After two hours of combative debate at the November 23rd Funding Board meeting, the Georgetown University Student Association and the six advisory boards that fund student clubs are still at odds over the Comprehensive Club Reform Bill that GUSA recently passed.
The working group formed to increase attentiveness to diversity issues in Georgetown’s admissions process revealed a draft of its extensive recommendations to the University in a broadcast e-mail last Tuesday.
The Collegiate Readership Program, which provided free daily newspapers to Georgetown students last year, is scheduled to restart in January after being cancelled this semester due to a lack of... Read more
The D.C. Council passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage this Tuesday, despite threats from the Catholic Church that it would terminate all social services contracts with the city if the... Read more
At one of the 2010 Campus Plan town halls for students and staff, the administrators attempted to minimize the side effects of expanding the graduate student body from its current 5,545 to 8,750 by 2020, an increase of almost 60 percent.
Who doesn’t want to be like Tiger Woods? He’s a famous athlete, good looking, has a smoking-hot wife, and is richer than most small nations. He’s the subject of a... Read more
The Infeld legacy continues at Georgetown. After a stellar career as a Georgetown runner, Maggie Infeld left the program in the hands of her younger sister Emily when she graduated... Read more
After a deep run in the WNIT last year, the Georgetown women’s basketball team had high expectations coming into the season. On Tuesday, the Hoyas (6-2) continued their early success... Read more
We have an international crisis on our hands. Or, more precisely, on the left hand of French International soccer star Thierry Henry. The controversy erupted on the most pressure packed... Read more
Coming into this season, the Georgetown men’s basketball team had three sure things in Greg Monroe, Chris Wright, and Austin Freeman. Starting alongside them were two question marks. As the... Read more
Madvillainy, Madvillain, 2004 Madvillainy is an indie rap fan’s wet dream: an album-length collaboration between MF DOOM, the masked oddball who fancies himself a super-villain, and producer Madlib, renowned for... Read more
Start your anticipation engines, folks—November has come and gone. It’s all Christmas, all the time from here until early-to-mid January. Retail, television, and radio are already well-entrenched in the Christmas... Read more
When I used to think about “eco-fashion,” visions of boxy canvas dresses, natural hemp shoes, hair beads, tie-dye galore—and the tree-hugging, cannabis-drenched Deadheads that typically sport such looks—came to mind.... Read more
John Hillcoat’s directorial career is filled with dark, critically acclaimed films like the gritty Australian Western The Proposition. Leisure Editor Chris Heller sat down with him last month to talk... Read more
Americans are constantly struggling to balance their work and family lives. As deeply ingrained as the Protestant work ethic may be, those who choose to focus on their careers are... Read more
Pop quiz, hot shot. It’s the day before Christmas and, as usual, you haven’t bought a single gift. If you try to buy everyone thoughtful gifts, you will run out... Read more
“But these are special peanuts, from Baltimore.” Only a few hundred feet away from roller-skating, black-eyed women tackling each other, I was stuck behind Jimmy Carter’s long-lost cousin in the... Read more
This past August, the headquarters of Life Pieces to Masterpieces, a local nonprofit that lets African-American males channel their energy into art, was vandalized almost to the point of complete... Read more
You lay there dying, and you want to give up. I can see it, I sense it with every shallow breath you take. Because you were too personally selfish, I... Read more
The Admissions and Recruitment Working Group, one of three diversity working groups commissioned by President DeGioia in April, released a series of promising but imperfect recommendations to the student body... Read more
Taliban fighters have a phrase that they have used to describe their strategy in Afghanistan: the Americans have the watches, but we have the time. They do not need to... Read more
Between finals, basketball season, and impending holiday vacations, Georgetown students would be forgiven for missing the ongoing dispute between the Georgetown University Student Association and club funding boards. But if... Read more
The news all this weekend revolved around Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashing the first state dinner of the Obama Presidency. The couple managed to be photographed with Vice President Joe... Read more
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