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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

News

Saxa Politica: GUSA’s democratic deficit

The Georgetown University Student Association has long suffered from a democratic deficit: students often feel detached from the organization and see it as uninterested in their needs. To a large extent, this image is unwarranted. Over the past several years, the Student Association has developed into a respectably effective organization, thanks to a string of committed presidents and a number of institutional reforms.

By March 19, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Investigating the Gap

A train—massive and wheezing—pulls into the sleepy station, uses all of its remaining steam to slow its momentum and click-click-click to a gradual stop. It holds its passengers enchanted under... Read more

By March 19, 2009

Crosswords

Crossword Solution 03.19.09 “Spelling Bee”

By March 19, 2009

Crosswords

Crossword Solutions 03.05.09 “Fun in the Sun”

By March 19, 2009

Editorials

D.C.’s done little to stop AIDS’ spread

The HIV/AIDS rate in Washington, D.C., has reached epidemic proportions. More than 3 percent of the District’s residents have HIV or AIDS, the highest rate in the nation and one... Read more

By the March 19, 2009

Editorials

Angert has a chance to start fresh

When Calen Angert (MSB `11) and Jason Kluger (MSB `11) are sworn in as Student Association President and Vice President, they’ll have a lot on their plate. They’ve promised to... Read more

By the March 19, 2009

Editorials

Give D.C. schools single-sex classes

In recent years, the small but fast growing movement to implement single-sex public education in the United States has been picking up steam. Some elementary and middle schools in Virginia... Read more

By the March 19, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

A day in the life of a MidEast border-crossing junkie

In these days of borderless Schengen areas and expressways funneling cars across the U.S.-Canadian border at blazing speeds, the prospect of crossing an international border on foot seems more than a little quaint. Last April, I did so twice in one day.

By March 19, 2009

Voices

The “Cuddler” as a joking matter

Though I can’t remember the first time I heard about the assailant who later came to be known as the “Cuddler,” I remember exactly when I heard my first Cuddler joke.

By March 19, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

The U.S. v. nonviolent DNC & RNC protesters

Dear Denver and St. Paul, I can still smell the last whiffs of the tear gas that you sprayed at us, I still see the remnants of it rising mockingly in misty spirals to a backdrop of riot gear, though all that is left of our peaceful protests are the legal battles that began to erupt between you and us protesters in the aftermath of the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention.

By March 19, 2009

Voices

Liberals for a strong, but intelligent, Republican party

The Republican party is in shambles, and I’m not happy about it—even though I’m an Obama supporter.

By March 19, 2009

Sports

St. John’s sends Hoyas home early

Down by three in the waning seconds of a first round Big East tournament matchup against St. John’s, Georgetown passed the ball to redshirt freshman Nikita Mescheriakov. The way the Hoyas’ season has gone, the miss was all but inevitable.

By March 11, 2009

News

MPD suspects “Cuddler” crimes are related

The Metropolitan Police Department has indicated that one person may be responsible for the string of at least eight incidents in which a man has climbed into women’s beds in the Georgetown area.

By March 5, 2009

News

Tumultuous GUSA race comes to close

After a week and a half of disqualifications, reinstatements, and resignations, students voted in the final run-off between Calen Angert (MSB ’11) and Jeff Lamb (MSB ’10) this Wednesday. The results of the race will not be released until GUSA certifies them on Wednesday, March 18.

By March 5, 2009

News

GW student denounces “don’t ask don’t tell”

Todd Belok, the George Washington University freshman who has been at the center of a campaign against the U.S. Military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy” after he was kicked out of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, spoke at Georgetown on Wednesday.

By March 5, 2009

News

DeGioia discusses GU’s financial strategy

At a town-hall meeting on Monday in the ICC auditorium, University President John DeGioia discussed how Georgetown is coping with the recession: moderate tuition increases, increased commitment to financial aid, and delayed staff and faculty salary increases and construction projects.

By March 5, 2009

News

ANC rebukes Philly P

Although the owners of Philadelphia Pizza Co. came to Monday’s meeting of the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Committee hoping to get approval for a new fan designed to propel food odors away from their neighbors, they came away with a unanimous resolution of condemnation.

By March 5, 2009