Georgetown agreed Wednesday to refrain from investing in companies with operations in Sudan after almost three years of lobbying by the Student Anti-Genocide Coalition.

Only a Democratic victory in the upcoming presidential election will allow for a renewed and focused effort against international threats and stability in the Middle East, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said in a foreign policy speech Tuesday in Gaston Hall.

The Center for Social Justice nixed next year’s planned alternative spring break trip to New Orleans last week after a report that some volunteers violated its substance-free policy.

Members of Georgetown University’s crew team were among about 20 people pulled from the Potomac River Saturday amid frigid conditions when high winds and rough waters caused several boats to take on water.

Ten bias-related incidents were reported on campus last semester, the majority of which were related to sexual orientation, according to data recently released by the Bias Reporting Team.

The university violated its own recommendations when it failed to encrypt a hard drive that was stolen from an office earlier this month in one of the dozens of incidents in the past year involving compromised data at a U.S. university.

First Lady Laura Bush promoted education as the key to improving women’s rights and living conditions in Afghanistan during a speech yesterday in Riggs Library.

Bush delivered her remarks during a meeting of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, which established a partnership with Georgetown in 2006.

Just a few weeks into the Metropolitan Police Department’s “party patrols,” and Second District officials are calling the program a success.