The Hoya + GUSA
Staff members of the Hoya will present their case for the paper’s independence and desire to keep its name at a GUSA Senate meeting this coming Monday.
According to GUSA Senator Eden Schiffmann (COL ’08), the Senate may pass a resolution stating that the University should support the Hoya’s independence
“We don’t want the name to be the one thing to get between the Hoya and its independence,” Schiffmann said.
GUSA’s main concerns in supporting the Hoya’s independence are its business plan, legal issues regarding the name and liability protection; the Hoya hopes that GUSA’s support will further its efforts for independence and aid in the fight to keep its name.
“I hope that GUSA would have a good degree of influence with the administration,” the Hoya Board of Directors Chair Alex Schank (COL ’08) said.
The University is in the process of filing a trademark application for the paper’s name and masthead.
“As we’ve expressed before, we are supportive of a new independent student newspaper, but the University will retain the name ‘the Hoya,’” Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson said.
—Crystal Chung
Soulja Prof.
A former Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe from 1998 to 2002, General Montgomery C. Meigs recently joined Georgetown’s faculty as a visiting professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies.
Meigs will teach graduate courses on military and security affairs beginning this semester. His extensive military experience, which includes commanding a NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia that removed Serb forces from Kosovo in 1998, will enable Meigs to bridge the gap between academic theory and real-world policy-making.
“I plan to fold into the academic approach to the subject my experience as an operator,” Meigs said. “I’m comfortable in both worlds.”
Daniel Byman, director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies, believes that Meigs’ combination of first-hand experience and academic expertise will be an invaluable asset in the classroom, adding that he will also help the Center host experts whom he knows.
Meigs, who is also returning to NBC News as a military consultant, previously taught at Syracuse University and the University of Texas-Austin.
—Pierre Thompson
