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Our Generation’s Various Distractions Shape the Future

By Masha Goncharova November 17, 2011

We are our own unique generation. In fact, we are a generation that's at the crux of changing technology and social patterns. But more than anything else, we are a generation distracted. We are so distracted...

Hitting the Books: A Library’s Purpose

By Masha Goncharova October 31, 2011

If Georgetown were suspended on its own, as a microcosm without the rest of the world looming outside the front gates, we would probably go to the library for fun. We would pick up books at random about...

Occupiers on Target

By Ricky Garza October 28, 2011

Divisive, messy and disorganized, the protesters currently occupying Zuccotti Park in Manhattan have been derided for everything from their hairstyles to their skewed demographics, which lean toward...

Stressed Out: Fall Break Needed for GU’s Health

By Nneka Jackson October 25, 2011

I'm tired. It's halfway through the semester, and I've had about enough. I get irritated at the sight of the cursor in Microsoft Word. Without coffee, I'm almost unapproachable. I've even begun calling...

Caught Up in the Rush

By Masha Goncharova October 7, 2011

Georgetown breeds political minds — at least its reputation says it does. It makes sense that an institution in the heart of the nation's capital infuses politics, pragmatism, steadfastness and determination...

Pluralism in Action: United by Differences

By Nicholas Nathan September 9, 2011

Any kind of conference that attempts to preach or inform on moral issues tends to provoke a degree of cynicism from students. As the freshman class recovered from Hurricane Irene and grew exhausted with...

Foul Shots: Part of a Game

By Victor Cha September 2, 2011

The Georgetown men's basketball team's trip to China gained international attention as video of the unfortunate fight between the Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets went viral around the world. There have since...

Silenced but Still Hopeful

By Khadijah Qamar April 5, 2011

Today's young adults find themselves in a unique position. With the Internet, media and new communications technology, the world doesn't just connect faster, it also moves faster. We are not only the catalysts...

Taking Back Campus

By Alex Henderson April 5, 2011

In the past, students congregated in Healy Hall and White-Gravenor Hall to socialize. Modern-day students, however, only get the mess of gray concrete and cinderblocks that is Lauinger Library, the sterile...

Survivor: Hilltop Edition

By Kavya Devarakonda April 1, 2011

The Hilltop is rife with competition. What else is to be expected when 7,000 Type-A overachievers converge on a 104-acre plot of land? Students compete with each other, sizing each other up on everything...

Outraged Undergraduates Protest Certificate Change

By Thomas Zuzelo March 29, 2011

Over the past year, the School of Foreign Service administration has made profound changes to the international development certificate program. The certificate, created by student demand and spearheaded...

Graduate Student Organization Fails to Serve Students

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons March 18, 2011

One thing that all candidates running in the recent Georgetown University Student Association elections shared was a belief that whoever won would represent all Georgetown students. That is the way it...

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