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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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LUX: Giving Up Ghosting

LUX: Giving Up Ghosting

By Emma Lux March 20, 2017

"I’ve been seeing him for a while, but then he just stopped texting me. I don’t know what happened.” These words have been a familiar refrain for me throughout my time at Georgetown. There is...

Hookup Culture Criticized

By Lucy Prout April 10, 2015

Dr. Donna Freitas (COL ’94) spoke about the current hookup culture and how it shapes the national conversation about sexual assaults on college campuses in an event titled “Blurred Lines: Sexual Assault...

Institutionalized Hookups

By Shea Crowley March 27, 2015

At colleges and universities across the country, the social scene revolves around sororities and fraternities. Yet on a campus like Georgetown where only a handful of Greek chapters exists, the dominant...

Judgment Abounds Among the Hookup Crowd

By Anastasia Taber September 2, 2011

Last year, I wrote about how dating culture has been replaced by hookup culture, and if my views have changed since then, it is only because they have further solidified. My goal for my column this year...

The ‘R’ Word

By Photo Editor August 27, 2011

Blue and Gray tour guides sometimes like to mention a little Georgetown factoid: 70 percent of Hoyas marry other Hoyas. Such a figure may seem astronomically high, but have no fear — this is definitely...

The Question of Cohabitation

By Chris Mooney April 1, 2011

Last Friday's dating column in The Guide had an article, "Why We're Making Out, Not Going Out," that ended with this line: "It is not a question of whether you will participate in the hookup culture, but...

Love Game

By Lili Dodderidge February 11, 2011

Heterosexual students have long been branded as complicit in a seemingly pervasive "hookup culture" on college campuses. Reminded of this stereotype, Ellen Greer (SFS '11) laughs and says, "The hookup...

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