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Bowser Spotlights Education, Wages in 2017 Budget

By Matthew Larson April 1, 2016

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) submitted the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget and Financial Plan, which includes a record $13.4 billion spending proposal, to the Council of the District of Columbia on March 24. The budget,...

DCPS Invests $4 Million in Alternative Schools

By Cheryl Liu February 29, 2016

The D.C. Public School system announced plans Feb. 16 to bolster its alternative high schools, which are designed to cater to students who may need flexibility in their schedules or extra assistance in...

Space Funded For Unofficial Groups

By Andrew Wallender March 24, 2015

As part of the 2016 Georgetown University Student Association Budget approved by the senate after contentious debate Sunday evening, unrecognized student groups will receive on-campus storage space, club...

Obama Budget Offers DC Greater Autonomy

By Kshithij Shrinath February 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s proposed $4 trillion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which was released Monday, included provisions to remove restrictions on marijuana legalization and abortion services...

Clubs Request $350K at Budget Summit

By Katherine Richardson November 25, 2014

After 98 student groups requested $350,000 at last weekend’s Student Activities Commission summit, SAC allocated a total of $146,000 to the groups. SAC allocated all of its available funds for this...

Lauinger, Reimagined

By The Editorial Board November 11, 2014

When Reimagine Georgetown was established in 2003, hopes were high that three of the university’s largest student organizations — the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union,...

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Collegiate Readership stands emptied by professors and graduate students 
by midday factored into GUSA Fin/App’s decision to cut the program.

College Readership Cut Upsets Students

By Kshithij Shrinath March 28, 2014

When Georgetown University Student Association President Trevor Tezel (COL ’15) signed the GUSA budget for fiscal year 2015 Wednesday, he officially ended the six-year run of the Collegiate Readership...

HOLLANDER: Still Too Early to Label Obama a Lame Duck

By Evan Hollander December 6, 2013

Almost a full year into his second term, President Barack Obama has lurched from one disaster to the next and has little to show for his thumping of Mitt Romney last November. However, with a more modest...

Georgetown Posts First Budget Surplus in 11 Years

By Molly Simio November 21, 2013

Georgetown closed FY13 with a surplus of $2.7 million, the university's first operating surplus since FY02. "We've been on a path to balance the budget," Vice President for Financial Affairs David Rubenstein...

Lights Go Out for What’s After Dark

By Mallika Sen November 1, 2013

The Center for Student Engagement will discontinue the What’s After Dark program in response to university-wide budget cuts, resulting in a partial loss of funding for Relay for Life, the Georgetown...

Tea Party’s Policy Flawed, Not Their Methods

By Taylor Coles October 4, 2013

For good reason, the government shutdown has been dominating the national consciousness over the past week. Throughout the nation, pundits and media figures have, with varying degrees of vitriol and irony,...

The 6 Questions About the Government Shutdown That You Were Too Afraid To Ask

The 6 Questions About the Government Shutdown That You Were Too Afraid To Ask

By KP and KP October 1, 2013

Well, Hoyas, midnight happened: Healy bells were chiming ominous tolls, Congress was screaming in a blur of Obamacare and budget failures and then, in a fury of doom, death and drinking, the federal government...

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