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NEWS HITS: Students feel safer, survey finds; Victoria’s little labor secret

Students feel safer-Victoria’s little labor secret

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Administration weighs keg ban

The Student Association will release a position paper on their web site today arguing against the on-campus keg ban proposed by the Disciplinary Review Committee.

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Gtown shy on sex, survey says


Georgetown ranked 80 in a pool of 100 universities across the country in a “Sexual Health Report Card” compiled by Trojan Brand Condoms and released on Sept. 19.

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GPBs budget woes

In the wake of Saturday’s financially disastrous Fountains of Wayne concert, the Georgetown Programming Board is struggling to swallow its losses and work within a newly tightened budge

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Wave of violence strikes the Hilltop

Metropolitan Police Department officers were called in early Sunday morning to help quell a violent confrontation in front of the Reiss Science building. Three Department of Public Safety officers and four Georgetown students suffered injuries.

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Alumni Square Assault


An altercation at the Grog & Tankard tavern on Wisconsin Ave. ended in an attack on a Georgetown student in his Alumni Square apartment Friday.

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Barack Obama welcomed in Gaston


Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made an impassioned bid for clean energy in front of an overwhelmingly supportive audience in Gaston Hall yesterday.

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M St. stitches

The Reiss rumble was not the only violent crime in Georgetown this weekend. A Georgetown University student was brought to the hospital after an altercation with a man who jumped out of his car near the intersection of M. and Bank Streets around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

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Tense dialogue over Lebanon


ONLINE ONLY—There was no shortage of tension in the ICC Auditorium last Tuesday as the National Director of Muslim Public Affairs and a Georgetown professor of Government and International Affairs squared off in a discussion over the summer’s war in Lebanon.

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After Fairtrade abuses, Corp remains committed to its beans


Fairtrade Foundation coffee, the brand that approves the “ethically sound” coffee used in the Students for Georgetown Inc. coffee shops, recently fell short of its humanitarian standards in an impromptu inspection of one of its Peruvian coffee farms.

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PSM Conference attendee sues Jack DeGioia

An Orthodox Jewish man has filed an $8 million lawsuit against Georgetown University, claiming he was injured while attending the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s national conference held here last year, the Canada Free Press reported.

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Noted feminist doctor dies

Dr. Estelle Ramey, professor of endocrinology at Georgetown University Medical Center and famous critic of medically based sexism, died Sept. 8 as a result of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 89.

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D.C. vote at last?

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Fake bank e-mail scams students

Students, faculty, and staff received fraudulent e-mail on Tuesday from a site posing as the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union.

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Two students arrested in support of Darfur


Two Georgetown University students were led away in plastic handcuffs Saturday after lying down in front of the White House to call attention to the crisis in Darfur.

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Upheaval for troubled schools


D.C. students are returning to schools this year that have overwhelmingly failed new rigorous testing and are considering implementing year-long classes.

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Pricey H20

In a move that affects Georgetown students who live off-campus, the Washington Area Sewage Authority has announced that it is increasing the rates charged for its services, effective Oct. 1.

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Late Night Dogs

Late weekends nights are often accompanied by pangs of hunger in students’ stomachs. Brady Hiatt (SFS ‘09) plans to solve this problem by opening Mustard’s Last Stand this week, a hot dog stand located in Healy Circle.

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From Moscow

On Saturday, Sept. 9, Professor Angela Stent, director of Georgetown’s Center for Eusasian, Russian and Eastern European Studies, participated in a diplomatic dinner party at the Moscow presidential residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.