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Connect to Steady Progress

By The Editorial Board March 4, 2014

As their campaign showed us, incoming GUSA executives Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) and Omika Jikaria(SFS ’15) have the ambition and the determination to enact positive change at Georgetown in the...

Medical Amnesty Attached to Code

By Kelly McKenna February 21, 2014

Georgetown officially added the Medical Amnesty and Good Samaritan Policy to the Code of Student Conduct on Feb. 4, which protects anyone in need of medical attention because of the consumption of alcohol...

Amnesty Proposal Approved

By Madeleine Thornburn February 14, 2014

After extensive petitioning from the Georgetown University Student Association, the university has officially added an alcohol amnesty clause in cases of sexual assault to the Code of Student Conduct to...

Student Car Ban Lacks Enforcement

By Ashley Miller December 6, 2013

The university’s ban on vehicles for undergraduates, instituted this summer, has been minimally implemented, with administrators relying on the ban itself rather than any methods of enforcement this...

After Review, Code of Conduct Tweaked

By Mallika Sen August 30, 2013

The rewritten and slightly condensed Code of Student Conduct features streamlined guidelines in an effort to increase transparency in the disciplinary process. The 2013-2014 code, released Thursday...

Support, Now Sanction Free

By The Editorial Board August 30, 2013

A welcome shift came for off-campus student life in early August: the creation of the Office of Neighborhood Life. Before this year, off-campus resources and Code of Student Conduct disciplinary proceedings...

GUSA Proposes Disciplinary Reform

By Annie Chen January 29, 2013

The GUSA senate passed a resolution Jan. 20 urging the university to expunge records of Class A violations committed during freshman year for students who do not receive additional citations in the following...

External Review Sparks Dialogue

By Emma Hinchliffe January 18, 2013

The university’s external review of conduct policies and practices, which was completed in December, focused on reducing bureaucracy, simplifying the Code of Student Conduct and improving communication...

Discipline Change Delayed

By Annie Chen September 7, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Association urged Vice President of Student Affairs Todd Olson to approve changes to the Code of Student Conduct’s evidentiary standard in an open letter sent Sept....

SAO Assumes Role as Mediator

By Kelly Church January 26, 2012

After its first semester, the Student Advocacy Office has developed a foundation to serve as a resource to help students navigate the disciplinary process, its directors said. The SAO, a project developed...

RJC to Launch with Elections

By Anne Skomba April 7, 2011

Georgetown's Residential Judicial Council will hold its first-ever elections next week, aiming to transform the campus' perception of the organization. The council, which was put on hiatus this year...

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