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Campaign for living wage rages

Campus workers and students were unable to voice their demands after being denied entry to a closed meeting of the Advisory Committee on Business Practices yesterday afternoon.

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More than just garments

Working conditions have changed dramatically for workers in one El Salvadoran factory with the help of Georgetown students.

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Student to be jailed

The Georgetown student arrested last semester during an anti-military protest has been sentenced to three months in federal prison.

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Still Catholic?

Georgetown is assessed by Patrick Reilly, president of The Cardinal Newman Society.

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Hamas: students react

The controversy emanating from Hamas’ stunning victory over the long dominant Fatah party in Palestine’s parliamentary election has stirred the charged campus discussion on the Middle East conflict.

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District Sale

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Whose sweat are you wearing?

Georgetown committee monitors workers’ rights

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Orator against AIDS

UNAIDS Special Envoy shares his story

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Striving to be NORML, not normal

After a dorm room discussion with friends over the war on drugs, Matt Huppert (CAS ‘08) decided to start Georgetown University’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

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Lively life conference

This past Sunday, a speaker at the Georgetown University Right to Life seventh Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life caused an unexpected stir among attendees with controversial rhetoric.

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New chaplain joins Hilltop

Casimir Stroick joined the Georgetown community as Copley Hall’s new fourth-floor chaplain at the beginning of this semester.

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STAND lies down

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur will hold a “die-in” today at 12:40 to raise awareness about the Sudanese genocide.

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Falcon Virgo

U.S. air forces conducted a series of low-flying defense exercises over Washington airspace early Tuesday morning.

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Civil unions

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Burleith bristles at SafeRides

Local residents express concern over additional shuttles

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Student wins Dream scholarship

Georgetown student keeps Dr. King’s legacy alive

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Prison for student protestor

A Georgetown student faces up to six months in federal prison for trespassing on a military base during a November protest in Georgia.

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D.C. bans smoking

Georgetown restaurant managers remain unfazed after Mayor Anthony Williams signed the District of Columbia smoking ban earlier this month.

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Diplomacy for democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice discussed the Bush administration’s transformational diplomacy initiative, the U.S. effort to help countries govern themselves democratically, yesterday in Georgetown’s O’Donovan Hall.

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Capital access

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