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Howard faculty call on pres. to resign

Citing fiscal and academic incompetence, Howard University’s Faculty Senate voted last week to send a letter to the University’s Board of Trustees calling on President H. Patrick Swygert to resign.

By March 15, 2007

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City on a Hill: Council is so money and doesn’t even know it

Price of one campaign for the vacant Ward 4 seat in the District Council: $195,395.

Raising most of that money from businesses outside of the wards: priceless.

By March 1, 2007

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News Hit: Shaw inaugurated

Closing a refreshingly uncontroversial chapter in the Student Association’s election history, Ben Shaw (COL `08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL `08) were sworn in as president and vice-president at a Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.

By March 1, 2007

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Jack and Laura talk Africa

University President John J. DeGioia and First Lady Laura Bush recognized the role of religious institutions in combating the African malaria crisis last Thursday. Their remarks came during a panel discussion at the United States executive offices next the White House.

By February 22, 2007

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D.C. Council behaving badly

The District’s public school system needs improvement so desperately that it seems any reform efforts could only be constructive. But the District Council is managing to make a bad situation worse in their public hearings on the potential mayoral takeover.

By February 15, 2007

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Dean defends loans targeted by Cuomo

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.

By February 8, 2007

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Bay breakdown

When it comes to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, it would be a gross understatement to say that we’ve missed the target. The arrow hasn’t even left the bow—and the archer has taken several large steps backward trying to take aim.

By February 1, 2007

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Pro-life activists descend on the District

As Roe v. Wade turned 34 last weekend, pro-life activists flocked to the District of Columbia and to Georgetown to protest the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in... Read more

By January 25, 2007

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Nuclear weapons (debate) in ICC

School of Foreign Service Dean Robert Gallucci and Center for Peace and Security Studies Director Daniel Byman went head to head on the danger of nuclear terrorism in a debate last night.

By January 25, 2007

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Voice from Guantanamo

In a live telecast to a packed auditorium at the Georgetown Law Center, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee recalled the dehumanizing atmosphere of the military detention center there and criticized the U.S. government’s war on terror.

By January 18, 2007