Opinion

Thoughts from the Georgetown community.

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Our throw away society can’t continue forever—recycle!

Three months ago, I went to Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony. Although I have many joyous memories of the occasion, one of the more lasting is also the most disheartening: the... Read more

By April 23, 2009

Voices

This Georgetown Life: College tales: Voice seniors on what they’ll remember

Megawatt Grins I don’t know if it was the convenience store champagne, the jet lag, or the allure of drinking in a Parisian phone-booth, but I will never forget that... Read more

By the April 23, 2009

Editorials

Students’ inboxes far too eventful

If the University thinks its students have time to read the numerous broadcast e-mails they send out for announcements and events, they should think again. The meager 20 megabyte inboxes... Read more

By the April 23, 2009

Editorials

Time to take pollution down to zero

In 1989, broadcast television behemoth Ted Turner created Captain Planet, a cartoon character whose mission was to make the world eco-friendly by influencing young people with his mantra, “The power... Read more

By the April 23, 2009

Editorials

Squabbling Saps GUSA Confidence

Late last night, GUSA finally passed the Fall 2009 budget for all student funding boards on campus. The budget was approved in late February and has been stalling in the... Read more

By the April 23, 2009

Editorials

Obama lays a foundation in Gaston

In the most closely watched macroeconomics lecture in the school’s history, President Barack Obama spoke on campus Tuesday to defend the first three months of his administration’s economic policy and... Read more

By the April 16, 2009

Editorials

Censorship unacceptable on campus

Though it carried a warning that the reader should “chill out” and take the articles lightly, The Hoya’s April Fools’ issue has provoked a wave of criticism by Georgetown students... Read more

By the April 16, 2009

Editorials

Let D.C. gays walk down the aisle

Headlines around the country last week heralded actions taken by the state supreme court of Iowa and the Vermont state legislature that legalized same-sex marriages. Though its actions received less... Read more

By the April 16, 2009

Editorials

Quake rocks L’Aquila

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Italy last Monday, reducing much the small town of L’Aquila to rubble, claiming 289 lives and leaving thousands of others injured and homeless. The tragedy hit close to home for the Georgetown Italian department, which conducts a summer study abroad program in the small medieval town.

By April 16, 2009

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Gtown housing: the bad, the really bad, and the worst

For me, the inordinate difficulty of obtaining affordable housing as an upperclassmen and lackluster facilities we must endure if we’re lucky enough to get campus housing fly in the face of Georgetown’s commitment to cura personalis.

By April 16, 2009

Voices

The non-crisis of obscure grad speakers

GW’s got Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Stanford’s got Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. NYU will host Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Franklin & Marshall is planning to welcome former Secretary of State Colin Powell. And Arizona State University even managed to net President Barack Obama, despite its absurd refusal to grant him an honorary degree. Meanwhile, we Georgetown students are still waiting to hear who will speak at the Commencements for each of the undergraduate schools this May, and if the last few years are any indication, the speakers addressing the Class of 2009 won’t have nearly the same A-list cred.

By April 16, 2009

Voices

The Hoya’s April Fool’s issue controversy: Only empathy will prevent future crises

I frequently overlook Georgetown’s diversity-related issues. As the graduate of a small, mostly white high school that makes Georgetown look like a cornucopia of diversity, it’s easy for me to miss the tension between mainstream Georgetown and various minority groups, since I’m part of the majority. The ongoing discourse about The Hoya’s April Fools’ edition, however, illuminates a darker side of Georgetown that a naïve freshman like myself had failed to fully recognize.

By April 16, 2009

Voices

The Hoya is eager to engage in dialogue

In the over two weeks since The Hoya’s annual April Fools’ Day edition came out, it has become clear that many articles in the issue were both distasteful and offensive.

By April 16, 2009

Editorials

GPB books T-Pain

T-Pain, the R&B singer/rapper behind songs like “I’m ‘n Luv (Wit a Stripper)” and “Buy U a Drank” will be performing at the McDonough Gymnasium on April 18, according to Georgetown Program Board Chair Danny Fortin. Tay Dizm, an R&B artist signed to T-Pain’s label, will be opening.

By April 2, 2009

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor 04.02.2009

To the Editor, We were astonished to read that from 2005 to 2008, GU spent nearly one million dollars on lobbying for a boathouse in the C&O Canal National Historical... Read more

By April 2, 2009

Editorials

Vandalism is attack on community

During the last few months, Georgetown’s campus has seen a slew of vandalism that clearly goes beyond typical acts of drunken buffoonery. The two separate incidents of defacement of the... Read more

By the April 2, 2009

Editorials

New bus route is punch to the GUT

Students who took the GUTS bus to Dupont Circle last weekend were in for a not-so-pleasant surprise. According to University spokesperson Julie Green Bataille, Georgetown tested for the first time... Read more

By the April 2, 2009

Editorials

Boathouse should not be a priority

Last week, the Voice reported that Georgetown has spent nearly $1 million out of its operating budget since 2005 to lobby for the rights to build a boathouse on the... Read more

By the April 2, 2009

Voices

This Georgetown Life: Righteous karma

Righteous karma: tales of pranks from Voice staffers

By the April 2, 2009

Voices

A theory about theories

The idea that science gives us insight into today’s major policy issues—the most important, of course, being the financial crisis—hugely misrepresents what social science can tell us about the economic world.

By April 2, 2009