In this week’s Feature, Sean Quigley profiles Fr. Joseph Palacios, a Georgetown professor who recently co-founded Catholics for Equality.

“Georgetown has made a very concerted effort to serve their students … but it’s clear that you can’t treat them as if they live in a Catholic bubble,” Palacios said. “They live in the real world, and dealing with LGBT freedoms and rights is part of reality.”

News investigates the strength of Newsweek‘s “gay friendly” college rankings.

In Leisure, Mary Borowiec dives into the world of D.C.’s food trucks.

Sports recaps the football team’s heartbreaking loss to Yale, while looking ahead to Saturday’s Homecoming game.

In Voices, Jackson Perry rails against the University for failing to make poverty studies an academic priority.

The Ed Board hopes that Vincent Gray will continue D.C. public school reform.

In Features, Molly Redden shares the experiences of Georgetown’s sexual assault survivors, including her own. We don’t ask much, but take some time today to read their stories.

“I wanted to speak to women who could shed light on what ‘one in four’ really looks like at Georgetown,” she writes. “And I wanted to see if their stories were anything like mine.”

News reports that DPS has tracked down one of the students responsible for the anti-Semetic graffiti found in New South and Darnall.

In Leisure, Leigh Finnegan profiles the new student drumline.

Sports dives into the Georgetown’s underground mixed martial arts scene.

In Voices, Margo Hufstetler argues that Puerto Rico, her childhood home, deserves independence.

The Ed Board bemoans the loss of free newspapers on campus.

In Features, Kara Brandeisky looks into the history of student representation on Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission. Did you know that more than 1,000 students voted in the 1996 election, placing two students on the ANC? Well, that’s just the beginning of a story filled with voter intimidation tactics, lawsuits, and a whole lot of campaigning.

News dives into Georgetown’s right-wing scene, learning that most conservative students “have not adopted the populist energy, tone, and activist tendencies of the Tea Party movement.”

In Leisure, Brendan Baumgardner writes about one of Georgetown’s hidden gems: The Friday Music Series.

Sports has some more about the men’s soccer team’s big weekend.

In Voices, Kara Brandeisky discusses the problem of victim blaming.

The Ed Board encourages the University to adopt environmentally-friendly roofing.

In Features, Tim Shine digs into Georgetown football. Why does the team regularly finish in the bottom of the Patriot League standings? Because Georgetown spends no money on the program, creating “a disadvantage in attracting recruits and improving its players once they are on campus.”

The Ed Board criticizes DPS and MPD for their responses to Sunday’s rape in Burleith.

News reports that construction of the Corp café in the Davis Center is delayed, not canceled.

In Leisure, Brendan Baumgardner looks at the wild world of Dahlgren Chapel weddings.

Sports writes about the Lady Hoyas’ scorching start to the soccer season.

In Voices, Emma Forster tells us why we shouldn’t look for the perfect partner.

After a marathon production night, the first Fall issue of the Voice hit stands this earlier today.

In Features, a whole bunch of staff members ran down the best of Georgetown. Curious to know where you should barricade yourself in the event of a zombie apocalypse? Or how about the best food station at Leo’s? It’s all there—and more.

News details a seven-year, $2.8 million contract between Bank of America, the Alumni Association, and GUASFCU.

Leisure previews the Breakthrough Art Organization’s September exhibition of German, Cold War-inspired art.

Sports recaps how the basketball team handled the Kenner Summer League.

The Ed Board weighs in on this summer’s UIS wireless announcement.

In Voices, some mopey fool laments the plight of being a transfer student.

In Features, Will Sommer investigates how the University responded the security risk created after an anonymous person threatened “to commit ‘mass murder’ inside the Bunn Intercultural Center threat in late 2007.” At the time, the chain of command failed. Why? The University’s executive leadership was in Rome at a meeting.

The Ed Board praises the campus community for a united reaction to Stephen R. Brown and his website, “Drunken Georgetown Students.”

In News, Holly Tao reports that military veterans at Georgetown are still disappointed with the University’s financial aid policies, despite a recent increase in aid towards veterans.

In Leisure, Nico Dodd reminds us all why last weekend’s Climate Rally on the Mall might’ve been the best concert D.C. has seen in years.

In Sports, Tim Shine covers the most exciting women’s lacrosse game you will ever read about.

Voices publishes a call-to-arms written by Jared Watkins about the need for a stronger student response against recent sexual assaults.

In Features, Eric Pilch checks out 826DC, “the latest in a series of non-profit writing centers that provide free tutoring, self-publishing, and workshops to elementary through high school students,” which author Dave Eggers spearheaded shortly after writing A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

News reports that The Hoya is not going independent next year and reflects on the progress it’s made on diversity issues.

In Leisure Leigh Finnegan follows the Washington Psychotronic Film Society, connoisseurs of the so-bad-it’s-good movie genre, and the closing of a B-movie video store in Alexandria, home to classics like Frankenpimp. And Brendan Baumgardner MacGuyvers himself a KFC Double Down and loses faith in God.

Tim Shine catches up with Georgetown women’s lacrosse, which after a few struggles is dominating its way to the Big East Tournament, in Sports.

In Voices, Will Sommer advises us to stop pretending that Georgetown neighbors will ever like Georgetown Students.

The Voice Ed Board encourages students to provide all the support they can to Jake Sticka (COL ’13), who has decided to run for student Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.

This week, the Georgetown Voice showcased the winners of its annual student photo contest in its Feature. In the words of the great Chad Kroeger, and I’m paraphrasing a little bit here, look at these photographs.

Maybe Georgetown businesses don’t want to be known as prep-richie-rich-goody-goody shopping land anymore. News reports that with the help of a consulting firm, they’re rebranding themselves.

Following his star turn on Vox with the delightful “The Argyle in My Socks,” David Benedetto contributes a hilarious piece about his musical romancing to Voices.

You’d think that local record stores would love Record Store Day, which brings out customer in droves—but they hate it, Leisure reports.

The Voice Ed Board is in favor of the proposed Diversity Requirement for Georgetown students.

Sports takes a look at the men’s lacrosse season so far.

This week in Features, Brendan Baumgardner profiles Provost James O’Donnell. And while this cover will tell you all about what a provost is, it’s more fun for the host of delightful fun facts you’ll learn about Jim O’Donnell. Such as: he’s a self-described ‘roving chocolate correspondent’; there is a life-sized donkey statue in his office; and he watched that Hitler Downfall video KingGeorgetown made during snow week.

News has more on the recent meetings between Plan A Hoyas and administrators

Leisure reviews the bawdy and engaging play The Grace of Mary Traverse, now playing at the Gonda Theater

The Voice Ed Board weighs in on Plan A Hoyas’s demands and tactics

“Everything I learned about sex I learned from Dan Savage,” Kate Mays writes in Voices

Sports has postgame coverage of the Georgetown baseball team’s close victory

Just in time for the weather, it’s the Voice‘s annual Spring fashion issue! Download the issue PDF to see the best looks out there this season.

The Voice Ed Board celebrates the passage of health care reform.

In News, Will Sommer interviews Dennis Sobin: former strip club and adult store owner, current mayoral candidate for the District of Columbia.

Sports has a wrap up of the Georgetown women’s basketball team’s historic season.

In Voices, a student cautions that when you use the anti-plagiarism site TurnItIn.com, you lose legal ownership of your work.

Leisure covers G40, a local event that promises wider exposure for Georgetown student artists.

This week’s fiction is Jared Watkins’s piece, “Fluorine.” “The sexiest of the elements.”