There was never any particular reason for me to come to Georgetown. I wanted a school in a city with an English Department, and Georgetown was all three. The campus was pretty, my brother went here and people seemed to think it was a good school. Done and done.

Something special happened in Walsh on Tuesday night. It went down without much fanfare — no banners hanging from the Leavey Bridge, no over-zealous flyering in Red Square and fewer than five Facebook reminder messages. Despite the low profile, word got around, and by five minutes before curtain, if you wanted to squeeze into Blackbox, you had to carry in your own chair.

The houselights went down and a few black and white words went up: “9 Georgetown students, 24 Ballou students, 4 months: 1 Production.” Then, a single question: “What did we do?”

It’s nearly Valentine’s Day at Georgetown, and two things are certain: There will be a production of the Vagina Monologues, and there will be a debate about the play’s appropriateness on a Catholic and Jesuit campus.

Last weekend, Johns Hopkins University suspended its chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity for holding a “Halloween in the Hood” party. According to the Associated Press, the party encouraged students to come dressed wearing “regional clothing” and jewelry including “bling bling ice ice, grills” and “hoochie hoops.” The open-invitation

If there’s anything that every woman at Georgetown can recognize, it’s the white sticker staring her down as she takes care of business in nearly every stall on campus. This small sticker asks one terrifying question: “Pregnant?”

While the goal behind the sticker is to assuage the fears of students who may be pregnant by providing contact information for Pregnancy Services, it isn’t always what a student wants to read on a Sunday morning. And for a campus grounded in Catholic tradition, whose institutional positions on sex and contraception are firmly established, it’s no surprise that Jane Hoya can’t even pee without the issue of pregnancy staring her down.

Washington, D.C. Home to the U.S. Capitol, the world’s most recognizable building. The city where 43 presidents have laid their heads to rest. Birthplace of Marvin Gaye and the favorite of politically-hungry undergrads. It’s the setting for “Murphy Brown,” “The West Wing” and “Get Smart.” We’ve got the Exorcist stairs, the Nationals and the Sweet Potomac. And though this is a city that sleeps, isn’t all that windy and has significantly more devils than angels, D.C.’s got one thing on those other major U.S. metropolises: a whole lot of free — and fabulous —

I’ve always said that the administration here at Georgetown is very willing to give students the university they want.

Trouble is, they don’t always know what that is.

When students rallied to fire Coach Esherick, administration complied.

When students went hungry for more appropriate wages for workers, the university (grudgingly) adjusted its pay scale.

It’s a tradition that has withstood the test of time: risking life and limb to scale the tower that presides regally atop Healy Hall to reach the wooden booty at its summit — the Healy Clock hands. Though it is unclear why it began, the allure of possessing the Hilltop’s hands of time has captured the imaginations of Georgetown undergraduates for more than half a century.

Foreign oil interests in Nigeria and Chad are rapidly depleting local economies, Austin Onuoha and Antoine Berilengar, S.J., said in a Tuesday lecture.

The two men, natives of Nigeria and Chad, respectively, spoke to an audience of students and administrators in a lecture hosted by the Center for Social Justice and Office of Mission and Ministry.

1. Leases of university-owned townhouses based on references and recommendations. No more holes in the walls, no more permanent rings where the keg sat every day for an entire school year.

2. One-hour final exams. Shorter exams mean shorter exam periods. University Academic Vice President Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J. took this step during the 1972-73 school year. “It will make for an intense week of exams,” he said. But it would be just one week.

3. Short shorts for basketball players. Think: Mike Sweetney’s stems in shorts up to there. Enough said.