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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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The Eighth Wonder of the World

By Hannah Kaufman November 7, 2014

There they sit, two small figures sailing Fingers through mud, and slowly trailing Brown earth, curved calligraphies Of ancient Tigris and Euphrates Her sky-blue silk sundress is battered By the...

Climb Up With Me, American Love

By Jasmine White November 7, 2014

The other day I found a flag burning. I stepped on it with old shoes and imagined a whole nation crying in pain. Red streaked against my eyes. Fire was in my eyelashes. I dreamed the whole world...

When I Am Old

By Jasmine White November 7, 2014

I want to speak words like Neruda— with my heart on my tongue, my hands digging in the soil of my birth-land as I decipher the secrets of my forefathers. And in my chest, I’ll carve out their...

Twas the Night Before Georgetown Day

‘Twas the Night Before Georgetown Day

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee April 24, 2014

T-Minus 1 hour and 23 minutes until Georgetown Day 2014 is upon us and most Hoyas are getting to bed early to prepare for tomorrow's festivities. We stumbled upon this ingenious status by Ben Maher...

Ablaze

By Hannah Kaufman April 4, 2014

With tendril rays that stretch gaseous golden limbs, it cuts into the smooth gem of the sapphire horizon, while thick drops of kaleidoscopic paint are spilled into expanding cracks that wildly burgeon...

Courtesy of Liz Frothingham

The Red Shoes

By Liz Frothingham April 4, 2014

Two little red shoes slept beneath the green, Left and right together lay to passers-by unseen. After walking countless roads, these soles sought only rest — It’s not a simple task being...

Megan Schimdt

Napalm

By Laura Lannan April 4, 2014

I love the bitter taste of victory, rising in the back of my throat, like the gaseous exhaust of a poison-glazed pit, brimming flatly in the sweaty haze of morning. I love the twisted darkness of...

SABAT: My Cathartic Glimpse Into the Holocaust

By Steven R. Sabat January 11, 2014

For more than a century, psychologists have discussed and debated the idea of the unconscious mind and whether we can be affected by thoughts and feelings of which we are unaware. Freud believed one of...

The R.E.L.A.Y. of Relay

The R.E.L.A.Y. of Relay

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee April 10, 2013

RELAY IS COMING! Your newsfeeds have been covered in purple for the past week, snow cones have been on sale outside of Red Square, and campus is decorated in posters asking you if you'll be there. Hint:...

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