Campus/DC Articles

 Penn State recently announced that it will be moving to implement “Wireless 2.0,” a project for wireless internet that will expand access for users, simplify authentication, and streamline the ability for students and visitors to access the internet.

 With the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama fast approaching, institutions across D.C. are bracing for the final days leading up to next Tuesday's swearing-in. With attendance estimated at up to 4 million people, a number besting George W. Bush's 2005 inaugural crowd by more than ten times, metro-area colleges, businesses, and government agencies are beginning to implement their own preparations for the inaugural ceremonies, and Georgetown University is no exception.

 An old war has restarted in Gaza, and both sides feel the pain of it.  The current Israeli ground incursion into the Palestinian territory is designed to eliminate the military capability of Hamas by destroying the weapons caches and the tunnels used to restock those caches.  But in focusing solely on the temporary roots of the conflict-the availability of rockets and other armaments-the Israeli government ignores the larger problem: Anti-Israeli ideology within the territories that is the cause of the violence.

Barack Obama, reflecting politicians proclivity for bold pronouncements while disregarding the risks of being hyperbolic (not to mention unrealistic), declared, “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Okay, maybe not.

On November 4^th, many Georgetown students will vote for the first time in a US presidential election; I turned 18 on October 3^rd, so this will be my first as well. Still not registered? Here’s what to do:

Andrew Jackson once famously remarked of a Supreme Court decision he found particularly onerous, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” Over 170 years later, the Court continues to have difficulty enforcing compliance with the mandates of its decisions. The Court’s landmark ruling this June in District of Columbia v. Heller, declaring key aspects of DC’s gun ban unconstitutional, has gone largely unheeded, as the DC Council’s remedial gun law has done little to change some of the most restrictive elements of the previous ban. The Court has been getting some help from Congress in recent weeks, however, as a bill requiring further compliance with Heller passed the House easily on September 17. More congressional and legal action is needed if the full implications of Heller are to be actualized.