Archive

“What We’re All About:” Graceann Bennett and the power of on-court persistence

For senior post player Graceann Bennett, everything comes back to hard work. She attributes that attitude to her parents, both college athletes themselves. Her father Jeff was a football player... Read more

By Jo Stephens November 5, 2022

Men’s BIG EAST Preview 2022-23

1 Though still among the conference elites, Villanova is a risky pick to be the top team in the BIG EAST. Hall of Fame Head Coach Jay Wright has retired,... Read more

By Ben Jakabcsin November 5, 2022

Women’s BIG EAST Preview 2022-23

Tier 1: Giants of the Game 1. Reigning Big East champion UConn is the current favorite, but recent roster changes could complicate their dominance. Three of five starters graduated, and... Read more

By Anjali Gulasingam November 5, 2022

Meet the new players: Women’s Basketball new recruits

Jada Claude F | Senior Jada Claude, the senior transfer from Morehead State, is a slashing wing who averaged 13.6 ppg and 7.1 rpg last year. Claude has had an... Read more

By Andrew Arnold November 4, 2022

Led by defense, Women’s Basketball is ready for a resurgence

March 5, 2022, was an exciting day for Georgetown students: the first day of spring break, an oasis within a grueling semester. If you had checked the score of Georgetown... Read more

By Thomas Fischbeck November 4, 2022

Basketball Issue 2022

Meet the new players: Men’s Basketball new recruits

Brandon Murray G | Sophomore Sophomore guard Brandon Murray comes to the Hoyas from LSU along with new associate head coach Kevin Nickelberry. Coming off of a freshman season where... Read more

By Lucie Peyrebrune November 4, 2022

Basketball Issue 2022

Comeback time: After a disastrous season, Men’s Basketball looks for a fresh start

After winning the 2021 BIG EAST tournament, the Georgetown Men’s Basketball Team looked to replicate their success in the 2021-22 season. With two key recruits in Aminu Mohammed and Ryan... Read more

By Henry Liu November 4, 2022

Hellraiser (2022) is a twisted lesson in remaking a horror classic

After a wait of more than 30 years, our favorite “explorers in the further regions of experience” have made their sinister return to the screen, just in time for... Read more

By Zachary Warren November 3, 2022

Inside the maniacal menagerie that is Alaska Thunderfuck 5000’s Red 4 Filth Tour

As the lights went out and the onstage screen lit up, it became clear that this was more than just an exhibition of music—it was an immersive drag experience.

By Zachary Warren November 3, 2022

“Out Of My System” is distinctly Louis Tomlinson and that’s why it works

Louis Tomlinson’s “Out Of My System” sounds like it belongs to an old One Direction album. Tomlinson’s latest single borrows from pop, rock, and punk sounds to collectively create one... Read more

By Sagun Shrestha November 3, 2022

Ticket to Paradise is the ultimate feel-good getaway

If watching George Clooney and Julia Roberts play beer pong was not on your 2022 bingo card, you are not alone.

By Maanasi Chintamani November 2, 2022

Voices

Solving polarization won’t fix our society’s injustices

Today’s society is not a utopia, and it’s important to realize that politics is and will always be personal—especially for marginalized communities, which is why it is necessary that we work towards progressive action instead of reduced polarization.

By Brandon Wu November 1, 2022

Protest through song: an ode to resistance in Hozier’s “Swan Upon Leda”

Content warning: this article discusses sexual assault. Reverence and rage do not often accompany each other, but to Hozier the two are notes on the same staff. Hozier is perhaps... Read more

By Nora Scully October 31, 2022

DC News

Members of the Georgetown community push back on Republican senators’ proposed anti-vaccine mandate for D.C. public schools

Sens. Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn have introduced a bill to repeal D.C. public school's vaccine mandate, to the protest of many.

By Alex Deramo October 28, 2022

News

Buttigieg town hall reflects on importance of bipartisan infrastructure bill on the future of the country, climate change, and racial justice

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Georgetown University for a town hall on Oct. 11 to discuss his future goals.

By Jupiter Huang and Franziska Wild October 28, 2022

The 1975 revisits their roots in Being Funny in a Foreign Language

The band has figured out how to cut to the point without getting lost in the details.

By Amanda Yen October 28, 2022

On Midnights, all of Taylor Swift’s late-night thoughts come alive

But on the darkly mysterious Midnights, Swift uses the vulnerability of the late night to reflect on these raw emotions.

By Adora Adeyemi October 28, 2022

Mask and Bauble’s Love’s Labour’s Lost puts a joyful spin on one of Shakespeare’s more obscure comedies

Mask and Bauble’s take on Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost is a commentary on the dynamics of love and gender.

By Margaret Hartigan October 27, 2022

Under (the) Siege: Halle Bailey’s color-blind Ariel and the role of race in fairy tales

The upcoming live-action adaptation of yet another Disney Renaissance-era classic, The Little Mermaid (1989), has sparked discussion about diversity and casting equity on the big screen. In light of the... Read more

By Kriti Edala October 26, 2022

Uncategorized

This Week in Soccer: Men and Women Clinch Big East Titles

Following shaky starts to the season for two of Georgetown’s premier programs, all appears well in the soccer world as both the men’s (8-4-3, 6-1-1 Big East) and women’s (12-1-5,... Read more

By Thomas Fischbeck October 24, 2022

News

Georgetown Ukrainian Society visits Lithuanian Embassy in effort to expand cultural education on Eastern Europe

Members of Georgetown’s Ukrainian Society had the opportunity to join students from Gettysburg College at the Lithuanian Embassy on Sept. 23.

By Elizabeth Short October 24, 2022

Editorials

D.C.’s new migrant services bill is anti-immigrant and dangerous

If D.C. is to call itself a sanctuary city, its government must take bold steps to actually protect its immigrants. Municipal responses to migrant busing have been woefully inadequate, locking some of the District’s most vulnerable residents out of guaranteed access to legal support, employment and education trainings, fixed shelter, medical care, and food provision. It also endangers the ability of many immigrants—including those who are long-term D.C. residents—to access D.C.’s services for homelessness entirely. The D.C. Council must adopt legislation correcting these failures.

By the Editorial Board October 24, 2022