The drag ball on Saturday. The mute students in black shirts on Wednesday. The round of couples locking lips in Red Square today. For students on campus, this may have looked just like GU Pride’s annual Pride Week to raise LGBTQ awareness and heighten solidarity on campus. For GU Pride members, though, this week has a distinctly different feel to it.

After months of delays due to licensing issues, Georgetown will soon be offering GOCards equipped with SmarTrip chips to all students.

Dupont Circle GUTS buses were permanently rerouted this week, drawing complaints and protests from riders, some of whom found themselves on a bus ride three times as long as last week.

For Taylor Price (MSB ’09), getting around campus isn’t easy. Operating a motorized wheelchair forces him to take elevators and ramps, which are subject to malfunctioning and inclement weather. In order to access the McDonough School of Business lab in New South, Price must take the Village A elevator down to the first level.

At first glance, Carter Lavin (SFS ’10) and Dan English (MSB ’10) look like polar opposites. Lavin is a member of EcoAction, Georgetown’s environmental club, and Energia, Georgetown’s energy issues club. English works for the Credit Union and is on the board of GU Right to Life.

Ava Jacobi (COL ’09) knew she needed to see a doctor, but it was only after four days of sleepless nights, coughing and wheezing that she made it into an examining room at the Student Health Center.

“I had bronchitis. I called over and over looking for any appointment, and they couldn’t do anything,” she said.

Dozens of students gathered in a White-Gravenor classroom Wednesday night to join in a discussion, but the issues they tackled were not academic. Rather, the group convened to address bias and tolerance on campus, in the wake of a semester that saw 10 bias-related incidents reported to the university.

Patrick Dowd (SFS ’09) won the runoff election for GUSA president this week, and will take office next month, the Election Commission announced tonight.

“We’re thrilled,” Dowd said.

The GUSA Senate voted yesterday to deny certification of the results of the presidential election held last week and to hold a runoff election among the top four finishers.

The upper level of O’Donovan Hall is officially a nut-free zone.

In an effort to ensure the safety of students with nut allergies, foods such as pecan pie and peanut butter will be served only on the lower level. In addition, the pasta station has stopped serving pesto sauce, as it contains pine nuts.