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Hashtags and Higher Ed: Twitter Spurs Conversation

By Molly Simio January 17, 2014

Students across the country, including those at Georgetown, got the opportunity to trade words with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan during a Twitter conversation that stressed financial literacy and...

140 Exemplary Characters

By The Editorial Board January 14, 2014

There’s no option on Twitter to see what’s trending on the Hilltop, but if there were, it would likely often show basketball predictions or Leo’s complaints. On Dec. 5, students and alumni instead...

New Voices Join Online Protests

By Kit Clemente and Suzanne Monyak January 14, 2014

Inspired by the dialogue of the #BBGU campaign, Georgetown students provided personal experiences, thoughts and questions about their life at Georgetown University as students of color through the #BLGU...

Strong Words From GU’s Disabled

By Suzanne Monyak January 14, 2014

Students tweeted about their experiences of being disabled at Georgetown on Monday using the hashtag #BDGU. The protest — inspired by the December #BLGU, #BAGU and #BBGU Twitter protests by minority...

Five Steps for Coping with the Government Shutdown, As Told By Social Media

Five Steps for Coping with the Government Shutdown, As Told By Social Media

By Max Wheeler and Max Wheeler October 8, 2013

As everyone knows (and if you don't know, you've apparently been under a rock for the last week), the federal government has been shut down due to a failure to agree on a new debt budget.  Social media,...

Look Who Just Joined Twitter!

Look Who Just Joined Twitter!

By KP and KP September 24, 2013

That's right. There's a new tweeter in town, and it's none other than our favorite  brooch-branding former-Secretary-of-State-turned-Georgetown-faculty-member, Madeleine Albright. As of yesterday, Secretary...

DIRAGO: Classroom Not a Place For Twitter

By Nicholas Dirago August 26, 2013

With the new semester upon us, it is that time again for undergraduates: time to make ambitious promises to ourselves about our study habits and time management for the upcoming year. This semester will...

Georgetown Day 2013, as Told by Twitter

Georgetown Day 2013, as Told by Twitter

By Steven Piccione and Steven Piccione April 27, 2013

What just happened. After much anticipation for the last day of Friday classes and some worrying about the weather, the student body successfully came out this Friday to celebrate one of the best annual...

@OttoPorterFacts

@OttoPorterFacts

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee February 27, 2013

There are some pretty interesting Twitter accounts out there (cough @PizzaAtLeos cough), and in the light of Otto Porter's recent success, another has arisen. Say hello to @OttoPorterFacts. This Twitter...

Casual Thursdays: Warming From The Inside

Casual Thursdays: Warming From The Inside

By KP and KP January 24, 2013

We hate to break it to you, everyone, but the Inauguration has ended. The mania has subsided and the fever has ended — except for our Beyoncé fever, which will carry on "until the end of time." (Ha,...

What’s Your Social Network?

By Sports Editor and Sheena Karkal April 19, 2012

Facebook You’re mainstream, but not ashamed. You have a penchant for stalking people you barely know and assessing their personalities based on their tagged pictures. You don’t mind using popular...

A Word from POTUS

By The 4E Staff and The 4E Staff January 25, 2012

File Photo: Chris Bien/The Hoya by Beth Garbitelli You can't watch the NFL Playoffs every night, I guess. The State of the Union address provided some quality primetime viewing on the otherwise non-event...

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