Senator Nick Troiano (COL ’11) shot back at the critics of GUSA’s funding board reform at yesterday’s meeting, delivering an eight-minute rebuttal to a recent Voice editorial, which advocated against the reform. In Troiano’s words, he wanted to “set the record straight.” He described the editorial’s claim that reform could “threaten the funding sources for clubs and sports teams” as “unfounded, incendiary remarks, that I believe are flat-out irresponsible for a campus media outlet to state.”
Troiano cited a 2006 referendum that passed with 91 percent of the vote to give GUSA the power to appropriate Student Association funds as evidence that the student population was in support of the reform. He said that “91 percent of students disagree with the editorial board” on the board’s assertion that giving the Senate absolute control over the student activities fee threatens student clubs and student life on campus.
Are you interested in working for Georgetown’s weekly newsmagazine of record? You’re in luck: we’re having our first open house of the year tomorrow at 5 p.m. in our office (Leavey 413).
We’re looking for reporters, writers, design folks, business staff, bloggers, photographers, copy editors and tech gurus. So if you’re looking for a campus publication to showcase your talents (or just looking to get some free pizza), stop by tomorrow!
This afternoon, your favorite student journalists got dressed up for the Bunn Awards, the annual ceremony in which the University picks the best articles published in campus newspapers over the past year. I’m pleased to report that the Voice bounced back from a humiliating softball defeat yesterday with a very solid Bunn performance, picking up 11 awards and sweeping the reviews and features categories.
Listed below are the winners, all of which are great reads, especially for all of you looking to procrastinate on studying.
While on the subject of student journalism awards, congrats to the Hoya’s former Editor in Chief Andrew Dwulet and current managing editor, Marrissa Amendolia, for making UWire’s Top 100 student journalists! Dwulet was picked for “[putting] his own health on the line to cover an outbreak of contagious disease on campus” and Amendolia was honored for expanding the Guide from 12 pages to 16.
This afternoon, GUSA’s Tyler Stone (COL `09) emailed the GUSA Senate to announce that he was resigning as Senator. (Full disclosure: Stone was at one time a Voice staff member).
“At this point in my Georgetown career, and with graduation hovering a month away, I have little stomach left for political posturing,” he wrote. He went on to write that while many GUSA Senators do treat GUSA as a resume-padder, he felt that campus media often shortchanged GUSA when it “manages to crank out an accomplishment or two-Summer Fellows, for example-that decisively betters the student experience at Georgetown.” (He also weirdly intimated that newspapers led “ineluctably to a hostile takeover by the Student Commission for Unity,” which I don’t get. Thoughts, anyone?)
Stone resigns with just two GUSA Senate meeting left to go this year. According to the Voice’s GUSA-savvy Lillian Kaiser, at the last meeting, Senator Tim Swenson (SFS `11) adamantly called for Stone’s resignation, citing a poor attendance record. Stone, Kaiser tells me, hasn’t attended a meeting since mid-February (or, since he was prominently featured into Kaiser’s cover story, which explored GUSA’s “bro culture”).
The Hoya has its “proud” tradition of turning out a lame April Fool’s Day issue every year (this year’s best misguided attempts at humor were a charming fake interview with the “Georgetown Cuddler”—you do realize he doesn’t just cuddle, right?—and some good-old-fashioned stereotyping, re: the Japanese foreign exchange student named “Takataka Warazaka”). The Voice has no strict April Fool’s Day pranking traditions of its own—but that just makes things more interesting.
After an initial late-night attempt to “redecorate” their office failed, a group of intrepid Voicers celebrated April Fool’s Day in The Hoya’s office at the crack of dawn. Below, what some tape, extra copies of the Voice, and about 2,000 bendy straws can do.
Amanda Hess, City Paper’s Sexist, has started DC’s Manliest Workplace Competition, ranking DC businesses and institutions based on the number of men at the top of their org chart. Hess takes a company’s top ten positions and assigns points in descending order, so a man at the top positions earns ten points and a man at the one position earns one point. She then throws the final score (max score of 55) into a rubric:
The Manly Index
0-10: Non-manly
11-30: Mannish
31-50: Manly
50-55: Manliest
Yesterday, the Washington Times knocked out Washingtonian. That’s no surprise, but where do Georgetown’s publications stack up in “remembering the ladies,” as Abigail Adams would say? Using mastheads and fuzzy division, I’ve ranked Georgetown publications from least manly to manliest. When I wasn’t clear whether one position ranked over another, I relied on masthead order.
The Independent: 13
The Independent scores a barely mannish 13, despite Editor-in-Chief Greg Gangelhoff. If they ever hope to edge out Blue & Gray, they’re going to have to tell me whether “B Palmer” is a man or woman.
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