Last week, rumors surfaced on Facebook and in campus media regarding a leadership statement presented to GUSA presidential and vice-presidential candidates by the Georgetown Israel Alliance (GIA), of which I... Read more
Violence is a normal and daily occurrence in Venezuela. It is common to wake up, get to school, and hear a story about someone you know getting mugged at gunpoint... Read more
This past weekend, I did something incredibly nerve-wracking for me. No, it wasn’t exposing myself to the arctic weather or even the smutty antics and laughable dialogue of Fifty Shades... Read more
Imagine if a Muslim man killed three American students: the country would be in outrage, and he would immediately be labeled a terrorist. However, when white man kills three American... Read more
“Ignatius of Loyola started out as a soldier, you know.” Father Leon Hooper, S.J., caretaker of the Woodstock Theological Library, located in the rarely-visited lower level of Lauinger Library, recounts... Read more
It may have been a snow day at Georgetown this Tuesday, but all Kendrick Lamar can think about is fire. On the wake of his successful night at the 2015... Read more
An expensively dressed woman gazes sternly through a portrait at a naked Greek sex slave statute in the center of the room. A black man being chained into slavery on... Read more
The Duff, directed by Ari Sandel and based on the novel by Kody Keplinger, will bring you back to familiar moments of invisibility (and worse, unasked for visibility). The film... Read more
The presentation of August Wilson’s King Hedley II at the Arena Stage is, much like the play itself, daring. Hedley takes place on one stage with no props—save for the... Read more
BUL, Korean for “fire,” is the most recent in a series of trendy—read: caters to yuppies—Asian restaurants to open in the heart of Adams Morgan. Like other joints along this... Read more
Like any self respecting Legend of Zelda fan, my gullet spewed rainbows when Nintendo released Hyrule Historia, their compendium of all things Triforce. And like the rest of my quasi-Kokiri... Read more
As I spent my Valentine’s Day devouring cookies and avoiding whatever it is Fifty Shades of Grey is offering, I got to thinking about the state of romantic comedies, as... Read more
After the rapid, unexpected success of their first album, Night Visions, Imagine Dragons set expectations for a follow-up as demanding as the illustrious anthems which dominated their debut. Their highly... Read more
On Wednesday afternoon, over one hundred students joined Hoya Court employees and UNITE HERE, the union representing Aramark employees who work at Leo O’Donovan Hall, to present their demands for... Read more
José González’s first release in seven years, Vestiges and Claws, shows that while he may not have been in the studio since the release of the first iPhone, he has... Read more
Earlier this month, Georgetown’s club sports athletes started a petition to Georgetown University Student Association’s Finance and Appropriations Committee calling for them provide a stable source of funding for their... Read more
Sophomores planning to study abroad fall semester next academic year have just submitted their applications last week. Housing selection is just weeks away. This means that the Office of Residential... Read more
After a 19-29 campaign in 2014, the Georgetown baseball team (1-2, 0-0 Big East) returned to action this past week with three games at the Wake Forest Invitational in North... Read more
Freshman guard Isaac Copeland defied his years once again to help the Georgetown men’s basketball team (17-8, 9-5 Big East) put together another strong conference win, this time against St.... Read more
In the world of sports, there have always been the fringe activities whose participants know that what they do is a sport while still trying to convince outsiders that this... Read more
The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team (0-1, 0-0 Big East) suffered a painful road loss to the University of Delaware Blue Hens (2-0, 0-0 CAA), falling 17-5 at Delaware Stadium on... Read more
The Student Activities Commission is considering restructuring its process of funding student organizations beginning next semester. Under the proposed system, groups would apply to one of ten general tiers of... Read more
According to the website of the International Society on Infant Studies (whose unfortunate acronym is ISIS), babies as young as four months exhibit a behavior called mirroring, by which they mimic... Read more
A group of Georgetown students and workers from Hoya Court, Einstein Bros., and Leo’s rallied on Wednesday to present two petitions to Aramark managers in Hoya Court. A group of... Read more
A new weekly peer-led discussion group for queer men of color, led by Esteban García (SFS ’15), is set to begin meeting the week of Feb. 22. The group will... Read more
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