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Love On The Hilltop: A Valentine Like No Other

This isn’t your average Hoya love story. This is no tale of cross-campus lovers, long distance relationships, or weird and complicated hook-ups. This is the story of two siblings who... Read more

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Comedy Central’s Broad City  Colors Outside the Lines

Rape culture, white power, getting high after having your wisdom teeth pulled out, and pegging? All seem unlikely subjects for an American television series broadcasted on a network that reaches... Read more

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Girls Is A Surprising Delight

To be completely honest, Girls was one of those shows I “hate-watched” at the beginning. Now that I’ve watched the four oblivious twenty-somethings blunder through life for three seasons, Girls... Read more

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Love On The Hilltop: In Love With Love

“I’ve been in love with love, and the idea of something binding us together. You know that love is strong enough.” (The Mowgli’s – San Francisco) I am in love with... Read more

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John Lennon to Left Shark: A History of Pop Music

Millions of people across the country watch the Super Bowl halftime show every year, and Katy Perry’s recent one was no exception. However, once you got past the robot lion,... Read more

Halftime Sports

Ray Allen: The Consummate Gym Rat

The NBA All-Star Weekend is always a special time of the year. We marvel at acrobatic dunks and trick shots in the Slam Dunk Challenge, watch Kevin Hart match up... Read more

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HONM: History in the Making

“Would you mind if I took your photo?” “Don’t I look ridiculous?” “Actually, there’s this fashion movement right now called norm core, you wear what you wear to work, and... Read more

Halftime Sports

This Week in Hockey: Injuries and Intrigue

The Minnesota Wild is making a play to be the first team of the mid-season to break into the playoff grouping and everybody is getting hurt. Hockey lovers, it’s time for... Read more

Halftime Leisure

The Mindy Project  And New Girl Continue Their Strong Runs

On the surface, Fox boasts a strong Tuesday night lineup of female-driven comedy, with New Girl and The Mindy Project airing consecutively. With New Girl in its fourth season and... Read more

Voices

Do it for the love of Georgetown: Vote Tim and Reno

Every year during GUSA campaigning you hear a lot of candidates tell you how great they are, how many clubs they have been in, and how many leadership positions they... Read more

Voices

Trevor and Omika Joe and Connor for GUSA

During the course of our campaign, two questions have frequently arisen. The first: “Is your campaign real?” The answer is yes and we will be on the ballot. The second:... Read more

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Carrying On: The cognitive dissonance of false independence

Wednesday evening in Leavey 424 is always a party. But it’s not the typical kind of party. For instance, we do shots, but of espresso. There’s loud music, but we... Read more

Voices

Rise Together for Georgetown: Abbey and Will for GUSA

Bring on the platitudes. It’s that time of year again. As this election season continues, you’ll hear that GUSA is out of touch, that those involved are the worst kind... Read more

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Dignity for GUSA and Georgetown: Vote Chris and Meredith

It is no secret that GUSA does not have a good reputation on campus. It is known for elitism, a lack of transparency, and being distant from Georgetown’s student community.... Read more

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Politics and Privacy: If the NSA doesn’t deserve to know, neither does the public

The GUSA presidential and vice-presidential campaign has begun, which marks the beginning of a long period of badgering from dedicated candidates. I can’t watch a minute of The Walking Dead... Read more

Voices

Don’t Stop Believing in Georgetown: Vote Sara and Ryan

We know that GUSA doesn’t have the best reputation on campus, and we know that it’s easy to see GUSA campaigns as little more than relentless assaults on Facebook News... Read more

Features

Live and Let Learn: The next phase of the living learning community program

“We want to give people the ability to express themselves,” Michael Marino (COL ’15) a student leader of the Renaissance House said. Sitting in a living room adorned with paintings... Read more

News

Georgetown Israel Alliance amends GUSA endorsement criteria

Early on Wednesday morning the Georgetown Israel Alliance altered its endorsement criteria for GUSA presidential candidates to remove all language about the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Movement. The change came... Read more

News

The Georgetown Heckler reaches new levels of popularity

By all measures, The Georgetown Heckler is more popular than ever. On Feb. 9, the Facebook page of the satirical online magazine surpassed 2,500 likes, an increase from 101 likes... Read more

Leisure

Black Theater Ensemble’s That Face a bold, bed-ridden journey

“Rahhh! Euuugh! Aghh! Nooooo!” Fifteen minutes before showtime, alarming shrieks and cries ring out of the Walsh Black Box Theater. Whether this is some bizarre pre-show ritual, or last-minute practice... Read more

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After Peacock Room’s cuisine soars

Imagine Ernest Hemingway, Jay Gatsby, and a Portland hipster collaborated to create a restaurant. Mirrors fill the room to give the illusion of a grand space within an intimate café.... Read more

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Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Servive proves worthy of crown

Much was made of director Matthew Vaughn’s departure from X-Men: Days of Future Past in late 2012. Many wondered if his issues with Fox would stall his promising career. As... Read more

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Under the Covers: Books should start at the beginning

Sometimes, the bits that go nowhere are the most important ones. I’ve been reading Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I know, I know. I’m about seven years... Read more

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Deadbeats: The Persistence of Sub Genres

One of the biggest rules of the internet is “never read YouTube comments.” Often bigoted and hate-filled, YouTube comments are the world’s new-age heckling, where one can find the loudest,... Read more