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The Transformers’ Next Battle: Optimus Prime vs. Neighborhood Board

The Transformers’ Next Battle: Optimus Prime vs. Neighborhood Board

By Julia Butler April 14, 2023

Georgetown University students may soon give their last wave to the Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Transformers statues that line many Hoyas’ walks to class.  The Old Georgetown Board (OGB), a...

Content Creators Protest Potential TikTok Ban Outside US Capitol

Content Creators Protest Potential TikTok Ban Outside US Capitol

By Julia Butler March 31, 2023

Content creators rallied outside of the U.S. Capitol on March 22 in response to congressional talks of banning TikTok, a popular China-based social media application with over 1 billion users. Congressman...

Major League Cricket Announces First DC Professional Team

Major League Cricket Announces First DC Professional Team

By Julia Butler March 24, 2023

Major League Cricket (MLC), a newly created American cricket league, announced the launch of the Washington Freedom, Washington, D.C.’s first professional cricket team. The Washington Freedom, which...

Metallica Purchases Local Record Pressing Company

Metallica Purchases Local Record Pressing Company

By Julia Butler March 24, 2023

Popular 1980s rock band Metallica acquired a majority stake in Furnace Record Pressing (Furnace), a record pressing plant in Alexandria, Va., on March 14.  Furnace and Metallica have previously...

Tensions Run High in Panel Discussing Julian Assange Case

Tensions Run High in Panel Discussing Julian Assange Case

By Julia Butler March 17, 2023

The Georgetown University film and media studies program and the Free Speech Project — an independent, nonpartisan initiative focusing on free speech in the United States — hosted a March 14 panel...

District Pool Fails Health Inspection, Indefinitely Closes

District Pool Fails Health Inspection, Indefinitely Closes

By Julia Butler February 24, 2023

Washington, D.C.’s Wilson Aquatic Center, located in Tenleytown, closed indefinitely due to emergency repairs following a failed health inspection Feb. 14. Inspectors found 13 code violations at...

GU272+ Descendants Discuss Family History, Future Education

GU272+ Descendants Discuss Family History, Future Education

By Julia Butler February 10, 2023

Descendants of the GU272+ joined Georgetown University’s Department of African American studies Feb. 2 for a conversation on the legacy of the GU272+: the 314 enslaved people the Maryland Jesuits, who...

DC Expands Tutoring Programs After COVID-19 Learning Disruptions

DC Expands Tutoring Programs After COVID-19 Learning Disruptions

By Julia Butler February 10, 2023

Washington, D.C., announced Feb. 2 its third major investment in high-impact tutoring (HIT), a form of intensive individual or small-group tutoring. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the Office of the...

DC Ends Pandemic Housing Program for Medically Vulnerable

DC Ends Pandemic Housing Program for Medically Vulnerable

By Julia Butler January 26, 2023

Washington, D.C. will begin phasing out their pandemic housing program immediately for unhoused and medically vulnerable residents due to a lack of federal funding. The Department of Human Services...

Mayor Bowser Reveals New Economic Plan for DC

Mayor Bowser Reveals New Economic Plan for DC

By Julia Butler January 19, 2023

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) announced D.C.’s economic goals for the next five years on Jan. 9.  The economic...

WMATA Installs Gates to Reduce Fare Evasion

WMATA Installs Gates to Reduce Fare Evasion

By Julia Butler December 3, 2022

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) rolled out prototype faregates Nov. 17 to make it harder for riders to evade Metro fares. WMATA installed two types of new gates at the Fort...

Speakers Discuss Rise of Islamophobia in India

Speakers Discuss Rise of Islamophobia in India

By Julia Butler December 2, 2022

At an event hosted by Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, panelists spoke about a recent increase in anti-Muslim discrimination in India.  Speakers...

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