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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

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national news and polilitics

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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

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

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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

Union Jack – bi-weekly column on national politics

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Dorm diversity

Several student groups are actively developing a proposal for a diversity floor in the Southwest Quadrangle next fall.

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Corruption 101

City on a Hill – bi-weekly column on D.C. news & politics

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D.C.’s own silent epidemic

On World AIDS Day, a microcosm of a global struggle

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Case studies in the death penalty

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty along with the Community of Sant’Egidio held rallies on the Hilltop and throughout the District to raise public awareness of the injustice of the death penalty Wednesday.