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COURTESY DAN DOUGHERTY

Scenes and Lessons in an Italian Bar

By Dan Dougherty March 17, 2017

In the middle of Fiesole, there is a little bar that promises “the best Guinness in Italy” and takes claim to the time-honored tradition of the poorly lit Irish pub. The Guinness was okay; the...

The Persistence of Memory at Auschwitz

By Alexander Coopersmith March 17, 2017

I spent my spring break with 32 other students from Georgetown and Seton Hill University on a Holocaust Forensics trip to Poland and Belarus. My experiences on this trip have changed me and will have a...

The Travel Issue

The Travel Issue

By Guide Editor March 17, 2017

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli once opined: “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” Whether or not you...

Study Abroad Sees Steady Increase in Participation

By Yasmine Salam October 21, 2016

The number of students studying abroad has increased from 561 in the 2012-13 year to 684 students in the 2015-16 year, marking a 21.9 percent increase and the highest overall enrollment in the past three...

Column: Settling in Seoul

By Jasmine White September 16, 2016

When I first arrived in Korea, it did not really feel all that different. While in the months prior I had been overcome by nerves and anxiety, the night before I left, I was strangely calm. Even after...

2016 Presidential Nominees As GUSA Presidents

2016 Presidential Nominees As GUSA Presidents

By Mike Radice and Mike Radice July 11, 2016

By this point, we are all well aware of who this year's presidential nominees will be. Like 'em or not, barring some extreme circumstance or ~political revolution~, either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton...

Noah Taylor

Fighting for an Accessible World

By Nora Genster April 26, 2016

In the fourth grade, we learned how to line dance. The boys and girls faced each other at the center of the gym, reaching out to each other with sweaty hands, skipping and twirling down the line. It...

HARVEY: Millenials Here and Abroad

HARVEY: Millenials Here and Abroad

By Elizabeth Harvey April 15, 2016

Along with the advent of the spring season and the panic-inducing pre-registration period, this past week has also brought the arrival of my good friend and Villa Le Balze roommate Claudia to campus. While...

HARVEY: Going Away Or Getting Away?

By Elizabeth Harvey April 1, 2016

As classes resume after the spring and Easter breaks, campus has been flooded by tanned, refreshed students. It is almost certain that, while walking across campus, you will overhear a conversation between...

HARVEY: A View of Europe at a Crossroads

By Elizabeth Harvey February 26, 2016

During my last semester spent at the Villa Le Balze in Florence, I was fairly sheltered from the crises that have plagued Europe, notably the ongoing refugee crisis that European political leaders have...

University Issues Zika Warning to Community

By Lisa Burgoa February 9, 2016

Georgetown’s Interim Chief Public Health Officer Ranit Mishori recommended precautionary measures for students traveling in Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of the outbreak of the mosquito-born...

HARVEY: Beyond Pasta, Italy’s Lessons On Dining

By Elizabeth Harvey February 5, 2016

Since moving back to campus for the spring semester, like every other returning study abroad student, I have been asked — in line at Saxbys, sitting in friends’ apartments and on the treadmill at Yates...

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