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City on a Hill: Farewell to cheating cabbies

The past few months have been quite an emotional rollercoaster for the District’s taxi riders—and the Taxicab Industry Group’s latest call for strikes ensures that it won’t end any time soon. With Mayor Adrian Fenty’s decision to switch to metered fares to be instituted April 6, the strike is largely for show. And what it shows is that the first priority for many cab drivers is preserving their ability to rip off their customers.

By Juliana Brint January 24, 2008

LGBTQ: working it out

Based on recommendations by a working group formed in November to assess the efficacy of the University’s bias reporting system, Public Safety Alerts will undergo several changes in the spring semester. The alerts, which previously included only robberies and assaults, will now notify students of incidents of bias and will be available every day of the week

By Alison Crowley January 24, 2008

GUSA to deliver on newspapers

About two months before Ben Shaw (COL ’08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ’08) officially step down as President and Vice President of the Student Association, the pair hope to deliver on one of their main campaign promises and top priorities: free newspapers on campus.

By Juliana Brint and Kate Mays January 17, 2008

Pounding the pavement for politics

Anthony Bonna (MSB ’09) met Mike Huckabee a few years ago, back when the former Arkansas governor was better known for his rapid slim-down than his underdog victory in the Iowa caucuses. Bonna attended the event where Huckabee first announced his candidacy.

By Juliana Brint January 17, 2008

Fenty and Rhee fan controversy

City Council members and community activists will boycott two dozen public hearings being held tonight to address Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s controversial plans to close 23 public schools by next summer.

By Marco Cerna and Ohm Gore January 17, 2008

Union Jack: Lame-duck diplomacy

With the public’s attention turned inward on the looming South Carolina and Nevada primaries, the Bush administration has trained its eye toward foreign policy. In a six-nation tour covering Kuwait, Israel, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt over the course of the week, President Bush has reached some startling conclusions.

By Alison Crowley January 17, 2008

News Hit

The student code of conduct is under review by GUSA, the Disciplinary Review Committee, and the University administration; GUSA will conduct a review, independent from the DRC and the University’s, to address its own long-standing concerns with the current student code

By Crystal Chung January 17, 2008

On the Record: Jack DeGioia

Georgetown University President Jack DeGioia recently sat down with representatives of several campus newspapers to discuss issues important to students.

By Crystal Chung January 17, 2008

Plans for LGBTQ center to be finished by Jan.

The working group charged with planning the new LGBTQ resource center expects to present completed recommendations to University President John DeGioia by mid-January, members of the group reported at an LGBTQ open forum on Wednesday evening.

By Sam Sweeney December 6, 2007

Rethinking Curriculum

Seated in a high-backed leather chair in his cluttered office, Provost James O’Donnell stroked the head of a stuffed rhinoceros and explained that, much like his office, Georgetown’s academics might need to be redecorated. O’Donnell has recently established two working groups to consider making changes in the Georgetown curriculum and to analyze the best ways to foster an academic culture on campus.

By Alison Crowley December 6, 2007

Daschle and Ricks discuss the Fiasco

“It’s like moving from the eighth circle of hell to the fifth,” Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post and the author of two books on the Iraq War, said of post-surge Iraq.

Speaking at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute on Tuesday about the situation in Iraq, Ricks was introduced by former Sen. Tom Daschle as the author of “the definitive book on the Iraq war, Fiasco.”

By Molly Redden December 6, 2007

Mixed report card for GU tutoring in D.C.

This fall, the McDonough School of Business started sending 14 students to tutor at D.C. Preparatory School, a District charter middle school that serves students in the 4th through 8th grades, as a new pilot program to incorporate community service into their curriculum. Next semester, MSB students will be able to participate in the program as a fourth credit option.

By Crystal Chung December 6, 2007

City on a Hill: The Re-education of Fenty

Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) and D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee heaped the insult of exclusion on top of the considerable injury of 23 planned school closures when they left DCPS parents to learn about their proposal from a leaked article in The Washington Post. Community members feel, understandably, shocked, alienated and enraged.

By Juliana Brint December 6, 2007

Saxa Politica: Secondhand smoke out

Whenever I leave Lauinger after laboring within its stuffy walls for hours, I look forward to the fresh air that should greet me as the sliding doors open. Instead, I have to cough my way out of the building due to the ever-present clusters of smokers.

By Dylan Richmond November 29, 2007

G’town sees spike in crimes at Thanksgiving

A spate of crimes struck Georgetown in the period during and around Thanksgiving, with one student being held-up at gunpoint last week and robberies of a Copley suite and four Henle apartments over the past ten days.

By Elena Solli November 29, 2007

Web-based academic journal on Latin America debuts

Three former presidents and numerous business executives from Spain and Latin America gathered at Georgetown Tuesday for the launch of a virtual journal about business and globalization in Latin America. The Journal of Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability is the product of a partnership between the University and the world’s eighth-largest bank.

By Marco Cerna and Alison Crowley November 29, 2007

Filming Afghanistan

A screening of a documentary about a young Afghan boy turned into a heated debate yesterday as the film’s director discussed the invasion of Afghanistan.

By Crystal Chung November 29, 2007

Living with AIDS in Washington

Being an HIV-positive gay man in Venezuela “was like you had a scarlet letter on your forehead,” said Miguel Aguero (SCS ‘11) “The new generation, people under 20, didn’t live through the first cases and the paranoia and the fear. People would say, ‘You’re going to hell and this is your ticket.’”

By Juliana Brint November 29, 2007

Liberating gender

“I don’t think many of us imagine Jane Hoya kissing other girls, unless it’s in a Joe Hoya fantasy,” former GU Pride President Shamisa Zvoma (MSB ‘08) said during the panel discussion “Deconstructing Jane and Joe Hoya: Gender at Georgetown,” on Tuesday.

By Brittany Keates November 29, 2007

Millions stolen from city tax department

Two city tax officials were arrested last Wednesday for allegedly stealing tens of millions of dollars in what law enforcement officials called the largest fraud in District of Columbia history. The full extent of the scam is not yet known, but it has already resulted in the resignation of four top officials in the Office of Tax and Revenue.

By Juliana Brint November 15, 2007

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