photo from Unsung Heroes HFSC — Having forgotten to purchase a round-trip ticket, the students of ‘Unsung Heroes’, scrambled throughout Monday night to raise the funds needed to purchase Suru Ripai a flight back to Washington. The student organization collected more than $5,000 in donations to send the cherished dining hall employee to South Sudan, the region from which he left […]

Georgetown, You might have read the news we covered this morning regarding an NHS student excited about contracting  a foreign disease. To the students, faculty, and staff of the NHS, and on behalf of The Heckler, I apologize. Not because of the content of the article – by that I still stand – but because this morning marked the […]

SANTIAGO — As NHS junior Jordan Smith (NHS ’18) discussed her experience abroad in a phone interview, she made sure to emphasize her excitement at the prospect of coming down with a cool infection or hosting an exotic virus that she would not ordinarily come across in Washington. “Studying abroad is an amazing opportunity to […]

LEAVEY CENTER — Citing numerous online health articles and questionable financial statistics, the Corp revealed its plans on Sunday to convert Yates Field House into one huge SoulCycle over the next five years. “We felt that the old model of going to the gym and exercising however you’d like is outdated. We at the Corp […]

“This wasn’t necessary until you put all of those chairs there,” said the prophet.

ICC — SFS senior and board member of multiple clubs Sandra Flannery (SFS ’17) turned some confused heads this morning when, after donning a pair of  blue joggers to class, declared to her peers that she was actually a “washed up girl”. “Call me a SWUG, but I didn’t feel like putting jeans on this […]

Why wasn’t I invited to this party?

As a guide for how you did: Anything under 100% is, “Jack and Anna are smirking. ‘Do you even know who’s fighting in Syria?’ they ask and then laugh. You walk away, ashamed you understand so little about international relations, but somehow knowing you definitely won’t learn more about it.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over 100 years ago on October 5, 1892, our 23rd President forgot remembered to shave for the first mother’s annual visit to the White House. Crowds flocked all the way from Baltimore to South East DC, hoping to see one of Mrs. Harrison’s famous wise cracks about her son’s unkempt nature. Once word […]

DARNALL HALL – Earlier this week, reports came in that freshman Grace Stevens (COL ’18) was seen hugging each individual of the 20 person mob from her new club knocking on her door. “In one word: surreal. Just all the people who I’m guaranteed to love because they all applied to the same thing I applied to!” Stevens […]