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Features

All in the Family

Georgetown extends family health coverage

Do a woman and her domestic partner constitute a family? Most liberal Americans would probably say they do. But what about a woman who lives with and takes care of her elderly mother? What about a brother who lives with his sister and helps raise her children?

These situations might be more complicated, but as of January 1, 2006, they too will be eligible for family health care coverage at Georgetown University. Under a new policy just approved by the President’s Executive Committee, Georgetown University employees can purchase a family health insurance policy that covers their domestic partner or adult tax dependent, as defined by federal tax law.

The policy marks a drastic change from that of previous years, which restricted benefits to “your legal spouse of opposite gender and your dependent children,” according to a Georgetown Human Resources web site. The new policy is gender-neutral and no longer requires that a family involve a marriage.

Many might be surprised to see this kind of policy at a Catholic university, in a time when the Catholic Church has been associated with the strong bolstering of traditional marriage and the persecution of homosexuals.

News

Homeless Hoyas?

Saxa Politica – bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news

Leisure

DJ Muggs and GZA, _Grandmasters_

Hip-hop vets GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill have teamed up in the strongest display of coastal unity since DJ Muggs dropped Soul Assassins in 1997.

Voices

Letters to the Editor

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Free Unclassifieds

Free Unclassifieds

I’ve only ever been with girls. I want to go with boys.

Leisure

Akron/Family and Angels of Light, _Akron/Family and Angels of Light_

The year 2005 will go down as the year of the obscure folk-band collaboration.

Editorials

Promote science on campus

It is difficult to dispute Georgetown’s relative inadequacy in terms of science facilities.

News

Direct Quote

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Leisure

Halloween blues

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

Editorials

A real American hero

In honoring Rosa Parks in The Capitol Rotunda, we as a nation have taken one more step towards an ideal we must never tire of pursuing.