Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

MPD disorients with CrimeMap

Tasked with protecting the nation’s capitol, one would think that the Metropolitan Police Department would do anything it could to make its job a little easier. But in the first... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Editorials

Help keep gunstores off our streets

The gun show is coming to D.C. A few weeks ago, the D.C. Zoning Commission ruled that gun stores will be allowed along major commercial corridors throughout the city, a... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Editorials

Achieving peace at Georgetown

As the violence in Gaza stretches into its fourth week, signs of the conflict are seeping into campus life. On Monday, Students for Justice in Palestine gathered in a pro-Palestinian... Read more

By the January 15, 2009

Voices

If you like everyone … do you like anyone?

Is being judgmental really what’s wrong this country? I’m actually proud of being judgmental—though, perhaps “discerning” is a better word.

By January 15, 2009

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Alaska: neither lipstick, nor pitbulls, nor Sarah Palin

The meaning of my Alaskan identity changed on a Friday afternoon last semester in Walsh 392. That day, John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee. In a matter of mere hours, strangers and friends alike stopped asking me about frigid temperatures and polar bears, and began inquiring about my opinion of Sarah Palin.

By January 15, 2009

Voices

Fleeting impressions from the souls of Marrakesh

Street performers in every city, great and small, charm the penniless and the penny-plenty, the foreign and the familiar, the old and the young alike, in a shameless effort to earn a few dollars.

By January 15, 2009

Editorials

Bus us from the hilltop to the hill

Georgetown should offer shuttle buses to and from the inauguration to ensure that its students are able to attend the ceremonies, regardless of the state Metro is in.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

Make our (meager) 3 study days count

Georgetown administrators should recognize the pressures on students’ time during study days and prohibit professors from assigning papers to be due during study days.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

DPS needs to deliver on RAD pledge

If DPS really wants to reduce sexual assault at Georgetown, it should start offering the RAD program within the first month of next semester.

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

Before SAC, clubs tread lightly

In the midst of controversial discussions between the Georgetown University Student Association and the Student Activities Commission over the SAC chair selection process student clubs, which receive their funding from... Read more

By December 4, 2008

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Mumbai bombs felt 8,000 miles away

Never was I more certain of how powerless the innocent are during acts of terrorism until, from thousands of miles away, I saw my own city under fire.

By December 4, 2008

Voices

Tears, vomit, strippers and love in the New South jungle

As a sophomore I learned that being a Resident Assistant in New South is a lot like sipping the bitter nectar of new parenthood: vomit cakes the bathrooms and hallways most weekends, screams rebound unflaggingly ‘til dawn’s first light, and torrents of tears make Justin Timberlake’s “River” seem like a tributary.

By December 4, 2008

Voices

A Plebeian Guilt Complex

Susan B. Anthony once said, “If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools, they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” Much like the famous suffragette, I used to be a public school diehard who believed that no thinking person could in good conscience attend or send his or her children to a private school, while pretending to care about the quality of public education.

By December 4, 2008

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Cold-weather holidays

Babar’s No Good, Very Bad Day Virtually every kid has one stuffed animal that equals, in importance, at least 80 percent of a human sibling. For my little sister, it... Read more

By the December 4, 2008

Editorials

SmarTrip opens doors to the District

Georgetown students can blog, text, Google, Twitter, Facebook, and video chat with the best of them, but they seem to be largely in the dark when it comes to one... Read more

By the November 20, 2008

Editorials

For add/drop period, eight days is weak

Students registered for Professor Kathleen McNamara’s Inventing Europe seminar next semester will be faced with a dilemma about a week into spring semester: should I stay or should I go?... Read more

By the November 20, 2008

Editorials

Ensure Lauinger’s manifest destiny

Think Lauinger Library’s ugly exterior is bad? You’ve probably never been inside the library during finals, when its limited space is on full display. Students pack like sardines into every... Read more

By the November 20, 2008

Voices

1, 2, 3: it’s not as easy as A, B, C…

When I say I am bad at math, I don't mean bad in the modest Georgetown "I didn't get a 5 on the AP subject test" sense. I mean bad as in sometimes I find myself wondering how many quarters are in an hour, before I remember that quarters go into dollars and minutes go into hours. It's difficult to explain that you're late for class because you confused cents with minutes.

By November 20, 2008

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Proposition 8 allowed hate to dominate

On November 4, Proposition 8 amended the California state constitution to define marriage as something solely between a man and a woman. Hate, intolerance, and willful ignorance wrote discrimination into... Read more

By November 20, 2008

Voices

The other fútbol’s crazier fans & wimpier wages

Flags erupted out of a sea of black and red as already-hoarse voices roared their approval. Even the enormous flags, the drum of creaking metal and a haze of smoke couldn't obscure the fact that D.C. United was now up one-nil, though I could only see the scoreboard if I bounced especially high off the rolling grandstands. It was my first experience at an MLS soccer game, and I loved every minute of it. That's why when I read an article on the area blog DCist last week outlining the laughably low wages earned by a majority of MLS players, I was outraged.

By November 20, 2008