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A life in learning: Father James Schall

In the moments before his Elements of Political Theory class, Father James Schall, S.J., stood in the hall, chatting with early-comers about the weather, the readings, and other courses. Schall not only knew all of his current students by name, but also recalled almost all of his recent students. He made introductions among the students standing in front of him, and a large, comfortable conversation started.

By the October 6, 2011

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Lambda rising: How LBGTQ activism came to Dupont

When it was first published in Oct. 1969, the Gay Blade, a gay-centric newsletter that was later renamed the Washington Blade, had a curious distribution strategy. Nancy Tucker, a founding co-editor, personally delivered the issues directly to bars.

By September 29, 2011

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D.C. Students Speak, and D.C. starts to listen

DC Students Speak opened this year’s first general membership meeting with a bit of hometown pride. “D.C. chillin’/ P.G. chillin’/ My name Wale, and I came to get it,” a YouTube video of Wale’s “Chillin’” greeted the 30 or so students who trickled into White Gravenor 206.

By September 22, 2011

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A Global University: Georgetown’s deepening relationship with the Chinese Communist Party

The day after an August exhibition game between the Georgetown men’s basketball team and the Bayi Rockets of the Chinese Basketball Association ended in a brawl, University President John DeGioia spoke at a reception for the team at the American Consulate in Shanghai.

By September 15, 2011

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The world changed: Georgetown after 9/11

“I walked past the business center and saw the crawl on the bottom of the television screen that said ‘Flight 77 missing.’ And I did a little bit of a double take.”

By September 8, 2011

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Six people to know at Georgetown

Rev. Christopher Steck, Jennifer Altemus, Mike Arthur, Shiva Subbaraman, Jan Karski, and the students of GERMS: becoming familiar with these six Georgetown fixtures will help anyone learn their way around campus.

By the August 26, 2011

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Photo Contest 2011

Check out the winners to our annual photo contest!

By the April 28, 2011

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Concerts at Georgetown: Then and now

Last Saturday night, a few hundred students gathered in McDonough Gymnasium for the Georgetown Programming Board’s Spring Kick-Off concert, which featured “Let It Rock” singer Kevin Rudolf alongside Los Angeles rapper Shwayze and electro-poppers Dev and the Cataracts.

By April 14, 2011

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Pell Grants in peril: Fighting for funding

While most Georgetown juniors are busy finding an internship or making plans for their last summer as undergraduates, Kelsey Hendricks (COL ’12), has a much more urgent concern: returning to Georgetown for her senior year.

By April 7, 2011

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The style is all yours

Spring at Georgetown brings out the best in most of us, but it’s not sundress season yet. Suit up for interviews, take an afternoon stroll­ in style, and look good for class. You never know what might end up in the yearbook.

By the March 31, 2011

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Oh, SNAP: A weekend with the party police

It’s difficult to say why a girl in a panda hat wanted to jump into Matt LeBlanc’s arms at 2 a.m. last Saturday. Was she concerned about her safety? After all, she was standing in the middle of the intersection of Prospect and 34th Streets, watching taxis whiz by as they picked up anyone who stuck around an M Street bar until closing time.

By March 24, 2011

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Building up the sciences: New facilites, new horizons

When Steven Singer was hired as a professor of biology in 1999, he was told that Georgetown would have a new science building within five years. Other professors hired earlier in the ‘90s were told the same thing.

By March 17, 2011

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Georgetown’s women’s squash team wins national championship

Harling Ross had not gotten a win at the national squash championships in Princeton, NJ. So on Feb. 20th, she stepped onto the court against her Connecticut College opponent feeling she needed a victory, not only for herself, but also for the team.

By March 3, 2011

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The doctor is out: Saying farewell to Porterfield

On Friday afternoons, Dan Porterfield’s office in Healy Hall becomes an informal salon where students stop by to discuss classwork, mull over career concerns, or simply to partake of the ice cream that constantly fills his freezer. The tradition spans years, an emblem of the welcoming, receptive persona Porterfield’s colleagues and students consistently describe.

By February 24, 2011

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Fightin’ words: Philodemic Society

The scene was tense in the antiquated library as one man paced back and forth, his three-piece suit neatly pressed and accented by a polished golden badge. His distinguished voice echoed in the faces of the equally dapper audience as they shouted out in encouragement, “huzzah!”

By February 17, 2011

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Off-Campus Blues: Life outside the gates

About a year ago, the front steps of Anna Dimon’s (COL ’11) house on Prospect Street collapsed and became completely unusable. After a year of things falling apart in the house, including breaking floors, an exploding water heater, and the doorknob falling off the basement door, the stairs were the last straw.

By February 10, 2011

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Lord of the wings: One night in Wingo’s

Chicken is my favorite meat. It’s comfort food, familiar and unpretentious, and it’s versatile, providing moist, savory substance to dishes from almost every culture. But for chicken enthusiasts, one of the meat’s most essential styles is also one of its simplest: a short, unbreaded section of the bird’s wing that is fried and basted in sauce, sometimes called a buffalo wing or hot wing if the sauce is spicy.

By February 3, 2011

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Grassroot Hoyas: Taking the field against AIDS

As the world’s attention was focused on the World Cup, a group of Georgetown student athletes in Johannesburg participated in a powerful and inspiring event far from the din of vuvuzelas. They were taking part in Team Up, a project in which 10 D.C. middle school students were brought to South Africa to raise HIV/AIDS awareness.

By the January 27, 2011

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Business in a new direction

Most business students with entrepreneurial ambition wait until after they have graduated to start their companies, but that didn’t stop James Li (MSB ’13) and his partner Yeo Zuo from starting their own business as college sophomores. Li sensed a disconnect and a lack of trust between non-profit organizations and the donors who fund them.

By January 20, 2011

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Best of 2010

Forget about Facebook. Forget about Harvard. And definitely forget about Mark Zuckerberg. The Social Network is about a nerd who just wants some love. Too bad he’s enough of an asshole that even a few billion dollars can’t help him get any.

By the December 9, 2010