Opinion
OP-ED: Capitol Hill Better Brace Itself for Michael Grunwalt
Oh man, I can’t believe this is finally happening, I’m a fucking Capitol Hill Intern. I mean, this is it, Washington DC, the seat of power, the nucleus of the American government. I’m going to be right in the center of it all. Aww yeah, the Beltway is finally get its first taste of... »
Hoya Football is Exactly Like “Friday Night Lights”! Race.
View this issue’s print version Every Friday I tune in to my favorite program, “Friday Night Lights” on NBC at 9:00 PM. Why? Because each day I grow more convinced that it is based entirely on my own life. Just like Coach Taylor I am also a football coach, and just like the Dillon Panthers... »
OP-ED: New Ice Cream Cup Policy is Genocide
Here we go again. First they were trying to limit our use of alcohol, now they’re trying to take away our ice cream. That’s right, Leo’s has gotten rid of Styrofoam cups. “ow, the cafeteria only benefits the cone lovers,” as Paige Morency-Brassard (COL ’11) told The Hoya last week, in the most eloquent statement... »
ADVICE: Ask A Drunk Freshman On The Village A Rooftops
View this issue’s print version Dear Drunk Freshman On The Village A Rooftops, I don’t know what to do with my boyfriend! We’ve been together since junior year in high school, but it’s been real hard lately. He goes to college in the Midwest, and I never get to see him. We decided... »
OP-ED: Drop Foreign Language Proficiency from Dining Hall Staff Requirements
Thanks to the organizing efforts of Georgetown’s Solidarity Committee and many other campus groups, two years ago we got a commitment by the university to pay workers a true living wage. However, the fight is not over. We need to pressure the university to drop the foreign language requirement for working at Leo’s. Georgetown needs... »
ADVICE: Ask A Drunk Freshman On The Village A Rooftops
Dear Drunk Freshman On The Village A Rooftops, I don’t know what to do with my boyfriend! We’ve been together since junior year in high school, but it’s been real hard lately. He goes to college in the Midwest, and I never get to see him. We decided over the summer that we were going... »
OP-ED: Take a Seat, STAND. WALK is in the House.
Students Take Action Now: Darfur, revered by many in the social justice community as the leaders in battling the atrocities in Sudan, has been usurped by We’ve Acted Lately: Khartoum, say members of the now-defunct STAND. The group has almost identical goals and seems set on challenging STAND’s supremacy on issues of mass genocide... »
OP-ED: Jews Gone Wild
Editor’s Note: Because we are currently short on writing staff, we asked The Georgetown Academy, Georgetown’s self-proclaimed “only magazine for and by crazy people,” to contribute an article to this edition. This is what we received. Ladies and gentlemen, the Jews are at it again. First, they bring the September 11th attacks... »
OP-ED: The Return of the Thong Song
Doing laundry is always a bitch, for it’s pretty damn unlikely that you can drag a month’s worth of dirty clothes to an always sweltering laundry room and find enough empty washers and dryers to handle your sheets that should have been changed three weeks ago and your Valentine’s Day boxers that you have... »
