For the homeless in the District, it was a place for free, quality health care. For Georgetown students, it was a classroom.

Last Tuesday, The HOYA Clinic, D.C.’s first student-organized health clinic, reopened its doors to members of the Washington community after being closed for four months over the summer.

Mission Three, a business launched by Georgetown students in February 2007 to deliver locally grown fresh produce, used to boast that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” This semester, though, the apple won’t be falling at all.

The forum for campus gossip at Georgetown may move from the bathroom stall to the World Wide Web.

The California Supreme Court upheld the death sentence on Thursday for the man convicted of the first-degree murder of a Georgetown University alumnus who was murdered in 1996.

Georgetown has retained its position as the 23rd best university in the nation this year, according to the U.S. News and World Report 2009 university rankings released today. While the university’s selectivity ranking increased, it slipped in several other categories, including graduation and retention, faculty resources, financial resources and alumni giving.

As painters work to put the finishing touches on the newly created LGBTQ Resource Center, the center’s first director, Sivagami Subbaraman, has been working to make a presence for the center as students arrive back to campus.

Subbaraman arrived at Georgetown four weeks ago to begin preparing the center, located adjacent to the Women’s Center on the third floor of the Leavey Center.

Kyla Machel (COL ’10) said that she was looking for someone who shared a preference for a cold room when she used Georgetown’s Campus Housing Roommate Matching System to find her freshman roommate. With Elise Cardinale (COL ’10), she got a cold room and a warm friendship.

When Scott Chessare (COL ’10) came to Georgetown as a freshman, things on campus looked a lot different.

As a gay student, Chessare arrived on the Hilltop at a time when administrators were hesitant to engage with the LGBTQ community and GU Pride was comprised of only a few students who would meet sporadically.

The military will have to deal with increasing global problems in an upcoming period of “persisted conflict,” said Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (SFS '70), chief of staff of the U.S. Army, on Wednesday in the Intercultural Center Auditorium.

“We know we are not where we need to be,” he said in a speech sponsored by the Center for Peace and Security Studies.

One day shy of the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shootings that claimed 33 lives and just two months after another shooting at Northern Illinois University, Georgetown has made several strides to barricade itself from similar threats on campus.