Two weeks ago, the roughly 1,580 students comprising the Class of 2019 arrived on campus. Beginning with New Student Orientation and trailing into the first months of their time on campus, these thousand...
In the so-called ‘real world,’ I’m as middle-class as one can get. My household income, made up of a single
parent white-collar salary and no other assets to speak of, hovers almost exactly...
Everywhere I go — no matter if I’m talking to a fellow student, a restaurant owner in the affluent historic district or a worker living in an informal settlement — I am asked the same question:...
Ever since the fateful day when Donald Trump took the lead in the Republican presidential polls, it has seemed as though every major news network cannot go a day without feigning bewilderment at that fact....
When the two of us look at life after college, there seems to be a clear fork in the road between private sector jobs that aim to give students the best outlet for learning and public sector positions...
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
My restless analysis of this question began with a haircut.
Over the summer, I cut off 12 inches of my hair. With...
The start of my freshman year at Georgetown was unremarkable. In the first couple weeks of school, I quickly fell into a group of friends — all male — who lived on the floor above me. We ate all our...
In the spring of 2013, Willa Murphy was violently raped by a fellow Georgetown student.
It was such a traumatic experience that it took over a year after her rape before she was able to tell anyone,...
The number of complaints we’ve heard about Counseling and Psychiatric Services is unacceptable. With mental health at the forefront of national dialogue, it is no wonder that students have penned op-ed after op-ed after op-ed decrying...
“Weak.”
“Misguided.”
“An abject failure.”
Over the past several months, these criticisms have been hurled at President Barack Obama by an array of pundits and politicians for his policies...
To the Editor:
My undergraduate class will celebrate its 20-year reunion at the end of May. Though I have attended in the past, I’ll stay home this year for the sake of my classmates. I would be such...
This week marks International Israeli Apartheid week, an international series of events taking place in late February and early March that aim to raise awareness of the human rights issues at stake in...
