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Roots of U.S.-Israel alliance

Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi yesterday offered a non-traditional perspective on the roots of United States-Israeli relations.

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MPD’s gay liaison

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Living wage secured for GU’s workers

Student committee, University establish “Just Employment Policy”

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Students declare hunger strike for a living wage

Advisory Committee fails to reach decision on workers’ salaries

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Students learn about life on the Mexican border

While some Georgetown students spent their spring break in exotic locations around the world and some stayed on campus to study for upcoming midterms, 12 Georgetown students had the opportunity to learn and travel with the Border Awareness Experience trip in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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A new field for Georgetown’s athletes

Construction begins on a multi-sport facility

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Albright addresses relief

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discussed the role the United States must play to improve humanitarian aid worldwide in the Third Annual Fritz Institute Lecture on Humanitarian Relief yesterday morning in Gaston Hall.

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Adopt-a-block in Georgetown

GUSA’s Community Relations Committee launched the Adopt-A-Block program Monday with an open house for students and neighborhood residents in its mission to improve student-resident relations.

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Yates vs. Law

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On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

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GU to sell ramshackle Wormley School

Rotting wooden floors, their centers collapsed straight through to the basement below, echo with the trickle of dripping water. Streetlights shine faintly through the cracks between the boards that cover the windows, bathing the chalkboards in an orange glow.

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Laura Bush Headlines UNESCO Conference

“Leaders of higher education are uniquely positioned to offer insight and expertise on the challenges facing universal education,” University President John J. DeGioia said in his introduction to the Conference on the Role of Higher Education in Achieving Education for All last Monday.

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Contracted workers speak at Living Wage rally

The Living Wage Coalition united 24 student organizations in a rally in Red Square yesterday to express support for the effort to raise the “poverty-level” wages of subcontracted workers.

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OIP Director to leave Georgetown for CIEE

After spending the past four years at Georgetown as the Director of International Programs and leading a multi-university research project to measure the effects of study abroad on students, Dr. Michael Vande Berg will leave Georgetown in April.

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PhD in Liberal Studies

Georgetown’s new Doctor of Liberal Studies program, a PhD degree, will accept the first 10 students ever to pursue such a degree in North America beginning in fall 2005.

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Saddam’s chief of protocol

“It was really the republic of fear. If you whispered, just whispered, something against the regime, you were finished.”

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Death by committee

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4,000 applications received for early action spots

Georgetown undergraduate early admissions have recovered from last year’s temporary decline in applications, according to statistics released by University admissions officials earlier this month.

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Study abroad in Israel reinstated

The threat of instability in the Middle East will no longer deter Georgetown students from studying in Israel beginning this summer.