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GU Graduate Student Workers, University Negotiate Over Wage

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Students gathered in Red Square to protest the university’s response to negotiations over wages for graduate workers.

Jack Willis

Graduate Desk Editor

Georgetown University graduate student workers and university administrators continued to meet this week after months-long negotiations over demands of the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE) for a livable wage. Since October, students in GAGE, the labor union for graduate student workers, have been in negotiations with university administrators to agree on wages for graduate student workers. GAGE members have called for a roughly $12,000 increase in wage stipends, including an increase from $33,813 to $45,802 for nine-month Ph.D. stipends and $36,934 to $49,466 for 12-month Ph.D. stipends. GAGE has sought to engage the student body and graduate workers with tabling events, as well as an April 21 rally in Red Square calling for higher wages.

Representatives for GAGE said that despite ongoing inflation and tuition increases of around 5% in recent years, the university offered a 4% increase to the wages of graduate student workers, which fell roughly $10,000 short of GAGE’s demand per worker. Prior to this, the university originally offered a 2.5% increase but after negotiations, offered an additional 0.5% increase. As negotiations progressed, GAGE negotiators told The Hoya that university negotiators raised that number by another 1%. Dominick Cooper, a rising fourth-year doctoral student and the president of GAGE, said he believes the university’s proposals are inadequate in their current iterations. “In our current inflationary environment, these proposals are, functionally speaking, proposals for grad student workers to take pay cuts,” Cooper wrote to The Hoya. “This is See GAGE, A7

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Georgetown University held a memorial at the Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart on April 17 for William “Will” Stocksdale (SFS ’25), who passed April 5. Stocksdale was a global business major from Towson, Md.

GU Remembers Will Stocksdale

Clayton Kincade and Evie Steele Executive Editor, GUSA Desk

he Georgetown University community celebrated the life and memory of William “Will” Stocksdale (SFS ’25), who passed away April 5, at the Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart on April 17. Stocksdale was 20 years old. Stocksdale grew up in Baltimore and attended Loyola Blakefield, a Catholic prep school in Towson, Md. Stocks-

dale was the school’s student body president and swam on the school’s swim team. Stocksdale’s friend Eli Blumenfeld (CAS ’25) remembered his friend as a thoughtful and dedicated individual. “He always had a great attention to detail and would oftentimes go the extra mile, just for the sake of being a good friend,” Blumenfeld said at the memorial. “Although I know that Will’s no longer earthly present, we can still try to be friends as well as he was, with as much

zeal, with as much loyalty, with as much soul, with as much exuberance as Will carried with him.” Blumenfeld was Stocksdale’s neighbor in Reynolds Hall and recalled bonding with him over a television show early in their first year. “Will was one of the most friendly and easy-to-talk-to people I’ve ever met,” Blumenfeld wrote to The Hoya. “One of my first memories with Will was having some drinks and watching Marvel’s ‘What If?’ series.”

“It was really the first night that I can remember having fun at college, and it made me look forward to future experiences not only with Will, but more generally my time here at Georgetown,” Blumenfeld added. Lauren Sullivan (CAS ’25), who lived two doors down from Stocksdale last year, said she remembers Stocksdale as one of her first friends on the Hilltop. “Will was one of the very See MEMORIAL, A7

Second Assault Charge Flooding in First-Year Dorm Raised Against Ex-Cardinal Sparks Student Frustration Karenna Warden

Multimedia Deputy Editor

The fourth floor of Copley Hall, a first-year residential building, flooded following the overflow of a suite toilet, forcing residents to move many of their belongings into a different suite and stay in the Georgetown

University Hotel and Conference Center. Water from the flood leaked April 15 into the hallway and through the floor into the suite below the affected room, causing damage to a room on the third floor of Copley. Simone Guite (CAS ’26) said she and her two other suitemates were

elsewhere in the building when the flood started, but that when they returned to their room, it was flooded. “By the time I arrived from the common room, half of my room was flooded,” Guite wrote. “I started taking everything I could off the floor like See COPLEY, A7

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Theodore McCarrick, the highest-ranking clerical official to be removed from priesthood over sexual misconduct, is facing his second criminal case for the assault of a teenage boy.

Nina Raj and Mary Clare Marshall

Senior News Editor, Special to The Hoya

CW: This article references sexual assault. Please refer to this article on thehoya.com for onand off-campus resources. Former Washington, D.C. Archbishop and Georgetown University honorary degree recipient Theodore McCarrick, 92, is facing his second criminal case for the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1977. Wisconsin prosecutors charged McCarrick on April 17 with one count of fourthdegree sexual assault over accusations that he fondled an 18-year-old man without his

consent at a residence in Lake Geneva, Wis., in 1977. The incident is allegedly just one instance of McCarrick’s repeated sexual abuse of the survivor — to whom the archbishop was a family friend — that began when the survivor was 11 years old, according to a Vatican report on the ex-cardinal. McCarrick is the first cardinal in the United States to be criminally charged with a sexual offense against a minor and is the highest-ranking clerical official to be removed from the priesthood over sexual misconduct. After a 2019 church investigation found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminaries, Pope Francis expelled McCarrick from the priesthood.

Georgetown awarded McCarrick an honorary degree in December 2004 for his humanitarian work as archbishop of Washington, D.C. McCarrick also engaged with the university through events, including an August 2009 discussion with students on global development and peacemaking efforts. The university later revoked the distinction in light of the allegations against McCarrick, marking the first time in history that Georgetown rescinded an honorary degree, according to a university spokesperson. “In 2019 Georgetown announced its decision to rescind

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Water from an overflowing toilet leaked into the fourth floor hallway in Copley See CARDINAL, A7 Hall, forcing students to move out of their rooms and into the Georgetown Hotel.

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