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Apr 27, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eddy Binford-Ross |Franzi Wild |Katie Doran |Sydney Carroll
This is a breaking story and will be updated as the situation develops. Saturday marks the third day that students have been camped in George Washington University (GW)’s University Yard, protesting in solidarity with Palestine. Late Friday evening, demonstrators that had been standing and chanting outside the barricaded-off encampment began setting up more tents on H Street.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eddy Binford-Ross |Franzi Wild |Elizabeth Short |Paul James
This is a breaking story and will be updated as the situation develops. Students from George Washington University along with students from Georgetown and other schools from throughout the D.C. area established an encampment in solidarity with Gaza early this morning on GW’s campus. It follows similar protests at universities across the country, including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among others.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Margaret Hartigan |Franzi Wild |Alec Weiker
Gender-inclusive housing is essential for the safety, health, and well-being of LGBTQ+ students at Georgetown. The editorial board calls on all undergraduate students to vote “yes” on the upcoming GUSA referendum for comprehensive gender-inclusive housing. The gender-inclusive housing referendum opens for voting on April 11 at 8 p.m. and closes on April 13 at 8 p.m., the same timeline as GUSA Senate elections.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Franzi Wild |Annemarie Cuccia |Sophie Tafazzoli |Izzy Wagener
The Georgetown Resident Assistant Coalition (GRAC) announced their intention to unionize under OPEIU Local 153 via a press release on March 22. Their reasons for unionizing include demands for equitable and just compensation, as well as a formal grievance process in response to the mistreatment of some RAs by management. Organizers began working toward unionization efforts in February, and the majority of RAs have signed a petition in favor of forming a union.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eddy Binford-Ross |Franzi Wild |Sydney Carroll |Isaiah Seibert
Content warning: This article contains mention of anti-Palestinian racism, antisemitism, genocide, self-immolation, and lynching. Over 250 protesters gathered on Feb. 27 as Jewish Life, a branch of Campus Ministry, and the Georgetown Israel Alliance (GIA) hosted a panel with members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Franzi Wild |Connor Martin |Sydney Carroll |Annemarie Cuccia
Over 100 students, faculty, and staff held a walkout from class and work on Feb. 8 to call on Georgetown to divest its endowment from companies that invest in technologies used by the Israeli military to murder and police Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Carolina Bomeny |Franzi Wild |Natalie Chaudhuri |Ashley Kulberg
Around a dozen students gathered for a vigil in Red Square on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in remembrance of the victims and survivors of gun violence. The event was led by Georgetown Students Demand Action’s (SDA) in honor of the sixth annual National Gun Violence Survivors Week (Jan. 22-26). “As over 120 Americans are shot and killed each day (38,000 in a year) it would take almost eleven hours to say all of their names.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Franzi Wild |Alec Weiker |Annabella Hoge |Ryan Remmel
The first thing you notice when entering the new Office of Student Equity and Inclusion (OSEI), located underneath the west corner of the Healey Family Student Center, is the lack of need to push or pull a door yourself.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Romy Abu-Fadel |Sabrina Shaffer |Franzi Wild |Katie Doran
Podcasts By and Welcome back to Post Pitch. This week, podcasts producer Romy Abu-Fadel interviews our Features writer Sabrina Shaffer about her piece in this week’s issue of The Voice. Tune in to hear Romy and Sabrina discuss the experiences of Palestinian students at Georgetown.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Franzi Wild |Katie Doran |Rochelle Davis |Sam F. Halabi
Georgetown Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP), a newly formed faculty and staff group to support Palestinian liberation, held a vigil Thursday afternoon to memorialize and commemorate their academic colleagues murdered in Gaza. Each faculty member held a sign about an academic who had been killed by Israeli forces, and, when prompted, read the biography before the crowd of around 100 attendees who collectively repeated each name. Since Oct.
