A student was reportedly choked from behind and robbed Wednesday night while walking home along the 3800 Block of W Street.

Rhonda Ferns (GRD ’10) said she was walking on 38th Street at around 9 p.m. when she heard someone run up behind her.

The Solar Taxi made a road stop at Georgetown on Tuesday in its attempt to be the first vehicle to drive around the world fueled entirely by the sun.

On top of the usual pressures facing freshmen during their first week of classes at Georgetown, Bradley St. Angelo (COL ’12) had an additional concern — that his hometown of New Orleans could be ravaged again only three years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

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Terrance Davis (COL ’10), who was spending his fall semester abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, was swept into the ocean amid stormy conditions Monday morning and is presumed drowned by South Africa’s sea rescue service.

OIP Creates Site for Students to Blog From Abroad

This summer the Georgetown University Office of International Programs launched an official student blog for students studying abroad this fall.

East Coast Bike Route Brought to Nation's Capital
D.C. is on the map.

In an effort to promote eco-friendly transportation, the East Coast Greenway Alliance, which is mapping a bike route that connects cities spanning the east coast, has recently penciled the District of Columbia into its east coast route.

While most Georgetown students were crowded around their televisions to watch Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) historic acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, one Hoya was actually a part of the cheering crowd of thousands at Invesco Field in Denver.