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Rugby starts national title run with 19-7 win in regional quarterfinals

The Georgetown men’s club rugby team began their quest for a national championship on Saturday with a hard-fought 19-7 victory over Mary Washington in the Mid-Atlantic regional finals.

By the March 31, 2005

Sports

Cheaper by the dozens

Putting From the Rough – A weekly take on sports

By the March 31, 2005

Features

Dishing on the Dining Hall

Nearing the end of the Marriott contract, student feedback leads to changes in meal options and plans for the future.

By the March 31, 2005

News

Living wage secured for GU’s workers

Student committee, University establish “Just Employment Policy”

By the March 31, 2005

News

GU Administration holds Hate Crimes Forum

Olson, DPS committed to educating students on diversity issues

By the March 31, 2005

News

Alumni Relations reports steady donation growth

2004 cash donations reach record high of $105 million

By the March 31, 2005

News

Students unsatisfied with Health Center services

Scheduling delays are a problem, but doctors, treatment respected

By the March 31, 2005

Editorials

Our Georgetown is better

After years of work, nights of planning and, for a few dedicated students, over a week of starvation, the University has an acceptable living wage policy.

By the March 31, 2005

Editorials

A man, a plan, a working housing lottery

The Byzantine housing lottery now has a chance to get unkinked.

By the March 31, 2005

News

Students on social security

The Georgetown College Democrats and Republicans hosted a bipartisan debate last night, entitled the Next Generation of Social Security.

By the March 31, 2005

Editorials

The press box sounds nice, but …

As the grass gets torn up and the stands are taken down on Harbin field, students may be fooled into believing that the construction there is a further sign of progress on campus.

By the March 31, 2005

News

Roots of U.S.-Israel alliance

Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi yesterday offered a non-traditional perspective on the roots of United States-Israeli relations.

By the March 31, 2005

News

MPD’s gay liaison

City on a Hill

By the March 31, 2005

Editorials

By the Numbers

$100 Million Amount of money stolen from consumers by the National Consumer Council, Debt Management Foundation Services Inc. and Better Budget Financial Services Inc. $25 Million Money they will be... Read more

By the March 31, 2005

Editorials

Direct Quote

Seal Clubbing Edition

By the March 31, 2005

News

Albright addresses relief

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the role the United States must play to improve humanitarian aid worldwide in the Third Annual Fritz Institute Lecture on Humanitarian Relief yesterday morning in Gaston Hall.

By the March 17, 2005

News

Adopt-a-block in Georgetown

GUSA’s Community Relations Committee launched the Adopt-A-Block program Monday with an open house for students and neighborhood residents in its mission to improve student-resident relations.

By the March 17, 2005

News

Yates vs. Law

Saxa Politica

By the March 17, 2005

News

On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

By the March 17, 2005

Voices

Dear Diary, spring break was awesome

VOICE FICTION

By the March 17, 2005

Voices

Burning down the house

Carrying On – a rotating column by voice senior staffers

By the March 17, 2005

Voices

Behind the scenes at Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

The cluttered floor is lined with flavored lubricants in candy-like storage boxes, colored condoms and black t-shirts with pink writing stating, “Be Nice to Sex Workers.”

By the March 17, 2005

Editorials

Hungry for compromise

Now, both the Living Wage Coalition and the University administration are slowing down the process towards a viable living wage proposal. It’s time to remember that both groups have reasonable goals and both deserve a reasonable compromise.

By the March 17, 2005

Editorials

Standard Affluence Test

This intense preparation, coupled with the general discrepancy in education in the United States, has left a yawning gap between the scores of poorer students, especially blacks and Hispanics, and those of the wealthy. Despite the new revision of the test, not enough is being done to address the inequality in education in our country.

By the March 17, 2005

Leisure

Surviving Iraq in Gunner Palace

In September 2003, director Mike Tucker and his co-director and wife Petra Epperlein moved into the bombed-out former “love shack” of Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday Hussein, to document the lives of the soldiers involved in the Iraqi conflict.

By the March 17, 2005