Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Hoya History

By The Hoya Staff January 16, 2015

In its mission to cover Georgetown’s news of the day, The Hoya has in fact covered some of the 20th and 21st centuries’ most enduring news. Below is a collection of some of The Hoya’s most memorable...

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In Qatar, SFS Subject to Brutal Regime

By Ari Goldstein October 3, 2014

Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service operates a satellite campus in an oppressive Middle Eastern dictatorship. Funded by oil money and corrupt sheikhs, Georgetown University effectively...

ACLU Holds Talk on DC Issues

By Natasha Khan February 26, 2013

The Future Leaders Council of the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital held an event Friday on civil rights issues, primarily those concerning Washington, D.C., in an effort to increase...

First Black Undergraduate Dies

By Elizabeth Garbitelli March 28, 2012

Samuel Halsey Jr. (SFS ’53), who died last month at the age of 87, left behind three siblings, four children and more than a dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But he also left an enduring...

Court Set to Review Civil Rights at Religious Schools

By Danny Funt October 4, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a landmark case that could reshape the employment practices of religious institutions. Since the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, religious...

Carving Out a Legacy

By Sarah Amos September 2, 2011

"If there has been any feeling that Georgetown students were apathetic to the civil rights cause, it was expelled by a series of events last week. The action began last Sunday when 13 students left...

Second-Generation Immigrants Caught in Limbo

By Marzena Zukowska January 19, 2011

Echos of tolerance and liberty still resonate through the streets of small towns, the offices of large corporations and the hallways of universities. The sculptors of the United States based its government...

GU NAACP President Discusses Diversity Issues

By Stephen Levy October 19, 2010

The beginning of the semester has been a turbulent time for black students at Georgetown, with racist graffiti and a climbing rope that was initially deemed to be a possible noose found under Healy. The...

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