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Class of 2025 Students Express Concerns Over New Housing Changes
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Residential living changes for the 2023-24 academic year have sparked concerns over access to the main campus, affordability and social problems.
Julia Butler
Special to The Hoya
Students have voiced concerns about housing options for the 2023-24 academic year after Georgetown University announced a series of residential living changes. The university announced these changes Nov. 1 as a result of the construction of the new Henle residential complex, which is scheduled to begin in early summer 2023. The demolition of Henle Village will eliminate around 470 upperclassmen beds, with these apartment-style units most commonly housing thirdyear students. The university is planning to temporarily replace these beds by converting the oncampus Georgetown University Hotel to student housing and offering an off-campus residence
hall located on H Street. Georgetown will also allow up to 100 juniors to apply to live off-campus outside the Georgetown, Burleith and Foxhall communities, who will be randomly selected and will receive an exemption from the university’s existing three-year on-campus housing policy. Juniors applying to live off campus will not be permitted to live within the Georgetown, Burleith and Foxhall neighborhoods, and students must provide documentation to confirm their residence is outside of these boundaries. Aya Takegami (SFS ’25) said she feels the university did not give students enough time to arrange new housing plans. “I was upset about the late notice and short timeline given, See HOUSING, A6
THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERISTY INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY
Fashion icon and women’s rights advocate Diane von Fürstenberg spoke to the Georgetown community about her work empowering women around the world, at an event by GIWPS and the SFS.
VonFürstenberg F Speaks atGeorgetown Helen Walker
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o be in charge means to be committed and true to oneself, fashion designer and inventor of the wrap dress Diane von Fürstenberg told Georgetown University students. The event, titled “Women Rising: A Conversation with Diane von Fürstenberg” and held
Nov. 9 in Copley Formal Lounge, featured von Fürstenberg, an acclaimed fashion designer and founder of the fashion company DVF, in conversation with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, the current executive director of Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. The event was co-hosted by GIWPS and
the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS). At the event, Verveer presented von Fürstenberg with the GIWPS 2022 International Trailblazer Award, which recognizes female leaders making a more peaceful, equitable and safe world. Three international female Georgetown students, Bahar Ghandehari (COL ’23), Olha Kovach (SFS ’26) and Salma Alokozai (GRD ’24), spoke alongside
GUSA Executive, Senate Candidates Discuss Platforms at Town Hall Olivia Macaulay Special to The Hoya
Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) senate and executive candidates spoke to students about their plans for future legislation and answered questions from voters during a Nov. 4 town hall event. At the town hall, the three executive tickets — Camber Vincent (SFS ’24) and Alyssa Hirai (SFS ’24), Chijioke Achebe (SFS ’25) and Devon Pasieka (MSB ’25) and Spencer Wood-
all (MSB, SFS ’24) and Anya Caraiani (SFS ’24) — participated in the first of the three one-hour long discussions. Candidates responded to individual questions, and other candidates were allowed to respond if mentioned by name. The second session featured 10 first-year candidates who are vying for seven class of 2026 senate positions, while the four at-large senate candidates who are running uncontested spoke in the third session. The town hall took place in WhiteGravenor Hall.
Moderators and students asked candidates about what strategies they will use to improve GUSA’s reputation, diversify student representation within the organization, improve the efficacy of GUSA’s communication with the student body and promote free speech on campus. Vincent, who currently serves as speaker of the GUSA Senate, said it is important that GUSA consider student voices when drafting resolutions. “You don’t earn students’
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Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) candidates discussed campaign platforms and answered questions from voters at a Nov. 4 town hall event.
trust by saying ‘you should give me your trust,’ you earn students’ trust by proving that you have earned it,” Vincent said at the event. “You do it by meeting with administrators, creating results and actually publicizing those results to make sure that students know that these resources are here for them and that their voices are being heard.” Pasieka said her and Achebe’s ticket has built their platform around reaffirming GUSA’s purpose to focus on improving students’ lives. “Our platform is really centered around getting back to the core of what GUSA should be,” Pasieka said. “It should be about the students and making sure that every student at Georgetown should be able to have the most impact possible over however many years they have here.” Caraiani is the only candidate who does not currently hold a position in GUSA, which Woodall said is an advantage for their ticket. “I would like to point out that I’m the only ticket running with someone who’s a complete outsider to GUSA, so I bring new blood to the table, and I want to work with new senators and new people to make sure they can do whatever they can to implement their new ideas and bring new ideas to the table,”
von Fürstenberg and Verveer, speaking on women-led revolutions and resistance movements currently taking place in their respective home countries of Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan. Credited as the creator of the popular wrap dress, von Fürstenberg reflected on her start in the fashion industry as being born from a simple dress and a desire See WOMEN RISING, A6
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