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GUSA Senate Votes for More Accessible Menstrual Products on Campus

By Kate Hwang December 1, 2023

The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) Senate urged the University to provide free and accessible menstrual products in all campus bathrooms during its Nov. 19 meeting.  GUSA Senator...

RIVERS: Advocate for Trans Youth Athletes

RIVERS: Advocate for Trans Youth Athletes

By Grace Rivers November 17, 2023

The last three years have seen a rapid escalation in legislation banning or restricting transgender youth from participating in sports on the basis of their gender identity.  Since 2020, 23 states...

Students Organize No Donations Pledge, Urge University To Change Reproductive Freedom Policies

Students Organize No Donations Pledge, Urge University To Change Reproductive Freedom Policies

By Eli Kales August 1, 2022

Over 500 Georgetown University community members have signed onto a pledge agreeing to withhold certain donations to the university until administrative officials address certain reproductive and family...

GU PRIDE

CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE: LGBTQ Activists Fight for University Recognition

By Timothy McNulty and Dennese Mae Javier October 18, 2018

In September 2007, a Georgetown University student was attacked by a group of men, including another Georgetown student, according to The Hoya and The Washington Examiner. The attackers yelled homophobic...

EDITORIAL: Fair Treatment for Workers

By Editorial Board October 7, 2016

On a campus that seeks to promote values of care and service, allegations of a poor working environment for university staff are alarming. In a welcome effort to improve the working conditions for university...

Labor Rights: A Consumer Issue

By Sarah Martin April 26, 2016

As I sit in the back of my macroeconomics class, I behold a sea of illuminated laptop screens. Each screen has the same image: rows and rows of clothes. I see my classmates mindlessly clicking and dragging...

Stand Up for Worker’s Rights

In January, The Hoya and The Georgetown Voice both published articles about the inadequate housing accommodations offered to Georgetown employees during Winter Storm Jonas. Georgetown presented the workers...

Cold Treatment

Cold Treatment

By The Editorial Board January 29, 2016

Students and professors alike recently experienced the record-setting blizzard and ensuing four-day weekend that immobilized the District of Columbia. In order to clear the heavy drifts of snow and ice,...

COURTESY BIANCA SOLER

The Future of Music Coalition Summit, which took place Monday and Tuesday, focused on challenges and changes in the music industry.

The Changing Face of Music

By Katherine Richardson October 30, 2015

It was 2000, and Napster — an online service that allowed users to swap and download MP3 files for free — was growing at a viral rate. In just under a year, the site’s 20-million-person user base...

Respect Trans Patients

Respect Trans Patients

By The Editorial Board September 4, 2015

This fall, the O’Neil Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center will host a colloquium on the role of law and policy in affirming the rights of transgender...

The Work Ahead for Trans Student Rights

By Willem Miller September 1, 2015

This summer was big for the LGBTQ community — particularly the transgender community. Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender and started a documentary series. Another season of “Orange Is the New...

CORREIA: A Place for DC Among The States

CORREIA: A Place for DC Among The States

By Tricia Correia October 10, 2014

In 1970, Sam Smith wrote in the D.C. Gazette that the D.C. Statehood movement was not proceeding at the speed most thought it would. “Instead,” Smith wrote, “we have annual piddling negotiations...

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