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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

In Transition, But Incomplete

By City News Editor May 15, 2015

On her first day of classes at Georgetown in 2012, one of Celeste Chisholm’s (COL ’15) professors called her “Jonathan.” Chisholm corrected the professor, explaining that she prefers to be called...

CHISHOLM: Eating Our Future Without Innovation

By Celeste Chisholm February 27, 2015

Agronomics has grown on me. Cultivating this science of soil management and the production of field crops into a sustainable and matured art is often an unrecognized necessity. Conservation of land...

CHISHOLM: Celebrate Our Robotic Future

By Celeste Chisholm February 20, 2015

In Japan, the robotics market continues to expand with rapidity to the surprise, delight and chagrin of onlookers throughout the world. Although our imaginations may have oriented us toward a distant vision...

Finding the Place for FOMO at Georgetown

By Celeste Chisholm November 18, 2014

College life is different for everyone, but one aspect is common for most: four years of adjusting to a new environment. But for a plurality of us, the difficult process of forging new relationships, reacquainting...

Learning to Love the Cultural Void

By Celeste Chisholm June 19, 2014

What does it mean to integrate? In Japanese, I often encounter the word tokekomu — to melt into something, to become a part of it as it becomes you. The metaphor seems to imply a mutual concession,...

Cultural Revelations at the Arcade

By Celeste Chisholm May 22, 2014

I suppose one could say that I’ve been up in the air for a long time. The pressure up there is different, and so whenever I touch back down to Earth, like clockwork, my ears pop. Before too long I always...

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Lexi Dever (COL ’16), center, takes part in Coming Out Day in Red Square Oct. 11.

Transgender Students Enter Campus Spotlight

By Emma Hinchliffe April 25, 2014

Last year’s Year in Review highlighted the progression of LGBTQ student groups on campus, as well as LGBTQ rights nationally, as evidenced by the legalization of gay marriage in states across the...

Trans* Students Share Their Stories

Trans* Students Share Their Stories

By Sarah Kaplan September 20, 2013

It’s Friday afternoon, and Lexi Dever (COL ’16) is hurrying to get ready for the evening. She’d received a new skirt in the mail and is eager for an excuse to wear it. Her eyeliner is missing,...

GU Pride Adds Trans* Representative

By Madison Ashley September 13, 2013

GU Pride’s board will now include a representative for trans* students, a position formerly absent from the group. The group voted unanimously to establish the position Tuesday. The newly elected...

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