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Expert: Australia, US Must Realize Diverging Interests

Expert: Australia, US Must Realize Diverging Interests

By Riley Rogerson February 7, 2020

The U.S. and Australian governments must reassess and adjust their alliance to accommodate changes in the global political sphere, Australian National University senior lecturer Andrew Carr said at an...

Q&A: Spring GU Politics Fellows Welcome Opposing Views

Q&A: Spring GU Politics Fellows Welcome Opposing Views

By Riley Rogerson and Clara Grudberg January 24, 2020

This semester’s five Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service fellows discussed their hopes to gain new perspective by engaging with students and help guide future generations...

Senator Resigns Amid Ethics, Oversight Reform

Senator Resigns Amid Ethics, Oversight Reform

By Riley Rogerson and Harrison McBride November 15, 2019

Zev Burton (SFS ’22), a Georgetown University Student Association senator and the senate ethics and oversight committee chair, resigned Nov. 11.  Burton, who was elected senator in April 2019,...

MEREDITH MILLER FOR THE HOYA | Students held posters and chanted to demonstrate outside of the Georgetown University board of directors convened.

Students Protest University Board Inaction on GU272

By Riley Rogerson October 4, 2019

Student frustration is continuing to build as Georgetown University’s board of directors, which met multiple times this week, has still not publicly provided a concrete timeline to students for action...

AARON GREENSTEIN FOR THE HOYA | Lori Moylan, Sarah Jeong, Jeff Kosseff, Katie Fallow and Kara Swisher (left to right) discussed the future of social media at an event moderated by professor Sanford Ungar Monday.

Social Media Regulation Is Inevitable, Panelists Agree

By Riley Rogerson September 27, 2019

The U.S. federal government will inevitably regulate social media companies, but the extent of this regulation is still up for debate, technology journalists, lawyers and a Facebook representative said...

RILEY ROGERSON/THE HOYA | Protestors, including one student dressed in a clown costume, disrupted the Georgetown College Republicans Climate Rebuttal Thursday.

College Republicans’ Climate Forum Rebuttal Met With Protests

By Riley Rogerson September 20, 2019

Dozens of students chanted, raised posters and interrupted speakers in organized protest of the Georgetown University College Republicans event Thursday night, leading the Georgetown University Police...

AMBER GILLETTE/THE HOYA From left to right: Ambassador Melanne Verveer, who co-moderated the event, women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad and author Azar Nafisi criticized the mandatory hijab policy in Iran at a Dec. 5 panel.

Iranian Women’s Rights Advocate Criticizes Mandatory Hijab Policy

By Riley Rogerson December 7, 2018

Oppressive policies toward women in the Middle East must be combatted, scholars, leaders and activists said at a panel on women’s rights in Iran on Dec. 5. Iran currently ranks in the bottom third...

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National anti-abortion rights group Tradition Family Property Student Action is circulating a petition to ban H*yas For Choice from Georgetown University.

National Anti-Abortion Organization Protests H*yas for Choice

By Riley Rogerson November 30, 2018

A petition to ban the pro-abortion rights student group H*yas for Choice and all of its activities from Georgetown’s campus, introduced by Tradition Family Property Student Action, a national anti-abortion...

Rapper Meek Mill advocated for criminal justice reform based on his own experiences with the system at an event Wednesday. Mill was released from prison in April after serving five months of a two- to four-year sentence. He criticized the criminal justice system for discriminating against minorities and protecting wealthy white men

Meek Mill: Justice System Protects White Men

By Riley Rogerson November 9, 2018

The U.S. criminal justice system protects wealthy white men, rapper Meek Mill said at an event Wednesday night in Lohrfink Auditorium. Mill, a Philadelphia native, was first arrested in 2007 for...

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