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EDITORIAL: Reform Inadequate Isolation Policies

EDITORIAL: Reform Inadequate Isolation Policies

By The Editorial Board October 6, 2023

Simply put, we are not in a post-COVID-19 pandemic world.  Since Aug. 1, Georgetown University has tracked 409 reported cases of COVID-19. However, this number is likely an underestimate, according...

EDITORIAL: A Call to Reform The CALL

EDITORIAL: A Call to Reform The CALL

By The Editorial Board March 4, 2023

Every August, first-year students come from all over the world to join a pool of thousands of intelligent, motivated and competitive students, an experience that can be both exhilarating and incredibly...

EDITORIAL: Improve Isolation Conditions

EDITORIAL: Improve Isolation Conditions

By The Editorial Board February 18, 2022

As of Feb. 14, 128 residential students are in COVID-19 isolation either in the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center or the newly introduced Glover Park Hotel Georgetown. Despite the recent...

Students in Isolation Face Difficulty with Meals Amid a COVID-19 Spike

Students in Isolation Face Difficulty with Meals Amid a COVID-19 Spike

By Giulia Testa February 17, 2022

After a surge in positive COVID-19 cases on campus, students isolating in two different locations on and off campus face difficulties receiving adequate food.  Between Feb. 8 and 9, over 80 undergraduate...

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Students in Isolation Face Confusion Over COVID-19 Protocols, Delays in University Communications

By Julia Staley January 20, 2022

Students who tested positive for COVID-19 have expressed safety and transparency concerns over Georgetown University’s isolation protocols.  While students who tested positive for COVID-19 in...

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COVID-19 Quarantine at Georgetown: Frequently Asked Questions

By Ingrid Matteini November 12, 2021

Georgetown University’s Hotel and Conference Center has become crowded with students needing to quarantine after the campus community experienced a spike in positive COVID-19 cases. After 35 community...

Frustration, Isolation and a Whole Lot of Zoom: International Students and the Age of Online Learning

Frustration, Isolation and a Whole Lot of Zoom: International Students and the Age of Online Learning

By Adam Hamdan October 11, 2020

Runzhong Xu (COL ’21) is joining his classes from his home in China, half a world away from the United States and 12 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time. While dealing with the isolation and loneliness...

Hoyas on Campus Cope With Stress, Isolation

Hoyas on Campus Cope With Stress, Isolation

By Charlotte Rosenblum October 2, 2020

New student Andrii Sendziuk (MSB ’24) is living on campus for the first time this virtual semester. Like many other students on campus, Sendziuk feels like he is having a difficult time connecting with...

SUN: An Inside Outsider

By Zoe Sun July 25, 2016

Coming back to China for the summer is – to borrow a term that my boarding school friends used to describe the same feeling – a “magic realism” experience. Tingles of unfamiliarity have bitten...

The Bubble Mentality

By The Editorial Board May 17, 2012

With all the resources of Hilltop life at our fingertips, it’s no wonder Georgetown students don’t pop the bubble more often. The “Georgetown bubble” describes the physical and emotional isolation...

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