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Powell paints unrealistic picture

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke at Georgetown last Friday, the day before the third anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001

By the September 16, 2004

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Named in vain

Lawsuit, shmawsuit

By the September 16, 2004

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By the Numbers and Direct Quote

American deaths, American weapons, a hurricane and some cocaine

By the September 16, 2004

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Yates shapes up

The only problem for students now is that there’s no excuse not to go

By the September 9, 2004

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By the Numbers and Direct Quote

The world votes for Kerry. GU’s Bushie on CNN.

By the September 9, 2004

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The Voice’s primary endorsements

The Voice’s picks for this Tuesday’s primary races

By the September 9, 2004

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Rage against the (voting) machine

Florida 2000 redux?

By the September 9, 2004

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Registered offender

Registration frustration

By the September 2, 2004

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Pluralistically speaking

Georgetown steps forward, proactively

By the September 2, 2004

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Coordinating change

Bill McCoy joined the Georgetown staff on Aug. 2, but his hiring alone does not solve the problems facing Georgetown’s LGBTQ students.

By the September 2, 2004

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BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

Free facials for RNC journalists. Bush twins still dumb.

By the September 2, 2004

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A sensible disclosure policy, finally

The Department of Education orders Georgetown to modify its disclosure policy concerning sexual assault cases.

By the August 26, 2004

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Bank on it

Students should insure that GUASFCU remains a campus fixture, but one with improved services.

By the August 26, 2004

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Register now or forever hold your peace

Register to vote. No really, register to vote right now.

By the August 26, 2004

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BY THE NUMBERS and DIRECT QUOTE

172 The number of New Student Orientation Advisors

5,000 The number of box lunches for the NSO Goodbye lunch

1,000 The number of cups ordered for NSO Casino Night

1,980 The number of incoming first-year and transfer students

By the August 26, 2004

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Kissinger shies from criticism

Last Friday, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cancelled a lecture just hours before he was scheduled to arrive in Gaston Hall. In a letter sent to campus media, Ambassador Howard B. Shaffer, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, wrote that Kissinger cancelled after learning of a planned protest by GU Peace Action.

By the April 29, 2004

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Extortion not an option

Beginning in the fall of 2005, students hoping to study abroad will have to pay full Georgetown tuition. Currently, students pay the cost of their overseas program, plus a $3000 “administration fee” to Georgetown. Foreign universities, especially those in developing countries, are usually much cheaper, so students can end up paying very little for the semester or year overseas.

By the April 29, 2004

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Cicadas to invade, frighten

Members of the Class of 2004 may graduate amidst a million uninvited winged guests. According to a United States Department of Agriculture press release, “billions of large, noisy, winged, red-eyed insects,” 17-year cicadas, will fill the skies in mid-May, mating and dying out in mid-June, potentially “occupying large swaths of the eastern United States.

By the April 29, 2004

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Thompsons’ Tradition

We had the father. Now we have the son. If someone can round up a ghost, then the Georgetown men’s basketball team can finally hail itself as the Holy Trinity of college basketball.

John Thompson, III comes to Georgetown to try to succeed where his father excelled, but his father’s assistant couldn’t come through.

By the April 22, 2004

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A big step on a long road

Recently, University officials approved changes to Georgetown’s sexual assault policy that will become effective at the start of the 2004-05 academic year. Dr. Todd Olson, Vice President for Student Affairs, accepted the recommendations submitted by the Disciplinary Review Committee, which began a review of the policy after Advocates for Improved Response Methods to Sexual Assault (AFIRMS) released an analysis of the policy along with a series of proposals for reform in January 2003.

By the April 22, 2004