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Rugby Fundraises for Vets

By Hannah Post February 25, 2014

The Georgetown University Rugby Football Club raised $6,000 for Dog Tag Bakery, a nonprofit organization aimed at enabling disabled veterans through entrepreneurship, with an intrasquad round-robin tournament...

Veterans Begin Push for Resource Center

By Kayla Cross November 1, 2013

In the first steps of fundraising for a new veterans resource center, the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association is planning a gala that could bring actor Bradley Cooper (CAS ’97), who has...

Vets Run to Raise Money for Wounded

By Joanie Greve September 20, 2013

Two active-duty soldiers will finish a 185-mile, seven-day run on Copley Lawn on Saturday to raise money to assist wounded veterans. Since the event’s inception four years ago, two soldiers, accompanied...

Alumni Help Vets Find Employment

By Andrew Wilson August 30, 2013

When John Fisher-Thompson (MSB ’09) returned from active duty in the Marine Corps in May, his path to civilian employment was not initially clear. Two friends from Georgetown, Ben Vinograd (SFS ’10)...

Servicemen Adapt at Bakery

By Christopher Zawora August 30, 2013

The Dog Tag Bakery, an upcoming addition to the Georgetown dessert scene, will do more than serve cookies — it strives to integrate young veterans back into the workforce through a partnership with...

AlliedBarton Recruits Vets

By Emily Brown March 26, 2013

AlliedBarton Security Services recently hired more than 20 veterans to join Georgetown’s nighttime security force as part of a nationwide veteran employment initiative called the 100,000 Jobs Mission. The...

Valuing Our Veterans

By The Editorial Board February 22, 2013

An increasing number of veterans have traded in their green and brown camouflage for blue and gray: The veteran population on campus has ballooned from a few dozen in 2009 to almost 500 students at the...

Event Highlights Veteran Experiences Across Two Centuries

By Lily Westergaard November 15, 2012

Panelists compared modern veterans to their counterparts from the Civil War at a discussion and film screening sponsored by the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association and the Masters of Science...

Lost Chance to Honor Veterans

By The Editorial Board November 13, 2012

Sometimes, practicality must give way to principle. Such is the case with Veterans Day, which universities ought to have honored by canceling classes yesterday. Government offices, banks and many businesses...

GU Promotes Veteran Resources

By Roxanne Feitel November 2, 2012

Student veterans and advocates have made strides in the past three years to improve the university’s ability to accommodate student veterans as they transition from military service to life on a college...

My Marriage to a Marine

By Donna Hernandez October 16, 2012

I arrived on the Hilltop as a freshman in 2009. Yet while my classmates were preoccupied with the transition from high school to college, I was prepared for a different transition: My then-boyfriend of...

Shift to GU a New Battle for Veterans

By Elizabeth Garbitelli March 2, 2012

Most Georgetown undergraduates turn 21 amid a throng of friends at The Tombs and receive a smeared, black stamp on their foreheads to inaugurate their first night of legal drinking. Alex Horton...

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