Eleven o'clock on a Monday night, and Hoang Bui is still going. His fingers pluck the keys on his calculator as he sits at a table, adding up receipts. He's been going like this since 7 a.m., when he wakes up to go to work at the electric company, until now, when he works the night shift at the bar he and his wife own - a popular student hangout called the Froggy Bottom Pub.
As Mick Jagger once pointed out, there is a stark difference between what you want and what you need. I know there is no practical need in my life that justifies eating birthday cake, buying expensive shoes or reading Page Six. However, why is it that I so often find myself struggling in lustful moments of chocolate, sparkle and gossip-induced passion to separate these desires from necessities? Isn't delayed satisfaction the definition of maturity? What is it about temptation that is so irresistible? While hard to identify without the privilege of retrospect, it is an undeniable fact that sometimes what is satisfying does not always yield satisfaction.
Our view: The "don't ask, don't tell" policy runs contrary to both pragmatism and morals and must end. Law school students continued their opposition to the Solomon Amendment - a Congressional provision mandating universities permit military recruiters on campus or risk losing federal dollars - as unconstitutional at a protest on Saturday.
While at GW, you should never forget that you don't own the facilities that you are using. In the dorms, your personal living space is open for inspection at any time and for almost any reason. In the case that University Police smell the foul wafting of marijuana smoke, GW can search every room on the floor until their find the guilty party.
I have wanted to meet the Pope for some time now. So when a fellow student told me in a yawning, casual way that she was blessed by His Holiness in a receiving line not once but three times on a spring trip to Rome, I was both shocked at her distasteful lack of respect and just a little bit jealous.
Consider the source This month, as we celebrate black history, let's take a moment to consider the implications of our celebration. Black History Month started off as "Negro History Week" in 1926, the inception of a humble black teacher, Carter G. Woodson.
Sophomore Allie Etter was sitting in one of her classes at the University of Memphis when a poster that read, "Change the Face of Politics," caught her eye. Etter, a history major, looked at the advertisement for GW's Semester in Washington program and decided to go for it.
If the Student Association had its way, a student representative participating in Friday's GW Board of Trustees meeting would have been treated to talk of the weather, student fashion at the inaugural ball and praise for a member's Australian outback hat. Chairman Charles Manatt opened the meeting on the chilly and windy day by reminding the board that last year's winter meeting was one of the nastiest days of 2004.
Area residents are enthusiastic at the prospect of seeing their tax burden decrease by millions of dollars from the construction of two apartment buildings set to bring 500 residents to Foggy Bottom by 2007. Ronald Cocome, president of the Foggy Bottom Association, said he was unsure of how far the new complexes would go to relieve the burden but said that the figure was in the "millions of dollars.
Replacing exit signs and other objects damaged by vandals in Ivory Tower may cost thousands of dollars, University officials said last week. They also said that because of the time and money associated with repairing parts of Ivory Tower destroyed by vandals, the school might have to delay some maintenance work in the dorm.
New male birth control pill could be the wave of the future (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. - One day, it might be the man saying, "Don't worry, I'm on the pill." With a new agreement between the Norwegian-based company Spermatech AS, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, that day may come sooner than later.
Law School students protested the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy outside the Marvin Center Saturday while Judge Advocate General recruitment interviews were taking place inside. Ten protesters, among them a faculty member, held signs with messages such as "Thousands of Gay Soldiers Discharged.
Class Council members matched up single students with a date for Valentine's Day at their Saturday night game show spinoff, "Date My Roommate." Four pre-selected bachelors and bachelorettes took the stage in the Hippodrome to quiz contestants numbered one, two and three on their roommates' potential compatibility.
With Student Association elections still three weeks away, 15 candidates are already facing a total of 29 electoral violations. Members of the Coalition for Reform slate are facing 10 of the rule breaches, with five violations leveled against presidential candidate and Sen.
Monday Make your own cupcake Noon to 2 p.m. Columbian Square, Marvin Center Sponsored by Class Council Free oral HIV testing 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marvin Center Room 301 Sponsored by Neighbors Project and Student Health Services Finding an internship 4 to 5 p.
Stephen Hawking to receive award at Lisner Auditorium Physicist Stephen Hawking will receive the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal from the Smithsonian Institution at Lisner Auditorium Monday. The event will honor the 65-year-old distinguished physicist, who suffers from the neurological disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, with a retrospective look at his career in science.
The GW men's basketball team has had problems with Richmond in recent years. Coach Jerry Wainwright's quickly changing defensive style and disciplined play has led to four Spiders' victories in their last six match-ups with the Colonials. But Saturday, things changed, as GW finally solved Richmond, posting an 80-63 win in front of a sellout crowd of 5,252 at the Smith Center.
Pinnock's extra warm-ups pay off Two hours before GW tipped off against Richmond Saturday, sophomore J.R. Pinnock was already at work. With a gold Colonials basketball T-shirt on, Pinnock seemed relaxed but focused. He stroked jumper after jumper, practicing quick spurts to the basket and floaters in the lane.
As Mike Jarvis moseyed across Tex Silverman Court Saturday afternoon, the past raucously met the present. "This is home, this is family," said a smiling Jarvis, who returned to work the GW-Richmond game as an ESPN analyst for the first time last weekend. "There are just a lot of people who I respect and love here.
Senior Anna Monta?ana knew the GW women's basketball team needed to beat Richmond on the road if it wanted a crack at the A-10 West regular season title. With that in mind, she led the Colonials to a 63-47 victory over the Spiders on Sunday, scoring 20 points on 7-of-13 from the floor to go along with eight rebounds and seven assists.
Softball earns first victory of the season The GW softball team beat North Carolina-Greensboro 2-0 for its first win of the season in the New Triangle Classic at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh, N.C. Freshman pitcher Jen Hrycyna threw a two-hit shutout in the in the win.
Every semester on the first day of her introductory computer science course, professor Dianne Martin asks her students to take out a piece of paper and sketch their impression of a "computer scientist." The crude portraits range from quirky-looking mad scientist types to elderly men with beards, but one trait remains common: none of the pictures are of women.
As expected, GW's Board of Trustees approved a 5 percent tuition increase for rising juniors and seniors at its Friday meeting. The decision puts next year's tuition for juniors, excluding room and board costs, at $32,360. Rising seniors will fork over $32,060 to take classes next year.
A State Department official, a financial adviser and an opera signer walk into a room. It's not the start of a bad joke. It's the start of the audition process for "The Apprentice," which held a casting call at GW on Thursday. More than 100 GW graduates and students crowded into the Alumni House, waiting shoulder-to-shoulder to be called into a room to make their case about why they should work for a millionaire.
Posted Monday, Feb. 14, 12:40 p.m. Rapper Lloyd Banks is bringing his tales of street hustling to GW's largely middle- and upper-class population.
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