The Georgetown Voice

Content warning: this article references rape and Islamophobic language Reporters from GB News (GBN), a popular U.K. conservative news outlet dubbed the “Fox News of the U.K.,” entered Georgetown Arabic and Islamic Civilization Professor Jonathan Brown’s classroom without permission from him or the university on Thursday. The reporters filmed both Brown and his students, asking Brown questions about his recent controversial reply to an X post linking rape cases in the U.K. to Islam.

Do you believe Georgetown should invest more in financial aid? Do you support increased student conduct standards for Georgetown club leaders? Do you think that Georgetown should maintain its DEI policies? Do you think Georgetown should provide free contraceptives to students? Do you support the creation of a new queer living learning community?

Well, it’s that time of year again. Tonight through April 17th at 8:00 PM, Georgetown students will vote for next year’s GUSA Senate. There are 19 open seats with six seats open per class and one at-large seat. Seven sophomores, eight juniors, four seniors, and one at-large candidate are running to make the final cut. The Voice spoke to this year’s candidates about their campus involvement and what they’d prioritize if elected.

In the fiscal year of 2024, Georgetown was allotted $195 million in federal research support, which came predominantly from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. Since the start of President Trump’s second term, the administration has made significant cuts in research and education funding.

Content warning: This article contains mentions of physical and sexual abuse If you’re searching for a way to spend two hours this April, Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society’s Spring Awakening has your fix. Directed by Nate Findlay (CAS ’27)—and written by Steven Sater—Spring Awakening is Mask and Bauble’s final mainstage production of their 174th season, spanning eight shows between April 10 and 18.

The “space movie” genre can sometimes feel hackneyed. The familiar playbook—the anxieties over a dying Earth, the marvel of infinite space, the panicked math of space-time anomalies—has played out on camera in countless iterations. As the latest to join the lineup, Project Hail Mary (2026) faces the challenge of overcoming the trite tropes of its genre and standing out among the crowd. Fortunately for all, it succeeds.

Freshman year, I was constantly told to go on ESCAPE. Despite the never-ending advertisements—from tempting me with chocolate (my weakness) to upperclassmen telling me they wish they had taken the opportunity—I remained unconvinced. I felt like the retreat wasn’t ‘for me’—as the child of a Buddhist father and semi-Catholic mother, my relationship with religion was complicated. So why would I want to go to rural Virginia to talk about God? Spoiler alert, I did end up going.

Along the western coast of Florida, the salty air wafts through every opening of my 2011 Ford Escape. In the rearview mirror, my curls bloom outward, doubling in size. I turn the volume up—“Anticipating” by Britney Spears is playing—as the sun begins its descent into crepuscular glow. The beauty of an evening drive used to be my everything. I once told myself that I loved driving because it provided a moving space of freedom that my teenage years necessitated.

Beth Wenger, deputy director of Kids Explore Exercise Now (KEEN) Greater D.C., has worked at the organization since 2008. Volunteering with KEEN, a national nonprofit that works to bring sports and physical activity to children with disabilities, changed Wenger’s career path, causing her to transition from the publishing industry to becoming KEEN’s program manager. She felt challenged at first by her work with a six-year-old nonverbal athlete, but the time she spent with him hooked her.

Pop music has a PR problem when it comes to motherhood. Women are expected to either freeze themselves in amber—forever young, forever 21—or pivot into something softer and more respectable. But Robyn has never been particularly interested in respectability. If anything, she’s spent the last two decades experimenting with sound and refining a very specific skill set: how to insist, against all evidence, that you will be fine, if only because the beat says so.