Archive

Hoya Court to open next week

Elevation Burger, Salad Creations, and Subway are expected to open to students at the new Hoya Court in the Leavey Center next Wednesday, Oct. 30. The food court, originally intended... Read more

By Manuela Tobias October 24, 2013

Georgetown’s new mascot, John B. Carroll, arrived on campus Monday, Oct. 21. The 14-weeks old puppy took the journey from San Diego, Calif. to Georgetown with breeder Janice Hochstetler. John... Read more

By Deborah Sparks October 24, 2013

Minor on ethnic studies proposed

The Cura Personalis Initiative, a student-run effort established in September 2012 to address issues of diversity on campus, presented a proposal to the College Academic Council for an interdisciplinary minor... Read more

By Grace Brennan October 24, 2013

Grab-n-Give pushes for more student awareness

Georgetown Individuals Vocal and Energetic for Service (G.I.V.E.S.) began tabling outside Leo’s to raise awareness of Grab and Give this past Friday. The Grab-n-Give program, first started in 2007 as... Read more

By Lara Fishbane October 24, 2013

News Hit: TEDX launches on Saturday

TEDxGeorgetown will hold its third official event, sponsored by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, on Oct. 26. The theme of the event is changemakers. Held in Gaston Hall, Saturday’s event... Read more

By Daniel Paradis October 24, 2013

City on a Hill: Waiting for de Blasio

“De Blasio wins a primary, Summers doesn’t get nominated, Peter Beinart writes an essay and suddenly the parliamentary left is resurgent?” That was Cole Stangler, In These Times writer and... Read more

By Gavin Bade October 24, 2013

Editorials

Grab-and-Give cheats students and homeless

The student group G.I.V.E.S., an organization committed to assisting marginalized populations, teamed up with H.O.P.E., a student group that seeks to provide food to D.C.’s homeless population, and Aramark this... Read more

By the Editorial Board October 24, 2013

Editorials

Johnson perilous choice for Homeland Security

Jeh Johnson, formerly the Department of Defense’s top lawyer, accepted President Obama’s nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security last Friday. In an address made at Oxford last November,... Read more

By the Editorial Board October 24, 2013

Sporty Spice: NFL attitudes need to change

Two weeks ago, PBS released a long-anticipated Frontline documentary entitled League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. Journalists worked themselves into a frenzy over the sobering stories of former players... Read more

By Abby Sherburne October 24, 2013

Football strives for consistency in homestretch

Unfortunately for Head Coach Kevin Kelly and the Georgetown football team (1-6, 0-2 Patriot League), college football is played in two thirty-minute halves, not one. This tale of two halves... Read more

By Joe Pollicino October 24, 2013

There’s no denying Riyan

“He’s with us now. He’s on the team.” Two simple sentences from Georgetown Men’s Basketball Head Coach John Thompson III provided validation for a dream once in doubt for 6-foot-4... Read more

By Brendan Crowley October 24, 2013

Men’s soccer exorcises Blue Demons

A cold Wednesday meant that only a few people turned up on Shaw field for the game between the Georgetown men’s soccer team (11-3-1, 4-1-1 Big East) and the DePaul... Read more

By Chris Castano October 24, 2013

Features

Georgetown jams: How GU Jam Sesh is building a community for Georgetown’s burgeoning music scene

From the outside, Georgetown’s music scene often seems limited to a few visible student groups. But a capella singers aren’t the Hilltop’s only musically-inclined students. Through its efforts to build a community of student musicians, GU Jam Sesh is providing an outlet for diversified creative musical expression at Georgetown, despite the obstacles it faces from neighbors and University noise policies.

By Jeffrey Lin October 24, 2013

Page 13 Cartoons

Things Georgetown should have spent $100 million on that isn’t a new school of public policy

By Dylan Cutler and Mark James October 17, 2013

Features

“Second-class faculty”: The hidden struggles of Georgetown’s adjunct professors

The concerns faced by adjunct professors at Georgetown are many, stretching far beyond access to permanent office space. Adjuncts at Georgetown and other institutions of higher learning across the United States receive salaries as low as half of those of tenure-track professors, seldom have access to any health or retirement benefits, and must cope with job insecurity year after year. Recognizing these hardships, Georgetown’s adjunct faculty voted in favor to form a union under SEIU Local 500 in May of this year.

By Lucia He October 17, 2013

Mask & Bauble plays with Woody Allen

Don’t Drink the Water, Woody Allen’s Cold War farce set in the American Embassy of an unnamed country behind the Iron Curtain, first hit stages in 1966. This midterm season, from Oct. 17 to 26, Mask & Bauble’s adaptation succeeds in bringing the script’s comic relief alive for harried students. Its madcap ensemble includes a magician priest, three tourists from New Jersey running from the communist police, and the fumbling son of a famous diplomat, protagonist Axel Magee. When Axel’s father puts him in charge of a short trip, chaos ensues—Woody Allen style.

By Emilia Brahm October 17, 2013

Fifth Estate or Fifth Column? Cumberbatch has you decide

Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate takes an impressive cast (who doesn’t love Benedict Cumberbatch and Professor Lupin?) and combines it with one of the most controversial events in recent history to make one of the most ambitious dramas I’ve ever seen.

By Ryan Vislosky October 17, 2013

Ejiofor breaks chains and fourth wall in 12 Years a Slave

Full disclosure: I am a descendent of slave owners. However, it doesn’t take a sordid family history to be struck by the stark anguish of Solomon Northup’s (Chiwetel Ejiofor) captivity in 12 Years a Slave.

By Rianna Folds October 17, 2013

Under the Covers: When coming out is a crime

Born in 1973, Abdellah Taia is the first openly-gay Moroccan author to address the gay scene in North Africa. During OUTober, a celebration of LGBTQ culture here at Georgetown, I saw a friend post on Facebook about Taia’s new movie Salvation Army, an adaptation of the eponymous novel featuring a young, gay Moroccan boy.

By Emilia Brahm October 17, 2013

Idiot Box: Primetime has gone brain dead

There’s something about zombies. I’m not sure if it’s the palatable idea of flesh-eating corpses or the escapism that a zombie apocalypse offers citizens of a government shutdown, but Americans just can’t get enough of The Walking Dead. Apparently, we like it even more than Sunday night football. This is a big deal for me, since I’m the kind of quintessential American that knows exactly what those cactus-shaped posts on either side of the field are for and wouldn’t dream of ignoring the Super Bowl until Beyoncé comes on. In short, zombies are huge.

By Julia Lloyd-George October 17, 2013

Voices

Carrying On: Iran, U.S. ready to make nice?

Iran finally seems ready to cut a deal with the West on its nuclear program—it’s just a matter of the West being ready to do the same. The United States... Read more

By Matthew Weinmann October 17, 2013