Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

SOTU vows action with or without Congress

On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address. For sixty-five minutes he balanced the retrospective and the visionary, alluding to 2013’s political failures while forecasting... Read more

By the January 30, 2014

Editorials

Academic ineligibility reveals underlying issue

Georgetown basketball Head Coach John Thompson III announced last Friday that center Joshua Smith has been deemed academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. Smith’s case is the second... Read more

By the January 30, 2014

Editorials

GUSA demands more sexual assault education

Following President Obama’s formation of a White House Task Force on Protecting Students from Sexual Assault, GUSA released a list of thorough, practical suggestions for improving policies and services for... Read more

By the January 30, 2014

Voices

Catholic school sexual education leads to climactic revelations

If you attend a Catholic school, it makes a statement that extends far beyond the quality of your primary education. It’s a cultural statement. Whether you accept Catholicism or not... Read more

By January 30, 2014

Voices

Another glam rock casualty darkens today’s musical horizons

Every Friday night, my Village B apartment begins to shake around 9:30 p.m., and it continues to pulsate deep into the night, usually quitting around three or so in the... Read more

By January 30, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: I like big books and I cannot lie

Georgetown students read so much that we end up doing hardly any reading at all. Most classes at Georgetown pack a tremendous number of pages into their syllabi. And they... Read more

By January 30, 2014

Editorials

Free speech code fails to live up to promises

GUSA and the Georgetown University Speech and Expression Committee held a free speech forum last Friday titled, “Free Speech in the Digital Age: Are There Boundaries?” During the question and... Read more

By the January 23, 2014

Editorials

D.C. moves closer to marijuana decriminalization

Lawmakers in the District of Columbia made another significant stride toward the decriminalization of marijuana last Wednesday when the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety of the D.C. Council... Read more

By the January 23, 2014

Editorials

Chemical spill reveals unacceptable neglect

About two weeks ago, a storage tank owned by mining chemical manufacturer Freedom Industries spilled 7,500 gallons of chemicals—4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol (MCHM) and polyglycol ether (PPH)—into the Elk River in Charleston,... Read more

By the January 23, 2014

Voices

American immigration policies draining young talent

The cliques have started to form. With just one last short semester lying between seniors and graduation, the future has been heavy on everyone’s minds. Seniors are scouring their friend... Read more

By January 23, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: You do you, and I’ll do me

“You do you.” It’s a phrase I hear often at Georgetown, as students acknowledge and encourage each other in their quirky idiosyncrasies. When my classmate declares that she wants to... Read more

By January 23, 2014

Voices

Domesticity that even our feminists friends will approve of

I’m going to tell you something I don’t readily admit to many people: I knit, I bake, I cook, and I make jams and chutneys and butter from scratch. I... Read more

By January 23, 2014

Voices

New video replay technology in MLB takes hit at tradition

On Jan. 16, Major League Baseball finally announced that it would be expanding replay technology. Casual observers may question why the decision took so long when other sports leagues have... Read more

By January 23, 2014

Voices

Christie’s got 99 problems and Bridgegate’s one

The residents of Fort Lee, NJ aren’t the only ones in a jam after the apparently politically motivated closure of their town’s bridge.  The ensuing bickering, dubbed “Bridgegate” by the... Read more

By January 16, 2014

Voices

No Pants Metro riders embrace life, liberty, and the breeze

Boxer-briefs fluttering in the breeze, I stood in Hancock Park just across the street from L’Enfant Plaza awaiting the call to action. Capitol Improv was hosting the seventh annual No... Read more

By January 16, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: “Victim” label not an identity

We’ve heard nearly every side of the debate about how to properly treat sexual assault perpetrators and victims, but one. Victim-blaming, slut-shaming, we’ve heard it all. But we shouldn’t press... Read more

By January 16, 2014

Editorials

Unemployment benefit extension is essential

In its monthly labor report released on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the United States generated a mere 74,000 jobs in December—a disappointing number for economists who... Read more

By the January 16, 2014

Editorials

Adjunct professor Scheuer crosses the line

In a recent column published on his own website, Georgetown adjunct professor Michael Scheuer seemed to endorse the assassinations of President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Borrowing... Read more

By the January 16, 2014

Editorials

House anti-abortion bill targets poor women

On Jan. 9, members of the House held a hearing on HR7, otherwise known as the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) led the House Subcommittee... Read more

By the January 16, 2014

Editorials

Measured divestment proposal shows promise

On Sunday, Nov. 24, the GUSA Senate voted 17 to six to pass a resolution endorsing GU Fossil Free’s divestment proposal.The proposal is the latest product of an almost year-long dialogue between administrators and the students of GU Fossil Free, and its successful marriage of the realities of the endowment with the moral imperative Georgetown has to divest deserves nothing less than GUSA’s support.

By the December 5, 2013