The death of a Georgetown sophomore who was found on the George Washington Memorial Parkway last month has been classified as a suicide by the Northern Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office.

The student, 19-year-old Michal Subczynski, was an International Politics major in the School of Foreign Service.

“This is sad and difficult news and our thoughts and prayers continue to go out with Michal’s parents and friends at this time,” said Julie Green Bataille, assistant vice president for communications.

My roommate and I have a graduation countdown. It’s taped to our door and every night before going to bed we “X” off the day with a thick, red Sharpie.

Cheesy. I know. And annoying. At least that’s what friends have told us. They don’t understand how anyone could want to leave the Hilltop. Much less, have a countdown looking forward to the day.

A Georgetown University sophomore was found dead on the George Washington Memorial Parkway early Monday morning, the university announced today.

The student, 19-year-old Michal Subczynski, was an International Politics major in the School of Foreign Service.

According to the United States Park Police, a driver reported seeing a body on the roadway at 3:21 a.m. on Monday. Residents of Darnall Hall, where Subczynski lived, say they last saw him in the dorm at around 3 a.m.

Officers closed the road shortly after arriving on the scene and, with the help of Georgetown’s Department of Public Safety, they identified the body as Subczynski. The Parkway, which runs a scenic route along the Potomac River, connects the District to Northern Virginia.

More than 100 doctors and midwives protested outside of Georgetown University Hospital last Friday after the hospital decided to lay off its three midwives, arguing that the program increases options available to D.C.’s pregnant women.

The layoff was the result of a series of factors — initiated by the voluntary resignation last year of the program’s chief, according to Karen Alcorn, the Medical Center’s vice president for public affairs.

Economic challenges and skyrocketing medical liability premiums contributed to the program’s end, at a time of general nationwide layoffs as a result of rising insurance rates.

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Georgetown College Associate Dean Kevin Wildes, S.J. is one of two candidates under consideration for Loyola University of New Orleans’ presidency, officials confirmed last week.

Wildes, an associate philosophy professor and member of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, visited Loyola yesterday to complete a series of interviews.

About 200 Loyola faculty and staff attended Wildes’ town-hall style interview, said Kristine David Lelong director of Loyola’s Office of Public Affairs.

Courtesy Qatar Foundation The main building at the 24,000 Education City campus houses Qatar Academy, the K-12 school.

Georgetown may establish a foreign service campus in the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, joining American universities like Cornell and Carnegie Mellon that already have schools outside the capital, Doha.

The college would be based on the School of Foreign Service’s undergraduate curriculum and include coursework consistent with Georgetown’s Catholic identity, making it the first of its kind in the Arab world.

Georgetown has decided to indefinitely suspend its contract with Lands’ End, the clothing manufacturer that produces licensed Georgetown apparel, because of its alleged failure to comply with the university’s Code of Conduct.

Questions about Lands’ End’s compliance with the code were raised last year by an independent monitoring group that investigates worker complaints.

Andreas Jeninga/The Hoya Manager Dan Koik (SFS '04) has worked to tackle the problems facing Full Exposure but the rise of digital photography has contributed to the store's insolvency.

Full Exposure, Students of Georgetown Inc.’s photo developing store, will close this spring due to financial losses and declining revenues in the photo developing industry as a whole, Corp President Kelsey Shannon (COL ’04) said.

The store, which opened in Oct. 2000, has continued to lose money, despite serious cutbacks and shift changes.

In 2001-02, Full Exposure had a net loss of $46,222.37 — the largest deficit created by the Corp’s eight services, according to the Corp’s 2003 Annual Report.

Enrollment by foreign students at American universities has leveled off after steadily increasing and may be on the decline because of stricter legislation after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to a survey released last week.

The survey, the first documenting a full academic year since Sept. 11 and the war on terrorism, noted a decrease in the number of students coming from Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a Wisemiller’s Deli panhandler Tuesday after he stole a Chicken Madness and threatened a cook and cashier during a 20-minute chase through Georgetown.

The alleged thief had been a regular panhandler outside the store every day for the past month, according to store clerk Helal Awadallah.

Awadallah, 25, said the man — described as around 5’ 11’’ and African-American — entered the store around 6 p.m., ordered a Chicken Madness and walked out without paying.

When Awadallah called after him to return, the man walked away.