The GUSA Senate election campaign period will begin on April 4, according to an email sent to students this week by the GUSA Election Committee, a body tasked with the planning and oversight of all student elections. The April 11 election will be for eighteen total seats in the GUSA Senate. There will be six…
Outgoing GUSA executives President Juan Martinez (SFS ’20) and Vice President Kenna Chick (SFS ’20) stopped by the Voice’s office to talk about their time as executives and experiences in GUSA. Their term ended March 16, 2019. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The Voice: What was one highlight of your time in office? Kenna…
The GUSA senate met on Mar. 17 to hear the budget proposed by the Finance and Appropriations Committee for Fiscal Year 2020. The budget has been in the works since the Club Advisory Boards presented its proposed budgets at GUSA’s budget summit on Feb. 25. Sen. Hayley Grande (COL ’21) presented the final draft budget,…
The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) Finance and Appropriations Committee hosted its budget summit on Feb. 25. The summit was a full-day event in the Leavey Program Room where club advisory boards, as well as other student-run organizations, presented the budgets they were requesting from the committee. This year, the committee has about $1 million…
After four weeks of debate, the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) Senate passed a resolution approving a referendum on a reconciliation contribution for descendents of slaves sold by the Jesuits. The resolution, which required a two-thirds majority of 29 senators, scraped through by two votes, 20-4. The cheers after it passed on Feb. 3 made…
The GUSA Senate met Feb. 10 to certify the GUSA Executive election results. Norman Francis Jr. (COL ’20) and Aleida Olvera (COL ’20) won the election on Feb. 8 for the positions of President and Vice President. The pair beat the runner up, Nicki Gray (NHS ’20), by forty votes in an election with thirty-two…
The four candidates for Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) President, Nicki Gray (NHS ’20), Norman Francis Jr. (COL ’20), Sina Nemazi (COL ’21), and Ryan Zuccala (MSB ’20) took the stage at the presidential debate in the Healy Family Student Center Great Room on Feb. 5 to answer questions posed by students and campus media….
The GUSA Senate passed a resolution calling for a referendum to create a reconciliation contribution to be provided to programs to benefit the descendants of the 272 slaves who were sold by the Jesuits to keep the university financially viable in 1838 in their Feb. 3 meeting. The resolution, which required a two-thirds vote of…
The GUSA Senate tabled a resolution calling for a referendum to be put to the student body concerning a reconciliation contribution to be distributed to the descendents of the 272 enslaved people the university sold in 1838 during their Jan. 27 meeting. Introduced by former Senator Sam Appel (COL ’20) and members of the GU272…
The GUSA Executive election campaign period officially began on Jan. 25 with four tickets having announced their bid for the positions of GUSA President and Vice President. The four tickets who announced are Nicki Gray (NHS ’20) and Sam Appel (COL ’20); Norman Francis Jr. (COL ’20) and Aleida Olvera (COL ’20); Sina Nemazi (COL…