LEO’S—The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Georgetown’s community oversight committee, announced today that it would not support Georgetown’s proposed 2010 campus meal plan. Despite heavy lobbying by the University, the ANC said it could not in good conscience support the proposal, expressing concerns about detrimental effects to the community. The statement released today by the ANC cited... »
REYNOLDS—These days sophomore Stephen Endheim doesn’t have a lot going for him. After his high school girlfriend dumped him during freshman orientation, he quickly spiraled into depression, losing interest in nearly everything and cutting himself off from what friends say he described as an unjust, godless world. According to those who live on the fourth... »
GASTON HALL – In a speech delivered in Gaston Hall Thursday morning, Senator Gaius Maximus Bacchus (D-MT) addressed the growing costs of orgiastic endeavors and called upon students to demand reform or face dire long-term consequences. Sen. Bacchus was twenty minutes late for the scheduled speech and appeared off balance, his mouth shaded a purple... »
LEAVEY—In keeping with the club’s promise to expand programming, the Georgetown University Indoor Education club has announced a new social climbing trip for students starting in January. Students who sign up and pay the mandatory $150 stemware fee will travel to the Kennedy Center for its “Winter Gala” to grapple with the ins and... »
GASTON HALL—In a rousing ceremony in Gaston Hall Monday, George G. Daly, dean of the McDonough School of Business, and President John J. DeGioia recognized the nearly three-dozen MSB students awarded Halfbright Scholarships last week. “Today is an impressive day,” said Dean Daly before a crowd of nearly 500. “We’re here to honor the modest... »
CAMPUS — The Hoya, Georgetown’s oldest humor publication, published its annual “News Issue” last week, inciting protests from student minority groups and journalists. The fake newspaper, which ordinarily holds itself to no journalistic standards, claims that the “News Issue” is fun because it allows them to pretend to be real journalists, even if only... »
Fulfilling our journalistic duty to reprint broadcast e-mails (unlike SOME publications that merely copy and paste the text of broadcast e-mails into “written” articles), below are yesterday’s broadcast e-mails that you got in your inbox: EVENT: Matzoh Macho Men EVENT: We don’t even like shitty crackers EVENT: It’s on! Let’s fucking do this! Awesome! EVENT: Stop what you’re... »
As part of the established media elite, we here at the Heckler are unnerved and saddened by the recent closing of JuicyCampus.com. As I think we all know, the implosion of this journalistic giant is indicative of the troubled state of modern journalism. Already the Christian Science Monitor has cancelled its print issue, the... »
GEORGETOWN — Debris from a window struck a man on M Street yesterday, in an incident Metro police say left him completely and utterly Wattaded. As of this morning the man was listed in critical condition and doctors at Georgetown University Hospital said that he would very likely be deemed “profoundly Wattaded” after neurological... »
