Former Georgetown tennis coach Gordon Ernst plead not guilty on Monday to charges he accepted $2.7 million in bribes to smooth students’ acceptances to the university. This was Ernsts’ second court appearance since March 12, when he was indicted by the Department of Justice on racketeering conspiracy charges as part of the nationwide college admissions…
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…
Students and community members gathered March 16 for the fourth annual BRAVE Summit. The summit was held in the Hariri Building and featured mainstage panels, break-outs sessions, and a keynote address by Yandy Smith, an entrepreneur and television personality. Shakera Vaughan (COL ’19), director of speakers, described the BRAVE Summit as a meaningful day for…
The lawn of the Capitol Building was crowded with approximately 1,000 protestors, including a dozen Georgetown students, protesting government inaction on climate change on Mar. 15. Among the Georgetown students attending the protest were Madison Pravecek (SFS ’19) and Samantha Panchèvre (SFS ’19), who helped organize protesters from the university. Before joining the larger strike…
Dambisa Moyo spoke on global economic policy and the future of democracy on March 19 in Gaston Hall. Her lecture was the closing keynote speech of the “Africa Imagines: Reversing the Gaze” symposium. An author and economist, Moyo aimed to place the African narratives discussed earlier in the symposium in the context of global economic…
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…
The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) senate met on March 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 their proposed budgets at GUSA’s budget summit on Feb. 25. Sen. Hayley Grande (COL ’21) presented…
Georgetown is currently facing backlash from environmentalists over a proposed off-campus solar project in La Plata, Maryland, which would require clearcutting over 200 acres of forest to make room for solar panels. The La Plata installation is not the university’s first foray into solar energy. Despite the issues with its most recent initiative, Georgetown has…
Georgetown did not inform the University of Rhode Island (URI) about an internal investigation into Gordon Ernst, Georgetown’s former tennis coach indicted in the nationwide college admissions scandal on Tuesday, according to a URI spokesperson. In a statement to the Voice, the spokesperson wrote that URI reached out to Ernst’s references while they were deciding…
Two Stanford University students have filed a class-action lawsuit against Georgetown University and the other universities listed as destinations for students in the nationwide college admissions bribery and fraud scheme unveiled Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that the universities named as defendants “were negligent in failing to maintain adequate protocols and security measures in place to…