China has placed an exit ban on Victor Liu (SFS ’21) and his sister and mother, the New York Times has reported. The ban prevents Liu, who was born in the United States, from leaving China, where he traveled with his mother and sister this summer. In the Times article, Liu said that China was…
In an ICC conference room on Oct. 31, volunteers for the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE) made calls to voters in the upcoming graduate student worker unionization election being held Nov. 5 to Nov. 8. Approximately 1,000 graduate students will vote on whether to formally recognize GAGE as their union. If a majority votes…
Indie rock band Hippo Campus, currently on the Bambi Tour, will be make a stop at 9:30 Club on Oct. 24. From St. Paul, Minnesota, the band was founded by four high school friends in 2013. Especially on their initial releases, including Landmark, EP Bashful Saturdays, and EP Warm, their sound is an evolution of…
Every other year on Election Day, two Hoyas land jobs their classmates probably did not even know they could get. They win spots on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2E, which comprises Georgetown, Burleith, and Hillandale. This is not the D.C. Council. It is not GUSA. Washington, D.C. is divided into eight wards, each of…
Juan Martinez (SFS ’20), the former GUSA Senate transition chair, was sworn in as the GUSA president on Sept. 16 during a regularly scheduled GUSA senate meeting. Martinez assumed the presidency following the resignations of former president Sahil Nair (SFS ’19) and vice president Naba Rahman (SFS ’19), as prescribed by GUSA’s constitution. GUSA did…
This post has been updated. Update 06/28/2019: Added a comment from Nair stating that “No complaint has ever been lodged against me regarding my conduct with either the Title IX office or the Office of Student Conduct.” Update 07/03/2019: Added a comment from university administration confirming Nair’s statement. The GUSA Senate convened yesterday in an…
As Saturday’s March for Our Lives wound down, Ari Goldstein (COL ’18) waited for a friend to find him at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 9th Street. Above his head he held a sign that read, in giant, black letters, “ENOUGH.” And that, he said, is why he was protesting. “I’m here to say…
Can you be both a Luddite and a computer science major? I study computers and the internet in class but I never publicly interact on social media. I want to strike a balance between the powerful tools the internet has created, and the damage they can do to society. On one hand, I’m convinced that…
In this episode of Fresh Voices, assistant Voices editor Julia Pinney talks with Jack Townsend, who wrote “I Promise I’m Not a Luddite” in this week’s issue, on stands now. In the pod, the two delve further into why Jack likes computer science, and how he thinks his two courses of study, government and computer…
Will Emery (COL ’19) has noticed that Georgetown students have the same conversation over and over as midterm season arrives. “They go, ‘How are you?’ ‘Well, I have nine tests, 10 essays.’ That sends a bit of an affirmation to this other student, I am working harder than you, I am doing truly inhuman work.”…