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Club Culture At Georgetown

Club Culture At Georgetown

By Dyuthi Harikar February 15, 2024

The Hoya · Club Culture at Georgetown. All podcasts are available for streaming on Spotify Soundcloud and thehoya.com.   Transcript Dyuthi Harikar (DH): Hi everyone! Welcome back to the...

New MSB Policies Seek to Combat Exclusive Club Culture

New MSB Policies Seek to Combat Exclusive Club Culture

By Georgia Russello September 14, 2023

On a particularly hot Saturday in August, a few weeks after the latest class of Georgetown University first-years descended upon the Hilltop, over 200 different campus groups and organizations flooded...

BECOMING U: Accepting Yourself Within Club Culture

BECOMING U: Accepting Yourself Within Club Culture

By Nicole Marion September 27, 2019

The mid-September rejection season is officially upon us. The magical sense of wonder from arriving on the Hilltop has begun to fade as the stress has started to settle in. Finding your community at college...

GEORGETOWN PROGRAM BOARD/FACEBOOK | Some organizations have begun to practice open membership, including Georgetown Program Board. Open membership succeeds in combatting the exclusivity that pervades club culture, creating a healthier environment for members. While participation can be an issue for open membership clubs, the practice helps students put their extracurriculars in perspective.

Open Membership Improves Club Culture at CAB Fair

By Seamus Masterson April 12, 2019

Since club culture is a stressor for incoming freshmen, the Council of Advisory Boards fair is an opportunity for students to see what is available to them and what might be of interest. Two hundred...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Club Culture Requires Direct Fixes

By Aiden Johnson April 13, 2018

Last April, over a dozen club leaders came together for a meeting to resolve an issue that, as of late, has been a topic of much discussion: club culture. After serving as a member of the working group...

GOLDSTEIN: Solving the Club Culture Crisis

By Ari Goldstein April 12, 2018

“Club culture” is one of Georgetown University’s most profound social crises — but it is also our most solvable. Our community has been denouncing club culture since at least 2013, when the...

Cost of Club Culture

Cost of Club Culture

By The Editorial Board February 5, 2016

No student’s confidence should be diminished because of a rejection letter from a club on campus. With the amount of hard work it takes just to be admitted to Georgetown, students can be so qualified...

NAQVI: Reassess Club Drinking Culture

NAQVI: Reassess Club Drinking Culture

By Yumna Naqvi October 4, 2019

All students are welcome to apply to student organizations at Georgetown University. But in many clubs, only students who drink feel welcomed to stay. The lack of recognized fraternities or sororities...

PROJECT LIGHTHOUSE/FACEBOOK | While some clubs like Hoya Blue and the Georgetown University Astronomical Society emphasize an open membership structure to create an inclusive, low-stress environment, other organizations like CAPS and Project Lighthouse offer strategies and resources for managing the constant stress that comes with Georgetown student life.

Mental Health Clubs, Resources Address Stress Culture

By Maddie Finn April 12, 2019

Clubs on campus can be sources of friendship, academic growth, professional connections and party invites, but they can also be a stressful aspect of life for some on the Hilltop. Between the application...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY CLUB SPORTS/FACEBOOK | The CAB Fair serves as a showcase for many students looking to find the clubs they hope to call home on campus, with many clubs showing up to attract new sign-ups. Recently, CAB Fair 2.0 launched, which features only clubs with open membership.

Campus Clubs Form Integral Part of Student Culture

By Alexandra Brunjes and Juliana Albuquerque April 12, 2019

When Georgetown students introduce themselves on campus, a laundry list of identifiers ensues: name, school, year, major, maybe hometown and then extracurriculars. At Georgetown, club involvement can determine...

9:30 Club History, Culture Documented

By Anne Skomba February 11, 2011

On Wednesday evening, the D.C. Music Salon screened an unreleased documentary on the eclectic musical past of the city's popular venue, the 9:30 Club. The documentary, titled "9:30 F Street" after the...

SFS Criticized for ‘Decolonization’ Culture, Accused of Anti-Israelism in Article

SFS Criticized for ‘Decolonization’ Culture, Accused of Anti-Israelism in Article

By Aamir Jamil December 1, 2023

A magazine columnist criticized Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) for ostensibly perpetuating anti-Israelism and false narratives about the Oct. 7 Hamas Attack in a Nov. 21 article...

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