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On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Students declare hunger strike for a living wage

Advisory Committee fails to reach decision on workers’ salaries

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

A new field for Georgetown’s athletes

Construction begins on a multi-sport facility

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

Albright addresses relief

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 17, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Saddam’s chief of protocol

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

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Death by committee

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

By the Voice Staff March 3, 2005

Re-imagining Georgetown

The “Re-Imagining Service at Georgetown” initiative and “The Run for Rigby” project have been awarded $2,500 and $1,500 respectively to subsidize their goals for the coming year.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

Memorial service

With the Copley Formal Lounge filled almost to capacity, the Georgetown community gathered Wednesday to mourn the passing of Professor Hisham Sharabi.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

Liberty from Leavey

The Voice’s bigger, uglier sister publication is all grown up and asking to move out from under the University’s wing.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

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.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

Booker prize shortlist announced at Georgetown

Lauinger Library played host to the publication of the 18 finalists for the first ever Man Booker International prize last Friday afternoon, which will be awarded in June 2005 in London.

By the Voice Staff February 24, 2005

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