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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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VIEWPOINT: Protect LGBTQ+ Stories From Censorship

VIEWPOINT: Protect LGBTQ+ Stories From Censorship

By Grace Rivers September 1, 2023

The United States faced its largest ban of books recorded in any year from July 2021 to June 2022. There were more than 2,500 individual book bans across the nation in that period according to Pen America’s...

KEHOE: Reject Calls for Facebook Censorship

KEHOE: Reject Calls for Facebook Censorship

By Sam Kehoe January 17, 2020

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to have no friends. After giving a speech at  Georgetown University last fall advocating for “voice and inclusion,” pundits pounced on the executive...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | Georgetown Universitys Qatar campus ranked in the top 10 of a list by FIRE, a nonprofit that aims to protect civil rights of students and faculty, which identified American colleges with the most restrictive censorship.

Georgetown in Qatar Ranks Poorly on Free Speech

By Catriona Kendall February 15, 2019

Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar, was named one of the 10 U.S. colleges with the most restrictive censorship by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Tuesday. FIRE, a nonprofit...

TIMSIT: Changing Faces of Censorship

By Annabelle Timsit October 14, 2016

Clark Kerr, the late president of the University of California, Berkeley once said that a university “is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.”...

Grassroots Journalists Talk Lebanese Media Censorship

By Henry Greene March 22, 2016

Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah Shmaitilly, the founders of Beirut Syndrome, a grassroots journalism site based in Beirut, Lebanon, discussed the tendency of the Lebanese media to censor their reporting in an...

A Suspect Email Filter

By The Editorial Board October 4, 2013

"This message was posted by Erika Cohen Derr under authority granted by the Division of Student Affairs." This disclaimer concludes every campus-wide email sent by student groups. Few readers notice...

Fine Art and the First Amendment

By Marissa Amendolia January 28, 2011

This is not the first time a publicly funded arts organization has come into conflict with politicians who oppose certain subject matter. The '90s saw the National Endowment for the Arts lose 40 percent...

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