As senior Marc Berenson toured a New Orleans Wal-Mart last week - the same one that Hurricane Katrina survivors looted in the wake of the storm - a smell somewhere between human feces and rotting food permeated the store. "The stench was horrific," said Berenson, a paramedic and supervisor with EMeRG who spent last week in the flood-ravaged city.
NEW YORK - Where can you find Reverend Run (of Run-DMC fame) promoting both his new reality show and the sweet love of Jesus? Or, where can you hear John Hall, former King Missile lead singer of "Detachable Penis" - now a lawyer - discussing the relative merits of Beyonc?? What about seeing funk legend George Clinton just chillin' on a bench in between activities? Try New York City, circa one week ago.
NEW YORK - Arcade Fire In order to catch Arcade Fire in Central Park, you apparently had to sell the soul their record was supposed to save. Well, not really, but you did have to win a ticket lottery. Fortunately, Lady Luck favored The Hatchet, and the most coveted ticket at the Marathon fell into our greedy little hands.
Most of us live out our four years at GW as transplanted students. Plucked right out of high school, we're thrown into classes, we set up internships, and we're told to make something of ourselves. Something we're not often told to do is to make the city ours or become a part of the city.
NEW YORK - Walking through the doorway of this legendary venue, one's eye is immediately drawn upward, above eye level, where the stickers begin. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of stickers - slapped, neatly affixed, thrown,and otherwise attached - adorn the walls of this rock'n'roll shrine.
NEW YORK - "Decline seems to be a really useful thing for music," opined Simon Reynolds, author of "Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984," at a panel discussion at CMJ Music Marathon entitled "How a City Becomes a Scene." Reynolds was speaking in economic terms - financial decline allows for cheap housing and rehearsal spaces that are staples of booming art districts - but one suspects the same might be said for culture.
An entertainment guide for the cash-strapped college student. If you have... $5 - The author of "Sex and the City," Candace Bushnell-just call her Carrie-will be signing her latest book, "Lipstick Fever," at Olsson's books in Arlington, Va. Friday at 7 p.m.
This Saturday will be the first of four days of protests in support of all U.S. forces leaving Iraq. To kick off the event, a free concert will take place at the Washington Monument. The festival, aptly named Operation Ceasefire, aims to shake the D.C. population (and beyond).
The Pour House 319 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E. To scope out this bar, I hopped on the Metro and headed to Capitol South. Now, don't let the Southeast address scare you; the only frightening thing you'll see on your walk from the Metro to the bars is the Library of Congress reminding you of the books you've left in favor of beer.
Ghost Bus is a new service that drives 70 people at a time from seven different bars on Capitol Hill to the Nationals' baseball games and D.C. United soccer games. The brainchild of a couple of young entrepreneurs willing to give up their Saturday nights, it even escorts attendees safely back to the bars again when the games are over.
"I think some of you will share my view that music right now is pretty bad, that music on the radio is shitty." Brad Lee, Loud and Clear Records "Hipsters get old and they go and get married." Dan Rutherford, Morning After Records "This is another one off our first records, but I doubt any of you have it.
There is one thing I learned from Imagine Entertainment's "Flightplan" - don't mess with Jodie Foster. "Flightplan" is the first major motion picture from German director Robert Schwentke, and he tackles the incredibly tricky task of staging a full-scale, action-packed thriller in the confining space of an airliner.
A man stands, wide-eyed and frozen, with nowhere to turn. The unspeakable horror of the knowledge he has just received begins to set in. His entire life has been a lie; he attempts to grapple with the fact that nothing, including himself, is who or what he thought.
Thursday Fall Film Series: "Batman Begins" 7 to 11 p.m. Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sponsored by the Program Board Folk Arts Rajasthan, Inc. performance The group's members will share their Indian heritage and culture through performance art 8 to 10 p.
Student orgs can apply for initial allocations Student organization budgets are due to the Student Association Finance Committee by Friday at 5 p.m. in its Marvin Center 424 office. "Student organizations should find out about the allocations they receive by late Sunday or early Monday," Finance Committee Chair Michelle Tanney, a senior, said.
Tau Kappa Epsilon takes home awards, gets criminal law charge dropped Tau Kappa Epsilon returned from its national conclave in July with five awards given to the top fraternities within the organization. GW's Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter received awards for outstanding recruitment, initiation rates, community service, extracurricular involvement and alumni relations.
After starting the season with four straight games on the road, the men's soccer team finally got the chance to play at home against Towson Wednesday afternoon. The Mount Vernon Athletic Complex opener proved to be a heartbreaker as the Colonials were topped 1-0, dropping their record to 3-1-1 on the season, while the Tigers moved to 5-1.
Fairfax, Va., is a bit closer to home than Ohio. Maybe that's why the GW volleyball team was able to get back on a winning track. The squad won its second straight match 3-1 Tuesday night against George Mason. The Colonials (4-7) outscored the Patriots (3-7) 30-20, 27-30, 30-21, 30-23 in a two-hour match that head coach Jojit Coronel said GW "had to win.
When GW alumnus T.J. Thompson went undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft, many thought he would disappear into basketball oblivion in Europe. Instead, Thompson will be playing in the Continental Basketball Association after being selected number one overall in the league's 2005 draft.
