News

What’s happening on campus and in D.C.

University developing new fuel cell bus

A first glance and it looks like any other bus. The interiors, aside from a slight seat rearrangement, are identical, and its outward appearance would blend in with any D.C. street. Turn on the fuel cell bus, however, and all is quiet, with no smell of exhaust.

By Kate Mays October 5, 2006

Region sees air-quality improvements

The number of bad air days caused by ground-level ozone in the Washington area declined by more than 40 percent since 2003, according to a recent estimate.

By Keenan Steiner October 5, 2006

Reforms come to Leavey

A whirlwind of reforms are set to stir up the Student Association when students vote next Thursday on a proposed amendment to the organization’s constitution.

By Will Sommer October 5, 2006

NEWS HITS: STAND Die-in; Campus safer

STAND Die-in; Campus safer

By Anna Bank October 5, 2006

City on a Hill: Freeway forever

bi-weekly column on D.C. politics and events

By Marco Cerna October 5, 2006

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.

By Molly Gelsey September 28, 2006

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

By Will Sommer September 28, 2006

Karzai cheered in Gaston

With his measured speech and good humor, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan received a very warm welcome of two standing ovations from the Georgetown community on Monday.

By Kate Mays September 28, 2006

Faux names

City on a Hill: bi-weekly column on campus news and politics

By Anna Bank September 28, 2006

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

Students feel safer-Victoria’s little labor secret

By Michael Bruns September 28, 2006

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.

By Anna Bank September 28, 2006

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.

By Keenan Steiner September 21, 2006

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.

By Michael Bruns September 21, 2006

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.

By Anna Ziajka September 21, 2006

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.

By Keenan Steiner September 21, 2006

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.

By Alejandra Fuster September 21, 2006

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.

By Ryan Maye Handy September 21, 2006

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.

By Matt Murtagh September 21, 2006

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.

By John Lawless September 21, 2006

D.C. vote at last?

City on a Hill: a bi-weekly column on D.C. news and politics

By Marco Cerna September 21, 2006

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