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Maren Fagan/The Hoya | Lauinger Library hosted the third Edible Book Festival to unite the community with food and baked goods inspired by literature with judges and attendees voting on their favorites, giving awards to the winners and selecting a people’s choice award on April 8.

Edible Book Festival Celebrates Literature With Cakes, Community

By Maren Fagan, Academics Desk Editor April 11, 2024

Lauinger Library hosted its third Edible Book Festival to showcase student, staff and faculty members’ literature-inspired baked goods and food on April 8.  The festival featured 14 cakes, cookie...

VIEWPOINT: Change Dialogue on Body Image

VIEWPOINT: Change Dialogue on Body Image

By Alaina McGill April 1, 2023

CW: This article discusses eating disorders. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. With the pervasiveness of social media in our daily lives and overexposure to fabricated...

Five Finalists Selected for Georgetown Public Policy Challenge

Five Finalists Selected for Georgetown Public Policy Challenge

By Nina Raj March 21, 2022

Five teams were chosen to advance to the final round of the 2022 Georgetown University Public Policy Challenge, where participants submit policy proposals targeting a Washington, D.C. issue of their choice,...

Meet Your 2017 Mr. Georgetown Candidates!

Meet Your 2017 Mr. Georgetown Candidates!

By Mike Radice and Mike Radice October 31, 2017

If the competition to find a ticket were not fierce enough, the competition for the crowning of Mr. Georgetown Class of 2017 promises to be one of the fiercest ever. From its promises of song to dance...

Google vs. Apple: Why Their Competition Is Good For You

Google vs. Apple: Why Their Competition Is Good For You

By Bianca DiSanto October 21, 2016

Autumn is known as the season of endless midterms, overpriced Starbucks specialty drinks, sweater weather and, most importantly, new phone releases. While die-hard iPhone users are adjusting to Apple’s...

The Competitive Edge of Uniqueness

By Rahul Desai March 22, 2016

American society is typified by its theoretical commitments to capitalism and, therefore, to competition. From an early age, American children are pushed to play sports like football and tennis — that...

RAMLOW: Oversensitivity Devalues Youth Athletic Culture

RAMLOW: Oversensitivity Devalues Youth Athletic Culture

By Hugh Ramlow February 2, 2016

Sometimes we take good ideas too far. I am all for good sportsmanship and making other people feel good about themselves, but even those ideas have their limits. Recently the Wisconsin Interscholastic...

A Little More Credit

A Little More Credit

By The Editorial Board October 30, 2015

Internships during the school year are an integral part of the student experience at Georgetown, preparing students for the working world and allowing them to try out different career options before graduation....

NASA Commons
Students in NASA’s Student Launch Rocketry Competition watch a rocket take off in Tooele County, Utah during the 2013-2014 contest. Georgetown’s new rocketry team hopes to compete in this year’s competition.

Students Launch Rocketry Team

By Lucy Prout September 18, 2015

When Eric DeShields’ (MSB ’18) plans for a Georgetown solar go-kart racing club did not quite pan out, he decided to settle for the next best thing: a rocketry club. The Georgetown Rocketry Team...

Dear Applicant, Maybe Next Year

Dear Applicant, Maybe Next Year

By Phalguni Vetrichelvan September 11, 2015

When I first arrived on campus as a freshman, I was a bundle of emotions: excited to start a new part of my life, scared due to the newness of it all and beyond nervous to see if I would succeed. My definition...

Iowa Firm Wins MSB Competition

By Charlotte Allen January 23, 2015

ScoutPro LLC team from Lone Tree, Iowa was named Farm Bureau Entrepreneur of the Year Jan. 14, winning the first-ever Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge. The McDonough School of Business Global Social...

Student Wins Design Contest

By Andrew Wallender January 23, 2015

Tori Hideshima (COL ’15) did not know much about graphic design until this fall. But after only a semester in Professor L. Collier Hyams’ Intro to Graphic Design class, her artwork will be featured...

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