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GUSA Passes Internal Reforms to Promote More Activism

GUSA Passes Internal Reforms to Promote More Activism

By Samuel Yoo February 25, 2022

The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) Senate unanimously passed a resolution amending the organization’s bylaws to remove inactive roles. At the Feb. 20 meeting, senators voted to...

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GU272 Referendum Ruled Constitutional

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo April 28, 2019

The constitutionality of the GU272 referendum was confirmed by the Georgetown University Student Association constitutional council in a ruling Sunday in response to a suit brought by Rowan Saydlowski...

GUSA Constitutional Council Hears GU272 Suit Arguments

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo April 24, 2019

Plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the GU272 vote but argued their suit does not oppose the referendum’s objectives at a Georgetown University Student Association constitutional council hearing...

Former Senator Challenges GUSA Chief Justice

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo April 17, 2019

Dylan Hughes (COL ’19), former chair of the Georgetown University Student Association Ethics and Oversight Committee, challenged the constitutionality of GUSA Constitutional Council Chief Justice William...

Margaret Fouberg for The Hoya | Outgoing GUSA Speaker Eliza Lafferty (COL 21) speaks at a Senate meeting this semester. The Senate was scheduled to approve the results of the referendum at a meeting Sunday before the suit was brought before the Senators.

GUSA Constitutional Council to Hear Suit Against 272 Referendum

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo April 15, 2019

The Georgetown University Student Association’s Constitutional Council will address a suit filed by two students that seeks to overturn the results of last week’s referendum to establish a semesterly...

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New GUSA Constitutional Council Members Confirmed

By Elizabeth Ash February 22, 2018

Three new members of the Georgetown University Student Association constitutional council took office Feb. 14 after the GUSA senate voted to approve their nominations. Allie Phillips (COL ’20), William...

FILE PHOTO WILL CROMARTY/THE HOYA The race to fill the council followed the nearly simultaneous resignation of all three former councilors Jan. 19, as the senate prepared to consider impeachment proceedings against Russell Wirth (COL ’19), former constitutional councilor and the council’s chair.

GUSA Constitutional Council Still Vacant as Elections Loom

By Elizabeth Ash February 6, 2018

All three seats of the Constitutional Council, the Georgetown University Student Association’s judicial body, remain vacant two days before the start of campaigning for the 2018 GUSA executive election,...

New GUSA Senate Sworn In as Tensions Emerge

By Christian Paz October 6, 2017

Twenty-nine students from all four graduation years were sworn into the 2017-2018 Georgetown University Student Association senate Sunday, as the senate chose new leadership for the body and finance and...

Invalidated Senate Referendum Secured Enough Votes to Pass

By Jeff Cirillo and Caroline Hyer February 24, 2017

Last December’s Georgetown University Student Association club funding referendum, which was later invalidated, would have been approved by more than a two-third margin, according to the results...

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The GUSA Constitutional Council invalidated the results of the referendum on a constitutional amendment to abolish the GUSA senate.

VIEWPOINT: GUSA’s Dangerous Precedent

By Javon Price February 2, 2017

On Jan. 20, the Georgetown University Student Association Constitutional Council ruled in favor of a challenge to the Dec. 1 referendum centered on club funding reform, declaring the referendum vote invalid...

Council Postpones Release of Results

By Jeff Cirillo December 6, 2016

The results of last Thursday’s Georgetown University Student Association senate restructuring referendum will not be released or certified before winter break, after the GUSA Constitutional Council extended...

Council Rules Against Howard-Maduike Ticket’s Appeal to Appear on Ballot

By Ian Scoville February 17, 2016

The Georgetown University Student Association Constitutional Council rejected Reed Howard (SFS ’17) and Courtney Maduike’s (SFS ’17) appeal to be placed on the executive election ballot yesterday. Howard...

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