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Administrative positions remain vacant despite recent hirings

Although two administrative positions have been filled, several still remain vacant as administrators begin reviewing applications for the positions of Coordinator of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resources, Director of Residence Life and Associate Director of Residence Life.

By the Voice Staff January 9, 2003

Thefts from automobiles increase

Although crime in Georgetown and Burleith has significantly decreased over the past few years, thefts from automobiles, the area’s biggest crime, have increased. According to Lt. Brian Bray of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District, auto thefts were up eight percent in November from the previous year.

By the Voice Staff January 9, 2003

University hires new Chief Financial Officer

Christopher Joyce has taken office as the University’s new Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Joyce replaces Earnest W. Porta Jr., who had been serving as acting vice president and treasurer for 11 months.

University President John J.

By the Voice Staff January 9, 2003

GIA, JSA organize Jewish solidarity rally

Students gathered in Red Square on Monday, Nov. 25 in response to the recent remarks of Norman Finkelstein, a Holocaust historian who spoke on campus Nov. 18, and Professor Hisam Sharabi, a Professor Emeritus who made controversial remarks in a speech in Lebanon.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

More students choosing two majors

The number of Georgetown students with double majors has increased by over 150 percent since 1997. A recent article in The New York Times cited Georgetown as one of a number of schools that represent a growing but not necessarily desirable trend in double majoring.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Medical Center avoids walk out

A walk out by Georgetown University Medical Center staff planned for Monday, Nov. 25 was averted when workers and management reached a last-minute agreement over contract disputes.

The negotiators reached a tentative two-and-a-half year contract agreement an hour before the planned walk-out, and on the following Wednesday, the workers agreed to ratify the temporary agreement.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Area alert system introduced

Coordinators of the newly developed Pilot Project presented its text messaging emergency broadcast system to the Georgetown community, which would be used in community emergencies.

The Pilot Project, the first of its kind in Georgetown, is designed to quickly provide the community with information in the event of an emergency.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Walking out

In the words of Pope John Paul II, “[Labor] organizations … are an indispensable element of social life, especially in modern industrial societies.” In 1891, Pope Leo XIII released Revum Novarum, the first papal edict to focus on the rights of workers. Since then, the Catholic Church has supported the rights of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions, a specific application of the more general right to associate.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Theros calls for a post-war plan for Iraq

On Wednesday, Patrick Theros (SFS ‘63), former American Ambassador to Qatar, called upon the Bush administration to present an effective post-war plan before considering military action in Iraq.

Theros, an active member of the local Greek community, was brought to Georgetown by the Hellenic Club.

By the Voice Staff December 5, 2002

Student wins USAID award

by Amy Wittenbach

Tutoring children in D.C. is one of Georgetown’s most popular service activities, with over 400 students participating in programs like D.C. Reads and Sursum Corda. But for first-year student Kay Lauren Miller (CAS ‘06), fighting illiteracy did not start in college.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

PLO advisor advocates equality

Diana Buttu, a Canadian Palestinian who is legal counsel to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said on Tuesday that she believes Israelis and Palestinians may move toward equal citizenship rather than equal statehood. Sponsored by Students for Middle East Peace, Buttu spoke to over 50 students on the past, present and future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Money woes for Metro

There’s good news and bad news about the future of transportation in the District. The good news is that the Washington Metro Area Transit Association plans to spent $12.2 billion over the next 10 years to improve and expand Metro services in D.C., Virginia and Maryland.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Shick family reveals sanctions in dead son’s case

The family of a student killed in a physical assault on campus two and a half years ago released yesterday the sanctions imposed on the student found responsible for the assault on their son. Unable to continue their lawsuit and upset by what they consider light sanctions on students who commit serious offenses against other students, they decided to go public with previously unreleased information.

By the Voice Staff November 21, 2002

Club Union protests lockdown policy Wednesday

Holding posters with slogans such as “Down with the lockdown” and ”$36,000 a year and we can’t visit our friends,” Georgetown students protested the continuing 24-hour lockdown on Wednesday afternoon in Red Square.

The protesters, organized by the Georgetown University Student Association’s Club Union, distributed the office phone numbers of administrators involved in the lockdown policy, so that students could call and explain the shortcomings of the policy to them,

“There is no real avenue for people who are locked out of the dorms to do anything,” GUSA Historian Adam Doverspike (SFS ‘03) said.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

FIRE group gives GU ‘red light’

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which rates colleges and universities on their tolerance of free speech, ranked Georgetown as a “red light” school, signaling what it perceives to be a dangerously high suppression of provocative speech.

“The Georgetown administration has a checkered history of selectively protecting student speech,” FIRE Chief Executive Officer Thor L.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Resignation

Director of Residence Life Frank Robinson gave his notice of resignation last Wednesday, effective immediately. That’s fine, administrators come and go from the University all the time, right?

Last spring, the University announced the selection of Robinson in the position previously held by Bethany Marlowe.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Director of Women’s Center to leave in February

Director of the Women’s Center Nancy Cantaloupo has handed in her resignation, to take effect in February 2003. Cantaloupo will complete her law degree at the Georgetown Law Center in May 2003 and has accepted a job, beginning next September, with a local law firm.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Sanchez: Free trade for Bolivia

Free trade between the United States and Bolivia is necessary in order to increase Bolivia’s stability, said the President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in a speech in Gaston Hall on Monday.

Sanchez spoke of the multitude of problems facing Bolivia, its relationship with the United States and the need to halt threats to globalization, free market economies and democratic principles.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

Director of Residence Life Robinson resigns

After being at Georgetown for less than five months, Director of Residence Life Frank Robinson resigned last Wednesday effective immediately. Robinson’s resignation creates another vacancy in Residence Life, which already lacks one of two associate directors.

By the Voice Staff November 14, 2002

One of three student candidates elected to ANC

Only one of the three student candidates from Georgetown was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission on Tuesday. Mike Glick (CAS ‘05), who ran unopposed in the all student District 4, received all 77 votes cast for the ANC in that district.

In District 2, Eric Lashner (CAS ‘05) received 150 votes, 34.

By the Voice Staff November 7, 2002

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