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Probing the Origins of Recent College Head Coaching Hires: A Deep Dive from 2010-16

In college athletics, the head coach is the program, for better and for worse. Professional teams not only have owners, general managers, and generally larger support staffs, but they also... Read more

Leisure

Critical Voices: Hollywood’s Bleeding, Post Malone

The nine-month roll out for Post Malone’s third studio album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, felt like a rollercoaster. The quality of the singles varied wildly, from the compelling “Goodbyes,” to the superficially... Read more

Sports

Georgetown Women Win Spiked Shoe Invitational in Upset Fashion while Men place second

The Georgetown women’s cross country team pulled off an upset victory Friday afternoon at the Spiked Shoe Invitational at Penn State, defeating the regionally top ranked Nittany Lions, Guelph, West... Read more

Sports

No. 15 Georgetown Defeats No. 23 West Virginia In Important Nonconference Matchup

The No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team (5-2-1, Big East) took care of business and thrashed the No. 23 West Virginia Mountaineers (3-3-1, Big 12) 3-0 on a scorching Sunday... Read more

Leisure

Critical Voices: EARTHGANG, Mirrorland

As Revenge of the Dreamers III topped the Billboard charts over this past summer, Dreamville producers and rappers, EARTHGANG, took their talent back to the studio. On September 6th, EARTHGANG... Read more

Halftime Leisure

The Weekly List: We’re THRIVING!

It’s a Friday, 7:37 AM, and you frantically wake up realizing that you turned off your 7 AM alarm in your sleep and that you have about fifteen minutes to... Read more

News

GUSA Senate Passes Legislation on Transportation Options

The GUSA Senate passed two pieces of legislation on transportation, one concerning a discounted Capital Bikeshare Program on campus, and one calling for a new D.C. streetcar in Georgetown at... Read more

Halftime Sports

Potential Names for the Seattle NHL Team

After years of discussion and consideration, hockey is coming to Seattle. As with any new franchise, the name of the future team has been fiercely debated since the announcement that... Read more

Sports

Field Hockey Finishes Four-Game Road Trip 2-2

Finishing their four-game road trip, the Georgetown field hockey team (3-3, Big East) traveled to Rider (3-2, NEC) on Friday and Lehigh (3-1, Patriot League) on Sunday, winning 1-0 and... Read more

Halftime Leisure

D23 and the Dark Side of Disney’s Cultural Dominance

On the weekend of August 23, thousands of Disney fans and reporters flocked to Anaheim, California for D23, Disney’s biannual exposition of all the things it plans to do in... Read more

Sports

Men’s Soccer Cruises Past UConn in Style

Returning from a successful two-game stretch in California, the No. 5 Georgetown men’s soccer team (5-0-0, Big East) extended their hot start to the season Saturday afternoon with a confident... Read more

Sports

Football Hammers Catholic 69-0 to Improve to 2-1

On Saturday, the Georgetown Hoyas football team (2-1, Patriot League) put a beatdown on Catholic (0-2, NEWMAC), routing the Cardinals 69-0. The Hoyas dominated in all aspects of the game,... Read more

Sports

No. 15 Women’s Soccer Survives Overtime Thriller Against Princeton

The No. 15 Georgetown women’s soccer team (4-2-1, Big East) prevailed in a memorable matchup against the Princeton Tigers (2-2-1 Ivy League) on Thursday afternoon at Shaw Field, winning 4-3... Read more

Sports

No. 6 Men’s Soccer Looks to Stay Hot against Connecticut

On Saturday, the No. 5 Georgetown men’s soccer team (4-0-0, Big East) returns home from the West Coast to host Connecticut (2-2-0, American) on Shaw Field. The Hoyas will look... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Every Vampire Weekend Song Ever, Ranked

Ever since the release of Father of the Bride (2019), it seems like Vampire Weekend is all anyone can talk about. Personally, I had only heard “A-Punk” prior to their... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Cooking with Glass in Blown Away

Cooking competitions like Chopped, Cupcake Wars, and Iron Chef (2002) have been relatively popular for many years. However, the cult-like following that emerged after The Great British Bake Off’s arrival... Read more

Leisure

It: Chapter 2 Is an Engaging but Occasionally Uneven Critique of Nostalgia

Twenty-seven years have passed since the Losers Club had to face off against the child-eating shapeshifter known only as It. In that time, they’ve grown up and left their hometown... Read more

Opinion

To the Cliffs and the Castle

The weight I carried with me while wandering the streets of Dublin at four in the morning is difficult for me to express. The vacation had been planned months earlier—presented... Read more

Voices

Carrying On: True Meditation in the Self-Help Era

When I first started practicing Buddhism at age 11, I became the odd one out in my family of Catholics and atheists. Piles of sutras, Buddha images, and prayer beads... Read more

Features

“Legality doesn’t always equal morality”

While the rest of the class of 2023 is settling in, one student is still trying to get to campus. Georgetown’s class of 2023 was moving in. Eager freshmen rolled... Read more

Features

The Prisons and Justice Initiative Aims to Humanize Criminal Justice and Prison Reform

While he started his career at Georgetown as a professor of European politics, Marc Howard (LAW ’12), has taken on a new role as an advocate for criminal justice and... Read more

Editorials

D.C. Must Keep the Circulator Free

Since Feb. 1, D.C.’s bright red and yellow Circulator buses have been free to ride. A sack is slung over the fare box bearing the slogan “Fair Shot”—the name of... Read more

Opinion

First in the Family

Nearly every night I can remember from my pre-kindergarten years, my mom would read with me. It was almost always my choice what book we would dive into that evening;... Read more

Editorials

Congress must allow D.C. to regulate legal marijuana

In 1998, D.C. legalized medical marijuana. But in the two decades since, Congress has blocked D.C. from spending any money on regulating marijuana, whether for medical purposes or recreational use,... Read more

Leisure

Critical Voices: Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey

Introspective and immersed in nostalgia, Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) does not reflect a specific era—it captures a feeling. Infused with images and memories of... Read more