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Annabelle Timsit

TIMSIT: Curtailing Intellectual Freedom

By Annabelle Timsit September 30, 2016

Georgetown’s intellectual biodiversity is being challenged by what the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat calls the “rapid colonization of new cultural territory by an ascendant social liberalism.”...

Annabelle Timsit

Defending Honest Expression

By Annabelle Timsit September 15, 2016

A couple days ago, I attended the first class of my penultimate semester at Georgetown. During the introductory part of the class, and in front of several dozen of my peers, the professor stood up...

EDITORIAL: Disruption Hinders Dialogue

By Editorial Board September 13, 2016

On Sept. 12, it was announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would potentially be meeting in Luxembourg to further negotiate a peace settlement....

Annabelle Timsit

Struggling to Uphold Free Speech

By Annabelle Timsit September 2, 2016

In 1840, a Frenchman returned to his homeland from his journey to America and later published “Democracy in America,” a modern classic on the American political system. That young man, Alexis de...

Assure Free Speech

By The Editorial Board March 22, 2016

The Georgetown University Lecture Fund announced this month that the President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards will speak at Georgetown in April, instantly igniting much criticism and controversy....

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The GULC received a letter from FIRE, a nonprofit advocating for individual rights at American universities on behalf of students restricted from political campaigning on campus.

GULC Under Fire For Campaign Policy

By Lisa Burgoa February 9, 2016

Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor received an open letter from the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education Feb. 1 urging the university to revise its student organization policy...

Hillyer Promotes Free Speech

By Patricja Okuniewska January 29, 2016

Quin Hillyer (CAS ’86), contributing editor for the National Review and senior editor for The American Spectator, criticized attacks on free speech at Georgetown and other college campuses and spoke...

FLEMING-KLINK: Balancing Respect and Speech

FLEMING-KLINK: Balancing Respect and Speech

By Isaiah Fleming-Klink January 26, 2016

Before we left for break, I was sitting in my common room of New South 3 with our two RAs and some fellow NS3ers. We weren’t really talking about anything of particular note, but a little way into the...

KHAN: All Speech  Matters

KHAN: All Speech Matters

By Michael Khan November 17, 2015

“I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here.” Those are the...

Free Speech, Abused

By Sam Kleinman November 15, 2015

The first time I read The Georgetown Academy, I really didn’t want to respond. We all know the Internet’s golden rule: Never feed the troll. But by the time I read its attempted “defense” of free...

Reconcile Speech, Values

By The Editorial Board October 30, 2015

In a summer interview with The Hoya, serialized these past two weeks, former University President Fr. Leo O’Donovan, S.J., upheld the importance of Catholic belief and free speech on campus. O’Donovan...

Policies Define Expression

By Tara Subramaniam October 30, 2015

The Office of Residential Living and the Division of Student Affairs clarified their policies against hanging banners, flags and clothing outside windows and chalking on buildings in two university-wide...

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