About The HOYA

The HOYA is the newspaper of record at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

The paper, which was founded in 1920, was built on the idea of a University-wide paper covering issues of interest to the campus. News, sports, editorials, arts, and entertainment have long been mainstays of its coverage. It has published uninterrupted since 1920, despite world wars, campus unrest, and various economic cycles.

The tone was set for the paper by its founder, Joseph Mickler, Jr. (College '20). Mickler, who made it a point to put the paper's name in capital letters, not italics, saw his paper as campus-centered, not nation-centered. Washington had many fine dailies to provide Georgetown students with the view from Capitol Hill and beyond, but The HOYA had other aims.

Generations later, the paper discussed its mission in its 80th anniversary issue:

"A college newspaper serves not just as the first draft of a school's history from its students' point of view, but as the only such history that gets written down," wrote the newspaper eight decades later. "In a sense, though, the school has been here for more than two centuries [but] Georgetown's recorded history begins in 1920."[Jan. 21, 2000]

Through the years, The HOYA has managed to attract, develop, and retain a diverse collection of contributors, who went on to a variety of professions--among them, a United States senator, two Catholic bishops, at least six college presidents, dozens of authors and college professors, an untold number of attorneys, doctors, business leaders ...and yes, even journalists.

This site has created an extensive HOYA History section with more details on the paper.