Editing Georgetown University (section)

===Activism===
[[File:Intercultural Center.jpg|thumb|alt=The intercultural center looms behind Red Square. Dozens of students are pictured in the plaza, many passing through, others sitting at tables demonstrating|Students demonstrate and pass through Red Square, the center of student activism on Georgetown University's campus]]
[[File:Plan A Hoyas protest.jpg|thumb|Members of Plan A Hoyas and H*yas for Choice protest in Red Square|alt=A young woman speaks into the microphone of a bullhorn in front of a folding table while others around her hold signs with the words "ACCESS" and "FREE SPEACH" crossed out.]]

Georgetown University student organizations include a diverse array of groups focused on social justice issues, including organizations run through both Student Affairs and the [[Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, & Service]] (CSJ). The latter organization, founded in 2001, works to integrate into their education Georgetown's founding mission of education in service for justice and the common good.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Center for Social Justice (CSJ) |url=https://csj.georgetown.edu/about/ |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service |language=en}}</ref>

Oriented against gender violence, [[Take Back the Night (protest)|Take Back the Night]] coordinates an annual rally and march to protest against rape and other forms of violence against women.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2001-11-08/news/events-educate-gu-on-violence-against-women|title=Events educate GU on violence against women|first=Leslie|last=Baldwin|date=November 8, 2001|work=[[The Georgetown Voice]]|access-date=July 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928085530/http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2001-11-08/news/events-educate-gu-on-violence-against-women|archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> Georgetown Solidarity Committee is a [[Labor rights|workers' rights]] organization whose successes include ending use of sweatshops in producing Georgetown-logoed apparel, and garnering pay raises for both university cleaning staff and police.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/compromise-reached-1.1887842|title=Compromise Reached|first=Andy|last=Amend|date=February 9, 1999|access-date=May 1, 2011|work=[[The Hoya]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118211505/http://www.thehoya.com/compromise-reached-1.1887842|archive-date=January 18, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Georgetown Students for [[Fair trade|Fair Trade]] successfully advocated for all coffee in campus cafeterias to be [[Fairtrade certification|Fair Trade Certified]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2003-03-06/news/cafeterias-to-offer-only-fair-trade-coffee|title=Cafeterias to offer only Fair Trade coffee|first=Bailey|last=Somers|date=March 6, 2003|work=[[The Georgetown Voice]]|access-date=July 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928085628/http://www.georgetownvoice.com/2003-03-06/news/cafeterias-to-offer-only-fair-trade-coffee|archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref>

Georgetown has many additional groups representing national, ethnic, and linguistic interests. Georgetown has the second-most politically active student body in the United States according to [[The Princeton Review]].<ref name=princeton/> Groups based on local, national, and international issues are popular, and political speech is protected on campus. Student political organizations are active on campus and engage their many members in local and national politics. The Georgetown University College Republicans represent their party, while the Georgetown University College Democrats, the largest student organization on campus in 2008, represent theirs.<ref>{{cite web|first=Bryan|last=Toporek|title=Georgetown Students Struggle to Endorse Candidates|url=http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/english/writing/journalism/bryantoporek.html|department=Georgetown Journalism|website=Georgetown University|location=Washington, D.C.|date=May 2008|access-date=April 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215035539/http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/english/writing/journalism/bryantoporek.html|archive-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref>

As a Catholic university, the [[Anti-abortion movements|pro-life]] organization Georgetown University Right to Life is officially recognized by the university.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Gimme-an-O-/15916|title=Gimme an 'O'!|date=May 12, 2006|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=November 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201131958/https://www.chronicle.com/article/Gimme-an-O-/15916|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1981, Right to Life students helped found The Northwest Center, one of two crisis pregnancy centers in Washington. Every year, the organization sends a delegation to the [[March for Life (Washington, D.C.)|March for Life]] to show support for the national [[Anti-abortion movements|pro-life]] movement.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/abortion-foes-compete-womens-march-turnout.html|title=Abortion Foes Aim to Compete With Turnout for Women's March|last1=Goodstein|first1=Laurie|date=2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 21, 2017|last2=Hartocollis|first2=Anemona|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044258/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/abortion-foes-compete-womens-march-turnout.html|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, every January since 2000 the club has organized the [[Cardinal O'Connor Conference on Life]]. It is the largest student-organized [[Anti-abortion movements|pro-life]] conference in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/anti-abortion-activists-convene-for-conference/|title=Anti-Abortion Activists Convene for Conference|date=January 31, 2017|access-date=November 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031006/http://www.thehoya.com/anti-abortion-activists-convene-for-conference/|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The pro-abortion organization H*yas for Choice is not officially recognized by the university as its positions on [[abortion]] are in opposition to university policy, including supporting late-term abortion as is still legal in [[Abortion in the District of Columbia|Washington, D.C.]], prompting the asterisk in "H*yas".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i36/36a00602.htm|first=Anne K.|last=Walters|title=Gimme an 'O'!|work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]|date=May 12, 2006|access-date=December 13, 2010}}</ref> While not financially supported by the school, the organization is permitted to meet and table in university spaces.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://marquettetribune.org/2003/11/06/news/jesuit-colleges-lack-pro-choice-groups|title=Jesuit colleges lack pro-choice groups|date=November 6, 2003|first=Andrew|last=Johnson|work=[[Marquette Tribune]]|access-date=April 25, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727072658/http://marquettetribune.org/2003/11/06/news/jesuit-colleges-lack-pro-choice-groups/|archive-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref>

Georgetown is also home to a number of student organizations focused on [[sustainability]] and [[environmentalism]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Student Organizations and Campus Life|url=https://sustainability.georgetown.edu/student-groups/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Sustainability at Georgetown University}}</ref> GREEN, the Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environmental Network, is the largest of these groups. Another student group, GU Fossil Free, was founded in 2013, and aimed to pressure the university to divest its endowment from fossil fuels.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-19|title=GUFF Reflects on GU's Journey to Divestment|url=https://thehoya.com/guff-reflects-on-gus-journey-to-divestment/|access-date=2021-10-28}}</ref> Georgetown is a member of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, through which it has committed to best-practice sharing and the ongoing exchange of campus sustainability solutions along with the other member institutions; it hosted the annual Ivy Plus summit in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=Partnerships|url=https://sustain.princeton.edu/about/partnerships|access-date=November 18, 2023|publisher=Princeton Office of Sustainability}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium|url= https://sustainability.brown.edu/ivy-plus-sustainability-consortium|access-date=November 18, 2023|publisher=Brown University}}</ref> The university announced that it would fully divest its endowment from fossil fuels in February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-07|title=University Announces Fossil Fuel Divestment Plans After Years of Student Advocacy|url=https://thehoya.com/university-announces-fossil-fuel-divestment-plans-after-years-of-student-advocacy/|access-date=2021-10-28}}</ref>