Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Senior Housing Certainty

By The Editorial Board August 29, 2014

Although Georgetown has long boasted that it meets 100 percent of students’ demonstrated financial need, this aid still came into question for some seniors. Because housing eligibility is not guaranteed...

Coors Light Clemency

By The Editorial Board August 29, 2014

No week of a student’s life is more socially excruciating than the first week of college. The new liberties associated with living on one’s own, combined with the pressure to find friends within...

A Legacy in Progress

A Legacy in Progress

By The Editorial Board August 26, 2014

Embarking on his 14th year in office, University President John J. DeGioia is now Georgetown’s longest-serving president. While this feat is merely statistical, its arrival indicates that DeGioia’s...

Safety First, Guns Second

By The Editorial Board August 26, 2014

For decades, Washington, D.C., had some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation — banning both the ownership of handguns and the ability to carry guns in public spaces. But recent court decisions...

Living Wages for All

By The Editorial Board August 26, 2014

Of all the changes that happened in Georgetown this summer, one in particular is sure to make working students smile. On July 1, the long-awaited increase of the Washington, D.C. minimum wage took effect,...

MICHELLE XU

Cheers to Student Input

By The Editorial Board May 16, 2014

With construction on the Healey Family Student Center well underway, Georgetown students and administrators have an important opportunity in the coming months. After Mason Inn and George bar owner...

Making the Most of Move-Out

By The Editorial Board May 16, 2014

As students rush to leave campus at the end of the academic year, they are followed, at least in part, by a small but determined cohort of the District’s underprivileged, who take to dumpster diving...

1,382 Degrees of Gratitude

By The Editorial Board May 16, 2014

On Saturday, the 1,382 members of Georgetown’s Class of 2014 will undoubtedly share feelings of joy and accomplishment as they walk across the graduation stage. From the moment that these graduates...

How to Be a Bro Against Sexual Assault

How to Be a Bro Against Sexual Assault

By Jimmy Ramirez and Alex Skarzynski May 10, 2014

We currently live in a world where gang rape blankets the news, where 48 women are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and where 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college in...

Fighting Against Duplicitous Food Marketing

By William Rydzewski May 2, 2014

Each fall, incoming college freshmen start their undergraduate careers with a considerable amount of independence. For the first time, many of these seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds are forced to make...

The Final Word: 2013-2014

By The Editorial Board April 25, 2014

In an eventful year for campus life, students made sure their voices were not lost in the university’s decision-making process. From Georgetown’s changing course of action on navigating the 2010 Campus...

MEGAN SCHMIDT

Obliged to Provide Access

By The Editorial Board April 15, 2014

When Heather Artinian (COL ’15) reached out to the Academic Resource Center to request a sign language interpreter for a Georgetown University Student Association-sponsored LSAT prep course, she...

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