Foggy Bottom residents spoke out about GW's plans for developing the old hospital site across from the Foggy Bottom Metro at the last of a series of public meetings regarding campus development Tuesday night. Specifics for the site were unveiled at the meeting, where University officials and the site's architects fielded questions and concerns from the community in an attempt to get input and keep the development process transparent.
Simple Assault 9/18 - 4:30 a.m. - Guthridge Hall - case closed An argument between roommates turned violent when one of the roommates threw an unidentified object at the others. UPD was contacted, but after determining there were no resulting injuries, the situation was left to the Community Living Learning Center staff.
Esther Kramer has been visiting GW Hospital for arthritis treatment, and until now, her rehabilitation exercise has been somewhat painful. But a new addition to the staff, a nine-year-old golden retriever named Maggie, has helped make the process a bit easier.
For the first time in the five-year history of the Mount Vernon Campus, every freshman living there listed the locale as a housing preference, and more non-freshmen are living there than ever before. "Every freshman on our campus right now selected Mount Vernon as a first or second choice, or were placed on Mount Vernon because of their choice of living and learning communities," said Fred Siegel, associate vice president, dean of freshman and the campus' administrator.
Some people take it seriously and campaign for better residence halls. Other students use it as a launching pad to get their name out on campus. Either way, each GW residence hall elected leaders to serve on the Residence Hall Association on Monday. An organization serving the 7,000 students living in dorms, the RHA monitors and drafts policies for residence halls and aids in the annual housing selection process.
The University has overcharged some students for dropped classes due to deficiencies in its registration and accounting software, student accounts officials said Wednesday. When a student drops a course and adds one with the same number of credits, students are supposed to receive no additional charge.
The class of 2006 will be graduating - the University just isn't sure where. The May 21 graduation ceremony will not be held on the Ellipse, the National Park Service and University officials said Monday, because the site will be under construction through summer 2006.
Thanks to a preliminary ruling made by the D.C. District Court this month, Coggins' Sandwich Manufactory, the popular eatery located in the Ivory Tower residence hall, can keep its doors open - at least for now.
BALTIMORE - In one seemingly thoughtless motion, Sam Perlozzo stands up from the bench and leans against the railing facing the finely manicured turf of Camden Yards. The number two shows prominently on the back of his orange practice jersey and in parentheses under the brim of his hat, to separate his gear from the rest of his squads'.
GW's College Democrats welcomed U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich to campus Tuesday night, where nearly 300 students from both ends of the political spectrum showed up to hear one the country's most liberal leaders.
An integral part of the GW experience for any student is the utilization of District resources that highlight the unique nature and location of the University. Commencement on the Ellipse has become a cherished tradition for GW undergraduates and graduate students.
A computer glitch in the University's student accounts system seems to have been the cause of a number of erroneous charges generated when students added or dropped classes during the first few weeks of school. While University officials have happily refunded the fees to many proactive students who report the errors, there has not been a concerted effort to deal with what appears to be a system-wide issue.
Before this campus makes a martyr of former professor Michael Schaffer, it would do well to consider whether his human sexuality course was as academically sensible as it was popular. In the fracas surrounding Schaffer's dismissal, the two have been easily equated.
Since arriving back to GW, my roommates have watched not one, not two, but three seasons of "The West Wing." Rather than pooling money together for rum and coke, they reach into their wallets to buy one more season on DVD. This isn't the first time I've seen people close to me suffer from "West Wing" Addiction, or WWA.
Package Services is grossly inefficient. The line serpentines out of the building and onto the street, and as the line grows, my patience shrinks. But I don't want to complain. I want to finger the problem, then propose a solution. The problem is freshmen.
Don't settle Our University has sold us on the concept of a culminating event after the completion of our GW educational experience to be held in a venue that is nearly unmatchable by other universities. You will graduate on the Ellipse with a picturesque view of the White House and Washington Monument, they said.
The writer of "Katrina's concocted race card" (September 15, page 4) is Tyler Hahn, not Taylor.
When the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus visited the Mount Vernon Campus Wednesday to allow students to tour the mobile recording studio, it was an Indian dance group performance that stole the show, students said. The bus, sponsored by the Program Board, invited Folk Art Rajasthan, a foreign group that was practicing nearby and is set to perform at Mount Vernon this week, to play inside the bus for the students who visited throughout the day Wednesday.
When Prewitt Witham, a former student at the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, R.I., was caught with marijuana in his system while driving, he knew he was in legal trouble. What he didn't realize at the time was that the offense would end up costing him his education.
Space may be the final frontier, but it's no longer a frontier off limits to college students. "CubeSat," a program developed at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University, now offers students and companies the chance to build and launch tiny cube-shaped satellites to conduct research in low-orbit space above the Earth's atmosphere.
College professors who consider themselves politically liberal far outnumber their conservative colleagues, according to a report released last week. "The American College Teacher," based on a survey conducted by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, found that roughly 52 percent of American college professors describe themselves as "far left" or "liberal," while only 20 percent said they were "far right" or "conservative.
It's almost that time of year again when some high school seniors apply to colleges through the "early decision" process, making binding commitments to attend a single school if that school admits them. But according to former admissions officer Lloyd Thacker, early decision enrollments and other aspects of admissions to American universities are symptoms of a scramble among students to be accepted by "brand name" institutions and growing competition among those institutions to develop brand names for themselves.
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