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KANG: Rethink Misconceptions of Disability With Harry Potter

KANG: Rethink Misconceptions of Disability With Harry Potter

By Esther Kang October 11, 2019

Possessing magic is usually an empowering social exception. To use magic is to surpass the laws of the natural world, to be able to do what “normal people” can’t do. However, in the “Harry Potter”...

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‘Fantastic Beasts’ Lacks Substance, Disappoints Fans

By Erika Gebhardt December 7, 2018

★★☆☆☆ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” originally excited “Harry Potter” fans with its promise to bring audiences back to their favorite fictional place: Hogwarts. Yet,...

Things to Do Once You Crash on Homecoming

Things to Do Once You Crash on Homecoming

By Izzy Roemer and Izzy Roemer September 21, 2018

I don’t know about you guys, but this whole “school” thing is already getting me down. If you’re feeling the burnout like me, count yourself lucky — we have something to look forward to! HOMECOMING Anyone...

Cries for Help: Carvings in Lau Cubicles

Cries for Help: Carvings in Lau Cubicles

By Izzy Roemer and Izzy Roemer May 1, 2018

As a nearly 230-year-old institution, Georgetown is host to secrets that current students can hardly fathom. Some of these secrets date back to the school’s founding. Messages etched by early students...

Hillary is Coming to the Hilltop

Hillary is Coming to the Hilltop

By Andrew Boas and Andrew Boas March 29, 2017

If you're anything like us here at 4E, you probably freaked out pretty hard when you found out Hillary was coming to campus. I mean, after all, "What Dreams Are Made Of" is a modern classic. But after...

YouTube Hits of the 2000s

YouTube Hits of the 2000s

By Alessandra Puccio and Alessandra Puccio March 14, 2017

Feeling nostalgic on this snowy D.C. day? If you're curled up on your couch with a steaming cup of cocoa like me, I suggest you revisit remnants of warmer, happier days. These YouTube videos were all the...

4Es Spring 2017 Blog Babies

4E’s Spring 2017 Blog Babies

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz February 9, 2017

Every semester, we at The Fourth Edition decide to open our doors to the few whom we think are pretty hilarious. This semester, we took five new, spectacular human beings out of a competitive applicant...

Neither Magical, Nor Spellbinding

By Paolo B. Santamaria September 23, 2016

Nearly two months after the release of the much-anticipated play transcript, “The Cursed Child,” the magic is all but gone from the world of Harry Potter. Set more than 19 years after the end of...

Are These Georgetown Classes Real or Fake?

Are These Georgetown Classes Real or Fake?

By Keaton O'Neil and Keaton O'Neil September 27, 2015

How well do you know Georgetown's main campus academic offerings? Turns out there's so much more at Georgetown than Maps or Problem of God. Take this test to see if those Saturday nights spent on My...

Georgetown for Gender Equality

Georgetown for Gender Equality

By Jenna Clifford and Jenna Clifford June 18, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: What do Twitter, Vodaphone and Georgetown all have in common?! … Yeah, buddy at first we were stumped too, but it's: GENDER EQUALITY. As part of Emma Watson's... Well yes, her. But,...

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Finite Incantatem: An Appeal to J.K. Rowling

By Kate Riga August 19, 2014

“When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening...

Snape Doesn’t Deserve Your Sympathy

By Victoria Edel March 28, 2014

This is my penultimate column, which feels weird. But since it is my senior year and the end is nigh, it’s time to talk about my biggest pop culture pet peeve: Severus Snape and the people who love him....

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