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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Right Idea, Wrong Donors

By The Editorial Board February 23, 2012

Think your last year as a student at Georgetown is the last time the university will ask you for money? Think again. Even families burdened by growing tuition bills and alums paying off student loans...

The Pursuit of Happiness: Eliminating Bureaucracy

By The Editorial Board February 5, 2012

An unfinished version of the 2012 Student Life Report released to the press Sunday analyzes the effectiveness of the university's funding boards and the state of campus organizations, focusing on the levels...

Open Door Policy Unlocks Minds

By The Editorial Board February 5, 2012

It's not really office hours if you have to schedule an appointment. We recognize that our professors face growing research and administrative demands. Their schedules, like ours, fill up quickly. For...

Gains by GUSA: SAFE Reform and Beyond

By The Editorial Board January 30, 2012

Last week, we were thrilled when students took the final step in the year-long process of Student Activities Fee Endowment reform by voting in favor of all three proposals. Georgetown University Student...

Making Gym Fees Work Out

By The Editorial Board January 30, 2012

Students have the freedom to decide how often they dine at O'Donovan Hall, choosing from a variety of tiered weekly and block plans. But if we can control how often we consume our heart's desire of Hershey's...

Risky Rents: University Lacks Off-Campus Housing Help

By The Editorial Board September 30, 2011

There's a rite of passage that takes place before the junior or senior year of almost every Georgetown student — and it's not the long-awaited 21st birthday. Rather, the time-honored tradition of...

GUSA: An Association Lacking Representation

By The Editorial Board September 27, 2011

Gerrymandering is frowned upon in representative government. Unfortunately, it seems the Georgetown University Student Association has forgotten the basic principles of this breed of political system. Thursday...

Hostile Outside the Hilltop

By The Editorial Board September 23, 2011

There's no doubt that for many incoming students, the premier location of Washington, D.C., is a definite draw. Yet the District is swiftly becoming more of a deterrent than anything else. As D.C. commissioners...

A Collective Memory

By The Editorial Board September 9, 2011

Almost all Georgetown students will be able to tell you where they were that sunny September morning 10 years ago. Most of us were still in elementary school, yet undeniably Sept. 11, 2001 was a political...

‘Project Move-In’: Making the Hilltop a Home

By The Editorial Board September 2, 2011

For many students with parents by their sides for the big move, it can be hard to imagine a New Student Orientation free of a farewell hug. But for students receiving the 1789 Scholarship from the Georgetown...

Sekou Biddle: The Key to Engaging Students in the DC Argument

By The Editorial Board April 19, 2011

After passing the now-infamous Disorderly Conduct Amendment Act in January, the D.C. Council proved that it had failed its student constituents by imposing noise laws that blatantly target the young adult...

‘More Likely Than Not’ an Unjust Burden on Students

By The Editorial Board April 7, 2011

For a university located near some of the nation's most hallowed halls of justice, the "more likely than not" clause that guides the Student Code of Conduct offers a lesson in injustice. Students of...

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