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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

VIEWPOINT: Students, Stay Informed, Read the Paper

VIEWPOINT: Students, Stay Informed, Read the Paper

By Caitlin McLean November 17, 2023

Walking along the path from the Leavey Center toward Epicurean & Company, you may have seen The Hoya’s newsstand isolated within the Henle Village construction site, shrouded behind a chain link...

EVENT: The Novel as a Secular Art

By Yolanda Lu November 4, 2023

Author Christopher Beha delivered  a lecture on the sometimes-challenged secularity of the novel as an art form at a Nov. 1 campus event. Beha’s talk, entitled “The Statues and the Temple:...

Georgetown Graduate Gives McCourt Writing Center Keynote

Georgetown Graduate Gives McCourt Writing Center Keynote

By Jack Willis January 27, 2023

A State Department employee and Georgetown University graduate delivered the keynote lecture at the McCourt School of Public Policy Writing Center’s biannual event, speaking on editing in policymaking...

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East Asian Studies Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow

By Akashdiya Chakraborty April 22, 2022

Georgetown University professor of Japanese history Jordan Sand was named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, which will provide for the opportunity to have the time and money to finish a book about Japanese history. The...

FOLAN: Experiencing the Joy of Writing

FOLAN: Experiencing the Joy of Writing

By Fr. Peter Folan, S.J. April 24, 2020

On April 8, I was one of about 45 people who, via Zoom, attended the doctoral dissertation defense of a dear friend of mine named Ligita. I will dispense with the drama forthwith — she passed! — but...

So You Need A Column Topic? 2.0

So You Need A Column Topic? 2.0

By Meg Lizza and Meg Lizza August 19, 2016

With applications for The Hoya's fall 2016 columnists just released, 4E is here to help you get a little inspiration by giving you some examples of excellent column topics from the past. First, here...

Apply To Be A Columnist For The Hoya: Summer 2016

Apply To Be A Columnist For The Hoya: Summer 2016

By Meg Lizza and Meg Lizza May 26, 2016

Feeling a little bored already now that you have been away from the Hilltop for only two weeks? Do you miss all things Georgetown? Need something to fill up that old resume? Luckily, 4E has the solution...

So You Need A Column Topic?

So You Need A Column Topic?

By Shannon Hou and Shannon Hou January 8, 2016

Are you not quite sure what you want to write your column about yet? Well, you're in luck! Here are some great column topics to draw inspiration from! (Spring 2016 columnist applications for The Hoya are...

The 5 Stages of Writing an Essay at the Last Minute

The 5 Stages of Writing an Essay at the Last Minute

By The 4E Staff and The 4E Staff November 5, 2015

It’s 9 p.m., you have a 10-page paper due tomorrow and you’re feeling good: you have the whole night (and morning) ahead of you. What could possibly get between you and completing this paper? Sure,...

No. 4 - Fragments

No. 4 – Fragments

By Sarah Kim October 26, 2014

In all our deciphered knowledge of the English language today, our pool of understanding has only diminished in depth. We no longer read with a command of the language but as if we are borrowing the words...

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The Value of Independent Imagination Reclaimed

By Kim Bussing August 13, 2014

Whether you’re working on a screenplay, a novel or creative nonfiction, no writer will agree on what the most important aspect writing is. Some will tell you characterization. Some will tell you...

Across the Atlantic, Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

By Kim Bussing July 30, 2014

Pembroke College of Cambridge University in the summer seems like something out of a novel. Expanses of grass (mowed and watered daily), exotic plants framing windows of buildings that have been home...

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