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1. See 28 down

4. Video game series or a carrelated crime

7. Sleeping noise

9. Took the wheel

11. Academy Award

12. Far from urban

13. “In excelsis ___”

14. ___ G. Biv

16. Goal or motive

17. ___ Mahal, India

19. Flyers, Caps org.

20. Preamble

21. Canola cooking spray

23. Reagan National, not Dulles

26. Trouble or hurt, physically/ mentally

27. Card game w/ “Skip” and “Draw Four”

29. “Cost an ___ and a leg”

31. More crafty or cunning

33. North Dakota city or TV series

35. Durant, Hart, or Bacon

36. Place to discuss ideas, such as in Rome

37. Conference of LSU and Alabama

38. Chemical used to make soap

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1. Something small put in, like a picture or diagram

2. Hot wintertime drink

3. “End of an ___”

4. Despicable Me villain

5. First five books of Hebrew Bible

6. Without success: “to no _____”

7. Ground surface with grass

8. Make a mistake

9. Not wet

10. Deciduous tree with namesake disease

15. Frequently

18. Nickname for James

19. Head signal for approval

21. Heaps

22. Not deceased

24. Hold up or bring

25. Verbally fight

26. Query

27. Vase, sometimes with ashes

28. With 1-Across, sitcom featuring the highlighted answers

30. Small store: “___-and-pop”

32. Annabella Hoge’s title here, for short

34. Noisy early internet provider

Editor’s note: Some names in the article have been changed to protect the anonymity of sources.

Joel Bossous (CAS ’23), has been an intern at the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union (GUASFCU) for as long as he has been a Hoya. Now, drawing on his eight semesters in the credit union, he’s calling for structural and cultural change.

On Dec. 23, 2022, Bossous sent a nearly ninepage open letter to all active interns in GUASFCU, voicing serious concerns regarding the antiBlackness embedded in the club’s culture and its lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The letter, which was obtained by the Voice, reflects Bossous’ experience at the credit union, including one year as an executive, as well as the concerns of numerous current and former interns, many of whom are students of color, who have confided in him over the years.

One of the letter’s primary concerns was the credit union’s consistent failure to recruit and support its Black and Latino interns. Bossous, who served as the president of Georgetown’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter from 2021-22 and is currently the co-president of the Black Student Alliance (BSA), cited GUASFCU’s lack of sustained and meaningful outreach to affinity organizations as resulting in a lack of diversity in their teller classes. Despite the credit union’s reported overall high retention rate, Bossous’ letter noted that the majority of interns who left the organization were Black.

“Despite more popular affirmations that the credit union ‘strives to create an inclusive environment,’ ‘promotes diversity,’ is ‘looking forward to creating a community that makes everyone feel comfortable, valued and included,’ and ‘has opportunities for everyone,’” Bossous wrote, “GUASFCU is incredibly off the mark and has actual work to do—not merely work we say needs to be done.”

“So much of [GUASFCU’s] commitments to diversity and inclusion have been performative at best,” Sara, who has been in the credit union for the last three years, wrote anonymously to the Voice. She wrote that Bossous’ letter deeply resonated with her as a person of color.

The lack of support for Black interns is reflected at the organization’s highest levels of leadership. Bossous noted