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• The Hoya’s Lame Coverage of the Heckler’s KKK Satire

  
  City Desk — Authority: 690
  Perhaps even more interesting than the controversy over a recent Georgetown Heckler article that invoked a cross burning and the KKK in an attempt to make fun of the Hoya newspapers own troubles on the issue of race is the coverage the Hoya gave it. The student paper published one six-paragraph ...
  16 hours ago

• Students Not Laughing About Humor Magazines Satirical Article

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  Georgetown University students are slamming a humor magazine for an online satirical piece they say is racist and not funny. The story in The Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a fictional cross-burning on campus and refers to "dark, human-shaped pinatas." A photograph with the ...
  20 hours ago

• After Covering Up Symbol for Jesus at Georgetown, White House Had Obama Speak in Front of…

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Note: 1 video and photos included. Home » News » Politics "After Covering Up Symbol for Jesus at Georgetown, White House Had Obama Speak in Front of Symbols for AMA, AARP and Human Rights Campaign" Thursday, December 17, 2009 By Nicholas Ballasy and Edwin Mora SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – When President Barack Obama ...
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• Jesuit Without A Right Forearm

  
  Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit — Authority: 140
  Father Richard J. Curry, S.J. , is no stranger to the world of acting. The 66-year-old Jesuit, who was born without a right forearm, earned a PhD in theater from New York University, and he’s even played a psychiatrist on the television detective series “Monk.” But he is perhaps best known as the founder and ...
  1 day ago

• More on the Georgetown KKK Satire: University Official Condemns Content as “Deeply Hurtful”

  
  City Desk — Authority: 690
  The Georgetown Voice s Vox Populi blog covered last nights on-campus forum organized by students upset over a recent article in the satirical Georgetown Heckler about a KKK-style cross burning on campus that was meant to mock the Hoya newspaper and its disastrous April Fools issue. Vox Populi writes: ...
  2 days ago

• The Heckler Responds to KKK Satire Fallout: Laugh At Racists, Not With Them

  
  City Desk — Authority: 690
  Just heard back from Jack Stuef , editor of the Georgetown Heckler , an Onion -style magazine written by Georgetown students that has stirred up charges of racial insensitivity with an article about a campus "cross lighting" that invoked a cross burning, white-hooded KKK members, and lynchings in a satire of ...
  3 days ago

• Georgetown Students Satirize Cross Burnings, KKK in Heckler Magazine

  
  City Desk — Authority: 690
  Remember the controversy over this years April Fools "humor" issue of the Hoya , Georgetown Universitys student newspaper? The one that prompted protests by students who deemed some of its content (Headline: "We Need More Interracial Loving at Georgetown"; Excerpt: "We dont have enough good old vanilla-chocolate ...
  3 days ago

• Everyone In The Room Laughed

  
  Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit — Authority: 140
  Everyone in the room laughed. "Not Georgetown," Subbaraman recalls saying, astonished that a university founded by Jesuits was supporting so publicly a community that long has felt shunned by the Catholic Church. " You must mean at GW [George Washington University]." But less than two months later, ...
  4 days ago

• WATCH: Hillary Clinton Criticizes "Oppressive" Anti-Gay Ugandan Bill

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 608
  Speaking today at Georgetown University, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a number of remarks on worldwide LGBT rights. (Full text HERE) Clinton described the proposed Ugandan bill that seeks the death penalty for gays as "oppressive" and expanded after...
  4 days ago

• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Unveils New U.S. Human Rights Policy

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 578
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Georgetown University That Hillary Clinton–she just keep on truckin’–doing her best to make the world a better place. In a speech at Georgetown University this morning, Clinton announced a new human rights agenda for the U.S., putting the emphasis on “principled ...
  4 days ago

• Georgetown On My Mind [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 803
  [Washington, D.C., December 14. Image via Getty ] WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 14: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives prior to her address students and faculty members at Georgetown University December 14, 2009 in Washington, DC. Clinton spoke about linking human rights to democracy and economic ...
  4 days ago

• DC Ranks #1 In Student Debt

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 589
  ‘Money’ courtesy of ‘bredgur’ It wasn’t enough to name Georgetown University #7 on the list of top 10 colleges and universities with the priciest dorms . Nope, not by a long shot. Apparently almost half of the students attending secondary education institutions in DC graduate with debt. Not only ...
  4 days ago

• Clinton to Give Human Rights Speech

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Laura Rozen reports : Days after Obama delivered a Nobel speech that struck a new emphasis on human rights, saying freedom movements have “history and us on their side,” and making the moral case for the use of force in some cases, Hillary Clinton will deliver what advisors say is a major address on human ...
  4 days ago

• From Todays Washington comPost...

  
  An Archdiocese of Wash DC Catholic — Authority: 123
  The Washington Post has two articles about gay student groups. One is at Catholic University of America and the other at Georgetown Univers ity. I applaud CUA for trying to hold firm. Georgetown, in my humble opinion, is a lost cause and our Archbishop only seems to enable this. Thanks to The ...
  4 days ago

• School Days: Jeff Green

  
  Nike Basketball News — Authority: 527
  Georgetown University mens head basketball coach John Thompson III once told Sports Illustrated that he is "the smartest player Ive ever coached." He continued: "Thats a hell of a statement." "It meant a lot (to me). Hes coached a lot of players in his career, so that was just a big confidence boost," the player ...
  5 days ago

• Why It Took Georgetown University 220 Years to Form a LGBT Student Center

  
  Queerty — Authority: 698
  It feels sort of funny to be here, closing out the twenty-first centurys first decade, congratulating a major university for opening a LGBT student center. Because, really ? You dont have one already? But no, Georgetown University didnt. CONTINUED » Permalink | 5 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: ...
  6 days ago

• A New Initiative From Sandra Day OConnor

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 482
  " OConnor Helps Launch New Initiative Against Judicial Elections ," ," is the title of Jordan Weissmanns National Law Journalreport. Since retiring from the high bench, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor has repeatedly advocated against the use of elections to pick state judges . Now she is ...
  1 week ago

• Rakeem Christmas’ List Of 8 Becomes A List Of 5

  
  2K Sports Presents High School Hoop Powered by Dime — Authority: 463
  Arguably the nation’s best defensive player, Rakeem Christmas , is ready to begin the basketball season at the Academy of the New Church. And as one of the top prospects in the country, you know more than a few coaches will be watching . Right before his first game last week, Christmas cut his list of schools from ...
  1 week ago

• College Basketball: Monroe Leads Georgetown in Jimmy v Classic

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Greg Monroe had 24 points and 15 rebounds — both career highs — to lead No. 15 Georgetown to a 72-65 victory over No. 22 Butler in the Jimmy V Classic.
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• College Basketball: Monroe Leads Georgetown in Jimmy v Classic

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Greg Monroe had 24 points and 15 rebounds — both career highs — to lead No. 15 Georgetown to a 72-65 victory over No. 22 Butler in the Jimmy V Classic.
  1 week ago

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