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Metro Ridership Decreases

By Kelly Church October 8, 2010

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Association reported a dramatic loss of passengers on both buses and trains during the months of June and July. Though WMATA significantly increased fares...

Businesses Seek to Regulate Food Trucks

By Rachel Carandang October 8, 2010

As food trucks become a common sight on D.C. streets, several established restaurants have lobbied the D.C. Council to create laws regulating when and where the trucks can operate. The laws, which the...

Philly P’s Set to Reopen

By Laura Engshuber October 8, 2010

Philly Pizza & Grill, the popular late-night eatery that was forced to shut its doors last spring, will return, albeit in a different form. On Sept. 22, the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory...

Language Lab Enhances Learning

By Jonathan Gillis October 8, 2010

Every semester, Georgetown language students dish out $70 in lab fees, but many have never seen the inside of the lab room. In an era of continuously emerging technologies, the language lab could...

Community Responds to Rutgers Suicide

By Bonnie Duncan October 5, 2010

Many members of the university community have gathered in the wake of the Sept. 22 suicide of a Rutgers University freshman, as part of an effort to prevent instances of anti-LGBTQ bias on the Hilltop. Tyler...

Econ. Professor Appointed To White House Position

By Laura Engshuber October 5, 2010

Economics professor Arik Levinson is taking a break from the classroom this academic year to assume a temporary post on the White House's Council of Economic Advisers researching environmental economics. William...

Area Hospitals Rank Lowest Nationally

By Stephen Levy October 5, 2010

The D.C. health system, which includes the Georgetown University Hospital, has been ranked last nationally in both hospital quality and customer satisfaction by a health care insurance services company,...

GU Graduate Receives MacArthur `Genius Grant’

By David Schuler October 5, 2010

Born deaf to parents who are deaf and the product of a bilingual household communicating in both English and American Sign Language, Carol Padden is a 1978 graduate of Georgetown, where she pursued a major...

`Friending’ Faculty: Professors Log On

By Elizabeth Schieffelin October 5, 2010

Generally, Facebook relates to school only when students sit in the back of the classroom, smoothly transitioning from laptop note-taking to an in-depth look at friends' latest updates. But as faculty...

Community Responds to Rutgers Suicide

By Bonnie Duncan October 5, 2010

Many members of the university community have gathered in the wake of the Sept. 22 suicide of a Rutgers University freshman, as part of an effort to prevent instances of anti-LGBTQ bias on the Hilltop. Tyler...

Cupcakes For Cancer

By Fatima Muneer October 5, 2010

Pink lahhafs and tables piled with cookies, cakes iced pink and cupcakes rivaling D.C.'s Georgetown Cupcakes filled the SFS-Qatar campus this week in a fundraising event for breast cancer. Organized...

G.O.P. Victory Could Tighten Grip on D.C.

By Jonathan Gillis October 5, 2010

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has pledged to serve as the legislative roadblock to greater D.C. autonomy, pending a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives this November. As a ranking member...

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