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Prospect Street fire caused by candle, cigarettes

New information has surfaced on the basement fire that destroyed 3318 Prospect St. last October and resulted in the death of Daniel Rigby (MSB ‘05).

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Sigma Phi Epsilon to reach Georgetown

On a campus where social fraternities are prohibited and banned from receiving University funding, the impending formation of a Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter is momentous.

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Students, staff differ on dining hall quality

A year and a half after Leo J. O’Donovan Dining Hall replaced New South Cafeteria as Georgetown’s main food venue, a striking difference of opinion remains between the administrators who manage the facility and the students who use it.

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GU student to be MTV-U Darfur correspondent

Nate Wright (CAS ‘06) will be one of three student correspondents for an MTV-U documentary on the Darfur region of Sudan, which has been ravished by genocide and internal ethnic divisions.

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Institutionalized Valentines?

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Tsunami relief gala and Tajik Dips at Georgetown

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MPD settles lawsuit with GU Law prof

According to the details of a Jan. 24 settlement, a Georgetown University Law professor is among seven plaintiffs who will receive $50,000 each and an official apology from the Metropolitan Police Department.

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ANC to discuss Poulton street safety

Georgetown University’s request that the Advisory Neighborhood Commission re-examine a proposal for the installation of a stop sign and crosswalk at the intersection of 37th and P Streets met with unanimous approval at Tuesday’s meeting.

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UNAIDS Ambassador’s vision for loans to poor

“What good are those elegant theories in the face of the realities outside the classroom?” United Nations AIDS Ambassador and humanitarian economist Muhammad Yunus recalled asking himself.

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Living Wage Coalition clashes with DPS

Members of the Living Wage Coalition are demanding an apology from Georgetown’s Department of Public Safety after an encounter between a group of student protestors and a DPS officer outside Healy Hall on Friday.

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Tombs Theology

Georgetown’s Jesuit heritage has found a new forum for discussion: the Tombs.

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STAND up for Darfur

Georgetown’s chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur will host a three-day conference this weekend with the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Committee on Conscience to share ideas for raising awareness and funds and to encourage political action against the genocide that took place in Sudan’s Darfur region in 2004.

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Off the rails

Every time this column’s deadline rolls around, it seems like the District Council is struggling to protect the city from the federal government, whether they are diverting security funding or just letting trainloads of poison roll through town.

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Metro Police to tackle terrorism prevention

Local businesses, institutions to participate in Operation TIPP

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Students can no longer profit from meal plans

Dining Services learns to hinder meal plan manipulation

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Bush dissenters protest second inauguration

“Counter-inaugural” events attended by thousands

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Asian Studies, STIA hold forum on tsunami impact

With 280,000 confirmed dead on two continents and in 11 countries, the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on Dec. 26 has left the region with the possibility of unforetold socioeconomic, political and environmental ramifications.

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Roe v. Wade ignored

The 32nd anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade passed Georgetown quietly by on Jan. 22.