Americans need to be more in touch with their institutions, said Njoki Njoroge Njehu who spoke Tuesday night. A strong advocate for social and economic justice, she said she feels... Read more
Students, faculty, faith leaders and District residents gathered on Thursday for an Interfaith Prayer Service of Mourning and Unity hosted by Georgetown University. The event, which was sponsored by the... Read more
The Department of Public Safety is exploring the possibility of permanently expanding last week’s “Safewalks” program, Director William Tucker said. Safewalks began last weekend in response to campus security concerns... Read more
University President John J. DeGioia announced yesterday the appointment of Dr. Spiros Dimolitsas as University senior vice president and chief administrative officer, effective November 2001. “I am confident that Dr.... Read more
Students, faculty and staff at the Georgetown University Law Center have begun to receive the Georgetown One Card (GOCard). The GOCard replaces various cards used for identification, building access, ATM... Read more
After a week of debate in the District, the fate of Reagan National Airport is still uncertain. While none of the flights hijacked last Tuesday originated at National, the attacks... Read more
I apologize to all juniors abroad or going abroad: the Georgetown Men’s basketball schedule came out last week, and it looks like this could be the most exciting year since... Read more
Where to begin ? First off, Brit-poppers Travis remixed their single “Sing” on Sunday after Barry Bonds popped off three homers at Enron, bringing his total to 63. It goes... Read more
There was a time, around 14 years ago, when my father woke me up really late at night. Blearly eyed and clenching my tattered blue blanket, which I called Snoopy?I... Read more
Canadian hockey legend Guy Lafleur is stirring up controversy north of the border. Last week, Lafleur made headlines when news leaked that Pfizer, maker of Viagra, had signed on the... Read more
Vittles is the social center of our worlds. Consider one conversation overheard in there on Tuesday, after a plane crashed into the Pentagon: “Dude, yea … like, we probably won’t... Read more
While I don’t normally plug specific District hang-outs, I will make an exception for one location: Blues Alley. A small jazz and blues club located in an 18th century red... Read more
When Patrice Emery Lumumba became Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo in 1960, he refused to sit by as the Congolese gave false homage to their tormentors and torturers... Read more
A couple of months ago I took the plunge and bought myself a Cobra. The Cobra, for those of you who are culturally deprived, is a top-of-the-line Coleman tent. Purchasing... Read more
Writing these words on a Greyhound speeding down I-95 toward New York City, I find myself thinking of Dean Moriarty. Having first encountered On the Road in my younger and... Read more
I hate “rap.” First, liking “rap” is like being into rock or blues and saying “I like singing.” More importantly, “rap” has taken on a separate meaning, in day-to-day conversation,... Read more
The clock ticks twelve. Midnight. Another day ends. Simple. Inevitable. It passed, in many ways, as days have always?the sun rose, brightening the morning, and set in the evening, returning... Read more
Last night approximately 200 students gathered in Dahlgren Quadrangle for a candlelight vigil to remember the individuals who died on Tuesday. The Rector of the Jesuit community, Father Brian McDermott,... Read more
For the third straight year, Georgetown tied with Carnegie Mellon as the 23rd best university in the country according to U.S. News and World Report. Georgetown has been as high... Read more
Last week George Washington University President Stephen J. Trachtenberg announced that the GW Foggy Bottom campus will close during the Sept. 29-30 World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, prompting... Read more
The philosopher’s quest for knowledge never ceases, according to James V. Schall, S.J. “Philosophy leaves us in a state of expectancy,” Shall said, speaking Monday night to approximately 50 people... Read more
Students are organizing an off-campus door-to-door campaign to educate neighbors about methods to ensure students receive equal treatment in the District. At the Sept. 4 meeting of the Advisory Neighborhood... Read more
Tuesday began just like any other day. Students went to their 8:50 a.m. classes and business at Georgetown seemed to run as usual. Little did we know that in a... Read more
Efforts to make sense of Tuesday’s tragic events and discussions on how the United States should respond to them provided the focus for a panel held Wednesday evening in Gaston... Read more
I hardly know where to begin. So many of you have been touched by this in one way or another. I found myself yesterday hardly able to put a coherent... Read more
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