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Brendan’s Opinion: Blue & Gray Is Not Blue & Slay

By Brendan Teehan February 3, 2023

On the third episode of “Brendan’s Opinion,” Brendan Teehan (CAS ’25) discusses his viewpoint on the Georgetown University student tour guide society, Blue & Gray. In this podcast, Teehan...

Georgetown Community Challenges School Colors’ Confederate Ties

Georgetown Community Challenges School Colors’ Confederate Ties

By Sydney Raymond October 15, 2021

As Georgetown University track and field runner Malachi Quarles (COL ’23) puts on his uniform before a competition, he feels conflicted. His uniform is blue and gray, Georgetown’s school colors.  When...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reexamine Blue and Gray

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reexamine Blue and Gray

By Michael Donnay August 11, 2020

As statues honoring leaders of the Confederacy fall across the county and the United States again reckons with the way it memorializes its white supremacist past, Georgetown University must do the same....

EDITORIAL: Pay Student Tour Guides

EDITORIAL: Pay Student Tour Guides

By Editorial Board October 11, 2019

Students of the Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society regularly spend their free time representing Georgetown University to prospective students. Despite their job’s similarity to other campus jobs, the tour...

Clubs Respond to Criticisms of Selectivity

Clubs Respond to Criticisms of Selectivity

By Tara Subramaniam November 2, 2018

Every Hoya could most likely recite some version of the following: Without the traditional social structure of recognized Greek life, clubs become the hub for your social life. Yet Georgetown’s...

BLUE AND GRAY
A new policy passed by Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society prevents freshmen in their first semester at Georgetown from being selected as members of the organization.

Blue and Gray Delays Freshman Hires

By Will Cassou September 7, 2018

The Blue and Gray Tour Guide Society will not hire freshmen this fall as part of a new recruitment policy designed to ensure all tour guides have sufficient experience as a college student. Blue...

Blue and Gray, Please Be Honest

Blue and Gray, Please Be Honest

By Barbara McDuffee and Barbara McDuffee April 16, 2018

Nothing says spring on the Hilltop like being boxed into a corner by a tour group on your way to class. In my experience, while college tours seem informative as a naive senior in high school, seeing...

Georgetown Crushes - Valentines Day and Everyday

Georgetown Crushes – Valentine’s Day and Everyday

By Sarah Reuter and Sarah Reuter February 13, 2018

After a brief break, Valentine’s Day is back on my list of favorite holidays. My grade school self loved Valentine’s Day — a lovely day of receiving candy from each of my third grade classmates....

What Clubs Famous People Would Be In At Georgetown

What Clubs Famous People Would Be In At Georgetown

By Izzy Roemer and Izzy Roemer December 6, 2017

As one of the top 20 schools in the U.S. (and home to the hottest college men, according to Tinder), Georgetown is generally accepted as a place for the ~elite~. We’re not an Ivy but… yeah,...

EDITORIAL: Amend Attitudes Toward Clubs

By Editorial Board December 1, 2017

As club selectivity continues to concern students and plague clubs across campus, it is time to recognize that the ultra-exclusivity of many of Georgetown University’s clubs is rooted in the fact that...

EDITORIAL: Give Greek Life a Bid

By Editorial Board September 8, 2017

Each fall, the Division of Student Affairs sends out an eerily familiar email. Disseminated by Jeanne Lord, associate vice president and dean of students, and co-signed by Vice President for Student Affairs...

What to Do on GAAP Weekend: Prospective Student Edition

What to Do on GAAP Weekend: Prospective Student Edition

By Sarah Reuter and Sarah Reuter April 21, 2017

Dear Class of 2021, and so on and so forth, WELCOME to the Hilltop. D.C. or, as both the cool kids and the geotag call it, “the District,”  is breathtakingly beautiful and the Georgetown bubble (aka...

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