A hard drive containing the Social Security numbers of nearly 40,000 Georgetown students, alumni, faculty and staff was reported stolen from the office of Student Affairs on Jan. 3, potentially exposing thousands of students to identity theft.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad called for the country to play an active role and to work with moderate forces in order to stabilize the Middle East in a speech Wednesday in Gaston Hall.

“The four ideas brought to me … should be a platform, but not the ceiling,” DeGioia said. “I propose that our community work together in a more comprehensible effort to address the needs of LGBTQ students.”

DeGioia said he expects to open the LGBTQ resource center by the beginning of the Fall 2008 semester.

According to a crowd of approximately 150 protesters in Red Square yesterday afternoon, “silence is not an option.”

Sparked by a Sept. 9 hate crime that sent one student to the hospital, a protest organized by GUPride yesterday brought professors and student leaders together to speak against bias-related incidents at Georgetown.

According to the incident report from the Metropolitan Police Department, on Sept. 9, a student was assaulted by a man yelling homophobic epithets on the 3600 block of O Street. The victim later identified his assailant on Facebook as Philip Cooney (MSB ’10). Cooney has since been arrested for the crime but pleaded not guilty on Friday.

When Rocco DelMonaco assumed the recently vacated post of vice president for university safety this summer, he felt that much of his hardest work had already been accomplished.

But DelMonaco — though he says that Georgetown is already well on its way toward improving campus safety — still has lofty goals. Having worked as an independent consultant before arriving on the Hilltop in late June, DelMonaco said that he hopes to use his experience to improve safety administration on campus.

After being detained during a university ceremony in the spring, Kambiz Fattahi (GRD ’08) has vowed to hold the university responsible. But Georgetown officials have since denied Fattahi’s allegations of wrongdoing, claiming that the detainment was purely standard procedure.

When two Department of Public Safety officers removed the School of Foreign Service graduate student from the audience at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ commencement ceremony on May 18 and detained him in a hallway in McDonough Gymnasium, Fattahi said that they treated him in a “humiliating” and “unprofessional” manner. Fattahi, who was born in Iran, has alleged that he was a victim of ethnic profiling.

Courtesy Minoo Razavi Fatema Khimji (SFS '07), who died in a car accident on June 19, was dedicated to serving her friends, family members and the university community. "Every time I saw her, she always smiled, and she had a beautiful smile," Hafsa Kanjwal (SFS '08) said.

She would wear a hijab around her head along with a blue shirt, an orange jumper and brown shoes with glitter. She prayed five times a day and in between would listen to indie rock bands or watch reality television. She had just gotten pink streaks in her hair. She was learning to play guitar.

Kambiz Fattahi (GRD ’08) was sitting in the first row of the commencement audience on the afternoon of May 18 holding a box of cookies for his graduating friend.

But he never got to see her walk across the stage. And he never got to hand her the cookies.