Georgetown University Law Center inaugurated its new Center on National Security and the Law in a ceremony on Thursday.

“The center is a major effort to grapple with some of the defining questions of our generation, involving the interaction between national security and law,” said program fellow Matthew Gerke.

Many of Georgetown’s graduate schools gained a larger share of national recognition last week after moving up in this year’s U.S. News and World Report rankings of top graduate schools.

The Georgetown University School of Medicine climbed four spots and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and McDonough School of Business both rose three places in this year’s rankings.

Dozens of students gathered in a White-Gravenor classroom Wednesday night to join in a discussion, but the issues they tackled were not academic. Rather, the group convened to address bias and tolerance on campus, in the wake of a semester that saw 10 bias-related incidents reported to the university.

Rep. John Campbell III (R-Calif.) addressed America’s struggling economy and the 2008 presidential campaign in front of a crowd of approximately 70 students last night in the Intercultural Center.

Sitting in his office on the second story of his bookstore on Connecticut Ave. in Dupont, amongst bookshelves, papers and a wall dedicated to paintings portraying skinny dippings, Deacon Maccubbin looks just as comfortable as the patrons that browse the collections only a story below.

Citing concern for handicapped and elderly access to the Medical Center, hundreds of people have signed a petition calling for a temporary relocation of some GUTS bus routes.

A bill under consideration in the Senate would require universities to spend five percent of their endowments annually, a level Georgetown already meets.

While most non-profit organizations are already required to spend 5 percent of their endowments, universities are from this requirement.

Add one to Georgetown’s list of full-time “celebrity” professors.

Andrew Natsios (CAS ’71), a distinguished professor in the Mortara Center for International Studies, resigned as special envoy to Sudan on Dec. 21 and will teach at Georgetown full-time. He joined the School of Foreign Service faculty in January 2006.

The holiday season is traditionally a time when most students return home to spend time with family and friends, but for international students, that trip home is not always possible. Akira Igata, an exchange student at Georgetown from the International Christian University in Japan, will be spending his break from the Hilltop away from home, traveling up and down the

Pravin Rajan (SFS ’07) is Oxford-bound.

Rajan became the 22nd Georgetown student awarded the Rhodes Scholarship on Saturday when he was named one of the 32 Rhodes scholars for 2008.