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KAWAMURA: Embrace Your Roots

KAWAMURA: Embrace Your Roots

By Ava Kawamura April 1, 2023

One night last semester, after countless weeks of being deprived of my parents’ home-cooked meals and traditional dishes, I stumbled into one of Georgetown University’s Asian cuisine offerings: Kintaro,...

VORA: Reflect on the Power of Names

VORA: Reflect on the Power of Names

By Shivali Vora February 10, 2023

According to Shakespeare, that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But according to social scientists, names are more consequential than that.  As kids, many of us were...

VIEWPOINT: Reflecting on My Ukrainian Culture Amidst Crisis

VIEWPOINT: Reflecting on My Ukrainian Culture Amidst Crisis

By Yana Gitelman March 3, 2022

On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a violent military invasion into Ukraine. An unprompted act of aggression meant to destroy Ukraine, the invasion is not just a simple territorial...

SCHENDEN: Forge Meaningful Legacies

SCHENDEN: Forge Meaningful Legacies

By Fr. Gregory Schenden, S.J. November 25, 2019

All of us are emboldened in our lives by the desire to do great things. This desire is at the heart of our Ignatian heritage here at Georgetown University — to be people at the service with and for...

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Concerts and Festivals: Editor’s Picks

By Meena Raman May 19, 2017

May 23-24, 2016 - Mac DeMarco at the 9:30 Club Over the past 10 years, Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco has cultivated one of the most distinctive sounds of the indie genre, combining soft, echoing...

CARNES: Embracing Our Jesuit Heritage

CARNES: Embracing Our Jesuit Heritage

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. January 31, 2017

Somehow it seems mightily appropriate that we celebrate Jesuit Heritage Week during these post-inauguration and post-march days, as our nation embarks on a transition of administrations that has thus far...

Engage With Our History

Engage With Our History

By The Editorial Board February 2, 2016

For all the talk of Jesuit values, Jesuit traditions and Jesuit heritage that can be heard almost daily on this campus, many students still lack a substantial education of the history and practices of...

Transcending Ethnicity

Transcending Ethnicity

By Sarah Santos June 5, 2015

When I think of who I am, my first instinct is to define myself using personality traits rather than by ethnicity. I often wonder why many multicultural people intuitively do the opposite. Have I dishonored...

Chinese Heritage “Pops-up” in Exhibit

By Madison Stingray February 6, 2015

Take a step into Georgetown's Spagnuolo Gallery in the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial building and you'll suddenly find yourself transported. The colors become brighter, the shadows become longer and the...

Reventón Unites Cultures in Dance

By Caroline Welch November 6, 2012

Georgetown’s Latin American Student Association is clearly committed to dancing til the world ends. LASA presented “Apocalypto,” its sixth annual Reventón Latino dance bash in Gaston Hall...

Local Colleges Rated Liberal

By Kelly Church November 9, 2010

Georgetown may be undermining its Catholic heritage as part of a broader liberalization trend at D.C. universities, says one report commissioned by Campus Reform, a conservative action network. Among...

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