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It’s Been So Long

By The Editorial Board September 28, 2010

After last year at Georgetown, the words victory and football rarely found themselves in the same sentence. Yet, after talks of cutting the 136-year-old program, time has been a saving grace. This season...

Students Should Work To End RJC Suspension

By Shea Houlihan September 28, 2010

Georgetown students have a hair-trigger ability to raise a fuss over any injustice, be it on campus or in a far-away country. So why is it that the Residential Judicial Council, a student-run council that...

Getting to Know Bombay, Again

By Udayan Tripathi September 28, 2010

After two years away in Washington, it had become time for me to revisit my birthplace. Being at college can be engrossing, especially as an international student hobnobbing with others from around the...

Gender Challenges Still Plague the Third World

By Sarah Ryan and Bridget O'Laughlin September 24, 2010

As two female Georgetown students from the United States, we often forget to reflect on the fundamental opportunities we have by virtue of our birthplace. We were born in a country that, while not perfect,...

Change the Channel

By The Editorial Board September 24, 2010

For college students eager to savor any opportunity to relax, access to quality cable TV is a perennial concern. The university has long offered a single cable option to students living in on-campus residence...

Serving With Humility

By Michael Fischer September 24, 2010

Give yourself a pat on the back - you have worked hard to get to where you are in life. In high school, you were probably near the top of your class, were president of nearly every club and did one-gazillion...

Israeli Control Inhibits Palestinian Reconciliation

By Elise Garofalo September 24, 2010

I highly recommend that you visit Israel. It really doesn't get enough credit. One of Israel's top selling points is its location at the junction between East and West. In Tel Aviv along the beautiful...

French Burqa Ban Represents Islamophobia

By Sam Schneider September 24, 2010

The debate over Islam's place in France has been at the forefront of national conversation in the past six years. The climax came 10 days ago when the French National Assembly approved a bill that severely...

Soda Tax Falls Flat

By The Editorial Board September 24, 2010

Whether you call it soda, pop or Coke, your favorite soft drinks will soon cost you more inside the District. The D.C. Council has slapped a 6 percent city sales tax on all artificially and sugar-sweetened...

American DREAM

By The Editorial Board September 21, 2010

Congress will kickstart debate this week on a bill that could open doors for thousands of U.S. students in search of something we know well: a college education. The Development, Relief and Education for...

Silence and the Soul

By Fr. Kevin O'Brien, S.J. September 21, 2010

I'm noticing the airplanes again. For new students on campus, one of the ways that you know you have finally made the Hilltop your home is when you stop noticing the jets flying overhead. There came...

Post-Uribe Security in Colombia Overstated

By Walker Grooms and Monica Gonzalez September 21, 2010

Sometimes you have to give some to get some. For former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, giving some meant weakening civil society in Colombia, pushing aside the rule of law, stomping on individual...

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