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2005-06 tuition raised 6.2 percent

Nearly a fourth of Georgetown’s students may lose their Federal Perkins loans while paying the 6.2 percent increase in tuition approved by the Board of Directors last week.

By the Voice Staff February 17, 2005

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Rajan/Wright win GUSA election

Pravin Rajan (SFS ‘07) and Nate Wright (CAS ‘06) are the new 2005-2006 Georgetown University Student Association President and Vice-President, according to unofficial preliminary results following yesterday’s election.

By the Voice Staff February 17, 2005

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Artist commissioned for Georgetown menorah

As the vestiges of anti-Semitism fade following the theft and desecration of Georgetown University’s Chanukah menorah in Dec. 2004, the Office of Campus Ministry, Georgetown Hillel/Jewish Student Association and Georgetown’s chapter of the national Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi are joining to commemorate Judaism and establish a lasting mark of Georgetown’s Jewish community on campus.

By the Voice Staff February 17, 2005

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Senior auction earns $150,000

The 24th annual Senior Class Auction, held at Washington’s Grand Hyatt hotel last Saturday as part of Senior Parents’ Weekend, raised between $155,000 and $170,000 in ticket sales, donations, items sold in the silent and live auctions and raffle tickets for the $10,000 cash lottery.

By the Voice Staff February 17, 2005

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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).

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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Institutionalized Valentines?

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By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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Tsunami relief gala and Tajik Dips at Georgetown

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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Students Protest for Living Wage in Red Square

By the Voice Staff February 10, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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Tombs Theology

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

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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AVODA: Objects of the Spirit

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005

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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.

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2005