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Members of the Georgetown community gathered on Saturday evening in Bulldog Alley for Hoyas Helping Haiti, a benefit concert supporting the ongoing post-earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Last Friday, eight teams of students, joined by some enthusiastic younger participants, danced the night away at Hoyathon, Georgetown’s annual dance marathon in Sellinger Lounge. The event raised nearly $8,500 for the Children’s National Medical Center, the D.C. affiliate of the Children’s Miracle Network.

The Georgetown Samaritans, a new student organization first discussed as a possibility at the end of the fall semester, works in conjunction with Georgetown University Student Association to strengthen the bonds between Georgetown University and the local neighborhood.

One World Youth Project, a nonprofit organization founded by Jessica Rimington (SFS ’09) that works at a grassroots level to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, has reached Georgetown in an initiative incubated within the university’s Office of the President for one year as a new community-engagement program on campus.

DOHA, Qatar — About 200 students, faculty and staff from all six American universities with Education City campuses gathered to attend the educational cooperative’s first hip-hop performance, given by the group Brooklyn Beats to Beirut Streets and sponsored by the School of Foreign Service in Qatar on Jan. 19.

On Dec. 1, Georgetown University introduced wireless printing in the second floor of Lauinger Library and in the Blommer Science Library after working with the Faculty Library Advisory Committee to initiate the new features.

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.

Seven teams faced off on Saturday in the third-annual Charity Dodgeball Tournament, hosted by Hoyas Global Initiative, to support Kiva, a microfinance organization that supports economic development in developing countries.

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce the university’s energy footprint, the university plans to fully upgrade its fleet of Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle buses to run on biodiesel.

The Campus Kitchens Project, which was established in 2001 by its parent organization D.C. Central Kitchen, serves meals to the hungry in 20 cities.