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Student journalist at Georgetown with print, online, and production experience. Editor in Chief of a bi-weekly student mag, production intern at The Hill, and former intern focusing on unemployment and income at Street Sense and local politics and access to information at NonDoc. Interested in environmental reporting, increasing access to information, feature writing, and story production. Constantly thinking about what our role should be.
Only 26 Georgetown students are taking a class on Indigenous people this semester. Of the over 6,000 undergraduates attending Georgetown, that's only four thousandths of a percent. That's how many students are enrolled in PHIL 156, Intro to Indigenous Philosophy, the lone three-credit course on Indigeneity being offered this semester.
In Ward 8, four organizations have come together to help residents improve their financial situation in a simple way - by giving them five monthly cash payments of $1,100. The program, called THRIVE East of the River, is a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its outsized economic impacts on underserved communities in Wards 7 and 8.
Across the country, theaters were some of the first businesses to close due to COVID-19. Though many have tried to move productions online, nothing is the same. Watch below to find out how three D.C.-based arts organizations are each handling (or not handling) the pandemic in their own way.
When new Hoyas walk through the gates at the intersection of 37th and O, they can expect to be bombarded with opportunities to advocate for themselves and others-for changes in curriculum, for university support, for reproductive rights, for protections for survivors of sexual assault, for anti-racist policies, for equitable resources.
Support Journalism However, critics of the system say these changes are mainly cosmetic and don't address many of the logistical and financial obstacles that stifle PACER's usefulness. "In general, PACER is a cumbersome, often difficult-to-use system that contains a landmine of fees that all but the most experienced users find difficult to navigate," said Ryan Kiesel, lawyer and executive director for the ACLU of Oklahoma.
The approximately 500 students on Georgetown's campus are navigating not only a rigorous COVID-19 testing schedule and the burden of virtual school but also the challenge of forming a community of people, most of whom cannot meet in person, that can be trusted to protect them from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic The first blow to this nascent community came early last Monday, Sept.
This article is part of our 2020 contribution to the DC Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout the day at DCHomelessCrisis.press. Join our public Facebook group or follow #DCHomelessCrisis on Twitter to discuss.
Support Journalism With a "screw you" heard across southeastern Oklahoma, the political fight for the GOP nomination in Senate District 7 between incumbent Sen. Larry Boggs ( R-Wilburton) and Republican challenger Warren Hamilton turned ugly last month.
This article is part of a series of explainer pieces by the Voice on some of the most important topics on campus. Other articles in the series can be found here GUSA itself is just shy of 40 years old, but the concept of student government at Georgetown started in the 1870s.
Precisely at noon, 219 people walked outside their houses in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. on April 22. The scene might have resembled a strange ritual, or an alien abduction with its level of coordination. Some stood on their steps alone, others sat for a brief picnic or yelled to their neighbor.