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QUALLEN: Standing Up For LGBTQ Rights, Past and Present

QUALLEN: Standing Up For LGBTQ Rights, Past and Present

By Matthew Quallen October 24, 2014

"Two recent letters on your editorial page,” wrote Fr. Robert Henle, S.J., then Georgetown’s president, in the Catholic Standard in 1974, “have accused Georgetown University of in some way capitulating...

Janet Zhu

Remember to Yak Responsibly

By Brian Piatigorski October 24, 2014

At this point, the majority of campus has used, encountered or dismissed the relatively new social media platform, Yik Yak. Especially through peak midterm season, much of the student population has...

CORREIA: Congress Subject to Groupthink

CORREIA: Congress Subject to Groupthink

By Tricia Correia October 24, 2014

"President Obama wants to conduct medical experiments on the minors flooding the U.S. border.” “Environmentalism will lead to a world without energy, similar to the world in the movie ‘Dawn of...

Julia Hennrikus

Making Georgetown Cleaner and Greener

By Sean McLernon, Caitlin Meagher, and Nina Sherburne October 21, 2014

Earlier this month, ExxonMobil published a blog post presenting its position on the burgeoning international fossil fuel divestment movement — unsurprisingly, they do not look favorably on it. Claiming...

MAIN: Steyer’s Cash Buys Mixed Message

MAIN: Steyer’s Cash Buys Mixed Message

By Hunter Main October 21, 2014

Those who have benefited most from the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which allowed unlimited — and often undisclosed — contributions to and spending by political action committees, have been...

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Pluralism Still Essential Amid Gay Marriage Victories

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Pluralism Still Essential Amid Gay Marriage Victories

By Tucker Cholvin and Thomas Christiansen October 21, 2014

Between the time we’ve finished this column and the time this article goes to press Tuesday morning, it’s entirely likely that several more completely improbable states will have been added to the...

US Cases of Ebola Distract From Crisis

By Hanaa Khadraoui October 21, 2014

"EBOLA MAY BE IN D.C. WEAR A FACE MASK AND DON’T SHARE DRINKS!" read one text I got last week from a good friend of mine.The actual text had about eight more exclamation points, but I have confidence...

Old Leo’s Policy Flexible, Not Fraudulent

By Will Simons October 17, 2014

To the Editor: In an article titled “Leo’s Limits Meal Swipe Use” from Oct. 10 [A5], The Hoya described Aramark and the administration’s motivations and students’ reactions to the recent enforcement...

SAC Needs Nothing More Than a Diet

By Alexander Zajac October 17, 2014

To the editor: Patrick Musgrave, chair of SAC, recently wrote an article in which he proposed many steps to help get student groups more funding for their activities. The solution, however, is so much...

Michelle Xu

A Place Between Home and the Hilltop

By Josi Sinagoga October 17, 2014

“There’s no place like home.” I always held this cliche in the highest regard, for the feeling of coming home should be unrivalled. Upon my return home for my first collegiate winter break, I...

FIELDS: To Be Effective, Liberal Arts Should Liberate

FIELDS: To Be Effective, Liberal Arts Should Liberate

By Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. October 17, 2014

A Jesuit named John Courtney Murray once warned us in a prophetic book that the freedoms we Americans enjoy are constantly threatened by what he calls “barbarism,” which results from the very nature...

Julia Hennrikus

Practicality Can’t Be Lost in Hong Kong

By Cheryl Lau October 10, 2014

National Day is supposed to be a day of celebration for most Chinese. Yet, in the small city-state of Hong Kong, this Oct. 1 holiday was the beginning of a movement. Self-government and self-determination...

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