Features

A deep dive into the most important issues on campus.

News Commentary

Make room, Georgetown. Indigenous studies needs a place in the academy.

When we throw open the doors, Indigenous academia will be there to take the place that always should have been theirs. 

By February 20, 2021

News

Kleier and Pejo suspend GUSA executive ticket

Olivia Kleier (SFS ‘22) and Jon Pejo (COL ‘22) suspended their campaign after allegations they plagiarized.

By February 15, 2021

News Commentary

The college debate league that won’t shut up

Waiting for a decision with my partner after an intense round is a rush. Debaters bustle around crowded hallways, squeezing past each other to find their team as we pore... Read more

By January 29, 2021

Editorials

White supremacists attacked Washington. Georgetown must protect its students.

On Jan. 6, while a joint session of Congress gathered to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump breached the Capitol... Read more

By the January 19, 2021

News Commentary

When it comes to child care, Georgetown must step up

For Georgetown faculty, finding affordable care for young children is near-impossible. In facing an American child care crisis aggravated by the pandemic, the university must step up to meet the challenge.

By December 8, 2020

Features

May 6, 1970: The day Georgetown went on strike

Georgetown’s relationship with activism has never been a simple one.  When new Hoyas walk through the gates at the intersection of 37th and O, they can expect to be bombarded... Read more

By November 21, 2020

Features

Remembering Georgetown’s history with slavery: Amidst university inaction, students take memorialization into their own hands

Many at Georgetown looked on with hope as students resoundingly passed a landmark referendum on April 11, 2019 to pay reparations to those affected by the university’s complicity in slavery.... Read more

By November 21, 2020

Voices

When freshman year is put on pause

Saddled by the pandemic, my freshman year has been characterized by a distinct sense of FOMO. Here's how I'm learning to be OK with it.

By November 20, 2020

Voices

The Case for Phone-Banking

Phone-banking is fundamentally about channeling your emotions into productive change.

By November 17, 2020

Features

Snapchat’s on a new streak: reinventing news and energizing young voters

As the United States swiftly approaches perhaps the most consequential presidential election in recent history, voters are being flooded with information as news outlets compete to reach people in the... Read more

By October 31, 2020

News

Women of color in GUSA speak out

How they believe the institution has failed them, and how it can improve

By October 23, 2020

News Commentary

The next lesson in American history should be how to challenge it, and we should start with the monuments

The first place I went after my first visit to Georgetown was the Jefferson Memorial. A history buff with a knack for American presidential trivia, going to college in the... Read more

By September 26, 2020

Sports

Building the brand of a champion

This article is part 2 of “It’s A G Thing”, a 4-part series about the history of the Georgetown men’s basketball team both on and off the court. Part 1... Read more

By August 29, 2020

Sports

Black America’s team

This article is part 3 of “It’s A G Thing”, a 4-part series about the history of the Georgetown men’s basketball team both on and off the court. Part 2... Read more

By August 29, 2020

Sports

Back to the roots

This article is part 4 of “It’s A G Thing”, a 4-part series about the history of the Georgetown men’s basketball team both on and off the court. Find Part... Read more

By August 29, 2020

Features

Honoring John Lewis and 80 years of “good trouble”

Civil rights icon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis passed away at the age of 80 on July 17. Lewis, who was born outside of Troy, Alabama, on Feb. 21, 1940,... Read more

By August 28, 2020

News Commentary

Obstructions of Justice: How police unions are the hidden barricade in the fight against police brutality

Violence against Black Americans by the police is protected, time and time again, by the unions that back them. This is how.

By August 28, 2020

Features

A Disturbance in the Force

This article is part of “It’s A G Thing”, a 4-part series about the history of the Georgetown men’s basketball team both on and off the court. “Thompson the n—–... Read more

By August 28, 2020

Features

Georgetown’s fall online, from the other side of the screen

“We had to go into survival mode.” That’s how Mark Fisher, an assistant professor of government, described shifting to virtual instruction following the university’s coronavirus-spurred move online in March. He,... Read more

By August 28, 2020

News Commentary

The name changed. The forces keeping Native Americans out of Georgetown did not.

Tristin Sam (SFS ’23) thinks he might be the only Native American most Georgetown students meet in their lives.  This isn’t a radical claim—Sam is one of three Native students... Read more

By August 24, 2020