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Olivia Holmberg/The Hoya | The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC), the organization that represents Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs), completed their fifth round of bargaining with Georgetown University, reaching no tentative agreements in this session.

RA Union, GU Complete Eighth Bargaining Session, Expect to End Negotiations this Semester

By Maren Fagan and Aamir Jamil February 7, 2025

The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC), the union representing Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs), came to one tentative agreement regarding RA scheduling at a Feb. 5 collective...

Haan Jun Lee / The Hoya | In an April 16 election, a majority of resident assistants (RAs) who voted — 79 of the 82 voting RAs, or 96% — voted in favor of union representation by Local 153 of the Office of Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), a parent union supporting university employees.

RA Union, Georgetown Begin Collective Bargaining

By Maren Fagan and Aamir Jamil August 29, 2024

The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC), the organization that represents Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs) in collective bargaining negotiations, began its first round of negotiations...

Haan Jun (Ryan) Lee/The Hoya | Georgetown University resident assistants received enough votes to unionize April 16.

Resident Assistants to Become Union After Election, Pending Certification

By Michelle Vassilev and Evie Steele April 16, 2024

The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC), a group of Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs) negotiating for better RA working conditions, received enough votes to become a union...

EDITORIAL: GU, Address RA Concerns

EDITORIAL: GU, Address RA Concerns

By The Editorial Board April 5, 2024

A coalition of Georgetown University resident assistants (RAs) requested to unionize on March 22, submitting a letter to University President John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRD ’95) that asked the university...

Georgetown's Secret Freshmen Dorm

Georgetown’s Secret Freshmen Dorm

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz February 4, 2016

As a Blue & Gray tour guide took me on a tour of Georgetown's campus during my junior year of high school, she told me and the tour group that Georgetown had four freshman dorms that will determine...

Impressions of a First-Year RA

Impressions of a First-Year RA

By Olivia Hinerfeld December 1, 2014

Wednesdays are the hardest day of my week. After six hours of class and three hours of meetings, all I want to do at night is to fall into bed. So, when my 20th birthday fell on a Wednesday this September,...

Defending Our RAs’ Rights

By The Editorial Board November 18, 2014

After resident assistant Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) reported a Georgetown student in possession of ricin, whom he believed to be both willing and able to kill another student, it would have been reasonable...

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Freeing RAs From Their Fetters

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Freeing RAs From Their Fetters

By Thomas Christiansen and Tucker Cholvin November 18, 2014

The publication of an op-ed by Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) in this paper last week has had profound effects on campus since it went to press. His account of how systemic mismanagement and stonewalling by...

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Amid debate over RA rights, a poster advertises the position to students.

RA Rights Await Clarification

By Suzanne Monyak and Katherine Richardson November 18, 2014

Following widespread student concerns about the treatment of resident assistants and enforcement of the confidentiality policies all RAs must sign governing their interactions with residents, the university...

Mayday on McCarthy Six

By Daye Shim Lee March 21, 2014

The Office of Residential Living is responsible for ensuring student safety, health and well-being. Although these three words are subject to different interpretations, Residential Living proudly claims...

Tombs Lunches Facilitate Student-Faculty Dialogue

By Madison Ashley October 26, 2012

This October, students in McCarthy Hall can forgo the O’Donovan Hall experience to eat with a professor at The Tombs. Launched last February by Hall Director Lamar Dawson, the McCarthy Hall “Out...

RA Life: Ponies and Police

By Haley Cottrell February 14, 2012

Take what you know about dormitory life. Now, imagine having to tell people on your floor that you can hear them having an in-depth conversation about masturbating from down the hall. Or waking up to find...

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