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16 Undergrads Join Pelosi Scholars Cohort

16 Undergrads Join Pelosi Scholars Cohort

By Riley Vakkas December 1, 2023

On Nov. 21, the Paul F. Pelosi Scholars Initiative (PSI) announced its 2024 cohort of 16 Georgetown University students, its largest to date. Since 2019, the PSI has selected annually a group of sophomores...

VIEWPOINT: Embracing Uncertainty

By Luis Rosales November 12, 2018

Pebbles of uncertainty litter the path of life. At every turn, every step, we encounter these pesky little rocks. Sometimes one of them makes its way inside your shoe and becomes a more obvious annoyance...

VIEWPOINT: Championing Equity and Opportunity

By Luis Gonzalez October 23, 2017

I have always longed to teach. When former Secretary of Education John King Jr. spoke at Georgetown on Oct. 3 and, in his remarks, called on the audience to be “champions of equity and opportunity,”...

Viewpoint: District’s Need for Statehood

By Maddy Taub September 30, 2016

Why should Georgetown students care that Washington, D.C. citizens do not have full representation in Congress? Consider this: Of all the capitals in our world’s democracies, only Washington, D.C....

Colleges Must Create Equal Opportunities

By Emily Kaye October 6, 2015

Every March, students across the country fail to join elite higher-education institutions despite their hard work and intelligence. It is not because they were rejected; it is because they did not apply. While...

OWSIANY: Perfectly Middle Class?

OWSIANY: Perfectly Middle Class?

By Laura Owsiany September 11, 2015

In the so-called ‘real world,’ I’m as middle-class as one can get. My household income, made up of a single ​ ​ parent white-collar salary and no other assets to speak of, hovers almost exactly...

CARR: Increase Opportunity, Not Wages

By Mallory Carr February 26, 2015

No one should be treated better than the people that feed us. As much as Georgetown students love to complain about Leo’s, as freshmen and sophomores we bond over shared meals at our beloved O’Donovan’s...

College is a Temporal Beast We Can Conquer

By Cyrena Touros February 22, 2015

When I chose to come to Georgetown, I knew full well that I was leaving behind everyone I had known from high school, which was even a swaying factor in my decision. It was going to be a fresh start no...

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