by Sacha Evans Arts Editor Wondering who will be the next big thing in music? You might just see it on campus cable channel 93. MtvU, the first TV station catered specifically to the music tastes of college students, is entering its second semester broadcasting at GW.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's wild opus into a man's erased memories of a doomed love is a personal best for everyone involved. Gondry lends heart to Kaufman's wild imagination and long overdue gravitas to Jim Carrey's sorely underappreciated performance.
The two star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet receive a flashy and digital extreme makeover in The Folger Theatre's latest production. Director P.J. Paparelli brings authenticity to Shakespeare's tragedy; for once, Romeo (Graham Hamilton) and Juliet (Nicole Lowrance) are the whiny, self-centered, melodramatic teens that they're supposed to be.
The Southeast Asian tsunami is a terrible disaster, and is justifiably generating significant media coverage. While natural disasters generate compelling human stories, it is imperative the media, and world citizens in general, not forget the world's human disasters.
They blew it last year. The most applications in GW history and instead of cutting down on the number they accepted, they took the largest class ever, and dropped GW's ranking to 52nd in the nation. Now, with the recently announced drop in Early Decision I applications, we're seeing the long-term results of decisions that put profits ahead of prestige.
Ironic, the school named "most politically active" was the site of the downfall for one of the most well known political talk shows. Perhaps you remember the Friday of Colonials Weekend, when "Crossfire's" guest was Jon Stewart. In what became one of the most well-known episodes of "Crossfire," Stewart went on a lengthy diatribe against the show, begging the hosts at one point to, "Stop .
Thursday Tsunami Disaster Relief Fundraiser Eat at Baja Fresh and proceeds will be donated to the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children 4 to 9 p.m. Baja Fresh, 20th and I streets Sponsored by GW Satyam GW Inaugural Ball 8 p.m. to midnight Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, N.
Senators criticize Woodard's JEC nominees Several Student Association senators questioned the experience of President Omar Woodard's three nominees for the 2005 Joint Elections Committee at Tuesday night's Senate meeting. Woodard nominated sophomores Kathryn Lux and Alexandra Valenti and graduate student Chris Jenkins to sit on the body, which will oversee the election of a new SA president in March.
IFC, Panhellenic Association elect new leaders The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, the student governing bodies for sororities and fraternities, will transition in their new leaders this month. Both organizations held elections at the end of last semester.
Alumnus Eric Porter did what his mother told him would be the "most exciting thing in he would ever do in his life." He was a contestant on the trivia show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Porter, a 2004 GW graduate and law student at Temple University, won $16,000 on the ABC game show, which aired his turn in the hot seat on Friday and Monday.
Destruction 1/16 - Ivory Tower - case closed University Police officers responded to noise in the men's bathroom and found two females and a broken seat cover dispenser. Officers smelled alcohol on both females. Referred to Student Judicial Services 1/15 - Public Space - case closed The passenger window of a vehicle parked at 20th and H streets was smashed.
Members of the Afghan Student Organization are helping to encourage education after 30 years of oppression in their home country by sending educational materials through the Books for Afghanistan project. Since the beginning of last semester, the ASO has collected more than 3,000 books that will be sent to the new American University library in Kabul, Afghanistan, a facility that is projected to open next fall.
City officials denied a request from members of a Foggy Bottom community group that would have prevented non-students from eating at Ivory Tower's dining venues at a meeting Tuesday night. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a community group that makes zoning recommendations, urged the D.
The University began construction earlier this month on an F Street residence hall that is scheduled to open for the fall 2006 semester. Tracy Schario, GW's director of Media Relations, said no groundbreaking ceremony was held for the building, which will provide GW with 379 on-campus beds.
Graduate student Ken Kern's experiences in student government did not just provide him with some practice in politics. It also gave him the backdrop for his first mystery novel. As an undergraduate at the University of Florida, Kerns, a GW political management graduate student, saw an elitist student government that did not live up to its potential.
As snow settled outside the Smith Center Wednesday night, the GW women's basketball team's trademark "blizzard" zone defense worked wonders on No. 25 (ESPN/USA Today) Richmond. The Colonials' stifling effort helped upset the Atlantic 10 West leading Spiders 69-57.
Earlier this week, GW head coach Karl Hobbs stressed the importance of his men's basketball team getting off to a quick start Wednesday night. On the road, he wanted the Colonials to control the tempo early in order to avoid an deficit similar to the one they faced during Saturday's loss to Massachusetts.
Cowan to transfer GW men's basketball head coach Karl Hobbs has confirmed that junior Jaz Cowan and senior Lafonte Johnson have left the program. Hobbs said Cowan has transferred but did not specify where. The coach said Johnson has chosen to end his basketball career.
Women's basketball Monta?ana and Beck earn weekly honors Senior Anna Monta?ana was named Atlantic 10 player of the week and freshman Kimberly Beck was named A-10 rookie of the week. It was the second time the players won their respective awards. Swimming and diving Horton-Perenchief shines in Colonials' loss Katura Horton-Perenchief's performance brightened up the men's and women's swimming and diving teams' loss to University of Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday.
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Andy Rooney will keynote the University's May 22 Commencement ceremony on The Ellipse. President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg called the CBS journalist a "man at the peak of a long and interesting career who has devoted himself to thinking out complex issues and sharing them with the rest of the country.
While most of the GW community watched the events of the Southeast Asian tsunami unfold from the safety of their living rooms, three students spent Dec. 26 running from the giant wave.
The University may turn the Hall on Virginia Avenue into an upperclassman dorm or sell the property following a recent city order that prevents freshmen from living there after August 2006. University officials said they do not know what will happen after 2006 when HOVA cannot house freshmen.
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RICHMOND, V.A. - As ice and snow blanketed the ground of the University of Richmond campus, the GW men's basketball team couldn't stay warm. The Colonials suffered their second loss in three games Saturday afternoon, a 70-59 defeat at the hands of the Spiders.
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