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More prep girls

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School’s proposal to increase enrollment will go before the Board of Zoning Adjustment on Tuesday for final approval.

By February 15, 2007

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The future of NATO

Former Presidents José Maria Aznar of Spain and Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland set forth their vision of a successful North Atlantic Treaty Organization united by Western ideology on Monday in the ICC Auditorium. Both men are Distinguished Scholars in the Practice of Global Leadership at Georgetown.

By February 15, 2007

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Petition for friendly energy

Students on campus have shown support for a petition to increase the use of renewable energy on campus, even if the new environmentally-sound policy would necessitate a modest increase in tuition.

By February 15, 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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Snow closes campus

A steady onslaught of wintry mix Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning forced Georgetown administrators to cancel all classes on the main campus and the School of Medicine Wednesday.

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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Public school enemy #1

Tensions ran high and personal insults flew freely at a D.C. City Council public hearing yesterday on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed takeover of the District’s public school system.

By February 8, 2007

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New history requirement

Georgetown College’s Curriculum Committee revised the general education history requirements last week to include a wider range of courses; starting next fall, students will now be able to use courses on Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to fulfill half of the requirement. The other course must come from the current options: European Civilization, History of the Atlantic or Pacific World or World History.

By February 8, 2007

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Saxa Politica: Ms. President

One thing was guaranteed in Tuesday’s Student Association executive elections: the winners had to have Y chromosomes. None of this year’s four tickets featured a woman candidate, denying voters a varied slate and failing to represent the female half of the University’s population.

By February 8, 2007

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Natsios describes on-going Sudanese crisis

The on-going Darfur crisis is no longer a genocide situation, according to U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios. Natsios, a Professor in the School of Foreign Service, spoke on Wednesday in Gaston Hall.

By February 8, 2007

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TBGD speaker loves the classics

Government Professor and keynote speaker Patrick Deneen criticized the University’s diversified curriculum at last Saturday’s second annual Take Back Georgetown Day, and proposed a return to a more classical curriculum, even as the History requirement changed the College’s general education requirements to include a more diverse range of courses.

By February 8, 2007

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Student ANC rep reverses vote

Georgetown’s student representative on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission reversed her vote on Tuesday night, deciding to oppose a measure she originally co-wrote which would have encouraged the University to extend its one-keg-per-party rule to off-campus residences. The resolution passed unanimously at a Commission meeting last week.

By February 8, 2007

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Ben and Matt win

Ben Shaw (COL ‘08) and Matt Appenfeller (COL ‘08) won the Student Association’s executive election last night. Election commissioner Alison Noelker (COL ‘07) announced that the ticket had won the election with 52 percent of the vote.

By February 8, 2007

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Freeway fight

Proponents of tearing down the Whitehurst Freeway scored a victory this month when the Georgetown Business Association voted to support plans to remove the road.

By February 1, 2007

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Campaigning with the boys on the GUTS bus

“Just because we take the issues seriously doesn’t mean we have to take ourselves seriously,” Ben Shaw (COL ‘08) explained as he and his running mate Matt Appenfeller (COL ‘08) filmed their video “Vote in a Box” as part of their Student Association election campaign.

By February 1, 2007

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Roots of conflict

Mushahid Hussain, a Georgetown alumnus who is now a Pakistani senator and a member of the Pakistan Muslim League, spoke in ICC yesterday about the challenge of reconciling the Islamic and Western worlds, saying that the conflict is more political than religious.

By February 1, 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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Keg limit may go off campus

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission’s student representative introduced a resolution on Tuesday night recommending that the University extend its new one keg-per-party rule for campus residences to off-campus townhouses.

By February 1, 2007

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GU embezzler flees

Pedro Paulo dos Santos, the former director of Georgetown’s Brazilian Studies program, was indicted on July 19 by a federal grand jury for embezzling more than $300,000 from Georgetown University according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

By February 1, 2007

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Veterans march against surge

Veterans were a sober yet powerful presence on the National Mall last Saturday as thousands came to D.C. to protest the troop surge in Iraq.

By February 1, 2007