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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

The Changing Face of Catholic Discipline

By Matthew Quallen March 20, 2015

Catholic school. The words evoke a stern image: punishment meted out at a ruler’s edge, crisp and abrupt as a cassock’s collar. At Catholic school, we might believe that trouble costs because discipline...

Gather Around the Table: Georgetown Food Clubs

Gather Around the Table: Georgetown Food Clubs

By Drew Applebaum and Drew Applebaum February 23, 2015

Few things bring people together quite like a good meal. Georgetown is a prime example of this. Leo's is filled with groups of friends trying to enjoy whatever happens to be served up that day, or suffering...

The Meaning of Never Forget

The Meaning of “Never Forget”

By Jonathan Marrow January 30, 2015

This past Tuesday was the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Twelve presidents and five prime ministers, including the heads of...

A Georgetown Lineage

By The Editorial Board January 27, 2015

Regardless of religious affiliation, it is undeniable that Jesuit values are woven into the Georgetown experience. Although religious practice may be a more important part of the Georgetown experience...

QUALLEN: Jesuit Ideals Facing the Slave Trade

By Matthew Quallen January 16, 2015

In 1838, Thomas Mulledy and the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves, in part to pay building debts at the schools they had established, including Georgetown. But what would happen next? The sale came following...

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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is one of the museums subject to the $2 billion Smithsonian renovation and restoration.

Smithsonian Slated for $2B Renovations

By Deirdre Collins November 21, 2014

The Smithsonian Institution will renovate museums and gardens on the South Mall campus to improve infrastructure, visitor services and accessibility in a multiyear project that will begin in 2016, the...

QUALLEN: Our Struggle To Integrate The Hilltop

QUALLEN: Our Struggle To Integrate The Hilltop

By Matthew Quallen November 21, 2014

When Patricia Brauer visited the dental clinic at Georgetown, she discovered she had a problem. Patricia was black, and at the time, the clinic served only white patients. Brauer, who enrolled at Georgetown...

QUALLEN: Standing Up For LGBTQ Rights, Past and Present

QUALLEN: Standing Up For LGBTQ Rights, Past and Present

By Matthew Quallen October 24, 2014

"Two recent letters on your editorial page,” wrote Fr. Robert Henle, S.J., then Georgetown’s president, in the Catholic Standard in 1974, “have accused Georgetown University of in some way capitulating...

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Tales From the Metro: Trivializing Racism

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Tales From the Metro: Trivializing Racism

By Tucker Cholvin and Thomas Christiansen September 30, 2014

It’s a question not uncommonly heard on Georgetown’s campus, asked by tour groups, visitors and even the random Georgetown student wondering why she has to walk to Rosslyn. Why doesn’t Georgetown...

QUALLEN: Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading

QUALLEN: Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading

By Matthew Quallen September 26, 2014

Thomas Mulledy and the Jesuits had a problem. Actually, they had hundreds of them: Across 12,000 acres, 272 slaves toiled to feed the sprawling plantation system upon which the Maryland Jesuits built their...

QUALLEN: In Protest of Student Activisms Departure

QUALLEN: In Protest of Student Activism’s Departure

By Matthew Quallen August 29, 2014

The face of a gleeful student protester graced the cover of the March 13, 1969 issue of The Hoya. A member of the Class of 1972, the student held up a burning issue of this same paper. In a strong demonstration...

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Lauinger Library in 1970.

Lauinger: The Past, Present and Future of Georgetown’s ‘Ugly’ Library

By Pat Curran August 29, 2014

The low, sprawling District of Columbia skyline boasts few true icons. A Google search of the city’s skyline reveals exclusively shots of the National Mall and Tidal Basin. The Washington Monument...

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