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EDITORIAL: Improve Fire Safety Maintenance

EDITORIAL: Improve Fire Safety Maintenance

By The Editorial Board November 3, 2023

Georgetown University is aflame with facilities failures. The Editorial Board calls on administration to get ahead of these concerns before they create further issues to the detriment of students. In...

Students Report Facilities Issues, Slow Response from University Maintenance

Students Report Facilities Issues, Slow Response from University Maintenance

By Liana Hardy September 29, 2022

Two weeks after Kat DeMaret (SFS ’24) moved into her Village A apartment, she noticed water steadily leaking from the ceiling. She called facilities and immediately set up buckets to collect the water. On...

Darnall 1st-Floor Rooms Flooded, Residents’ Items Damaged

Darnall 1st-Floor Rooms Flooded, Residents’ Items Damaged

By Minoli Ediriweera October 8, 2021

At approximately 10:45 a.m. Sept. 30, Darnall Hall first-floor resident Joe Massaua (SFS ’25) was shocked to witness a flood in progress outside his dorm room.  “I was doing homework in another...

EDITORIAL: Prioritize Donations for University Maintenance

EDITORIAL: Prioritize Donations for University Maintenance

By Editorial Board September 20, 2019

As students on Georgetown University’s campus face constant health and safety hazards from crumbling infrastructure, pervasive mold and archaic lead water pipes, donations to the university continue...

Facilities Negligence Endangers Students

By Harrison Hurt February 22, 2019

When students from top-floor apartments in Alumni Square were relocated to the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center last week, administrators assured them that they were acting with an abundance...

WILL SIMON/THE HOYA | Georgetown Universitys board of directors approved a $75 million maintenance plan, which will be allocated to facilities repairs, including the roofs of Alumni Squares apartments and renovations of Alumni Square west. 

Board of Directors Allocates $75 Million for Repairs, Maintenance

By Anya Howko-Johnson February 22, 2019

A five-year, $75 million maintenance plan to alleviate building maintenance issues — including those in student residences — was approved by the Georgetown board of directors Feb. 14. A portion...

KIRK ZIESER/THE HOYA Several Facilities workers 
feel mistreated and bullied by their management, as two anonymous workers recount to The Hoya.

Facilities Workers Reveal Institutional Challenges

By Meena Morar December 7, 2018

The smooth operations of Georgetown University’s maintenance rely on employees of the Office of Planning and Facilities Management to respond to work requests. Yet several of these workers feel overworked,...

EDITORIAL: Subpar Housing Merits Compensation

By Editorial Board October 26, 2018

Faulty fire alarms. Disruptive, clamorous construction. Severe miscommunication from university officials to endangered student residents. Georgetown has proven unwilling or unable to address a wide...

HOUSING: My Floors Were Soaked for 5 Months. Facilities Called Them Standard

HOUSING: My Floors Were Soaked for 5 Months. Facilities Called Them ‘Standard’

By Luke Duffner October 10, 2018

In fall 2017, I lived in a dilapidated apartment in Henle Village. Initially, I thought little of my home’s shabby state. Eventually, though, I noticed our floors were substantially dirtier and, more...

EDITORIAL: Increase Maintenance Staff

By Editorial Board April 20, 2018

Health and safety issues in Georgetown University student housing go unaddressed by the Office of Planning and Facilities Management for far too long. To address the deplorable conditions of its facilities,...

4Es Guide To Maintenance Requests

4E’s Guide To Maintenance Requests

By Sylvie Hullinger and Sylvie Hullinger September 14, 2017

The beginning of the school year means a lot of things: new faces on campus, new classes, expensive textbooks, and huge spiders crawling through a crack in your Henle’s windows. Thanks to Georgetown...

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