The approximately 50 percent of students at Georgetown who elect to study abroad look forward to many of the same cliches: an abundance of local delicacies, a daily schedule suddenly not measured in...
As I walked into the movie theater with my friend, I found myself surrounded by all sorts of people whispering and shouting in Lebanese; we were all sharing in that pre-movie excitement, and rumor had...
I’ve been on the road a great deal this academic term, a temporary inhabitant of the terminals in various cities on the East Coast, the West Coast and sites in between. In those journeys it has become...
To the Editor:
I read Jasmine White’s “Why I Won’t Ever Change My Last Name” with curiosity … and indignation. I am a Class of 2014 alum and have been married a whopping five months. So clearly,...
Less than a week after watching my Republicans stomp through an incredibly successful midterm election, it seems odd that I would be writing anything other than a gleeful victory lap. While I am salivating...
At around 10 p.m. on March 17, I was sitting on my bed in Village C East, crying and holding both a bag of ricin and my scared friend, Daniel Milzman. For the next hour, I tried to convince him to stay,...
President Barack Obama flew to Beijing on Friday to meet with his counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. No doubt China’s recent flattening in growth was discussed;...
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, and we don’t have school off.
One hundred years ago, World War I started, and four years later, it ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The bells rang,...
If you were among those double-checking that your midterm was going to be graded on a curve, you’re most likely one of two things: an orgo student or a Republican.
For those of you who somehow...
One of my mother’s favorite aphorisms is that one should never fight against things one doesn’t like; she only fights for things in which she believes. Growing up, I struggled with this because...
By now, it has become cliche to invoke Georgetown’s Jesuit identity across virtually every category of university policy.
“Georgetown University, as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, is committed...
Ask anyone over the age of 40, and he or she will likely say that the last great American broadcast journalist was Walter Cronkite.
From 1937 until 1981, Cronkite reported on many important events in...
