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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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The Verdict

By The Editorial Board August 27, 2010

THUMBS UP: New Beginnings - A brand new class of freshmen and transfer students are arriving on campus this weekend ready to embark on their Georgetown journey. THUMBS UP: Better Late Than Never -...

Diversity Education Key to Lifelong Personal Discovery

By Lauren Reese August 27, 2010

To date, the Young Leaders in Education About Diversity pre-orientation program is the best thing I have done for myself. I realize that's a loaded statement, but I mean it - even after two years at Georgetown,...

The Good Remains in Sports

By Ryan Travers May 21, 2010

Sports have had a lackluster shine recently. In the past 12 months we've seen Tiger Woods' armor reduced to rubble as the seedy underbelly of his personal life surfaced. NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year...

Call for Change, From the Bottom Up

By Brian Kesten May 20, 2010

The Obama staffers and community leaders with whom I spent my break between sophomore and junior years referred to our campaign as Freedom Summer 2008. Decades after courageous, radical young women and...

Solving the Problems of God and Growing Up

By Patrick Lenihan May 20, 2010

Trying to sum up my experience at Georgetown in a few hundred words is either an exercise in impracticality or omission - I can't decide which. Virtually every draft I had started on my way to this final...

Passing on the Torch to the Next Generation

By Allison Dale May 20, 2010

Remember "Pay It Forward?" It was that semi-popular film released in 2000 starring Haley Joel Osment, the creepy kid from "The Sixth Sense." The premise of the movie is that an over-involved social studies...

Stories From the Common Room

By Anupam Chakravarty May 20, 2010

Like many of my fellow graduating seniors, I've been spending a lot of time the past few days looking through old photos on Facebook, building up the mental collage that will undoubtedly flash before my...

Full Circle in Four Years: Back to the Freshman Floor

By Jessica Kuntz May 20, 2010

Saturday's School of Foreign Service graduation will be the 15th Georgetown commencement ceremony I've attended. I worked for two years as an intern at the Georgetown University Protocol Office, and...

Faith Fortified by Journey Of Adversity and Growth

By Mariam Abu-Ali May 20, 2010

When my mom decided to pack everything and leave the United States for Jordan with me and my siblings, we didn't quite understand her decision. We spent four years there. Yet, more than a decade later,...

At Ease Amid Imperfection

By Jheanelle Brown May 20, 2010

Georgetown is the most ridiculous place in the universe. I feel like I've traveled across the world and back, literally and symbolically, during the four years that I've spent here. I owe that feeling...

America’s Got Talent: Giving Back

By Conor Finnegan April 30, 2010

There are plenty of reasons to love America. It is the land of the free and the home of the brave; we invented baseball and jazz, skyscrapers and "Lost"; and our country has been home to some of the world's...

Keep Energy on the Front Burner

By Sam Harbourt April 30, 2010

For months, every article or column discussing the Democrats' 2010 agenda has come with a disclaimer warning of the expiration date for meaningful progress on major issues. As the midterm elections approach,...

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