Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

Editorials

Construction noise complaints need consideration

Since GUSA members met over a week ago to discuss possible solutions for alleviating student discontent over excessive construction noise in New South residence hall, both administrators and students have... Read more

By the February 13, 2014

Editorials

Official alcohol amnesty policy protects students

The University administration has moved to include an official written alcohol amnesty policy in the Student Code of Conduct. This policy, which the University already follows informally, allows students to... Read more

By the February 13, 2014

Editorials

U.S. should protect Knox from Italian injustice

An Italian jury found Amanda Knox guilty of murder and sentenced her to 28 and a half years in Italian prison for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. This... Read more

By the February 6, 2014

Editorials

Olympic message lost during Sochi coverage

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will commence this Friday, letting the sports, rather than the political games, finally begin. Sochi, a resort town with subtropical temperatures, is far from the... Read more

By the February 6, 2014

Editorials

Housing office must improve communication

Most students discovered changes to the Housing Selection Handbook last Monday after a few students made a Facebook event in protest, not when the Office of Residential Living changed the... Read more

By the February 6, 2014

Voices

No better time for Obama to draw the line with Saudi Arabia

President Obama is reportedly planning a fence-mending trip to Saudi Arabia, but if he does go to Riyadh it should be to draw some lines in the sand and ask... Read more

By February 6, 2014

Voices

Carrying On: Financial aid stays within gates

Every year, Georgetown students organize their housing options for the upcoming school year, and, every year, Georgetown housing, through the intellectual miracle that is the points system, sets our fate... Read more

By February 6, 2014

Voices

Chris Christie is Richard Sherman, just with worse results

Loud, boisterous, unfiltered. These words can provide an accurate description of both Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Christie spent four years brashly and occasionally... Read more

By February 6, 2014

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