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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Uniting Research Resources

By The Editorial Board September 17, 2013

Students curious about the scholarly work their professors do outside the classroom might be irked to find that getting these answers requires a bit of research on students’ end, too. Georgetown takes...

Floor Funds Come Up Short

By The Editorial Board September 13, 2013

Every campus residence requests $25 or so from students in floor funds at the beginning of the year. Support for the method of retrieving that contribution, however, is not nearly so uniform. Problems...

The Right to Stay Home

By The Editorial Board September 13, 2013

The Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act was passed in the District of Columbia five years ago to accommodate ill employees and maintain workplace sanitation. Due to a collection of loopholes, however, 30 percent...

Sensible Selection Changes

By The Editorial Board September 13, 2013

The summertime sprint for rising seniors to secure a lease off campus is likely the most stressful time in Georgetown housing, but the October deadline for rising upperclassmen to determine on-campus housing...

Social Life a Must for Clubs

By The Editorial Board September 6, 2013

As club recruitment winds down this week, student leaders should take care to expand their focus from attracting new members to retaining those they already have. Most underclassmen looking to get involved...

Make Waitlists History

By The Editorial Board September 6, 2013

If you were looking to complete your history requirement in the School of Foreign Service this semester, there’s a good chance you will hit some roadblocks. The SFS requires students to take three...

Support, Now Sanction Free

By The Editorial Board August 30, 2013

A welcome shift came for off-campus student life in early August: the creation of the Office of Neighborhood Life. Before this year, off-campus resources and Code of Student Conduct disciplinary proceedings...

No Break for Transparency

By The Editorial Board August 27, 2013

The end of summer: shorter days, pre-orientation programs and an opening to sweep unpopular news under the rug. Over the past several summer vacations, a concerning pattern has emerged of the administration...

More Clubs Than Meet the Eye

By The Editorial Board August 27, 2013

It is easy for incoming freshmen to be overwhelmed by the hype surrounding a few high-profile student groups and then quickly disheartened by a generic email rejection. The challenge many underclassmen...

Valuing Your Degree

By The Editorial Board May 16, 2013

Many factors contribute to the value of a degree: whether it is a bachelor’s or an associate, the major it signifies, the prestige of the university by which it was awarded and so on. However, the determinant...

Fairness Lost in Translation

By The Editorial Board April 13, 2013

The Walsh School of Foreign Service is perhaps best known among students — aside from the grueling Map of the Modern World course — for its intense language proficiency exams. And while fluency in...

A Major Pay-Off

By The Editorial Board April 9, 2013

For the first time ever, the McDonough School of Business was Georgetown’s most selective undergraduate school, accepting only 15.9 percent of its applicants for the Class of 2017, down from 16.8 percent...

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