Monday Cocoa, Cookies and Condoms in Kogan Pick up these free items in Kogan Plaza Noon to 3 p.m. Kogan Plaza Sponsored by Voices for Choices Student organization registration meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater Sponsored by Student Activities Center Legal issues clinic lecture Law professors Sara Rosenbaum and Phyllis Borzi will discuss tips for making good decisions about health insurance 5:30 to 7:30 p.
Monday Cocoa, Cookies and Condoms in Kogan Pick up these free items in Kogan Plaza Noon to 3 p.m. Kogan Plaza Sponsored by Voices for Choices Student organization registration meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater Sponsored by Student Activities Center Legal issues clinic lecture Law professors Sara Rosenbaum and Phyllis Borzi will discuss tips for making good decisions about health insurance 5:30 to 7:30 p.
Lifetime to debut domestic violence documentary at GW Lifetime Television will premier its new documentary about domestic abuse at the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday. The special screening of the one-hour documentary, "Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America," will kick off a national campaign to involve college students in fighting domestic violence, according to a statement from the network.
The sub-headline to the article "Show to benefit tsunami victims" (Feb. 28. p. 3) incorrectly stated that a tsunami variety show would take place March 5. It happened March 4.
Junior Michael Barnett will look to train more writers, churn out more special issues and update The Hatchet's Web site more frequently as the newspaper's next editor in chief. Hatchet editors voted Barnett, currently the senior news editor, to the newspaper's top spot last week.
Construction of the Transportation Research Institute is cancelled indefinitely, and University officials said it is doubtful if the federally funded automotive safety center on the Virginia Campus will ever be built. University officials halted plans for construction of the highway safety research facility in August when Nabih Bedewi, the director of the Virginia Campus' National Crash Analysis Center, was being investigated for stealing $600,000 in federal funds from the Department of Transportation.
While voter turnout in last week's Student Association election was lower than last year, the bigger story is the success and dominance of the Coalition for Reform slate. The coalition won 10 of 15 undergraduate Senate seats and put a presidential candidate, Ben Traverse, in a run-off election with Audai Shakour (see "SA run-off may change", p.
Students casting ballots in last week's Student Association election had the option of voting for write-in candidates. While some used this opportunity to vote for legitimate write-in-candidates such as Asher Corson and Tim Saccoccia, others placed votes for some more unusual candidates.
Collegiate athletic programs across the country will face an unpleasant reality if they do not re-focus on academics in the near future. In January, the NCAA adopted rules requiring universities to submit data showing graduation and retention rates and requiring institutions to graduate at least 50 percent of its student-athletes to avoid losing scholarships.
For the second time in three seasons, the GW women's basketball team will play for the Atlantic 10 Championship on its home court. In the second semifinal Sunday, the Colonials easily defeated Richmond 63-44 at the Smith Center. GW (22-7) now will face No.
This one was for coach. In the midst of an extremely difficult couple of days for Karl Hobbs, the GW men's basketball team came up with one of its biggest wins of the season, a 68-39 drubbing of Rhode Island in front of 6,306 fans at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.
Undergraduate, at-large: Michelle Tanney Vick Jayadeva Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate: Tyler Hudson Casey Rose Christopher Rotella Marc Abanto Nicholas D'Addario Matthew Alderman Elliott School of International Affairs, undergraduat
Two hundred and one GW students have formed a group to "save" Whitney Thomas, who is thinking about transferring to the University of Washington. At least 32 students think that Donkey Lips (think old-school Nickelodeon) is hot. Over 360 have publicly declared their virginity.
Ten years ago, a 25-year-old without a stable job and still living with parents would have been called a "slacker." A decade later, the term is about as outdated as flannel shirts and grunge music. Today, 20-somethings who haven't accepted grown-up roles are "emerging adults" attempting to find a path from adolescence to adulthood.
Sincerity is dead. Even Oscar Wilde agreed, saying, "In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential." The truth is, wearing your heart on your sleeve has never been stylish. What's so interesting about an actual blonde girl wearing a shirt that says, "Everyone Loves a Blonde Girl?" It is time we embrace our inner 'hip'-ocrites, do away with the painfully proper, and realize, once and for all, that irony is in fact the new black.
This year's Student Association elections have proceeded smoothly, with few candidates promulgating issues against other candidates. This, however, is juxtaposed with the complaints, bias and ineptitude of the election's oversight body, the Joint Elections Committee.
During a recent phone conversation, my boss asked me if I had seen the anti-abortion advertisements that have been exploiting public spaces all over the District. "What happens when it's been nine months and you or someone you love is on the table and their life is endangered and suddenly you don't have the choice to save that person?" she asked.
