Donations from Georgetown employees to President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign ranked high among other college and universities, despite the candidate’s pro-choice stance, which is inconsistent with the university’s Catholic identity and view of the issue.

Two hundred thirty-three years after the rest of the nation stopped chanting, “No taxation without representation,” the District of Columbia may finally follow suit.

With the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency and the Democrats securing more seats in Congress, D.C. will likely gain representation in Congress in the coming year.

The youth vote will be particularly important in today’s election, Georgetown professors say, and the demographic’s general support for Senator Barack Obama could not, predictably, be more pronounced here at Georgetown, according to a recent poll conducted by THE HOYA.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has led to heightened expectations for China as a modern state and political power, said Professor Victor Cha, director of Asian studies and D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian studies and government in a speech last night in the Bunn Intercultural Center.

As students walked through the “coming out” door set up in Red Square on Wednesday, the sight of the Georgetown campus may still have seemed the same as last year. However, for some, crossing this threshold also marked this past year’s profound changes in the LGBTQ community on campus.

A bill signed this summer could have important ramifications for Georgetown’s disciplinary process and the disclosure of confidential information surrounding disciplinary decisions.

D.C. tenants may be relieved of the increasingly frequent practice of tenant exploitation thanks to the Rent Control Protection Amendment Act of 2008.

The D.C. Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing last week regarding the bill, which is subject to a committee vote before it can be introduced in the general council.

Senior policy advisers to the McCain and Obama campaigns made their cases for their candidates in Copley Formal Lounge last night as they addressed the difficult task awaiting the next president in rebuilding America’s standing and reputation in the world.

While this year’s election may well come down to a small number of votes in the swing states, a new Web site was launched on Sept. 19 to help college students determine where their vote will count most.

Around the world, 36 million people suffer from preventable blindness despite the continuing advancement of highly sophisticated medical techniques and technology.