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Nov 2, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eddy Binford-Ross
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Ajani Jones |Eddy Binford-Ross |Annemarie Cuccia
Welcome to the Voice’s GUSA news briefs! To keep our readers up-to-date on the changes that will affect them at Georgetown, we’re posting a biweekly round-up of some of the important projects and legislation covered at GUSA Senate meetings. Here’s what you need to know from this week’s meeting on Sunday, Oct. 20:Elections!GUSA will be holding elections for its Executive and Senate positions from Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. to Thursday, Nov.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Elizabeth Adler |Lucy Cook |Amanda Yen |Eddy Binford-Ross
I’ve been a Coldplay fan most of my life. When I first heard the opening violins in their 2008 hit “Viva la Vida,” I knew this was what music was supposed to be—an experience that takes you to a place beyond yourself, both awe-inspiring and quintessentially human.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Sydney Carroll |Eddy Binford-Ross |Connor Martin
On Sept. 28, people from D.C. and around the world gathered to honor their countries and cultures in a show of unity—not at the United Nations General Assembly, but for an even greater cause: cementing the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest pupusa. Nearly 100 pupuseros, or pupusa chefs, banded together to make the traditional El Salvadoran and Honduran dish, successfully breaking the world record. At Fiesta D.C., the district’s Hispanic heritage festival, the pupusa measured at 20.2 ft.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Margaret Hartigan |Ajani Jones |Eddy Binford-Ross
Shweta Chaitanya, a brahmacharini in the Hindu dharma and Georgetown’s new director for Dharmic Life, has watched women break glass ceilings—and ancient rules. In 2016, Chaitanya was in Mumbai, India, studying in an ashram, a Hindu spiritual sanctuary. Despite studying in the ashram, Chaitanya and many other women monastics were unable to enter the ashram’s sanctum because those trained in performing sanctum rituals are often men.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Connor Martin |Eddy Binford-Ross |Sydney Carroll
D.C. already has among the highest rates of youth involvement in the juvenile justice system in the country. Since April, youth justice advocates have been sounding alarms that a newly-introduced bill will only make this worse. Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced the bill on April 3, aiming to address both truancy and youth crime. Some advocates say that the bill will increase the number of court-involved and incarcerated minors in D.C. while ignoring the root causes of attendance or behavioral issues.
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May 8, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Connor Martin |Eddy Binford-Ross |Sydney Carroll |Ajani Jones
Wednesday 5:26 a.m. update:More than 20 arrests were made Wednesday morning as the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) cleared the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at George Washington University (GW), according to an MPD spokesperson. MPD officers pepper sprayed protesters, as demonstrators tried to move towards the encampment to support those being arrested, multiple protesters told the Voice.
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May 4, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Margaret Hartigan |Sydney Carroll |Katie Doran |Eddy Binford-Ross
Over a week ago, a coalition of students from universities across D.C., including Georgetown, George Washington University (GW), and American University, established a Gaza solidarity encampment at University Yard (U-Yard) on GW’s campus. The encampment—like others around the country—is in protest of Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine and its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where the International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel “plausibly violated” the U.N. genocide convention.
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May 3, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Margaret Hartigan |Eddy Binford-Ross |Sydney Carroll |Carolina Bomeny
For more than a week, hundreds of D.C. college students and community members have gathered at George Washington University’s (GW) Gaza solidarity encampment, drawing attention from the district, national media, and congressional Republicans. Early in the morning of April 25, dozens of students from GW, as well as Georgetown and American University (AU), flooded into University Yard (U-Yard), a main green on GW’s campus, where they began setting up two dozen tents.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Connor Martin |Cole Kindiger |Eddy Binford-Ross |Sabrina Shaffer
Tensions surged on the fourth night of the Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University on Sunday night and into Monday morning. Barricades surrounding the encampment at University Yard (U-Yard) have been knocked down by protesters, and tents that had previously been set up on H Street were moved onto the green. Confrontations between police and protesters escalated from the relatively stable point they had been at for several days, and police presence began to increase on H Street.
