Kelly Anderson

All criminal charges against Georgetown University Graduate Student Government President Lewis May were dropped Feb. 26. GradGov Vice President Heerak Kim filed a Feb. 4 police report accusing May of physically assaulting him. On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia reviewed Kim’s police report and decided no charges would be filed. The same day the charges were dismissed, the District of Columbia Superior Court also denied Kim’s preliminary injunction request for a long-term restraining order against his GradGov colleague, according to court documents. Kim claims that May physically confronted him outside of a Jan. 30 GradGov Senate meeting shortly after the tweets surfaced. Kim attempted to get a temporary restraining order against May following the alleged physical altercation. A District of Columbia Superior Court judge, however, denied Kim’s request Feb. 12. Kim’s attempt to seek a restraining order against May, a second-year graduate student in...

Members of Georgetown University Riqueza Dominicana, a student-run Dominican cultural club, attended a protest near the White House on Sunday opposing the Dominican Republic’s recent suspension of nationwide municipal elections. Protests first began in the Dominican Republic on Feb. 16 when the suspension began and were followed by similar protests in several major cities around the world, including Washington, D.C. The D.C. protest, which was organized via a Facebook page, took place near the White House at 2:30 p.m. Six members of Riqueza Dominicana attended the protest, which totaled over 150 attendees, according to Communications Director of Riqueza Dominicana Nicole Sanchez (SFS ’22). Protests in the Dominican Republic began shortly after the government suspended nationwide municipal elections four hours after the start of the elections, when officials realized that many voters were unable to see complete ballots on the electronic voting machines, according to The New York Tim...

The United States Department of State has made strides toward cultivating a representative workforce for public servants in recent years, Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State Julieta Valls Noyes said at a Thursday event. Noyes discussed the need for diversity and inclusion in foreign policy and challenges faced by her and other minorities in pursuing work in diplomacy at the event titled “Talk With Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes – Deputy Director, Foreign Service Institute.” Noyes has spent more than three decades in the Foreign Service, a career that has spanned assignments in five different countries. Despite progress in workforce representation in recent years, the State Department still has room to improve regarding diversity, Noyes said. “Where we’re not as well represented is in the more senior ranks because, of course, it takes up time for people to move up,” Noyes said. “Slowly, slowly, steadily, steadily, we hope to get to a mo...

This article describes racist and sexist content. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. Shelves of books in the Reynolds and McCarthy libraries featuring racist and sexist content were removed by university officials last week after students reported the books to Georgetown University Residential Living staff. News of the books’ removal was first reported in an article written by Jacob Adams (SFS ’23) and Justin Drewer (COL ’23), editors-in-chief of The Georgetown Review, a student news organization that bills itself as an independent journal of politics and world affairs, according to its website. Student members of “The Hilltop Show,” an online political comedy group, first noticed the content of the books after a group meeting in the McCarthy library Jan. 22. While walking out of a meeting Jan. 22, one student noticed a book entitled “Cherokee” on a bookshelf, Alexandra Bowman (COL ’22), a cartoonist for The Georgetown Review and member of “T...