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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Reflecting in Action, Not Acting in Action

By Michelle Siemietkowski September 9, 2014

"How are you?” “Really busy.” “I know, right? Me, too. I’m super busy.” “I was up until 4.” “That’s nothing, I was up even later … ” Sound familiar? We hear these encounters...

The NSO Letters: Omika Jikaria

The NSO Letters: Omika Jikaria

By Omika Jikaria August 23, 2014

Dear Georgetown Class of 2018, When you find yourself on campus this fall, you will be met by swarms of upperclassmen encouraging you to get involved in various student groups and organizations....

Looking Out From the Precipice

By Celeste Chisholm August 14, 2014

I am not fond of regret. Vigilantly, I avoid it, and with less than a week until the sun sets on my time in Japan, again posed to me is the perennial question: Have I done enough? Practicality has overtaken...

The Absent Conversation on Body Image

By Melina Delkic June 4, 2014

Our generation has been avoiding a conversation that needs to be had — a conversation about a struggle that we’ve all faced, often in silence: body image. Take a simple task like going to CVS and...

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A memorial for the victims of the recent shooting in Isla Vista, Calif.

The Modern Facets of Compassion

By Melina Delkic May 28, 2014

In this exact moment, dozens of UC Santa Barbara students are mourning the shooting deaths of six of their classmates; thousands of Bosnians, Croatians and Serbians are displaced from their homes and...

How to Be a Bro Against Sexual Assault

How to Be a Bro Against Sexual Assault

By Jimmy Ramirez and Alex Skarzynski May 10, 2014

We currently live in a world where gang rape blankets the news, where 48 women are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and where 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college in...

Saying Goodbye to the HIMYM Era

By Joshua Dostal April 13, 2014

As many of us know, last week How I Met Your Mother ended its nine-season run in an hour-long finale full of twists, turns and high fives. After nine long years, fans final found out exactly how Ted...

The Truth About the Hoya Saxa Moment

By Jinwoo Chong April 12, 2014

Last weekend, I went to my first full staff training with 179 other future OAs for this fall’s New Student Orientation. I congregated for several minutes in front of the ICC’s auditorium, made...

In The Newsroom: The Reporter

By Danny Funt April 2, 2014

It is an honor when readers challenge editorial decisions made by The Hoya. Even when the objections are unfounded or misguided, they’re reflective of the presumption that journalism serves a higher...

WADEKAR | A Snapshot of the GU Basketball Experience

By Ashwin Wadekar April 1, 2014

It wasn’t supposed to end this way. I’m not talking about the end for Georgetown; the second-round NIT loss to top-seeded Florida State is what I expected when Josh Smith was declared academically...

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Students learn about the history of industry in Appalachia as part of their Alternative Spring Break trip to Pulaski, Va.

ASB Looks Outward, Reflects Inward

By Molly Simio March 28, 2014

In an effort to increase reflection and service beyond the one week of spring break, the Center for Social Justice’s Alternative Spring Break program expanded pre- and post-trip activities starting...

CARNES: In Silence, We Find Room for Reflection

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. January 28, 2014

The life of a university is filled with words. We professors use them constantly, putting one after another for hours on end in our lectures, hoping to communicate the wisdom and knowledge our research...

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