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Toeing the Line: Free Speech and Sex on Campus

By Lisa Burgoa October 13, 2017

When professor Derek Goldman was directing “In The Next Room, or the vibrator play” last spring, he was acutely aware that, to some on campus, the production would appear salacious at first blush....

VIEWPOINT: In Pursuit of Inquiry, Welcome Disagreeable Speech

By Heidi Li Feldman October 6, 2017

In the United States, universities are the premier institutions for open inquiry in the pursuit of learning. Because of the particular role freedoms of speech and expression play in this enterprise, all...

Research Project Launches To Document Free Speech

By Megan Carey October 6, 2017

Former journalist and journalism lecturer Sanford J. Ungar will explore the status of censorship and free expression in the United States through a new two-year Free Speech Project beginning this fall. The...

LARKIN: Reaffirm Free Speech to Battle Hate

LARKIN: Reaffirm Free Speech to Battle Hate

By Tanner Larkin October 4, 2017

“Hate speech is not free speech!” read one sign that greeted Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week when he arrived at Georgetown University Law Center to address freedom of expression on college...

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Students and faculty protested both Sessions policies as attorney general and the selective nature of the event by taking a knee outside the venue.

Amid Protests, Sessions Lectures GULC Audience on Free Speech

By Jesus Rodriguez September 29, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended free speech rights on college campuses and condemned protesters who have tried to curtail them at an invitation-only Georgetown University Law Center event Tuesday. Law...

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Administrators, Students Re-Examine State of Free Speech at Georgetown

By Hannah Urtz September 28, 2017

Georgetown must continue to facilitate spaces for meaningful dialogue and open exchange of diverse ideas, according to a panel on free speech and expression held Tuesday evening in the Healey Family...

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to speak at Georgetown Law today yo condemn what he says are assaults on free speech on college campuses.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Speak Today at Georgetown Law

By Jeff Cirillo September 26, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to give a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center to condemn rising opposition to unrestricted free speech on college campuses this afternoon. Sessions’...

A Walk Through Red Square

By William Leo September 8, 2017

William Leo is a Hoya Staff Writer Conversation on campus is constant. Walking through Red Square, students can overhear hundreds of their peers gathered in spirited conversation. Although few recognize...

EDITORIAL: Preserving the Free Exchange of Ideas

By Editorial Board September 1, 2017

Last month’s chaos in Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia a mere few hours away, captured headlines long after the protests ended and the streets cleared. The rally and its aftermath...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Ahmad S. Dallal, a history professor at the American University in Beirut, will serve as the new Dean of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar starting Sept. 1.

Incoming SFS-Q Dean To Prioritize Academic Freedom, Independent Research

By Christian Paz July 13, 2017

Maintaining Georgetown’s academic freedom and expanding partnerships between the university’s main campus and Qatar campus will be priorities for Ahmad S. Dallal, the newly appointed dean of the...

EDITORIAL: Our Closing Thoughts

By Editorial Board April 28, 2017

In an eventful year for the university, Washington, D.C., and nation, topics from the protection of free speech to ensuring affordability to the basketball program to the university’s role in the current...

University to Implement Free Speech Policy for Faculty

By Isabelle Groenewegen March 3, 2017

The university is working to implement a free speech and expression policy for faculty, according to university administrators at the second Hoya Identity Town Hall on Monday. Georgetown’s Committee...

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