The current political climate in the nation’s capital gives the Democrats a distinct advantage in the upcoming presidential election, ABC News’ Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos told a capacity crowd in the Intercultural Center Auditorium on Tuesday.

The nation’s first Muslim congressman called for political change and spoke about how his faith has affected his job in a speech Tuesday at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told a packed crowd at the Gewirz Student Center that “the time is now” for political change and reworking.

Fiscal year 2007 brought in the most revenue in The Corp’s 35-year history, company leaders announced Sunday.

The student-run company earned $3.8 million in total revenue last year and $1.4 million in gross profit, according to an annual report released at Sunday’s second annual Corp Shareholders’ Meeting in Sellinger Lounge.

Facing a shortage of shelving space in Lauinger Library, administrators have begun storing library materials elsewhere in recent years, as the university’s reserve of books off campus continues to grow.

Scrounging for space at Lauinger for newly acquired volumes, the university has been storing books and other library items with the Washington Research Library Consortium for the past three years.

In an effort to better accommodate baseball and softball practices, Georgetown has begun construction on new batting cages next to Kehoe Field.

A graduate who wished to remain anonymous donated the money for the project, which aims to create on-campus space for batting and pitching practice, although the teams will still need to travel to practice fielding on an actual diamond.

Dan Capeless, a sophomore first baseman with the baseball team, said that the team, which plays its home games at Shirley Povich Field in Rockville, Md., currently travels in vans five days a week to fields about 15 minutes away from campus. The team has practiced only one day a week in an old cage in the corner of Kehoe Field, which he said has “basically just fallen to the ground.”

More than 150 students have packed up their “We Are Georgetown” T-shirts and are leaving campus today en route to East Rutherford, N.J., for the men’s basketball team’s Sweet 16 matchup with Vanderbilt Friday night.

Georgetown’s athletic department allocated 150 tickets for the game for student fans, 50 of which went to Hoya Blue for distribution. One hundred more were sold Tuesday morning to fans camped out at the ticket office in McDonough Gymnasium.

Hoya Blue chose to sell their tickets along with a road trip package, with a $132 tickets that included passes to both of Friday’s games at the Continental Airlines Arena, as well as the Elite Eight game on Sunday between Friday’s East Regional winners.

Around a dozen protesters were removed from a Georgetown ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Monday afternoon after interrupting the proceedings for several minutes in a demonstration against a recipient of a university award.

The demonstrators interrupted University President John J. DeGioia as he introduced Ethiopian first lady Azeb Mesfin, one of three dignitaries honored with Georgetown’s John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award. The demonstrators objected to what they considered human rights violations by Mesfin’s husband, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

Acclaimed religious writer and ex-nun Karen Armstrong was lauded as a “voice of conscience” by University President John J. DeGioia in a ceremony last Friday in ICC Auditorium during which he conferred upon her an honorary degree.

Armstrong, who first gained fame in the early 1980s for writing about her decision to leave a Roman Catholic monastic order, has authored 20 books on modern religious thought. Many of her books have focused on the commonalities between different religions.

In her first book, “Through the Narrow Gate,” Armstrong described life in a religious covenant during the 1960s as restrictive. She has since written extensively on the links between religions, particularly between Christianity and Islam.