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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...

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Offices Damaged in Healy Fire

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Offices Damaged in Healy Fire

By Kelly Anderson January 17, 2020

The Office of Planning and Facilities Management is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out in a private office in Healy Hall on the evening of Jan. 5, according to a Georgetown University spokesperson. The...

YICHU HUANG FOR THE HOYA | Georgetown’s partnership with the Bikeshare program will decrease membership costs from $85 to $25 for all Georgetown students.

GU Announces Initiative To Provide Discounted Rates on Capital Bikeshare Membership

By Meredith Miller November 22, 2019

Georgetown University announced a new low-cost partnership with the Capital Bikeshare University Program to make bicycling more financially accessible for students. Capital Bikeshare allows users the...

LXR Residents Regain Full Hot Water Access After Two Weeks

LXR Residents Regain Full Hot Water Access After Two Weeks

By Callie DiModica November 1, 2019

Residents in LXR Hall experienced intermittent hot water shortages over the course of the past two weeks until the Office of Planning and Facilities Management fully restored hot water access Oct. 26. OLIVIA...

FILE PHOTO: MICHAEL HOWARTH FOR THE HOYA | Two elevators in Harbin Hall, one of four first year dorms, malfunctioned Tuesday night.

Harbin Hall Elevator Abruptly Drops, Trapping Student Inside

By Hansen Lian October 25, 2019

FILE PHOTO: MICHAEL HOWARTH FOR THE HOYA | Two elevators in Harbin Hall, one of four first year dorms, malfunctioned Tuesday night. Two elevators in Harbin Hall malfunctioned Tuesday night, with one...

FILE PHOTO: AMBER GILLETTE/THE HOYA | The Office of Planning and Facilities Management is asking administrators and students for feedback prior to conducting renovations in the International Cultural Center. The renovations are expected to improve the galleria and other common spaces in the ICC.

Georgetown Set to Renovate ICC and Reiss Buildings

By Myroslav April 26, 2019

  Renovations are planned in the next year for both the Reiss Science Building and the Intercultural Center on an unreleased timeline to address structural and functional concerns in the two buildings. The...

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,...

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GSC Seeks Worker Protections for Mold Exposure

By Katrina Schmidt December 7, 2018

Members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee, a student group dedicated to promoting workers’ rights, called for a plan to protect university workers assigned to clean mold in a letter delivered to...

VIEWPOINT: Collaborate on Campus Recycling

By Caroline Flibbert, Nareg Kuyumjian, and Ava Rosato November 14, 2018

For years, Georgetown University was among the leading universities for recycling in the nation. Recently, however, recycling at Georgetown has been marred by rumors and clouded by widespread confusion...

Policies Define Expression

By Tara Subramaniam October 30, 2015

The Office of Residential Living and the Division of Student Affairs clarified their policies against hanging banners, flags and clothing outside windows and chalking on buildings in two university-wide...

Snow Days Require Coordinated Strategy

By Andrew Wallender March 6, 2015

At 4 a.m. Thursday, three Georgetown administrators convened on a conference call to decide whether thousands of university students and faculty would have class. Senior Vice President and Chief...

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