Author Archives: Juliana Brint
Hoops 2.0: Hoyas take it to the net
Georgetown’s star sophomore Greg Monroe seemed to have a case of the Mondays this week. “Monday is the worst day of the week. Everyday is the same and so r u….idk lol,” Monroe told his nearly 400 Twitter followers around 9 a.m. this past Monday morning. An hour or so later, Monroe—also known as “moosejuice10” [...]
Six feet under GU
In 1931, construction on Georgetown’s newest dormitory, Copley Hall, hit an unexpected roadblock: workers who were clearing a heavily overgrown area 100 feet north of the planned residence hall had uncovered a long-forgotten cemetery.
Bloggers gone wild
“You didn’t get this from me,” a student I had talked to for a few past news stories wrote me on GChat a couple of weeks ago, “But this is too ridiculous not to show the Vox editor,” he continued, sending along a link to a job posting by Charley Cooper (MSB ’12), an undergraduate [...]
DCRA inspects Philly P
Matt Kocak, the owner of Philly Pizza and Grill, says he’s doing everything he can to be a model small-business owner. He spent $250,000 on repairs and improvements when the restaurant moved to its new location at 1211 Potomac Street last year. Kocak put in tiles on all three floors of the new store to [...]
Money needed in the Golden State
Living in California, you quickly get accustomed to political mortification. From electing an Austrian action movie hero Governor to passing Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage after the state’s Supreme Court had already legalized it, California is not exactly an advertisement for the democratic process. But no political disappointment has had such a direct impact [...]
Let’s talk about sex (columns), baby
Am I really “insecure and therefore date a myriad of boys to fuel [my] self-esteem”? Am I engaging in “sloppy dance floor make-outs, desperate dating habits and countless relationships that all converge to a dismal, heartbreaking end” because I am “consumed” by “the quest for Prince Charming”? I certainly hope not, but Colleen Leahey (COL [...]
On the Record with President John DeGioia
University President John DeGioia sat down with reporters this Tuesday to discuss the 2010 Campus Plan, expanding wireless Internet, the future of the science center, and more. Interview transcribed, edited, and condensed by Juliana Brint. Can you make a commitment to students to not further extend GUTS bus routes in the 2010 Campus Plan? And [...]
This summer’s six biggest stories
2010 Campus Plan Every ten years, Georgetown must draw up a new campus plan and present it to the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment. The plan dictates how the University will be able to develop over the next decade. In a May meeting, Georgetown administrators and architects presented their tentative proposals for the [...]
10 Year Plan: Then and Now
On a Saturday morning in late May, a handful of Georgetown administrators gathered at the nearby Duke Ellington School for a five-hour sparring match with the neighbors. It was the second meeting the University had held with community members to discuss its nascent 2010 campus plan—the blueprint that will dictate how Georgetown will be able [...]
Three new diversity groups
University President John DeGioia announced the formation of three new working groups at a public forum Monday evening to address campus diversity issues—concerns first brought up by the Student Commission for Unity, and brought to a fore by the Hoya’s April Fools issue. The three groups will address diversity issues in the context of academics, [...]
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