Rachel Cohen

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Rachel Cohen |Dana Coffield

Before the bell rings, the band classroom at Vikan Middle School in Brighton is chaos. Dozens of students in a semicircle play their trumpets, horns and drums over each other. “Everybody say, ‘Shh….,’” band director Aaron Carnahan said, calling class to order with a baton in hand. The eighth-grade class was rehearsing for their final concert as middle schoolers.

Mar 17, 2025 | georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Ben Jakabcsin |Katya Schwenk |Rachel Cohen

Content warning: This piece includes a quoted racial slur. Entering McDonough Arena between 1972 and 1999, where Georgetown’s basketball team practiced, was a nearly impossible task. “When you came into McDonough, everything was taped up—it was like Fort Knox. The windows were taped, the doors were taped, the doors were locked,” Joey Brown (CAS ’94), a former Hoya basketball guard, said. Inside, Coach John Thompson’s basketball teams ran sprints.

Feb 17, 2025 | georgetownvoice.com | Aubrey Butterfield |Annemarie Cuccia |Katya Schwenk |Rachel Cohen

Elizabeth Keys (LAW ’20), a D.C. attorney and proud Georgetown alumna, died on Jan. 29. It was her 33rd birthday. Keys was a passenger on American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas which collided with a Black Hawk Army helicopter just before landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport. All 67 people aboard the plane and the three members of the helicopter’s crew died as a result of the mid-air crash.

Feb 1, 2025 | georgetownvoice.com | Mahika Sharma |Rachel Cohen |Samantha Tritt |John Woolley

While Georgetown is a hub for diverse areas of research, there’s only one program where students are encouraged to explore Afro-Colombian feminism through musical traditions while professors debate weaponizing artificial intelligence against human trafficking.

Jan 7, 2025 | georgetownvoice.com | Izzy Wagener |Katie Doran |Annemarie Cuccia |Rachel Cohen

More than eight inches of snow fell in the Georgetown neighborhood beginning early Monday. Campus remains quiet tonight, with a few passerby’s walking dogs and students returning for the start of classes.