Category: Chatter

On Israeli Apartheid Week

By Matt Martin and Eman Abdelfadeel • April 11, 2016

Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine is committed to raising awareness about the Palestinian cause through the framework of human rights and social...

A Fresh View of GUSA

By Erin Luck • February 22, 2016

Three weeks ago, I received an email that would change the course of my semester. Initially, I was puzzled; I had not filled out any applications for the...

A Plea for the Survey

By Zachary Schroepfer • February 4, 2016

We, the members of the Freshman Executive Committee, as a body formed to represent the Class of 2019, strongly urge our classmates to take the university’s...

When Friends Fill in the Mental Health Gap

By Stephen Cacace • February 2, 2016

The guy who’s the life of the party at the Tombs. A friend who seems a little down lately. That woman at the coffee shop who is keeping to herself. Mental...

Embracing Risk, Speakers Share Perspectives

By Opinion Editor • November 16, 2015

Risk-taking is frightening — but it should be pursued by students. So stood the premise of this year's TEDxGeorgetown conference. Speakers, including students,...

TPP: Road to Ratification

By Robert Danco • November 15, 2015

In 1994, the United States, Canada and Mexico ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (known as NAFTA) and created a huge trilateral trading bloc....

An Ode to Princess

By Darius Baxter • November 14, 2015

Dear Reader, My dog died recently. She was an almost two-year-old Yorkie that somehow managed to find herself stuck in a Georgetown townhouse with four...

How I Came to Georgetown

By Margot Keale • November 14, 2015

I was speaking with a friend on Sunday when she asked how I was doing. It’s a question asked so often of us that we rarely give it a thought before offering...

Journeying Through a Refugee Crisis

By Elijah Jatovsky • November 14, 2015

I never thought hiking through the Jordanian desert was going to wind me up on the stage of Gaston Hall. One of the people I met on a hike during the second...

Just One of Millions

By Patrick Lim • November 14, 2015

It was Thursday, February 12, 2015 and Elijah Jatovsky and I sat in Arabic media class. I picked up my phone as we were transitioning to another presentation,...