Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of Israel’s creation as an independent state. On Copley Lawn, the Georgetown Israel Alliance hosted a birthday party. There was free food, hookah and a moon bounce.

And there were protesters.

The West Rose window, the stunning stained glass windowpane that sits atop the Wisconsin Avenue entrance to Washington National Cathedral, uses rich magentas, forest greens and earthy golds to tell the Old Testament story of creation.

An argument that began with an exchange of angry words over the accusation that two individuals stole dietary supplements from a house party escalated into a physical fight on N Street early Saturday morning.

A student reported that his N Street house was burgled on Saturday morning after finding hundreds of dollars of electronic goods missing.

A burglar allegedly entered a student’s N Street house through an unlocked back door to steal the items, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) swept today’s Potomac Primaries for their respective parties, winning the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

Two of the world’s most distinguished jurists compared and contrasted their judicial systems in a discussion yesterday at the Georgetown University Law Center.

A Georgetown student was allegedly assaulted just feet from her front door on the 3400 block of O Street Thursday evening in an attempted robbery by two females.

There was a sense of déjà vu on Sunday when Volter Bagriy (MSB ’10) learned that the $150 sunglasses belonging to his roommate, exchange student Francisco Herrera, and his other roommate’s iPod had been stolen from their Nordhoff apartment.

It was the second time that the apartment had been burgled in seven weeks.

Three students were left without their laptops and one was without her purse after two burglaries in Henle Village on Wednesday that the victims attributed largely to the building’s front entrance door being broken.