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Smoke-Free Referendum Passes

By Adam Shlomi and Tara Subramaniam December 2, 2016

The Georgetown University Student Association announced 49.64 percent of students voted “yes” in a referendum for a tobacco-free campus in results released Friday at 1:31 a.m. According to the GUSA...

EDITORIAL: Smoking Ban Needs Nuance

By Editorial Board October 18, 2016

Since the beginning of October, two students, Mac Williams (NHS ’17) and Georgetown University Student Association Senator Henry Callander (COL ’18) launched a petition to hold a student-wide referendum...

BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
After the D.C. Democratic Party did not submit Sanders’ name to the D.C. Board of Election, an activist filed a legal motion to keep his name from the ballot.

Sanders Cut From Ballot, D.C. Council Holds Vote

By Matthew Riley April 1, 2016

old an emergency vote to determine whether or not to include Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) name on the Democratic Party ballot for D.C.’s June 14 primary after the party submitted the candidate’s...

Students Reject Live Registration in Referendum

By Molly Cooke February 19, 2016

The campus-wide referendum on course registration closed this morning with 83 percent of students voting to "keep pre-registration," 7 percent voting to "switch to live registration" and 9 percent of votes...

Registration Referendum

By The Editorial Board February 9, 2016

This year’s Georgetown University Student Association executive presidential and vice presidential election, to be held Feb. 18, will also include a referendum on changes to the course registration system,...

GUSA Approves Live Registration Referendum

By Christian Paz February 5, 2016

The Georgetown University Student Association senate approved a resolution to hold a campus-wide referendum to gauge student opinions on changes to the course registration procedure in a vote to be held...

Restricted by Jargon

By The Editorial Board December 4, 2015

The Georgetown University Student Association senate’s rejection of a referendum regarding student opinions on divestment Nov. 22, as proposed by GU Fossil Free, surprised many on the Hilltop. Many more...

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GUSA Rejects Divestment Referendum

By Jack Bennett November 23, 2015

The Georgetown University Student Association senate rejected an initiative that would have created a student referendum of support for GU Fossil Free’s divestment goals on Sunday evening, citing...

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GU Fossil Free released a petition in January 2013 in support of diverstment that has garnered more than 2,000 signatures.

Fossil Free Seeks Referendum, Again

By Jack Bennett and Tom Garzillo November 6, 2015

GU Fossil Free announced Tuesday that the Georgetown University Student Association will consider holding a student-wide referendum on whether the university should fully divest its holdings from the...

Give Unity Another Chance

Give Unity Another Chance

By Alden LeClair September 18, 2014

Being the politically minded Georgetown student that I am, when I studied at the University of Edinburgh, it did not take long into a conversation with my Scottish friends for us to turn to the topic of...

DIRAGO: Decoding a Decisive Referendum

By Nicholas Dirago October 1, 2013

In one of the least surprising developments in student affairs in recent memory, voters in Thursday’s Georgetown University Students Association referendum expressed overwhelming opposition to the potential...

Vote Yields Decisive Dissent

By Annie Chen September 27, 2013

More than 93 percent of students voted against the proposed satellite residence in a referendum on the GUSA ballot Thursday, which student leaders hailed as a resounding statement of opposition to off-campus...

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