Pop quiz, hot shot. It’s the day before Christmas and, as usual, you haven’t bought a single gift. If you try to buy everyone thoughtful gifts, you will run out... Read more
“But these are special peanuts, from Baltimore.” Only a few hundred feet away from roller-skating, black-eyed women tackling each other, I was stuck behind Jimmy Carter’s long-lost cousin in the... Read more
This past August, the headquarters of Life Pieces to Masterpieces, a local nonprofit that lets African-American males channel their energy into art, was vandalized almost to the point of complete... Read more
You lay there dying, and you want to give up. I can see it, I sense it with every shallow breath you take. Because you were too personally selfish, I... Read more
The Admissions and Recruitment Working Group, one of three diversity working groups commissioned by President DeGioia in April, released a series of promising but imperfect recommendations to the student body... Read more
Taliban fighters have a phrase that they have used to describe their strategy in Afghanistan: the Americans have the watches, but we have the time. They do not need to... Read more
Between finals, basketball season, and impending holiday vacations, Georgetown students would be forgiven for missing the ongoing dispute between the Georgetown University Student Association and club funding boards. But if... Read more
The news all this weekend revolved around Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashing the first state dinner of the Obama Presidency. The couple managed to be photographed with Vice President Joe... Read more
Georgetown football made history this year by recording its first winless season since the program began in 1874. This unfortunate milestone won’t come as a shock to anyone on campus—members... Read more
No one is ever going to address me as Dr. Baumgardner. This is not a surprise, as I have never planned on being a doctor. I don’t have a mind... Read more