Larry Woiwode's straightforward narrative voice and clear prose serve the essay medium well as evidenced by his latest collection of writings, Words Made Fresh. Woiwode, poet-laureate of North Dakota...

It's time for our campus to face the music — and that means providing students with the room to hear it. While a host of undergraduate music groups like to jam out — including a small army of a...

By this point, the fat cats of Wall Street have become familiar with the masses of Occupiers settled at the foot of their office buildings. Starting today, however, Georgetown will get a taste of the demonstrations,...

Around this time every year, seniors drop by my office with the same anxious expression and the same pointed question: "What am I going to do next year?" They've just taken the LSAT or GRE, interview...

A stroke of genius doesn't have to cost millions. Often with just a bit of creativity and basic sensitivity to the needs of large swaths of the world's population, inventions arise that save as many...

Divisive, messy and disorganized, the protesters currently occupying Zuccotti Park in Manhattan have been derided for everything from their hairstyles to their skewed demographics, which lean toward...

I'm tired. It's halfway through the semester, and I've had about enough. I get irritated at the sight of the cursor in Microsoft Word. Without coffee, I'm almost unapproachable. I've even begun calling...

To the Editor: Since my enrollment at Georgetown, I have had a deep admiration for my alma mater's commitment to giving a full and complete hearing to political opinions of all varieties, but lately...

Riding waves of celebration upon the death of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi Thursday, many international news outlets violated basic norms of sensibility by prominently posting graphic...

When students received an email on Oct. 17 from the Department of Public Safety about a ‘forcible fondling' in Burleith, many were unsure whether or not to laugh; judging by the Facebook activity, nervous...

Members of the Georgetown community need a wake-up call after the public safety alert on Oct. 17, which reported that a student was "forcibly fondled" in Burleith at 2 p.m. Let's assume that part...

I have been in self-imposed hibernation for the past few weeks following the inevitable disappointment. It is a perennial occurrence, a period of cleansing that recurs several times every year, as constant...