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Following a history of disability activism, students push for a Disability Cultural Center GUSA’s Accessibility Policy Team has launched a campaign for the establishment of a Disability Cultural Center (DCC) that would support the disabled community on Georgetown’s campus. Three members of the team, Nesreen Shahrour (NHS ‘23), Gwyneth Murphy (SFS ‘23), and Dominic DeRamo (COL ‘23), released a petition calling for the establishment of a DCC on Dec. 23.  The DCC would be a university-funded center, consisting of a full-time director and student employee, that would coordinate educ...

All members resign from Georgetown minority fellowship program in protest of racism, classism, queerphobia Every current member of a Georgetown University campus program designed to mentor students of color recently resigned, citing “racism, queerphobia, sexism, classism.” The Patrick Healy Fellowship program is a highly selective leadership community for Georgetown undergraduates that focuses on “addressing issues that affect communities of color,” according to its website. Housed in Georgetown’s Center for Multicultural Equity & Access, the program was founded in 1997 and has long...