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Tisa, Ramadan Form Team of Rivals

By Annie Chen • March 15, 2013

Despite coming up short in this year’s GUSA election, Jack Appelbaum, Shavonnia Corbin-Johnson and Spencer Walsh will feature prominently in the next executive staff. “It takes a lot of guts...

Better Social Life a Two-Way Street

By Clara Gustafson and Nate Tisa • March 14, 2013

As the incoming and outgoing presidents of the student body, we find ourselves in parallel states of reflection: one looking at past accomplishments and the other looking to future plans for making Georgetown...

Tisa, Ramadan GUSA Champs

By Annie Chen • February 22, 2013

Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) were elected president and vice president of the GUSA executive yesterday, finishing just 92 votes ahead in the final round of runoff voting despite trailing...

A Mandate for Reform

By The Editorial Board • February 22, 2013

The votes are in. Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ’14) were elected yesterday to the executive of the Georgetown University Student Association. The challenge before them now is to set...

Secret Societies Jolt End of GUSA Race

By Emma Hinchliffe and Braden McDonald • February 22, 2013

The final 24 hours of the GUSA executive race were dominated by revelations, allegations and admissions about candidates’ membership in secret societies. A release Tuesday night of documents and photographs...

GU May Elect First Gay President

By Annie Chen • February 16, 2013

If elected president of the Georgetown University Student Association, GUSA senate Speaker NateTisa (SFS ’14) would be only the second openly gay student body president at any major Jesuit university...

GUSA Promotes Safe Spaces Program

By Annie Chen • December 10, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate unanimously passed a resolution to establish a Safe Spaces Program for peer support against harassment Sunday. According to co-sponsor of the bill GUSA senate...

TISA: GUSA Can’t Do it All

By Nate Tisa • September 27, 2012

For a moment, the “clear and convincing” evidentiary referendum brought the student body and its elected government together in support of a common goal. Yet I fear, in the end, that efforts undertaken...

GUSA to Hold Referendum on Evidentiary Standard

By Annie Chen • September 9, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate voted unanimously Sunday to hold a student body-wide referendum regarding changes to the Code of Student Conduct’s evidentiary standard. If passed,...

GUSA Senate to Investigate Student Businesses Ban

By Annie Chen • February 2, 2012

The Georgetown University Student Associate Senate voted unanimously Sunday to authorize the Student Life Committee to investigate the university's ban on the operation of student businesses on campus. University...