People on the southern part of campus (Village A, New South, that sort of thing) heard a circling helicopter from around 12:30 to 1 this morning. The helicopter was beaming down a search light. Hoping for more Georgetown crime, your intrepid blogger followed the light until the woods on Prospect. I’m betting there was an accident in the Potomac. Anyway, I hit up MPD and will be back with the results later today. Ideas on what the helicopter was looking at?

-Will Sommer, Blog Editor 

Tim Brown (COL ‘09) and Dale Sevin (SFS ‘09) have produced the latest GUSA campaign video for your enjoyment. It’s the best of the year so far, but I’m not sure it rivals all-time classic Vote in a Box. Incidentally, later today I’ll be posting the first in a series of video interviews with GUSA candidates; the first interview is with Mr. Brown himself. For now, here’s an obviously Rocky-inspired montage from the ticket:

On Friday, residents of the Nevils apartment complex received the following strange e-mail from one of the Resident Assistants:

Hey Everyone,

We have been notified about a pellet gun incident, going off from a Nevils apartment balcony, in the Courtyard on Wednesday night 1/23/08. Our East Campus Hall Director Natasha Pedroza is asking for anyone who has information to come forward. This incident concerns the safety of our East Campus community. Thank you for your time and cooperation!

Best,
[REDACTED]

I have no idea if anyone talked to Ms. Pedroza, but I would encourage anyone information to e-mail the Voice about it—anonymity guaranteed, friends! I hadn’t realized that East Campus had gotten so serious that people have been reduced to packing heat, but I guess that’s what the world is coming to.

—Tim Fernholz, Contributing Editor

Trying to gain some faith in your Georgetown peers?  Well then don’t search for “Georgetown Student Section” on Craigslist.  First, from January 5:

2 tickets available for Section 118 (student section) for Gtown vs. Uconn on Saturday January 12 2pm at the Verizon Center. Tickets are $175 each - cash only, can meet up sometime during the week to exchange. Please include contact information (specifically a phone number) in your response. Go Hoyas!         

And January 6:

3 Tickets available for Georgetown - UConn game on Saturday January 12 at 2pm in the Verizon Center in section 118 — great seats!         

Cash only - $150 each, willing to break up the tickets if necessary.

Lastly January 8:

3 Tickets in section 118, $100 each. Email contact info; cash only.         

Our poster neglected to note that a GoCard is needed for admittance to the student section.  However, I’d like to think it was generosity and a keen understanding of supply and demand which motivated the poster to lower the price of the UConn tickets from nearly two times the cost of season tickets to a mere one times the cost.  What a scam.
—Sam Sweeney, Blog Editor 

Welcome back to D.C., y’all.  While you wait with visible anticipation (yep, we see you sweating) for the first Voice of 2008 (January 17: mark your calendar!), here’s a review of There Will Be Blood by Michael Evans to keep the hunger from taking you over and help with the weekend plans (as if you’re not treating it like the weekend already). Check back for more frequent blog updates and see ya in Red Square or wherever.

-Mike Stewart, Editor-in-Chief

It was ugly, but Georgetown opened its Big East schedule with a 58-46 win over Rutgers on Saturday, Anthony Francavilla reports. Next up is DePaul, who just knocked off 16th-ranked Villanova in Chicago.  Tip-off is at 9 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

-Mike Stewart, Editor-in-Chief

Headed to the cinema over break? Thinking about seeing the dreamy Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd while you’re there? Well, how about it?  Joshua Speiser tries to help you out with a review over on the main site. Decide whether or not that’s how you’re going to spend $6-15, depending on where you go home to.

-Mike Stewart, Editor-in-Chief

— Sam Sweeney, Blog Editor

Major Movie Star

“Now, she’s going to prove, she’s more than just a pretty face.” Hey, is that the girl with the beret from High School Musical asking J. Simp to sign her face? Oh, how the mighty have…moved sideways?

Major Movie Star comes out in 2008 and stars Jessica Simpson and Olesya Rulin.

More trailer reviews after the jump.

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