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Students unsatisfied with Health Center services

Scheduling delays are a problem, but doctors, treatment respected

By the March 31, 2005

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Students on social security

The Georgetown College Democrats and Republicans hosted a bipartisan debate last night, entitled the Next Generation of Social Security.

By the March 31, 2005

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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.

By the March 31, 2005

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Students declare hunger strike for a living wage

Advisory Committee fails to reach decision on workers’ salaries

By the March 17, 2005

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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.

By the March 17, 2005

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A new field for Georgetown’s athletes

Construction begins on a multi-sport facility

By the March 17, 2005

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Albright addresses relief

By the March 17, 2005

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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.

By the March 17, 2005

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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.

By the March 17, 2005

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Yates vs. Law

Saxa Politica

By the March 17, 2005

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On the record with Haitham Rashid Wihaib

A former Iraqi official discusses his experience under Saddam

By the March 17, 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.”

By the March 3, 2005

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Death by committee

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

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the March 3, 2005

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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.

By the February 24, 2005

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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.

By the February 24, 2005