Articles by Christine Roberts

Members of the Georgetown community discussed changes to the university’s safety protocol, the classification of hate crimes in the Student Code of Conduct and compensation for Department of Public Safety officers at a forum hosted by the LGBTQ Resource Center last night.

Stephanie Tsacoumis will serve as the university’s general counsel and vice president starting Nov. 2, the university announced on Tuesday.

A Georgetown student was sexually assaulted on the 3500 block of O St. NW last Friday at about 3:45 ...

Fr. Thomas King, S.J., a respected member of the Georgetown community for 41 years, died suddenly from a heart attack at 5:30 p.m in Wolfington Hall on Tuesday at age 80.

Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, spoke in the Rafik B. Hariri Building on Friday about the necessity of increased financial regulation as the United States emerges from the recession.

Over 50 probable student cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported since the start of the semester, according to James Welsh, assistant vice president for student health. Welsh expects the number of cases to rise in the weeks ahead.

Georgetown student Taylor Price (MSB ’10), who is physically disabled, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against M Street bar Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown, citing discriminatory treatment that allegedly occurred in January. Price, who uses a wheelchair, said he was discriminated against by the manager of Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown during a visit to the bar on Jan. 23.

Georgetown University began to offer students the option of buying e-textbooks for the fall semester through a Follett-affiliated company, CaféScribe. Beyond purchasing texts that can be read on a computer, students can also access CaféScribe’s interactive features.

For the fifth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranked Georgetown University as 23rd on its list of Best Colleges for 2010.

Georgetown has paid Carmen Group Inc., an independent consulting firm, $1,030,000 since 2005, to lobby on the university ...