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The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

VIEWPOINT: Build on RA Union's Success

VIEWPOINT: Build on RA Union’s Success

By Sam Lovell April 26, 2025

On a warm spring evening late last year, I joined a group of students to celebrate what would ultimately be one of the most meaningful moments of my undergraduate career: the unionization of Georgetown...

VIEWPOINT: Vote No, Honor Academic Freedom

VIEWPOINT: Vote No, Honor Academic Freedom

We are concerned with the referendum that the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) put forth for the undergraduate student body to vote on from April 26 to 28. The referendum, titled “ACT...

VIEWPOINT: Stay on the Record, Keep Resisting Self-Censorship

VIEWPOINT: Stay on the Record, Keep Resisting Self-Censorship

By Clayton Kincade April 26, 2025

When I write, I have one primary goal: I want you to bleed. I want the knife of my words to cut your soul and leave you there wondering how to fix the emotional mess.  At my worst, I am a plastic kitchen...

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...

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