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

Facilities Needs to Be Cleaned Up

By Ziad Jawadi January 31, 2012

To the Editor: We all know that to get something done at Georgetown University, you need to deftly and skillfully navigate immense bureaucracy. From fixing a leaky sink to trying to getting your academic...

Bidding the Hilltop Farewell

By Patrick J. Deneen January 31, 2012

To the Editor: It was strange to read the article about my departure from Georgetown for Notre Dame (The Hoya,A1, "Deneen to Leave GU at Semester's End," Jan. 24). I recognized some of my words, yet...

Georgetown Loses Its Finest

By Chris Mooney January 27, 2012

To the Editor: When I heard professor Deneen was leaving, I was greatly awed and saddened. Why would Georgetown have let him go so easily? I have watched recently as an unusually melancholy cloud...

Missing the Point of the Game

By The Editorial Board January 19, 2012

To the Editor,   Sunday, I groggily yet eagerly boarded the bus to New York City at 5:40 a.m., excited for my first Georgetown basketball road trip to watch the Hoyas play St. John's. Wearing...

Serving the Greater Community

By Jack Appelbaum and Shuo Yan Tan December 5, 2011

Last Friday's Editorial "Season's Givings" was well intentioned, but was based on a very narrow conception of service. Notably, it asserted that the Student Activities Commission "needs to mandate that...

Cultivating Theatrics, Not Thought

By Justin Hawkins October 25, 2011

To the Editor: Since my enrollment at Georgetown, I have had a deep admiration for my alma mater's commitment to giving a full and complete hearing to political opinions of all varieties, but lately...

A Surge of Greed in Academia

By Sam Schneider September 23, 2011

I couldn't help but feel a wave of dismay and frustration wash over me this past Tuesday when I perused news headlines. Between The Hoya's article on the exorbitant salaries of Georgetown administrators...

A Disappointing Silence

By Robert Smith '96 August 20, 2011

Dear Editor,   I realize Georgetown was put in a precarious position not of their own making in Beijing during the brawl, but despite the diplomatic delicacy of the situation, it was very disappointing...

Pushing Forward to Serve Our Community

By Eamon O'Connor and Carolyn Shanahan April 19, 2011

Independence has long been our chief goal at The Hoya. In order to maximize our ability to serve our readership, we need to establish ourselves as a fully autonomous news corporation. Becoming absolutely...

Energy Proposal Catches Wave of the Future

By Layout Editor April 7, 2011

To the Editor:   "And you also happen to go to a school [in a town] that for a long time has suffered from a chronic unwillingness to come together and make tough choices." President Obama's...

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...

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