A 2400 may be the new perfect SAT score, but high school students applying to Georgetown still only need to worry about 1600 of them.

Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions, said the new, 800-point writing section of the new SAT I is unnecessary and flawed. Therefore, admissions officers will ignore scores received on the writing section when evaluating Class of 2010 applicants this fall.

The Georgetown University Medical Center is at the forefront of new research that could lead to a possible cure for breast cancer, according to a new study released last month.

Georgetown’s research, published in the medical journal Oncogene, indicates that a single protein may be the key to halting the spread of breast cancer cells.

Healthy breast cells contain the protein Stat5, which often breaks down and disappears in cancerous cells, causing them to become more aggressive and invasive. The cancerous cells then can metastasize, or move to other areas of the body, at which point removal of the original tumor does not cure the patient.

Several students raised concerns about Georgetown’s employee wage policy to University President John J. DeGioia during the president’s annual conversation with students on Jan. 13. Approximately 25 students attended the forum open to the university student body. Members of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee repeatedly asked DeGioia whether Georgetown would commit to a “living wage policy.”

“I cannot answer yes or no to that question, because there is room for disagreement over what the answer might imply,” DeGioia said.

“Crossfire” host and Georgetown adjunct professor Paul Begala said in a panel discussion Wednesday that the Kerry campaign’s lack of focus and strategy may have cost him the election.

More than 150 people attended the talk entitled, “Bush’s Second Term: The Meaning of the 2004 Election for Judicial Nominations, the Supreme Court and the American Political Landscape,” at the Georgetown Law Center.

Move over U.S. News and World Report. A group of economists has created a new college ratings system in which a school’s rank depends on how often students choose to attend the university over others.

U.S. News’s “Best Colleges 2005” ranks Georgetown at No. 25, but it is No. 16 on the economists’ list — between Cornell (No. 15) and Rice (No. 17).

According to Caroline Minter Hoxby, a professor at Harvard University and one of the study’s authors, Georgetown did well in the new ranking because a lot of students who had several top college options decided to go to Georgetown.

The Georgetown Film Festival can no longer call Georgetown its home.

Founder and executive director Eric Sommer moved the festival to Adams Morgan this year because he could not find cheap space in Georgetown.

Since its inception in 2000, the Georgetown Film Festival has showcased hundreds of independent and student films. Between 700 and 1,000 submissions arrive each year from around the world, 40 to 50 of which are produced by students. Around 80 films make it to the festival’s screens each year.

Visions Bar Noir, an independent two-screen theater near Dupont Circle, showed its final film last Thursday night. Sources cite debt and increasing competition as the main reasons behind the theater’s closure.

Visions’ President Andrew Frank began the theater four years ago as a showcase for foreign, independent and art house movies. He had hoped Visions would serve as a venue where people could watch movies and then talk about them afterward.

Georgetown’s spiritual community has officially welcomed a new set of faces this semester. Catholic Daughters of the Americas, a national organization, now has its own Georgetown campus-based court.

Led by Regent Meghan Mullen (COL ’05) and vice regent Caitlin Fogarty (COL ’06) and mentored by spiritual advisor Anne-Elizabeth Giuliani, the Daughters say they are ready to carve a niche for themselves in the coming months.