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2 months ago | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |John Woolley |Cat Haseman |Angelena Bougiamas
D.C.’s local government, tasked with everything from housing policy to making sure the bus comes on time, can be just as impactful on students’ lives as what happens on Capitol Hill. Understanding our local government is a way for students to become more familiar with what daily life looks like in the District, beyond Georgetown’s front gates. Like the federal government, D.C.’s government has three branches.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Samantha Monteiro |Roman Peregrino |Kevin Huggard
Georgetown students gathered at events on campus and across D.C. to observe Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. Freezing temperatures moved the official ceremony indoors to the Capitol Rotunda rather than outdoors on the National Mall, keeping many ticketed guests from attending the ceremony in person. While some Georgetown students lined up with thousands of others for the modified inaugural parade in Capital One Arena, others watched the ceremony at events on campus.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Ajani Jones |Elizabeth Adler |Aubrey Butterfield |Samantha Monteiro
For the past few years, the Voice has aimed to have a semesterly sit-down interview between the editor-in-chief (EIC) and the current sitting president of the university. As the outgoing EIC from the fall semester, I got the chance to sit down with Interim President Groves and Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff Joe Ferrara to talk about some of the biggest issues currently facing the university and its community members. This interview was conducted on Jan. 16.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Graham Krewinghaus |Sarah Watson |Megan O'Malley
The GUSA Senate certified the Fall 2024 election results and swore in 11 new senators at their post-election meeting on Sunday, Nov. 10. In a unanimous decision, Ethan Henshaw (CAS ’26) and Darius Wagner (CAS ’27) were certified as the new GUSA Executive president and vice president. Henshaw and Wagner won the election on Nov. 7, and their ticket received 1,061 votes, according to official results released by the GUSA Election Commission.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sarah Watson |Samantha Monteiro |Imani Liburd |Annemarie Cuccia
Elections open for GUSA president and vice president, and for class of 2028 and at-large senators, on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. eastern. Polls close Thursday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. eastern. This article will be updated with a link to the voting form. The editorial board has been clear about its disenchantment with GUSA. However, absent major structural reforms, GUSA’s president and vice president still matter greatly in advocating for student needs to an often unresponsive university administration.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Imani Liburd |Annemarie Cuccia |Nora Scully
After turning in their ballots for federal and state elections, it’ll be time for Hoyas to cast their votes again, this time for the next GUSA Executive team. Elections open on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m., and students will be emailed a link to vote on Qualtrics until Thursday, Nov.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Samantha Monteiro |Christina Smith |Damian Garcia |Karina Han
Through fraudulent ticket sales over the past several months, Georgetown students have been scammed out of thousands of dollars—and even their identities—by users on GroupMe, a messaging app used across campus. According to students interviewed by the Voice, many scams took place in the Ticket Exchange group chat—a frenzied hub of panicked students trying to buy last-minute event tickets or sell off music festival passes they booked two months before finding out they had a midterm.
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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 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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Oct 11, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Samantha Monteiro |Angelena Bougiamas
Community members gathered at the steps of Healy Hall for a rally and march organized by Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on Oct. 10. The rally came as part of SJP’s ‘Week of Rage,’ marking the one-year anniversary of Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza. Demonstrators commemorated the Palestinians Israel has killed and restated SJP’s demands of the university.
