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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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We Can Do Better Too

By The Editorial Board April 22, 2016

When it comes to issues that affect our community, campus media can be an essential tool to bring attention and pressure. However, when such bodies, including this independent editorial board, do not provide...

A Suspect Email Filter

By The Editorial Board October 4, 2013

"This message was posted by Erika Cohen Derr under authority granted by the Division of Student Affairs." This disclaimer concludes every campus-wide email sent by student groups. Few readers notice...

Learn Quicker With iClicker

By The Editorial Board October 4, 2013

Many find the crowded lecture hall to be an inevitable downside to attending a large research university such as Georgetown. In recent years, professors with an excess of 200 students — and 200 laptops...

When Humor Thwarts Fact

By The Editorial Board October 4, 2013

Social media have been abuzz all week with commentary on the federal government shutdown. With Facebook and Twitter feeds dominated by memes, one-liners and other satire, it’s worth taking time to reflect...

A Major Pay-Off

By The Editorial Board April 9, 2013

For the first time ever, the McDonough School of Business was Georgetown’s most selective undergraduate school, accepting only 15.9 percent of its applicants for the Class of 2017, down from 16.8 percent...

1,000 Followers, Zero Stars

By The Editorial Board April 9, 2013

Although thousands of students have spent thousands of dollars on meal plans for Leo O’Donovan Hall, the Georgetown dining service has taken to charging patrons of the beleaguered dining hall a new...

Discriminatory Discretion

By The Editorial Board April 9, 2013

It goes without saying that students are entitled to their individual beliefs, religious or otherwise. But when student activities funds come from a common pool and are billed as a lump sum on each student’s...

Digital Decisions

By The Editorial Board April 5, 2013

As Georgetown continues its push to become more tech savvy, the university should consider developing an online application to match. Although Georgetown abstains from the Common Application in order...

Rural Students Out of Reach

By The Editorial Board April 5, 2013

Most Georgetown students hail from a handful of regions: northern New Jersey, central California, southern Maryland — the list goes on. Yet although students are drawn from all over the country, rural...

Faceless Contempt

By The Editorial Board April 5, 2013

There is a difference between confession and cowardice. At times, anonymity promotes honesty and openness. But in the case of the Facebook page Georgetown Confessions and similar forums at other colleges,...

Coming Out Progressive

By The Editorial Board March 26, 2013

Called the civil rights issue of our time, the question of marriage rights for same-sex couples has been at the center of many heated public debates. And though staunch disagreement, especially along partisan...

Spring Concert a Rave

By The Editorial Board March 22, 2013

With Georgetown’s population hovering at 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the Georgetown Program Board’s task of finding an artist for the annual spring concert with universal university...

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