Students and a professor have lodged a growing list of complaints concerning facilities and support for music programs at Georgetown. Students in some music programs suffer from a lack of administrative support, must use poorly maintained equipment and sometimes complete class projects at 4 or 5 a.m. due to overcrowding,[Read More…]

Georgetown’s co-ed sailing team placed second overall during a series of regattas at the MAISA Team Race Championships on April 10 in New York, qualifying them for the ICSA Team Race National Championships to be held in Texas in June. Georgetown finished just behind the team from Hobart College during[Read More…]

To admissions officers, Curtis Dixon probably seemed like a model student – the type of person that the University of North Carolina-Wilmington wanted to attract to its campus. According to media reports, Dixon told officials that he had been home-schooled his entire high school career. He had scored a 1070[Read More…]

To admissions officers, Curtis Dixon probably seemed like a model student – the type of person that the University of North Carolina-Wilmington wanted to attract to its campus. According to media reports, Dixon told officials that he had been home-schooled his entire high school career. He had scored a 1070[Read More…]

A man angry at doctors for refusing to prescribe him medication threatened employees and wielded a knife at Georgetown University Hospital last week before fleeing the scene, law enforcement sources said. According to a Metropolitan Police Department incident report, the man, who was previously a patient at the hospital and[Read More…]

Georgetown administrators said this week that they will not renew a popular adjunct professor’s teaching contract for next fall, citing a “curricular review” for the decision. Colman McCarthy, a professor in Georgetown’s Justice and Peace program, was asked not to teach his Literature of Peace class next semester, according to[Read More…]

Department of Public Safety officers rescued a sleeping Georgetown student covered by smoldering bedding materials two weeks ago and extinguished a small fire in an Alumni Square drain the next day. According to David Morrell, vice president for university safety, the student was sleeping in his seventh-floor McCarthy Hall residence[Read More…]

Fourth in a continuing series on community service at Georgetown. Chris Satti (MSB ’06) rarely gets to indulge two of the things he cares most about – business and community service. But Hilltop Consultants, a student-run business consulting service, allows him to do just that. Providing pro-bono consulting services to[Read More…]

A nude Georgetown student sprinted through campus before being detained by law enforcement officials and escorted back to his residence hall April 2. David Morrell, vice president for university safety, said Friday that Department of Public Safety officers were dispatched to Red Square at about 5:30 a.m. April 2 after[Read More…]

Fourth in a four part series about LGBTQ issues at Georgetown While many of Georgetown’s LGBTQ faculty members say the environment for openly gay members of academia has improved over the years, others believe that Georgetown is losing top talent because of its current benefits policies. Georgetown does not give[Read More…]