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

Spring Concert Out of Tune

By The Editorial Board April 1, 2011

Though spring cherry blossoms are in full bloom around the District, not all annual happenings have made as much of a splash this time of year. Last Friday, Georgetown Program Board announced its annual...

Big Brother Is Welcome

By The Editorial Board April 1, 2011

The Department of Public Safety's decision to install security cameras around campus is a classic case of "better late than never." Calls for increased security abounded last year after several alarming...

Survivor: Hilltop Edition

By Kavya Devarakonda April 1, 2011

The Hilltop is rife with competition. What else is to be expected when 7,000 Type-A overachievers converge on a 104-acre plot of land? Students compete with each other, sizing each other up on everything...

Mullikin: West Should Rest on Its Laurels in Libya

By Andrew Mullikin March 31, 2011

The Western-led intervention in Libya has so far been a resounding success. Civilian lives have been saved in cities across the North African country, effectively fulfilling a United Nations mandate designed...

IDEV Supporters’ Misguided Opposition to Campus Plan

By The Editorial Board March 30, 2011

By now, Georgetown community members are used to seeing anti-campus plan campaigns and propaganda littering the blogs and yards of resentful neighbors. But this week, the "Downsize Georgetown" rhetoric...

Shortsighted Fans Are the Crisis at Hand

By Brandon Sloane (COL '06) March 29, 2011

To the Editor:   I'm not much of a letter writer, but the editorial, "A Program's Identity Crisis" (The Hoya, A2, March 22, 2011), was so misguided as to deserve a response. I can only presume...

No Identity Crisis Here

By Qais Ghafary (COL '08) March 29, 2011

To the Editor: The editorial "A Program's Identity Crisis" (The Hoya, A2, March 22, 2011) asked, "Would Georgetown basketball, and the university on the whole, still retain its identity if [it adopts...

Pub’s Past Was Great, Future Should Be Too

To the Editor:   The vision of a University Center in Healy basement belongs to Sue Palmer Johnson, the director of Student Activities in the early 1970s.  I was fortunate to work with her,...

Delaney: A Welcome Rulebook for Life

By Margaret Delaney March 29, 2011

I am fairly certain that there has been discussion about the deterioration of society for as long as mankind has been able to sit around a fire and communicate. The next generation has been the older generation's...

Jackson: A False Sense of Security

By Nneka Jackson March 29, 2011

Living in Jamaica, I have had to adopt a sense of quasi-paranoia about my whereabouts at all times. It almost seems ridiculous to mention the two places in the same breath — they seem to be on opposite...

Outraged Undergraduates Protest Certificate Change

By Thomas Zuzelo March 29, 2011

Over the past year, the School of Foreign Service administration has made profound changes to the international development certificate program. The certificate, created by student demand and spearheaded...

Renovating Nevils, Burning Bridges

By The Editorial Board March 29, 2011

Senior Week is a time for the university to show appreciation for its graduating class through shared celebration. This year, however, while most seniors will be indulging in their much-deserved revelry,...

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