Georgetown University: Students March to President's Office, Voice Demands
Sparked by a Sept. 9 hate crime that sent one student to the hospital, a protest organized by GUPride yesterday brought professors and student leaders together to speak against bias-related incidents at Georgetown.
According to the incident report from the Metropolitan Police Department, on Sept. 9, a student was assaulted by a man yelling homophobic epithets on the 3600 block of O Street. The victim later identified his assailant on Facebook as Philip Cooney (MSB ’10). Cooney has since been arrested for the crime but pleaded not guilty on Friday.
Members of GUPride tabled in Red Square from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. yesterday gathering signatures for a petition supporting reforms to university procedure for addressing future hate crimes. Scott Chessare (COL ’10), co-president of GUPride, said that the petition received approximately 750 signatures, over 10 percent of the undergraduate student body.
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