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GU Students Dispossessed of Personal Items, Valuables After Series of Spring Storage Mishaps

GU Students Dispossessed of Personal Items, Valuables After Series of Spring Storage Mishaps

By Casey Ferrante September 10, 2020

Some Georgetown University students who could not retrieve their belongings after campus closed last spring have reported that many of their items were either lost or discarded by university employees...

'Tenet' Offers Visual Excitement, Time-Bending Narrative

‘Tenet’ Offers Visual Excitement, Time-Bending Narrative

By Zain Sandhu September 10, 2020

★★★★☆ Christopher Nolan’s time-bending, espionage-tinged thriller “Tenet,” the latest in the renowned director’s filmography, is a visually arresting and conceptually ambitious spectacle...

Despite Online Setting, GU Students Foster Community During Virtual NSO

Despite Online Setting, GU Students Foster Community During Virtual NSO

By Giulia Testa and Kelly Anderson September 10, 2020

First-year and transfer students and upperclassmen organizers kicked off the fall semester with a virtual New Student Orientation, an experience that exceeded the expectations of many participants.  This...

VIEWPOINT: Encourage Mutual Aid

VIEWPOINT: Encourage Mutual Aid

By Megan Huynh September 10, 2020

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, images of frenzied shoppers stocking up on toilet paper or fighting over the last bottle of hand sanitizer flooded the news as people panicked and attempted to take...

HOLLISTER: Eliminate Voting Barriers

HOLLISTER: Eliminate Voting Barriers

By Rebecca Hollister September 10, 2020

The Kansas state primary was Aug. 4, and in an ideal world, campaigns are in full Get Out the Vote mode the two weeks before each election, making sure supporters vote rather than trying to increase the...

GUSA Releases New Plans To Reform Sexual Assault Prevention Trainings

GUSA Releases New Plans To Reform Sexual Assault Prevention Trainings

By Liana Hardy September 8, 2020

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate plans to enhance student sexual assault prevention trainings for the fall of 2021 by revamping the training curriculum and expanding the number and...

Prosecutors Charge New GU Parent With Bribery, Hit Ernst With Slate of New Charges

Prosecutors Charge New GU Parent With Bribery, Hit Ernst With Slate of New Charges

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo September 3, 2020

Federal prosecutors indicted Gordon Ernst on six new criminal offenses Tuesday, ramping up charges against the former Georgetown University tennis coach accused of being an instrumental actor in the university’s...

GU Ranked Nation’s Top Renewable Energy Campus in New Environmental Nonprofit Report

GU Ranked Nation’s Top Renewable Energy Campus in New Environmental Nonprofit Report

By Grace Buono September 2, 2020

Georgetown University ranks first among the nation’s colleges and universities in renewable electricity use, according to an Aug. 19 report published by the national environmental advocacy group Environment...

VIEWPOINT: Divest From the Prison-Industrial Complex

VIEWPOINT: Divest From the Prison-Industrial Complex

By Abigail Lovell September 2, 2020

Unequivocally, Georgetown University has recognized that it cannot remain complicit in oppressive systems. Since the African American studies department began in the early 2000s, the university has implemented...

GU Professors Teaching Classes on China Take Online Learning Precautions in Light of Possible Security Threats

GU Professors Teaching Classes on China Take Online Learning Precautions in Light of Possible Security Threats

By Hansen Lian August 29, 2020

Some Georgetown University professors teaching classes about China are taking precautionary measures to protect students and faculty from possible security threats during online learning in the fall.  Some...

GAGE Hosts Rallies as Push for Graduate Worker Protections Continues

GAGE Hosts Rallies as Push for Graduate Worker Protections Continues

By Samantha Sinutko August 28, 2020

Georgetown University’s graduate student union held two separate rallies last week as part of an ongoing campaign demanding the university guarantee health and economic protections for graduate student...

START/SELECT: 2020's Lessons in Class and Gaming: 'The Last of Us Part II'

START/SELECT: 2020’s Lessons in Class and Gaming: ‘The Last of Us Part II’

By Mac Riga August 26, 2020

Naughty Dog’s hotly anticipated sequel to their zombie apocalypse-themed 2013 game “The Last of Us” has received plenty of criticism about its themes and its dystopian universe. But, while professional...

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