Nearly three years after the Darnall Hall cafeteria closed to the public, Epicurean and Co. finally opened its doors to customers yesterday with a sizzling kickoff week of promotional events.

The Executive Faculty has approved another set of recommendations made last March by the Committee on Intellectual Life, continuing a process that has been ongoing for 12 months to strengthen academic culture on campus.

Three members of a grassroots lobbying organization rallied outside Healy Gates during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s speech on Tuesday to protest her role in the government’s funding of the Palestinian Authority.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for the modernization of the U.S. State Department and an increase in the number of students pursuing careers in diplomacy and foreign service in a speech in Gaston Hall yesterday.

In response to student requests for the Tridentine Mass, a traditional Catholic Mass said in Latin, the Office of Campus Ministry has agreed to regularize its twice-weekly observance in Copley Crypt.

A report by a Georgetown professor criticizing the Catholic Church’s response to the AIDS epidemic has led a conservative health organization to demand its retraction, although university officials have defended the professor’s academic freedom.

Becoming a Georgetown graduate is now a very real opportunity for local community college students.

The university’s School of Continuing Studies reached an agreement earlier this month with Prince George’s Community College, located in Largo, Md., that makes it easier for PGCC students to enter Georgetown’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program.

Hiring biases based on gender identity and expression and predispositions to genetically inherited diseases have no place at Georgetown, according to a new Faculty Senate measure approved Wednesday. The measure — which revises the university’s affirmative action and discrimination policies — brings all of the university’s hiring policies into compliance with

The Latin Mass may be coming back to Georgetown, if one group of students has its way.

Two students submitted last month a formal request to the Office of Campus Ministry for the addition of a Catholic Tridentine Mass on Sundays in Dahlgren Chapel. Administrators said that they are considering the proposal but have not made a decision.