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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

By Grace Fenton November 14, 2014

"Dar es Salaam is a big, dirty city,” was one of the phrases used to describe where I was about to spend the next six weeks of my summer. I shrugged off the comment, thinking that description...

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Broadening Horizons

By Grace Fenton, Lindsay Lee, and Alexander Brown November 14, 2014

With the majority of the 50 percent of students who opt to study abroad during their undergraduate years heading to Europe, many argue that student exposure to truly contrasting cultures is limited. Three...

Through Travel, Finding a New Perspective

By Rita Chang July 9, 2014

The best part of summer is that you can have extensive travel plans and experience two entirely different worlds within three months. After spending four weeks in Zanzibar, Tanzania, as a volunteer and...

The Search for Simplicity

By Rita Chang June 25, 2014

I’ve never been able to like a place without hating it at the same time. This is how I have felt about Georgetown and how I came to feel about Zanzibar, Tanzania, where I spent four weeks teaching and...

Bomb Explodes Near MBA Student’s Nonprofit in Tanzania

By Penny Hung May 8, 2013

A bomb at a Roman Catholic Church in Olasiti Village, Tanzania on Sunday morning killed two people and injured 60, just a few feet from schools sponsored by MBA student Brendan Callahan’s (GRD ’13)...

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