Articles by Matt Joseloff

American University recently launched a pilot program to integrate SmarTrip fare card technologies into university identification cards, according to AU Student Government President Andy MacCracken.

The GOCard Office plans to launch on March 1 a program offering replacement cards for one week until users can find their primary cards for students, faculty and staff who misplace their primary card, according to Director of GOCard Services Roman Fahrmann.

Cell phones rang out and e-mail messages popped up across campus around 8 p.m. Monday, alerting the university community of a second day of cancelled classes, the result of a storm system on track to break snowfall records for the District.

Purple and white balloons bannered the stairways of the Rafik B. Hariri Building atrium, and luminarias flanked Lohrfink Auditorium as speakers conveyed messages of hope and possibility in the fight against cancer at Sunday’s 2010 Relay For Life kickoff event.

Students from a variety of campus groups began outlining plans Sunday for “Hate Free Georgetown,” a week of activities in March intended to unite the university community and reduce the number of bias-related incidents on campus.

About 450 people entered Gaston Hall on Thursday for the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, a day of symposia in which anti-abortion advocates and experts discussed their views with peers from around the country.

Following the D.C. Council’s passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that opponents to same-sex marriage do not have the right to hold a referendum to determine the legality of same-sex marriage in the District.

Walsh Building and Village C East and West Halls have been experiencing uncomfortably extreme temperatures due to physical limitations in their heating and cooling systems.

Three Georgetown students are launching a microfinance club that will focus on distributing funds to help entrepreneurs in the third world and educate students about the potential of microfinance.

The Honorable Gov. Luis G. Fortuño (SFS ’82), the ninth and current governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, spoke in a forum on “The Presence of Puerto Rico in U.S. Politics” on Monday.