The New York Attorney General and two U.S. Senators are targeting potentially unethical relationships between private lending companies and student financial aid offices across the country, but Georgetown does not seem likely to be affected, Dean Patricia McWade of the Office of Student Financial Services said Tuesday.
Tensions ran high and personal insults flew freely at a D.C. City Council public hearing yesterday on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed takeover of the District’s public school system.
Georgetown College’s Curriculum Committee revised the general education history requirements last week to include a wider range of courses; starting next fall, students will now be able to use courses on Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to fulfill half of the requirement. The other course must come from the current options: European Civilization, History of the Atlantic or Pacific World or World History.
One thing was guaranteed in Tuesday’s Student Association executive elections: the winners had to have Y chromosomes. None of this year’s four tickets featured a woman candidate, denying voters a varied slate and failing to represent the female half of the University’s population.
The on-going Darfur crisis is no longer a genocide situation, according to U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios. Natsios, a Professor in the School of Foreign Service, spoke on Wednesday in Gaston Hall.
Government Professor and keynote speaker Patrick Deneen criticized the University’s diversified curriculum at last Saturday’s second annual Take Back Georgetown Day, and proposed a return to a more classical curriculum, even as the History requirement changed the College’s general education requirements to include a more diverse range of courses.
Georgetown’s student representative on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission reversed her vote on Tuesday night, deciding to oppose a measure she originally co-wrote which would have encouraged the University to extend its one-keg-per-party rule to off-campus residences. The resolution passed unanimously at a Commission meeting last week.
Ben Shaw (COL ‘08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ‘08) won the Student Association’s executive election last night. Election commissioner Alison Noelker (COL ‘07) announced that the ticket had won the election with 52 percent of the vote.
Although it took her long enough to get her act together, Jenna Lowenstein (COL ’09), who represents Georgetown students on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, deserves recognition for finally listening to student demands and reversing her position on an ANC petition to the University to limit student parties off-campus to one keg.
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