For some four months now the debate has raged - in classrooms, coffeehouses and wherever else us liberal-intellectual types supposedly congregate - over how and why John Kerry did not take the oath of office on January 20. The past election not only touched off concern about the Democrats inability to beat Bush, but the lack of success in Congressional elections as well.
Most members of the University community look at anti-discrimination policies and feel secure knowing that anyone who might treat them as inferior will be deterred from prejudicial statements and face consequences for acting with bias. These policies represent a promise that GW makes to students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the campus: that if a situation arose, the University would rule in favor of a student whose grade had been lowered because the professor didn't think a woman should become a scientist or reconsider the application for employment of a professor denied a job because he is blind.
GB housing I would have thought that more aspects of GW's 'GWorld' revolve around the 'G8's' free market system. Housing selection, which operates on a lottery system, is unnecessarily restricting. Why, for example, should I not be able to trade my lottery number with someone who is moving off campus? Or with someone who is rooming with a person with a better lottery number? These questions may have legitimate answers, but after a call to the CLLC office, I am doubtful.
Just when it seemed that he would be free to take place in this week's run-off, Student Association presidential candidate Ben Traverse could be removed after the Joint Elections Committee found probable cause for new violations.
The number of students without housing nearly doubled compared to last year, with 375 students awaiting room assignments after selection ended Thursday night. About 150 rising sophomores and 225 upperclassmen did not receive housing assignments, Director of University Campus Housing Seth Weinshel said.
For years, student-residents of Columbia Plaza apartments have been fervently complaining about how they have been treated by management. But officials from GW, which partially owns the building, are telling students it's not the University's problem. One of the biggest complaints from students living in Columbia Plaza is the behavior of an off-duty Metropolitan Police officer hired to patrol the building.
An exhausted Govind Kilambi came across one of his Student Association campaign posters Friday afternoon and knew what he had to do. "I took it down and threw it in the garbage," he said. Former Senate candidate Luke Moses spent that afternoon trying to stay awake long enough to finish the paper he needed to turn in by 5 p.
Three Colonials receive regular season honors The GW women's basketball team cleaned up at the annual Atlantic 10 awards banquet Wednesday night at the Marriott Washington. Freshman Kimberly Beck was named Rookie of the Year and seniors Anna Montana?a and Jessica Simmonds were named first and second team all-conference players, respectively.
Applications to the University are down 2 percent this year after GW received a record number of 20,159 applications last year. The University is not worried about the "slight decline" in applications, Director of Admissions Kathryn Napper wrote in an e-mail.
The University will evaluate student use of Napster this semester to determine whether the legal music downloading service will be continued next year. Since the beginning of last semester, 7,100 students living in residence halls have had access to a free subscription of Napster.
Fifty-seven participants braved chilly weather at East Potomac Park Saturday morning to take part in a five-kilometer, student-organized run to promote mental health and suicide awareness. Run 5-4 Life, a new student group started by sophomores Sarah Brown and Lauren Furmanek, set up the event, which also gave more than 100 supporters the opportunity to walk a mile for the cause.
Students raised more than $4,000 for tsunami relief with a variety show of student performances Friday night at Lisner Auditorium. Nine student groups performed at the show, Live Aid 2005, to raise money for victims of the Dec. 26 underwater earthquake that took more than 200,000 lives in Southeast Asia.
In the midst of an increasingly partisan political atmosphere, junior Kelly Shea, a moderate Republican, is trying to find some middle ground. Shea is starting an organization to give Republicans who share her views on abortion a voice. She and some fellow Republicans are in the process of creating a GW chapter of WISH List, a group that funds Republican women at all levels of political office who are pro-choice.
Posted Monday, March 7, 10:07 p.m. Late in the Atlantic 10 Tournament final Monday evening, the GW women's basketball team looked ready to pull off an upset of Temple. After a 19-7 run slashed a 17-point Owls lead, The Colonials trailed 56-52 with less than three minutes left in the game.
Posted Tuesday, March 8, 3:27 a.m. Updated 4:05 a.m. The Student Court rescheduled this week's Student Association presidential run-off for March 23 and 24 following hours of deliberations that went into Tuesday morning.
Posted Wednesday, March 9, 10:14 p.m. Student Association presidential candidate Ben Traverse is not out of the woods yet. While the Joint Elections Committee acquitted the junior Wednesday night of two violations that would have resulted in his dismissal from the March 23 and 24 run-off election, the organization will discuss an additional two complaints this week that may still result in his disqualification.
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