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COURTESY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RIGHT TO LIFE
Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the importance of respecting human life and differing anti-abortion advocacy efforts with over 20 students in Copley Formal Lounge on Tuesday.

Author, Activist Discusses Civil Rights for Unborn

By Ellen Baker September 9, 2016

Activist and author Alveda King, who is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., advocated the importance of respecting all forms of human life in an event entitled “Civil Rights for the Unborn,” held...

A Majority of D.C. Public Schools are Failing District P.E. Requirements

By Matthew Larson September 9, 2016

All but ten of over 200 D.C. public and charter schools failed to meet the city standards for physical education set for grades kindergarten through eighth grade, according to a Washington Post review...

Terrorism Experts Reflect on 9/11

By Gaia Mattiace September 9, 2016

Former United States State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Daniel Benjamin and CNN National Security analyst Peter Bergen discussed the declining threat of foreign terrorism and...

International Pre-O Cut

By Tara Subramaniam September 9, 2016

The Office of Global Services did not host the international pre-orientation program for the second year running, instead choosing to run the program as part of New Student Orientation in an effort...

GU Politics to Host Obama Series

By Simon Carroll September 9, 2016

The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service will host National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Gaston Hall on Sept. 14 as part of the first installment in a six-part lecture series entitled...

JINWOO CHONG/THE HOYA
Guards will no longer monitor dorms overnight in an effort to re-appropiate funds toward security maintenance.

Overnight Guards Replaced by CCTV Surveillance

By Léa Nicolas September 9, 2016

Security guards will no longer monitor dorms overnight, in an effort by the Georgetown University Policy Department and the Office of Residential Living to re-appropriate funds toward closed-circuit...

Laundry Prices Increased

By Henry Greene September 9, 2016

The Office of Residential Living increased laundry rates by 25 cents to $1.75 per load of laundry this summer —the first price increase in four years—in an effort to keep up with rising maintenance...

First East Coast Virtual Reality Arcade Opens in D.C.

First East Coast Virtual Reality Arcade Opens in D.C.

By Maura McDonough September 7, 2016

Product development firm NotionTheory partnered with co-working firm MakeOffices to launch the East Coast’s first-ever virtual reality arcade Aug. 15 in Washington, D.C. Press and two Georgetown students...

4E Reveals What's Changing at Tombs

4E Reveals What’s Changing at Tombs

By Meg Lizza and Meg Lizza September 5, 2016

If you didn't already know, The Tombs is reopening tomorrow – September 6 – after a three month renovation. While 4E doesn't want to reveal all that is changing (you'll have to see for yourself),...

PHOTO COURTESY THE TOMBS
The restaurant The Tombs is scheduled to reopen after a summer of being closed due to renovations.

The Tombs to Reopen After $2 Million Renovation

By Lisa Burgoa September 5, 2016

When The Tombs reopens after its three-month summer hiatus on Tuesday, returning patrons can expect to find the classic Georgetown locale largely unchanged, save for some fresh lacquer, new leather...

Surviving the Sunday Scaries

Surviving the Sunday Scaries

By Meg Lizza and Meg Lizza September 4, 2016

Have a fun, crazy weekend? Feel like you need another one just to recuperate from your weekend? Are you currently in bed scooping handfuls of Nutella into your mouth as you procrastinate on your first...

STEPHANIE YUAN/THE HOYA
Hours after the release of the report by the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, President DeGioia gave an address to discuss how the administration would take steps to acknowledge the university’s slaveholding past and its debt to the descendants.

Georgetown Seeks to Make Amends for 272

By Ian Scoville September 2, 2016

Georgetown will undertake a series of efforts in order to reconcile with its slaveholding past, including providing descendants of the 272 slaves whose sale in 1838 benefitted the university an advantage...

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