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University releases final Campus Plan

After almost a year of hearings, Georgetown submitted its final defense of its 2010 Campus Plan to the D.C. Office of Planning on Friday.

By January 19, 2012

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Sweeney’s arrest jeopardizes future of AUC programs

On Nov. 23, Georgetown student Derrik Sweeney (COL ’13) was arrested in Cairo, Egypt, on allegations of throwing Molotov cocktails at police during a protest in Tahrir Square. He and three other American students were detained and released from jail on Nov. 25. Sweeney returned to his home in Missouri a day later.

By December 1, 2011

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Independent retailers struggle on Wisconsin

On Nov. 29, the Citizens Association of Georgetown met with neighborhood residents to address the longstanding issue of fostering Wisconsin Avenue independent businesses, which have struggled to establish themselves in the area.

By December 1, 2011

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Students, faculty discuss Occupy’s future at two panels

On Tuesday evening, two different speaker panels organized by Georgetown Occupy and McDonough School of Business Dean David Thomas, respectively, provided contrasting viewpoints on the two-month-old Occupy D.C. protest in... Read more

By December 1, 2011

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Saxa Politica: Budget summit breakdown

In Nov. 2008, Nick Troiano (COL ‘12), then a GUSA senator, staged a sit-in in a Student Activities Commission constitutional meeting to protest SAC’s closed voting policy. In response, SAC chair Sophia Behnia (COL ‘09) shouted, “You can all stay in here for this vote, I don’t give a damn!”

By December 1, 2011

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SFS Dean Kasper set to resign

At the end of this semester, School of Foreign Service Dean Bryan Kasper will leave Georgetown for a job at the State Department. Kasper has worked for Georgetown since 1998.

By December 1, 2011

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University, neighbors discuss town-gown tensions

Tonight, the D.C. Zoning Commission will begin its final review of Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan, the blueprint for the University’s development and growth in the next decade. As neighborhood groups like the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E have loudly criticized the plan, the University has stepped up its efforts to assuage residents’ concerns. At the beginning of this school year, the University began several quality of life initiatives such as twice-daily trash collection, a new shuttle to M Street, and an increased partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department.

By November 17, 2011

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GUSA Bill of Rights reforms Student Code of Conduct

On Monday, the Georgetown University Student Association released its proposal for a student bill of rights, an addendum to the Student Code of Conduct that will spell out students’ rights and responsibilities in the University’s judicial process and make revisions to the code itself.

By November 17, 2011

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Saxa Politica: Magis Row not at fault

On November 8, the Citizens Association of Georgetown and the Burleith Citizens Association jointly filed a supplemental submission to the D.C. Zoning Commission ahead of tonight’s final hearing on the proposed Georgetown Campus Plan. Among the countless complaints about the University, the neighborhood associations continue to rail against the Magis Row townhouses.

By November 17, 2011

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GU student noise violations decrease

In recent weeks, the Off-Campus Student Life Office informed the University community that students from a neighboring university were arrested for violating the District of Columbia noise ordinance. However, both University police and the Metropolitan Police Department have reported fewer student noise violations in the Georgetown area.

By November 17, 2011

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Solar project starts small

On Tuesday, Georgetown Energy student leaders met with administrators to discuss whether the group’s solar panels project would be rolled out to University townhouses all at once or would start with a smaller pilot project.

By November 17, 2011

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Experts try to measure GU’s local economic impact

With debate between Georgetown and its neighbors over the 2010 campus plan still heated, experts in urban planning and development are attempting to measure the effect that forcing the University to build elsewhere or cap enrollment would have on the District’s economy.

By November 10, 2011

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Corp profits in the black, philanthropy increases

After two years of being in the red, Students of Georgetown, Inc., has recently increased its profits and expanded its philanthropic output from approximately $50,000 to $70,000. Financial success has coincided with the Corp Philanthropy Committee and the Corp Service and Outreach Committee’s pursuit of new projects and endeavors to widen their reach into the D.C. community.

By November 10, 2011

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City on a Hill: Occupy D.C. and the man

So far, some of the most publicized stories of the nationwide Occupy movement have been about the protesters’ confrontations with law enforcement. The initial Wall Street protests produced the largest mass arrests since anti-Vietnam protests in the ‘70s, complete with images of seething, screaming activists confronting armored NYPD forces.

By November 10, 2011

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FDA awards GU $1 million grant, regulatory science center formed

Georgetown has recently been awarded a $1 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration to establish a Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, a partnership between the Medical Center, the Law Center, and the University as a whole.

By November 10, 2011

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Capital campaign launches transformative programs

Out of the $1.5 billion the University looks to raise by 2016 as part of the Campaign for Georgetown, $300 million will go to the ambiguously titled “transformative opportunities.” Over the weekend, the University shed some light on what this category is meant to entail, releasing details for some of the projects it could fund.

By November 3, 2011

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Grieg against Evans for City Council, supported by GU students

Fiona Grieg, a Democratic candidate for the Ward 2 City Council seat challenging incumbent Jack Evans, recently established the non-partisan Students for Fiona working group. Composed of Georgetown students, the group aims to increase student voter registration this semester, in anticipation of next April’s election. “In the spring, [the Students for Fiona group] will be focused on creating action plans for everyone involved, making sure people know where to vote, when to vote, how to vote, and then the reasons why to vote,” the group’s co-captain Craig Cassey (COL ‘15) said.

By November 3, 2011

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GU townhouse solar panel project to move forward

The student group Georgetown Energy is currently working on an effort to place solar panels on a selection of University townhouses, a project which would be the largest student-funded solar project in the world if it is completed the way it was envisioned, the group’s cofounder and CEO David Nulsen (SFS ‘12) said.

By November 3, 2011

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Saxa Politica: A campaign for all students

Images of the doors of Georgetown’s iconic buildings have become omnipresent on campus in the past few weeks due to the kickoff of the University’s capital campaign, “For Generations to Come: The Campaign for Georgetown.” They have supplanted the blue “Spirit of Georgetown” banners typically bound to the light poles and mounted on the face of the Intercultural Center building. It’s hard to walk anywhere on campus without seeing something about it.

By November 3, 2011

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Georgetown, DCRA partner on off-campus housing

Over the past month, Georgetown administrators and the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs have come together in an unprecedented partnership to aid students who rent privately- owned properties in the neighborhoods surrounding the University. The two sides first met about a month and a half ago in an effort to identify unlicensed off-campus houses and to deliberate ways to ensure that off-campus housing units frequently rented by students are properly licensed and inspected to comply with D.C. building and safety codes.

By October 27, 2011