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The NIT is here!

For the past two years, my March Madness brackets have been handicapped by my need to predict Georgetown to win it all. Call it faith in the team or a twisted sense of duty, but I’ve never been able to bet against the Hoyas. This spring, I won’t have to—every cloud has a silver lining. However, in the interest of helping us who feel a need to gamble on sports at all levels, I’m compiling a short bracketology for the NIT. Read closely: this is probably one of the only NIT previews available.

By March 19, 2009

Sports

What Rocks? Daniel Nunn

The goal of every senior athlete is to end his college career with a bang. Daniel Nunn is doing just that. The senior distance runner garnered All-American honors last Friday by placing 13th in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships 5K final. It is the first time he has been named an All-American for indoor track and field.

By March 19, 2009

Features

Life After Politics: Georgetown’s Wonkish Professors

Don't let his role in the North Korean nuclear negotiations, former position as a high-level national security advisor to George W. Bush, or admiring Washington Post profile fool you: Victor Cha is just another run-of-the-mill academic.

By March 19, 2009

News

Latest break-in resembles “Cuddler” attacks

Early Wednesday morning a man entered a house on the 3300 block of Prospect Street and lay on top of one of the female residents. This is the fourth suspicious incident the residents of the house have experienced. The Wednesday morning break-in bears a striking resemblance to the string of sexually motivated burglaries in the Georgetown area which some students attributed to “the Georgetown Cuddler.”

By March 19, 2009

News

Angert at the wheel

Although the GUSA Senate only officially certified the results of the organization’s presidential election this Wednesday evening, newly elected GUSA President Calen Angert (MSB ‘11) says he’s “already getting the ball rolling.” He and his Vice President, Jason Kluger (MSB ’11), have already met with administrators, faculty members, and neighborhood groups to start working toward the goals they outlined in their campaign: mitigating 61D noise complaints, streamlining funding for student programs, and improving campus safety.

By March 19, 2009

News

SAC explores new rules for inactive clubs

Clubs come and go every year at Georgetown. But, unless they voluntarily forfeit their Access to Benefits rights granted by the Student Activities Commission, a club that is virtually defunct can remain in limbo in the eyes of their SAC commissioners for as long as a semester or two. Such was the case with the Pakistani Students Association and the Cuban American Students Association.

By March 19, 2009

News

Gallucci to head MacArthur Foundation

Robert Gallucci, Dean of the School of Foreign Service, has been chosen as the fourth President of the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Gallucci’s post at the Foundation will begin this July, when he will begin to oversee one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world.

By March 19, 2009

News

Three percent of D.C. HIV positive

15,120 people over the age of 12 in the District of Columbia—3 percent of the city’s total population—are HIV/AIDS positive, according to a study released by the D.C. Department of Health on Monday. D.C.’s HIV rate, which is comparable to that of Uganda and some parts of Kenya, far outpaces the 1 percent infection rate that the Center for Disease Prevention and Control says qualifies as a generalized and severe epidemic.

By March 19, 2009

News

SFS-Qatar holds first ever career fair

Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar hosted its first-ever career fair last Thursday in Doha. Open only to SFS-Q students, the fair included representatives from 24 companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel, the Brookings Institution, and the Qatar News Agency.

By March 19, 2009

News

GW students push for smoking ban

Three George Washington University graduate students have started a campaign to enact a campus-wide smoking ban.

By March 19, 2009