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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...

VIEWPOINT: Lets Be Realistic About Free Speech on Campus

VIEWPOINT: Let’s Be Realistic About Free Speech on Campus

By Rachel Gurevich October 6, 2023

Every year, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonprofit civil liberties group focused on free expression, releases its College Free Speech Rankings, and each year, it ranks...

Students Mourn Deaths of Uyghurs in China at Candlelight Vigil

Students Mourn Deaths of Uyghurs in China at Candlelight Vigil

By Sophia Lu December 2, 2022

Georgetown University students held a vigil to honor the lives lost in an apartment fire that led to the deaths of 10 people in Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in northwest China that is home to the...

EDITORIAL: Alert Students About Fires

EDITORIAL: Alert Students About Fires

By Editorial Board February 14, 2020

In the early morning of Feb. 8, a fire broke out in Georgetown University’s Henle Village apartments. Yet the university failed to inform Henle residents when the fire occurred, according to resident...

Fire Breaks Out in Henle Village, Prompts GU Investigation

Fire Breaks Out in Henle Village, Prompts GU Investigation

By Jemima Denham February 14, 2020

The Office of Planning and Facilities Management initiated an investigation into the cause of a fire that occurred in a Henle Village apartment Feb. 8. All five residents were in the apartment when...

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...

MARGARET FOUBERG FOR THE HOYA | Smoke from a defective heating, ventilation and air conditioning unit caused the evacuation of Healy Hall on Monday afternoon.

Mechanical Failure Triggers Fire Alarm; Healy Evacuates

By Casey Ferrante and Cady Stanton February 26, 2019

Healy Hall was evacuated after smoke from a mechanical failure in a basement heating unit triggered a fire alarm Monday afternoon. Washington, D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services ultimately determined...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | Georgetown Universitys Qatar campus ranked in the top 10 of a list by FIRE, a nonprofit that aims to protect civil rights of students and faculty, which identified American colleges with the most restrictive censorship.

Georgetown in Qatar Ranks Poorly on Free Speech

By Catriona Kendall February 15, 2019

Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar, was named one of the 10 U.S. colleges with the most restrictive censorship by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on Tuesday. FIRE, a nonprofit...

WINGOS Georgetown staple Wingos caught fire on June 26, leaving the restaurant closed for at least two months.

Wingo’s, English Rose Garden Heavily Damaged in O Street Fire

By Katrina Schmidt July 19, 2018

A kitchen fire ripped through the beloved Georgetown carryout, Wingo’s, on June 26, leaving the store shuttered for at least two months. The fire also spread to the next-door florist shop, English...

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Firefighters responded to a laundry fire in Henle Village on Tuesday evening.

Plastic in Dryer Causes Henle Village Fire

By Jeff Cirillo January 31, 2018

Firefighters responded to a laundry fire in the Henle Village apartment complex Tuesday evening caused by plastic left in a dryer. Henle residents were evacuated around 7:03 p.m., while at least...

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Hazmat Units Respond to Chemical Fire in Regents Laboratory

By Jeff Cirillo November 17, 2017

Emergency, fire and hazmat units responded to a chemical fire in a Regents Hall science laboratory Friday evening. The fire involved a "small amount of a chemical" and occurred in a "controlled...

Other Things at Georgetown That Should Be Fired

Other Things at Georgetown That Should Be Fired

By Mike Radice and Mike Radice March 24, 2017

We were beginning to think change was impossible. That was, of course, until it happened yesterday. Coach John Thompson III was not able to answer the question "Who Do You Know Here?" and was denied...

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