – as shown above – only for wrapping things (and lining bird cages).

FM

Um, I remember the Hoya starting this whole thing my freshman year. In Spring 2006, a few Voice staffers walked in on Hoya staffers breaking into our off. We appropriately paid the Hoya back by hiding doorbells in the Hoya office, but I don’t remember those Hoya staffers bitching and moaning about professionalism then.

That is lovely. Great work! As a long-time staffer of the OTHER “big” paper on campus, excuse me, newsmagazine, I can be amused. And I would still be amused if it happened to our office. Anything has to be better than eye-searing orange. The balloons would match!

thank you, all. we hope you enjoy the pics! we have dedicated staffers; that’s all i can say.

of course – i was not among those who returned the next morning. you’ve all moved up permanently on my scale of bad-assness.

Fiore is a straight faggot. Get a life and have some fun!

Wow, Fiore, that’s quite the missive there.
It’s a practical joke. Yeah, you had to clean it up. So what? It’s in good fun.
I’m not affiliated with either newspaper, and I could just as easily say that they both suck if I wanted to, but come on, that was just over the top.

Fiore, if the Voice is a second-rate rag, why have they won more Bunn awards (awards given by Georgetown judged by a group of independent journalists) than the Hoya three years in a row?

Professionalism = fact checking.

much love

chester

First off, let’s take the Bunn awards with a grain of salt. They are not an exact science and not really the standard by which either paper should be judged. Second, Chester (I guess you are an amateur, since you didn’t fact check), the two papers split them 9-9 last semester, with The Hoya taking first in news, sports, features and photography.

http://blogs.thehoya.com/leavey421/?p=5

That aside, The Hoya has had several computers stolen from the office, so forgive the above commenters for expressing a bit of consternation that our office was entered without permission.

All,
No one can respond to my initial displeasure so each simply attacks me and now brings up the Bunn awards.
To answer your question, the Voice is second-rate, -fiddle, -class because they spend so much time covering The Hoya, what The Hoya does and how and why The Hoya covered what it did. It has no identity outside of comparison to The Hoya and will always exist in The Hoya’s shadow as a liberal and below average to mediocre spin off. Your last cover proved as much.
Almost every Hoya staff member could not care less about The Voice’s prerogatives or doings, but The Voice is constantly obsessing, comparing itself to and trying to live up to The Hoya.
The Voice could win every Bunn award this year and The Hoya would still be this university’s “newspaper of record” and the best paper on campus by a country mile. And you can fact check that one.

One more quick thing: my first comment had to await moderation, which means Bradley’s remark above, calling Fiore a “faggot,” was moderated and approved. Really, really classy.

Bad. Ass.

Bailey, apologies about your comment getting stuck in moderation. We turned off moderation of comments a while ago to ecnourage dialogue and so I’m not used to checking the comments section anymore. Yours got held up because it had a hyperlink (those still need approval as a spam precaution).

As for Bradley’s language, it’s not classy, but we would never edit or delete a comment unless it poses a threat to someone’s safety (i.e. if someone posted a phone number or address).

I smell a tense softball game…

Well, Voice, it seems you’ve succeeded in making us look like the Mr. Wilson to your Dennis the Menace. What happened to neighborly love?

This morning, I played a mean prank on my roommate. He was pissed, I laughed, we eventually got over it. It’s April Fool’s Day, right?

But here is what I did NOT do: I did NOT publish it on the Internet for all to see. I left it as a funny joke between two, close, competitive friends. I’ll be proud of it for a while and I’ll razz him, and he’ll probably quietly seethe for a bit. But it’ll be just that — quiet. I still got my satisfaction.

Now what I don’t understand is why The Voice couldn’t follow a similar model. Get that satisfaction over your neighborhood rival, laugh a lot, make them feel like crap, make them clean it up, give them shit about it when the two papers play softball, and generally feel superior. That would be cool.

But broadcasting it, I just don’t get. Want a pat on the back from the Georgetown community? Want a high give from Todd Olson for making The Hoya really work a little harder today? Want to prove once and for all how much better you are? Why is this made public? I don’t really understand. Is this news? I think it would be fitting if you got in a lot of trouble for this because it was there for all the administrators to read about.

Voice, you done gone. All The Hoya people probably sound really frustrated the because you got them like they’ve never gotten you. And that still would have been true even if you hadn’t posted this on the blog. By doing that, your just adding insult to injury, being far too showy, and further adding to the decline in Vox Populi’s credibility.

*done good

Pandas are so cute

Vox Populi is hilarious. It’s like the Daily Show of Georgetown — spoofing everything gently, whether it be GUSA or the Hoya or Jack DeGioia. It’s not where you come for serious journalism, but it’s definitely by far the most amusing student publication on campus, more relevant than the Heckler and more frequent than pretty much anything.

“The Saxa”, saying that Vox is losing credibility is like saying that Stephen Colbert loses credibility for doing what he does.

Keep it going, Vox!

Fiore may be the most passionate, dedicated and hard-working person I know, Bradley, and he has literally devoted his entire undergraduate career in genuine service to this community. He is not a faggot. If you want to learn a thing or two about faggots, read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm.

To be fair, both newspapers are second-rate.

Wait, the Voice spends time covering the Hoya??
http://www.thehoya.com/node/16987
Are you sure?

[...] bragging to the world about your clever prank—not really in the spirit of the thing, you [...]

http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/tag/the-hoya/

*sniff* I’m so proud.

Sigh, I remember the days when the Hoya wasn’t so insecure about their position on campus that they went to the Voice blog to post vitriol.

And, as the City Paper pointed out, when the Voice didn’t need campus-wide validation for their pranks.

I’d say both sides lose, but at least the Voice still comes out looking kinda awesome, while the Hoya just looks terrible all around.

DT 43,

Maybe you’re just dense. The point isn’t the wrapping paper. It was a prank, I get it.
The point is people have broken into our office to steal computers before, so I take offense when people break in and mess with The Hoya’s equipment, especially after they were caught the first time and told to leave only to come back later.
Also, the jerks who came through the ceiling should have taken care not to kick the technology on the desk below them. That’s not a prank.
The only time the Voice looked “awesome” today was when I was stuffing it in the trash.

Whatever about the prank. At least the Voice was getting some use and probably was in more hands than ever while it was making its way into the trash. How is the Voice still going to suck when you gave the Hoya all your straws?

I’m sure the Hoya can easily drop them off so they can still suck.

nice to see there’s a use for the voice after all. it’s an amusing prank, but it clearly took more effort to do that than it would to put out an issue of the voice.

not sure how things are these days, but when the april fools issue re-started about five years ago, it was one of the most popular issues and became one of the most anticipated issues in following years.

this blog seems to enjoy taking shots on the hoya. plenty there to critique, always has been, but does anyone outside of the voice office really care? i’m guessing no. then again, the voice has always seemed to fancy itself as a giant inside joke, a publication written with for an audience consisting primarily of its own staff rather than anyone on the outside.

hoya people: don’t do some sort of lame-ass retaliation. you’ll make yourselves look just as petty. be patient. and seriously, everyone knows the bunns are a total joke. the hoya has some good writers, so does the voice.

Ad hominem attacks are a logical fallacy. Are we that poorly able to express ourselves?

I guess that’s what $160,000 in education buys these days.

I just lost 10 minutes of my life I won’t get back.

You couldn’t get me to read the voice even if you wrapped my computer and chair in it. Also, the prank’s not that original — watch the office.

lol i love the office

hahaha this is the best prank ever! This made my day!

Hey Mystery-
it’s your wingman, Matador. Let’s quit this school newspaper shit and go pick up some ladies