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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

VIEWPOINT: Include Students in Campus Decisions

VIEWPOINT: Include Students in Campus Decisions

By Naveen Shah and Pratik Jacob April 26, 2025

As seniors on Georgetown University’s College Academic Council (CAC), we’ve collaborated with professors, deans and university stakeholders for four years. As first-years, we led the successful charge...

VIEWPOINT: Strive for Truth, Never Yield

VIEWPOINT: Strive for Truth, Never Yield

By Evie Steele April 11, 2025

I was in high school when I first read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses,” which chronicles the title character’s reflection on his years of travel, as recorded in Homer’s “Odyssey.”...

VIEWPOINT: Reject Weaponization of Jewish Identity, Stand with Khan Suri

VIEWPOINT: Reject Weaponization of Jewish Identity, Stand with Khan Suri

This statement was co-authored by an ad hoc group of Jewish students, faculty and staff of Georgetown University, including Jason Goodman (GRD ’26), Sarah Minion (LAW ’26), Emma Pinto (LAW ’27),...

VIEWPOINT: Vote Against the GUSA Divestment Referendum

VIEWPOINT: Vote Against the GUSA Divestment Referendum

By Jacob Callahan April 11, 2025

On April 14, Georgetown University students will vote on a measure titled “An ACT OF REFERENDUM to Establish Transparency Regarding Investments Made by the University AND Demand Georgetown Uphold Its...

VIEWPOINT: Keeping Our Current and Future Hoyas in Mind

VIEWPOINT: Keeping Our Current and Future Hoyas in Mind

By Lisa Belokur and Ayana Thomas April 4, 2025

In the future, when you reflect on your time at Georgetown, you may remember walking to class with friends through Red Square, throwing a frisbee in the sun on Copley Lawn or moving into a residence hall...

VIEWPOINT: Combat Period Poverty on Campus

VIEWPOINT: Combat Period Poverty on Campus

By Ameara Smith April 4, 2025

Four hundred and fifty-one. That is the average number of periods a woman will have in her lifetime. Periods are not just a bodily function — they also bring pain, mood changes and, for many, financial...

VIEWPOINT: Reject Silence, Defend Academic Freedom at GU

VIEWPOINT: Reject Silence, Defend Academic Freedom at GU

By Minahil Mahmud March 28, 2025

On March 17, masked immigration agents arrested Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow and teacher Badar Khan Suri outside his home in Northern Virginia. Khan Suri is being held without charges in a...

VIEWPOINT: Follow Your Moral Compass

VIEWPOINT: Follow Your Moral Compass

By Rabbi Rachel Gartner March 28, 2025

In response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s chilling detainment of the recent Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil without due process accompanied by the threat to...

VIEWPOINT: Don't Abandon Your Artistic Passions at College

VIEWPOINT: Don’t Abandon Your Artistic Passions at College

By Stratton Rebish March 14, 2025

Some things are meant to be left behind.  Entering college, students undergo some natural shedding. Perhaps they stop playing an instrument or abandon their favorite sitcom, strictly because their...

VIEWPOINT: Measure Student Belonging Better

VIEWPOINT: Measure Student Belonging Better

By Peter Sloniewsky March 14, 2025

On Feb. 18, every member of the Georgetown University student body received an email invitation to participate in a university Cultural Climate Survey, intended to gather information on students’ sense...

VIEWPOINT: Work Smarter with AI

VIEWPOINT: Work Smarter with AI

By Nhan Phan February 28, 2025

There’s sort of an unspoken rule in academia: If it feels too easy, then it’s probably wrong.  Using artificial intelligence (AI), with its ability to summarize complex readings in mere seconds,...

VIEWPOINT: Consider What You Lose Leaving the Hilltop

VIEWPOINT: Consider What You Lose Leaving the Hilltop

By Sara Eyob February 21, 2025

In 2023, I arrived at Georgetown University as a first-year with my heart set on majoring in public policy. Thus, in my first semester, I took “PPOL-2000: How Public Policy Works.” To this day, it...

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