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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...

Evidentiary Standard Referendum Passes

By Annie Chen September 28, 2012

The evidentiary standard referendum initiated by the GUSA senate was passed in a study body-wide referendum Friday. The referendum received a total of 2,629 votes, with 96 percent of students voting...

Vote ‘Yes’ on Referendum

By Clara Gustafson and Sam Schneider September 25, 2012

It takes a lot to move a glacier and not much less to fundamentally alter a 223-year-old university’s disciplinary system. It requires years of unjust outcomes; it necessitates observers of the system...

Amid Referendum Prep, GUSA Letter Disappears

By Annie Chen September 21, 2012

A banner in Red Square urging Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson to change the evidentiary standard in the Code of Student Conduct went missing Tuesday, according to a Georgetown University...

GUSA to Hold Referendum on Evidentiary Standard

By Annie Chen September 11, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Association senate voted unanimously Sunday to hold a student body-wide referendum regarding changes to the Code of Student Conduct’s evidentiary standard. If passed,...

GUSA to Hold Referendum on Evidentiary Standard

By Annie Chen September 9, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate voted unanimously Sunday to hold a student body-wide referendum regarding changes to the Code of Student Conduct’s evidentiary standard. If passed,...

Students to Vote on SAFE Proposals in Referendum

By Annie Chen December 5, 2011

The GUSA senate voted unanimously Sunday to send a proposal on how to spend the $3.4 million Student Activities Fee Endowment to a student body-wide referendum. The proposal, which was finalized by...

Students to Vote on SAFE Proposals in Referendum

By Annie Chen December 4, 2011

The GUSA senate voted unanimously Sunday to send a proposal on how to spend the $3.4 million Student Activities Fee Endowment to a student body-wide referendum. The proposal, which was finalized by...

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