Stories from the February 28, 2002, Print Edition
Bringing CNN's "Crossfire" political TV talk show to the School of Media and Public Affairs' Jack Morton Auditorium is a brilliant move on behalf of the show's producers and University Vice President for Communications Mike Freedman. Having "Crossfire" on campus beginning April 1 Monday through Friday will furnish the University with unprecedented media coverage and name recognition.
While GW's first online housing lottery went off without catastrophe, Housing Services and the Community Living and Learning Center should have been better prepared to handle glitches that did occur. Students went most of the day without knowing which rooms were being taken, and at least a handful of students were booked to rooms that were already full.
I was very pleased to read Nizar Wattad's incisive and thought-provoking Feb. 25 Hatchet forum piece ("Israel's perilous path to war"). Wattad has done the GW community a great service in bringing to light the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a side he correctly asserts is too often neglected or glossed over in this nation.
I think that the Community Living and Learning Center and the University are being dishonest with students about housing prices for next year. The new housing prices were not posted on the CLLC Web site until Friday afternoon, two days before the rising junior/senior lottery.
The right of a student to vote for their leaders by means of a secret ballot is vital to any democracy. Unfortunately, the Joint Election Committee has little respect for students' privacy.
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