On January 19, 2003, five barbers gathered at the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet in North Yorkshire, UK and established a world record. The quintet shaved 228 heads in four hours, setting the current world record for Most Heads Shaved in Four Hours.
The mourning period is over. All of you who have been lost since Caf? Asia closed its doors at its 19th Street location now have a reason to celebrate-a new and closer one has opened. Since the Caf? Asia in Rosslyn is too far, the newest location on 17th and I streets is perfect - just a short walk away from campus. This new site is bigger and better than before, but brings along the Asian food that customers have always loved and surprises customers with some fresh and very unexpected twists.
After a short Metro ride from the orange to the red line, I hopped off at Gallery Place and walked three blocks to a small building - the City Museum of D.C. The museum, which opened in May, looks like a tiny baby compared to the big mama Smithsonian that most D.C. natives are used to seeing. The museum is run by the D.C. Historical Society, which has compiled its collections to provide a view of D.C. beyond the government, White House and security. I scratched my head, wondering what exactly is beyond politics in D.C. But I paid my $2 entrance fee and was ready to find out.
Q. My boyfriend and I weren't able to see much of each other this summer because we live on opposite sides of the country. Most of his friends weren't around this summer either, and he ended up hanging out a lot with this girl he had kind of dated last summer - before we were together. I know this because he's told me and been very open about the times they have hung out, and I trust him that nothing more is going on. However, it drives me insane to think that this other girl might have feelings for him, and I feel sick every time I hear about her. I don't want to tell him not to be friends with her anymore and I hate feeling this jealous, but I don't know what else to do! If it's not her, it will probably be some other pretty girl he's friends with at school that ill drive me equally insane. Am I justified for feeling this way?
I'll admit it - the Toledo Lounge is a dive bar. The actual bar is small; duct tape covers the holes on the bench seating and the bathroom door barely locks. Even the $2 drafts during happy hour don't really set it apart from other places. But as a cash-strapped intern during the summer, the Wednesday night half-priced appetizers and $2 beers were the perfect way to spend 10 bucks after sitting at a desk all day. On top of this, the 18th Street location is far enough away from Capitol Hill that federal ID badges, wrinkled suits and stocking clothed feet are a rare sight. The only time the politicos did come out to play was during a Howard Dean meet-up party in July.
Softball coach Leslie Moore said she needed a raise. Women's crew coach Steve Peterson even got one. But both are now coaching at larger state universities, mainly because when they looked to GW for comparable funding, the University's response was a common phrase in higher education today: the money just isn't there.
As the hours lead up to midnight on Friday, Oct. 17, the Smith Center will be packed with students, parents and alumni. But unlike in the past decade, the arena will be filled with Whoopi Goldberg fans instead of GW basketball fans.
After a disastrous sports summer that saw cheating, lying and even murder, Jeff Nelson says only one thing can save the sports world - the NFL.
Shaunte' Fremin will serve as the new head coach of the year-old GW softball team this year after the University hired her last month. She will replace Leslie Moore, who left for the University of Pennsylvania in June.
Steve Peterson resigned as director of rowing and women's rowing head coach earlier this month to accept the women's head coaching job at the University of Indiana-Bloomington. This leaves the GW women's rowing team in search of a coach with just more than a month before the fall season begins.
The U.S. Department of Education ended its reconsideration of Title IX in July without making any changes to the 30-year old legislation, signaling a major victory for women's rights advocates on the controversial issue.
Men's basketball releases its non-conference schedule, while women's basketball will host Tennessee this year.
In what is becoming an annual tradition, the Metropolitan Police Department will be stepping up its enforcement of underage drinking laws the first few weeks of school in an attempt to scare students straight. Undoubtedly, within the first few days of school several GW students will be arrested, forced to pay up to a $300 fine and spend a night in jail for engaging in underage drinking in the city. And while underage drinking laws are usually enforced more at the beginning of the fall semester, this year poses to be the toughest on record.
The U.S. News World and Report rankings extended numerically for the first time beyond 50 to include the top 123 schools, no longer lumping all "second tier" schools together. The change is important for GW, which, since falling out of the top 50 a few years ago, has been grouped with schools with worse reputations. For example, GW and American University were apparent equals last year, both ranked as second tier schools, but this year GW is ranked 51 while American is 99.
Welcome back from your summer vacation. Whether you spent the last three months relaxing, working or taking classes at a cheaper college closer to home, I hope all of you treasured the last three months. Because back on campus, the University released a report addressing a number of significant academic changes, foremost among them, the affects of going to a year-round academic calendar which would include a mandatory summer session for rising juniors.
A few months ago, the University published an elegant little booklet called "The George Washington University In and Of the District of Columbia," "GW + DC" for short. If you have not yet seen a copy and read it, I urge you to do so. On the page or online, I recommend it to students, faculty, staff, neighbors, District residents and anyone who comes regularly, or even occasionally, to Washington.
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GW will need to secure a final building permit before it can decide whether to break ground on a new business school facility, University officials said Wednesday. Last month, a District court gave the University the green light to start construction when it temporarily lifted a city-imposed moratorium on the construction of non-residential buildings.
GW shaved $6 million from its academic and administrative budget for the coming year and delayed faculty and staff pay raises to accommodate a drop in the University's endowment and the weak economy. Cuts include an off-campus housing Web site and admissions materials among other items, as administrators attempted to slash programs which did not greatly affect student life.
GW students, faculty and staff should expect faster service and more options from the recently introduced Colonial Mail, technology officials said last week. The University made the switch to the new service to provide users with better service than the previously used Webmail.
University technology officials said they have prevented a computer virus that has infected millions of computers worldwide from wreaking havoc on GW's e-mail server.
J Street Students can grab a Subway sandwich at J Street when they return to campus this week, one of several dining changes for the fall. The sandwich and salad shop will be located in the area formerly used for Bene Pasta and Malaysia Kopitam, both of which will be relocated. Ground Floor The Marvin Center ground floor received a face-lift this summer, when GW added an expanded Provisions Market and new grab-and-go store, and replaced Ben and Jerry's with an ice cream and snack venue.
Federal officials are concerned about initial plans for a new on-campus residence hall, saying the proposed structure's height will upset the "aesthetic quality" of the neighborhood.
GW officials breathed a sigh of relief earlier this month when a D.C. Superior Court judge threw out a motion to halt construction of the Ivory Towers residence hall. Administrators said they are now confident that the path is clear for completion of the 729-bed facility by next fall.
With signals continuing to point toward the possibility of a change in GW's academic calendar, university administrators, faculty and students are voicing concerns about a calendar proposal that came out this summer.
Thousands of people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the largest civil rights demonstration in history, the March on Washington.
With the help of federal funding, Metropolitan Police officers are planning to converge on bars, nightclubs and fraternity parties in an effort to crack down on underage drinking as the school year starts.
GW missed a coveted spot in the U.S. News and World Report's top 50 national universities by a hair this year, tying with Pepperdine University in Califonia at 51.
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