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VERTIGO: Georgetown Graduate Launches Social Shopping Startup

VERTIGO: Georgetown Graduate Launches Social Shopping Startup

By Irini Fournier October 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOYVkGCpVjU In this episode of “Vertigo,” Multimedia staffer Irini Fournier (MSB ’24) sits down with Georgetown graduate Besart Çopa (SFS ’22) to discuss...

Fall Clubs Season Kicks Off at Georgetown With Familiar Anxiety

Fall Clubs Season Kicks Off at Georgetown With Familiar Anxiety

By Elyza Bruce and Shreya Dudeja September 30, 2022

Under late-summer leaves and a light Saturday breeze, students swarmed to different fold-out tables in hopes of finding a new home. After days, even weeks, of introductions, interviews and applications,...

CHAKRAVARTI: Personalize OGS Advising

CHAKRAVARTI: Personalize OGS Advising

By Priyasha Chakravarti September 30, 2022

While gearing up for my first year at Georgetown University, I found myself stressed out about issues involving my F-1 visa status. On top of worrying about being homesick, making friends, moving to a...

VIEWPOINT: Guarantee Accessible Proficiency Tests

VIEWPOINT: Guarantee Accessible Proficiency Tests

By Anaya Mehta September 30, 2022

Just to fulfill my requirements for graduation, I had to pay over $200 to show I was proficient in a language I've been speaking my entire life. Georgetown University has a foreign language proficiency...

Hoya Asks: What Podcast Would You Host?

Hoya Asks: What Podcast Would You Host?

By Valerie Blinder and Nicholas Lohman September 13, 2022

On this episode of “Hoya Asks,” Multimedia staffers Valerie Blinder (COL '24) and Nicholas Lohman (SFS '24) set out around campus to ask Georgetown students what topics they would want to host a podcast...

Glossier Opens New Aviation-Themed Store in Georgetown

Glossier Opens New Aviation-Themed Store in Georgetown

By Kriti Mukherjee September 8, 2022

Makeup and skincare brand Glossier launched its first Washington, D.C. location in the Georgetown neighborhood.  The women-owned brand opened its two-story shop on M Street on July 29, and was...

DC’S HIDDEN HISTORY | Unearthing Georgetown’s Past at Mount Zion Cemetery

By Nikhil Nelson April 27, 2022

When it comes to United States history, not all sites are created equal. White Americans have a tendency to focus on the most flattering aspects of our history while pushing aside the things that remind...

Student Software Company Wins Entrepreneurship Competition

Student Software Company Wins Entrepreneurship Competition

By Laetitia Haddad April 22, 2022

A team of students from Georgetown University and Harvard University won first place at the 2022 Georgetown Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Challenge for their software company Mercor. Brendan Foody...

Student Leadership Creates Statistical Agency

Student Leadership Creates Statistical Agency

By Samuel Yoo April 22, 2022

The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) senate unanimously passed a resolution to create a working group for a statistical agency to conduct surveys and a semesterly census on the student...

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160th Anniversary of Emancipation Commemorated Across Campus

By Laetitia Haddad April 22, 2022

Georgetown University commemorated the 160th anniversary of the Compensated Emancipation Act through multiple campus events. The act abolished slavery in Washington, D.C.  Passed by Congress in...

Hoyadle Brings Wordle to Georgetown

Hoyadle Brings Wordle to Georgetown

By Adora Zheng April 21, 2022

Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Duotrigordle… Hoyadle? Georgetown University-themed word game Hoyadle is the latest rendition of hit game Wordle, and it’s taking campus by storm.   The game,...

Rabbi Rachel Gartner Steps Down as Director of Jewish Life

Rabbi Rachel Gartner Steps Down as Director of Jewish Life

By Adora Zheng April 21, 2022

Rabbi Rachel Gartner is stepping down after serving as Director of Jewish Life at Georgetown for 11 years, a role in which she was cherished by students, community members and the campus ministry team. Gartner...

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