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2 months ago | 
georgetownvoice.com | Connor Martin |Margaret Hartigan |Joanna Li |Sarah Watson
Content warning: This article includes mention of suicide. In the same week as President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Georgetown hosted its annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference, the largest student-run, anti-abortion conference in the United States. After the and increasing state bans on abortion, an ultra-conservative majority now controls the federal government.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Gustav Honl-Stuenkel |Margaret Hartigan |Annemarie Cuccia
John J. DeGioia (CAS ’79, GRAD ’95), Georgetown’s 48th president, announced he would be stepping down effective immediately, in an email sent to the Georgetown University community at 2:02 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21. This comes after DeGioia announced that he would be temporarily stepping back from his role after suffering a stroke this past June. The email also included a letter from Thomas A. Reynolds III, Chair of the Georgetown Board of Directors, naming Provost Robert M.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Sydney Carroll |Nora Scully |Margaret Hartigan
Travelers at Union Station were greeted with chanting, dancing, cheering, and marching on Sept. 14 as over 500 demonstrators gathered for D.C.’s first Gender Liberation March at Columbus Circle. The march was co-founded by writer and activist Raquel Willis and organizer Eliel Cruz to advocate for both reproductive justice and trans rights. Willis, who spoke at the beginning of the rally, emphasized the intention and message of the Gender Liberation March.
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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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Jun 18, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Margaret Hartigan
Food insecurity — when someone doesn’t have access to enough healthy food to meet their needs — affects 11 percent of D.C. residents. As summer starts, the problem grows worse for many families because school breakfast and lunch programs come to an end. And with food costs still rising across the United States, people are feeling the burden of food insecurity in a notoriously expensive District.
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May 8, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Margaret Hartigan |Katie Doran |Jupiter Huang
In two consecutive press conferences on Wednesday afternoon, encampment organizers, leaders of other community advocacy organizations, and members of Congress responded to the Metro Police Department (MPD) clearing of the Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University (GW) early this morning. Thirty-three arrests were made Wednesday morning as MPD cleared the Gaza solidarity encampment, an MPD spokesperson told the Voice. Among those arrested are students from GW and Georgetown.
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May 8, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Margaret Hartigan
Diamond Dumas was 15 when they first left home. A Floridian teenager with few financial resources, Dumas’s unstable home situation led them to crash on friends’ couches for months at a time while trying to finish high school. The odds were stacked against them; when students experience homelessness, their academics suffer. But still, Dumas (who is nonbinary) graduated high school.
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May 8, 2024 | 
streetsensemedia.org | Margaret Hartigan
D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (DMHHS) closed an encampment at the corner of 9th and Mt. Olivet St. NE on May 7. Two people living at the encampment had already moved out at the time of the closure, relocating to an encampment across the street. The closure was originally scheduled for April 30 but was postponed for “additional logistics planning,” according to a DMHHS representative.
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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.
