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Eisenberg: Pushing Back Against Policy

By Albert Eisenberg April 29, 2011

It's spring again at Georgetown. The arrival of warmer weather heralds Georgetown Day, the gradual closing of my sinuses and swarm after swarm of shell-shocked high school seniors clogging up campus pathways...

Church Bells Across the Pond

By Brian Shaud April 29, 2011

Regent Street in London, one of the capital's prime shopping avenues, has become royal wedding headquarters in the days leading up to today's ceremony. Hundreds of Union flags line the road leading to...

Rankings Only Half the Story

By The Editorial Board April 29, 2011

Ratemyprofessors.com, the ever-popular website come pre-registration time, ranked Georgetown 13th on its list of highest-rated universities this week. Based on ratings and comments from students, the...

Blocked Again by Bureaucracy

By The Editorial Board April 29, 2011

Student group leaders sighed with relief when the Student Activities Commission announced Tuesday it has finally approved an amendment that allows groups to request money throughout the semester. But this...

Fischer: Georgetown, Our Mother

By Michael Fischer April 28, 2011

As the school year comes to a close, many Georgetown students are reflecting on what this university means to them. However, Georgetown's Alma Mater, our forgotten school hymn, is missing as students...

Support the SIPS Fund Tuesday

By Clara Gustafson and Nick Troiano April 24, 2011

In a meeting closed to the public Sunday, April 17, the GUSA Endowment Commission apparently decided that the Healy Pub and the Georgetown Social Innovation and Public Service Fund  cannot coexist —...

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...

Gilbert: Who We Are, Not What We Are

By Caitlin Gilbert April 19, 2011

How do you respond to someone who asks, "What are you?" Clearly, there's no right answer to such a weighty inquisition; yet, when I was asked this very question at the age of eight — by a classmate,...

Jackson: The Price of Liberty

By Nneka Jackson April 11, 2011

Freedom. From the Tunisian revolution to the more Egyptian upheaval, quests for freedom have been erupting all over the world. More recently, there have been strong revolutionary actions in Bahrain and...

More than Friends in a News Feed

By Sarah Gardiner April 11, 2011

The Facebook status of a community organizer living in post-election Ivory Coast reads: "Bread that used to be 20 cents is now one dollar in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire." I spent two months living and working...

Anticipation: A Waitlist-er’s Perspective

By Maggie Cleary April 11, 2011

The letters all start the same. They say something about how the school had more qualified applicants than ever before, how the admissions board deliberated over who to take for months on end. And finally,...

Eisenberg: Conservative Change of Mind

By Albert Eisenberg April 7, 2011

Let's hear from a few of the leading Republican candidates for the 2012 presidential election about their efforts to win over LGBTQ voters. First, there is Baptist minister and former Arkansas Governor...

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