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EDITORIAL: On Housing, Increase Accountability

By Editorial Board March 15, 2019

By now, concerns about Georgetown University housing sound like a broken record: Students implore the university to address rats, mold, gas leaks and collapsing roofs, while university officials fail to...

EDITORIAL: End Collective Punishment

By Editorial Board March 15, 2019

A student unscrewed lightbulbs multiple times in Kennedy Hall elevators, according to a Nov. 19 email to Kennedy residents from Residential Living. Instead of finding and punishing the student responsible,...

EDITORIAL: Dispel Recycling Rumors

By Editorial Board February 22, 2019

Recycling at Georgetown University is needlessly confusing. The university’s failure to explain recycling procedures has muddled student understanding of what should be a simple process, leaving a vacuum...

EDITORIAL: Reduce GUPD Security Costs

By Editorial Board February 22, 2019

Student organizations at Georgetown University are not able to fully utilize their budgets. A prohibitive Georgetown University Police Department security requirement extorts clubs of money that should...

EDITORIAL: Implement Tuition Freeze

By Editorial Board February 15, 2019

Next year, Georgetown University students will not need to pay the Yates Field House standalone fee. Removing the Yates cost, however, hardly distracts from Georgetown’s consistent and hefty tuition...

EDITORIAL: Refine Diversity Requirement

By Editorial Board February 15, 2019

A superficial and uninspired execution of the diversity requirement has failed to provide the majority of Georgetown University students with perspectives that reach beyond their own. The diversity...

EDITORIAL: Cease Delays on Title IX Coordinator

By Editorial Board February 8, 2019

This editorial discusses sexual assault on campus. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. Georgetown University wants its students to “be heard,” according to the...

EDITORIAL: Ease Transition to Live Registration

By Editorial Board February 8, 2019

Over two months after Georgetown University abruptly announced a transition to live registration for classes, the university registrar has failed to respond to pressing student concerns about the new process....

EDITORIAL: No Endorsement, GUSA Candidates Underwhelm

By Editorial Board February 1, 2019

After the tumultuous resignations in the Georgetown University Student Association last fall, this executive election promised a fresh start. Yet, in a campaign season marked by an attractive “Abolish...

EDITORIAL: Dedicate Resources to CAPS

By Editorial Board January 25, 2019

Nearly every syllabus emphasizes that Georgetown Counseling and Psychiatric Services is at your disposal if you are in need of mental health care. And yet, with student demand for services surpassing CAPS’...

EDITORIAL: Increase Textbook Transparency

By Editorial Board January 25, 2019

At the beginning of each semester, Georgetown students scramble to find affordable textbooks in the short period between enrollment and when course materials are required for use. As few professors...

EDITORIAL: Reduce Burdens for Off-Campus Students

By Editorial Board January 18, 2019

Georgetown University’s Office of Neighborhood Life is designed to assist students living off-campus. Yet in imposing arbitrary penalties and issuing unclear guidelines, the office fails to serve the...

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