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VIEWPOINT: Utilize Campus Career Resources

VIEWPOINT: Utilize Campus Career Resources

By Jacki Banks April 11, 2024

Think about the first time you slept over at a friend’s house or the first time you drove a car. As exciting as those experiences were, you might have also felt a little stressed and a little scared...

VIEWPOINT: Divest from Fossil Fuels with Transparency

VIEWPOINT: Divest from Fossil Fuels with Transparency

Climate change is anthropogenic. Human activity and, in particular, our dependence on fossil fuels, causes it. Funds from private institutions — Georgetown University included — help prop up the fossil...

EDITORIAL: GU, Address RA Concerns

By The Editorial Board April 5, 2024

A coalition of Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs) requested to unionize on March 22, submitting a letter to University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) that asked the university...

CHIN: Find Magic in the Mundane

CHIN: Find Magic in the Mundane

By Lauren Chin March 21, 2024

In elementary school, my father, younger sister and I often walked along the shoreline near our home. Several blocks from our house, a wooden dock extends several hundred yards into the water. When the...

KIM: Know What’s on the Line When Online Dating

KIM: Know What’s on the Line When Online Dating

By Diane Kim March 21, 2024

There’s a lot of discourse on the upsides and ugliness of online dating in college, but here’s the truth — it’s here to stay. Pick your poison, fiends. For the meet-cute lovers, maybe the Marriage...

EDITORIAL: Centralize Research on Campus

EDITORIAL: Centralize Research on Campus

By The Editorial Board March 14, 2024

Each semester at Georgetown University, undergraduate students participate in meaningful research opportunities, collaborating with their peers and professors to generate knowledge.  This work aligns...

KENNEDY: Prioritize Student Mental Health

KENNEDY: Prioritize Student Mental Health

By Ashley Kennedy March 14, 2024

It can be challenging — and extremely stressful — to balance life as a student-athlete: practice, classes, studying, extracurriculars and even just spending time with friends. After all, there are...

BELDING: Lessons Learned from a Losing Quarterback

BELDING: Lessons Learned from a Losing Quarterback

By Brinley Belding March 14, 2024

Set hut! The ball is in the quarterback’s hands and a receiver is open downfield. The quarterback lets the ball fly but doesn’t see the defender. The ball is picked off. No one can catch the defender...

SIMEONOVA: Reconsider Divisions

SIMEONOVA: Reconsider Divisions

By Nia Simeonova March 14, 2024

I remember this vividly, as if it were yesterday: A woman in a red dress crying on a rowdy street corner in Central London, a hostile-looking man shouting at her. As my boyfriend and I — two scared 19-year-olds...

VIEWPOINT: Open Up Through Interfaith Dialogue

VIEWPOINT: Open Up Through Interfaith Dialogue

By Riley Talbot March 14, 2024

“Did you grow up religious?”  “Do you identify with a particular faith tradition?”  “How do you pray?”  These questions are not common in upstairs Leo’s where students typically...

VIEWPOINT: Welcome Refugee Students on Campus

VIEWPOINT: Welcome Refugee Students on Campus

By Saeed Jude Samra March 1, 2024

At this very moment — following generations of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and other disruptions to public order — 110 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide,...

CHIN: Value Love and Rejection

CHIN: Value Love and Rejection

By Lauren Chin March 1, 2024

I asked her out on a Friday night in junior year. It was 2 a.m. The words were painfully blinding even on my dimmed phone screen. I had spent the past week writing and rewriting my message. The drafts...

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