Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

Yates shapes up

The only problem for students now is that there’s no excuse not to go

By the September 9, 2004

Editorials

By the Numbers and Direct Quote

The world votes for Kerry. GU’s Bushie on CNN.

By the September 9, 2004

Voices

This has all been wonderful, but now I’m on my way

A phish-head learns to accept change and move on

By the September 9, 2004

Voices

My year a-bored

I was burned out with school, burned out on drugs and needed time to find my chi.

By the September 9, 2004

Voices

Carrying On: What’s wrong with being a little childish?

The author reverts to childhood while abroad

By the September 9, 2004

Editorials

Registered offender

Registration frustration

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

Pluralistically speaking

Georgetown steps forward, proactively

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

Coordinating change

Bill McCoy joined the Georgetown staff on Aug. 2, but his hiring alone does not solve the problems facing Georgetown’s LGBTQ students.

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

Free facials for RNC journalists. Bush twins still dumb.

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Watch out for the ether bunny

Hi everyone! It’s Joan Rivers here at the Apocalypse, where it’s not just a parade of the damned, but of the damned good looking! I can’t even tell you how hard it is to get in these gates, but luckily we’re inside where I’ll be keeping my wrinkled, corpse-like finger on the pulse of what’s hot and what’s not.

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Republicans Welcome: Where to Stay at the RNC

Would you like clean sheets with that?

By the September 2, 2004

Voices

Carrying On: The plums I carried in Uzbekistan

While planning my trip to Uzbekistan, I imagined many possible scenarios for what this country would be like. Most of them involved camels, naan, irrigation and Soviet-induced ecological catastrophe. Somehow, the predicament of being compelled to pick fruit while wearing a polka-dotted skirt and strappy sandals was not one of the images I had in mind.

By the September 2, 2004

Editorials

A sensible disclosure policy, finally

The Department of Education orders Georgetown to modify its disclosure policy concerning sexual assault cases.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Bank on it

Students should insure that GUASFCU remains a campus fixture, but one with improved services.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Register now or forever hold your peace

Register to vote. No really, register to vote right now.

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

172 The number of New Student Orientation Advisors

5,000 The number of box lunches for the NSO Goodbye lunch

1,000 The number of cups ordered for NSO Casino Night

1,980 The number of incoming first-year and transfer students

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

Understanding the two faces of Chile

Can a torture camp ever really become a “Park of Peace”?

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

First-years: Listen to us, you fools

Climb down the Exorcist steps. Take a romantic stroll around the monuments by moonlight. Climb the John Carroll statue. Eat a Chicken Madness. If you don’t, you may be a terrorist.

By the August 26, 2004

Voices

I only get the negatives: confessions of a bitter break up

Like the headline says, confessions of a bitter break up

By the August 26, 2004

Editorials

Kissinger shies from criticism

Last Friday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cancelled a lecture just hours before he was scheduled to arrive in Gaston Hall. In a letter sent to campus media, Ambassador Howard B. Shaffer, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, wrote that Kissinger cancelled after learning of a planned protest by GU Peace Action.

By the April 29, 2004