Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

On Missouri, Yale, and the Memory of 272 Slaves: Activism, Justice, and their Discontents

University protests on race relations across the U.S. have provoked a flurry of media attention and political activism in recent weeks. This Editorial Board fully and adamantly supports efforts to... Read more

By the November 20, 2015

Voices

Seizing the Initiative: An Analysis Of Recent Racial Protests

In the past three weeks, multiple college campuses have faced racial tensions on their campuses. Two of those schools in particular, the University of Missouri and Yale University, have been... Read more

By November 19, 2015

Voices

Out of the Campus Comfort Zone: A Flight from Classical Liberal Thought

Do our feelings really matter? Certainly they matter to each of us. Emotions, in all their varieties and magnitudes, are an inextricable element of humanity. They can also matter to... Read more

By November 19, 2015

Voices

Viva La Vita: H*yas for Choice and All Its Misconceptions

As a former president and current member of Georgetown Right to Life, also known as RTL or Vita Saxa, I’d like to weigh in on an opinion piece published in... Read more

By November 19, 2015

Carrying On

Carrying On: Learning to Define Oneself in a Label-Obsessed World

I have always tried to find a simple way to define my personality. Quite often, I become curious about why I feel the way I feel or why I like... Read more

By November 11, 2015

Voices

The Right to a Choice: Understanding the Positions of the Pro-Choice Movement

This past week, The Georgetown Academy, an online forum posted a piece entitled “How Dumb is H*yas for Abortion?” In an attempt to clear the air around this sensitive subject,... Read more

By November 9, 2015

Carrying On

Carrying On: Forcing Hate Out Of Our Lives

I can be a bit of a hater. I always have been, and perhaps I always will be. In middle school, I called myself a “nonconformist” (my sole act of... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Editorials

Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?

Two weeks ago, Peter and Susan Cooper donated $50 million to Georgetown’s Athletic Department—while construction for the $62 million John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center is well underway. These... Read more

By the October 22, 2015

Opinion

SNAP, Crackle, DOPS: Serial Confusion for Off-Campus Residents

For a Friday night, it was a pretty mild party. For one thing, the only music was coming from my iPhone; for another, all the guests were seated around my... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Opinion

All Stressed Up: Raising the Curtain on a Hoya’s Life

They say that hindsight is 20/20. As my time on the Hilltop began, I wanted to get as involved in campus life as possible. Unfortunately, when I reflect on my... Read more

By October 22, 2015

Editorials

Eye in the Sky: Social media monitoring and campus crime at Boston U

During the shootings at Umpqua Community College, Texas Southern University, and Northern Arizona University, the Georgetown University Police Department (GUPD) was put on high alert for any suspicious activity on... Read more

By the October 22, 2015

Opinion

You Can’t Handle The Truth: The Importance of Free Speech on Campus

We have a duty to offend. That duty does not fall to me, to you, or to any one individual—but make no mistake that it does fall to us. As... Read more

By October 8, 2015

Opinion

Right To Life, With Conditions: The Hypocrisy of the “Pro-Life Generation”

The day before Kelly Renee Gissendaner was executed by the state of Georgia last week, Georgetown’s Right to Life group, Vita Saxa, held a “Pro-Life Rally” in Red Square. “Join... Read more

By October 8, 2015

Carrying On

Carrying On: The Value of Knowledge for Knowledge’s Sake

When a high school teacher, the marvelous Ms. Hadley Moore, introduced the word “perennialism” into my vocabulary, I immediately thought of perennials, the plants. You know, those plants that come... Read more

By October 8, 2015

Editorials

Underserved

If you look around the Georgetown campus, you’ll be captivated by the elegant Healy Hall, the shimmering Rafik B. Hariri business school, and the stately-and-state-of-the-art former Jesuit Residence. Soon, this... Read more

By the October 8, 2015

Editorials

A Failing Grade

We’ve long held these truths to be self-evident: America’s higher education system is broken, and U.S. News & World Report’s perennial “Best Colleges” rankings are rubbish. So it came as... Read more

By the October 8, 2015

Opinion

Love Conquers All: America’s Reaction to Francis’ Call for Change

It’s 4:15 a.m. Why am I awake? No, I did not spend a night at Lau finishing a paper—instead I was up and getting ready to see the Pope. I... Read more

By October 7, 2015

Opinion

The $100 Billion Fallacy

Of all the criticisms of the Iran nuclear deal, the “$100 billion” argument has proven one of the most pernicious. Ted Cruz summed it up at a recent rally near... Read more

By October 4, 2015

Opinion

Boehner’s Penance: Reacting to the Speaker’s Resignation

It was an honor and a privilege to see Pope Francis speak on Thursday. I stood on the West Lawn of the Capitol as Pope Francis called for our government... Read more

By September 30, 2015

Editorials

Doubling Down on Going Green

In case you missed it, Pope Francis was in town this week. In true American political fashion, both sides of the aisle sought to repurpose his moral authority to suit... Read more

By the September 25, 2015