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Stewards On Campus an Issue of Equality

By Peg Dowley Donohue March 19, 2013

To the Editor: I learned from a college friend that the issue of the Stewards has reared its head again at Georgetown. As an undergraduate in 1988, I was working on an article about Fr. Joseph Durkin,...

Game Day Events Biased Toward Males

By Madeline Wiseman March 10, 2013

To the Editor: The men’s basketball team’s win against Syracuse on Saturday was one of the best ways I can imagine to cap off my senior year. Unfortunately, the circumstances of two of the pre-game...

DCPS Lacks Justice and Integrity

By Erich Martel May 17, 2012

To the Editor: I am a 1965 graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. I recently retired after 42 years as a history teacher in the D.C. Public Schools. The following is an...

Butterfield Criticism Inappropriate

By Michael Barclay May 5, 2012

To the Editor: The “Georgetown Day 2012” blog and “Save Georgetown Day” Facebook posts calling out Senior Class Committee Chair Chris Butterfield were inappropriate and immature, falling far...

Honor Code Gets Bad Rap

By Emily Lurie May 5, 2012

To the Editor: In the article “Honor Codes Look Beyond Academics” (The Hoya, A5, April 24, 2012), the author implies that Georgetown fails to “protect against lying, stealing and other kinds of...

On Littering of Dahlgren: An Apology From the Women’s Club Volleyball Team

To the editor: I am writing this letter on behalf of a student group that would like to both make an apology and provide an explanation for what transpired last night in Dahlgren Quadrangle. The first...

The Intent Behind the Proposed LGBTQ Checkbox

By Laura Kresse April 2, 2012

To the Editor: Two viewpoints that appeared in The Hoya last week, (“As Bias Lingers, LGBTQ Students Need Safeguards,” A3, March 30, 2012; “Acceptance Shouldn’t be Optional, but Expected,” A3,...

A Moderate Solution to the Contraception Conflict

By Maya Noronha March 4, 2012

To the Editor: Your coverage of Sandra Fluke's testimony in the article "Law Student Mired in Birth Control Debate (The Hoya, A1, March 2, 2012) omits a critical detail: Georgetown Law student insurance...

Fostering a Culture of Generosity

By Opinion Editor February 27, 2012

To the Editor: I write in response to the editorial entitled "Right Idea, Wrong Donors" (The Hoya, A2, Feb. 23, 2012). This editorial not only misses the point of the university's current capital campaign...

No Right to Same-Sex Marriage

By Scott Ruesterholtz February 23, 2012

To the Editor: Over the past few weeks, I have been upset by events taking place in America with regard to same-sex marriage, from a decision to overturn Proposition 8 in California — thereby making...

Get Them to Verizon Center

By Eric Rodawig February 14, 2012

To the Editor: You know the feeling when you grab your favorite box of cereal and it's almost empty? How disappointed you are to be holding mostly broken pieces? Well, that's exactly what the student...

Colleague Regrets Loss of Deneen

By John C. Hirsh February 6, 2012

To the Editor: Although it is not at all uncommon for professors to leave one university for another, the circumstances of professor Patrick Deneen's decision to leave Georgetown for Notre Dame, together...

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