Stories from the January 17, 2006, Print Edition
The National Labor Relations Board upheld the adjunct and part-time professors' union in a unanimous decision Dec. 28. However, the University has now filed a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. for a review of the NLRB's decision, prolonging again the recognition of a union.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg told top administrators that GW should establish a degree-seeking program in the translation and interpretation of languages important to national intelligence. The proposed program would focus on "strategic languages" such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Farsi and Korean.
Conservative political pundit and best-selling author Ann Coulter is slated to speak at the University Feb. 10. The Young America's Foundation, Coulter's scheduler, confirmed the scheduled speech.
After a nearly two-year hiatus, Foggy Bottom's community-based newspaper is back to serve as an outlet for concerned neighbors. In 2004, 73-year-old resident Ellie Becker, then editor of The Foggy Bottom News, announced she would be retiring and that the paper would no longer be printed.
One of the central figures in the Jack Abramoff scandal that has shaken Washington in recent months, Adam Kidan, is a GW alumnus. The New York businessman attended GW as an undergraduate in the 1980s and, according to Newsday, became acquainted with Abramoff, who attended Georgetown Law School, through their involvement with the College Republicans.
The University Police Department underwent an on-site review by a national accreditation group earlier this month and will find out in March if it meets the requirements to become an accredited law enforcement agency. If accredited, UPD will join the group of less than 1 percent of campus police departments that are nationally recognized by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, a voluntary accreditation agency that assesses law enforcement agencies of all levels.
As a new semester begins and students are buying textbooks, the Student Association is still unable to welcome them back to school with the Colonial Trader Web site, a campaign promise from President Audai Shakour. The online trading Web site is now more than four months delayed and may never see the light of day.
The University finished renovating offices within its Student Accounts, Human Resources and Payroll departments earlier this month in order to make them more customer-service friendly for students, faculty and staff, officials said. Nancy Haaga, GW director of Auxiliary and Institutional Services, said the suite of offices for the three departments, located on the first floor of Rome Hall, can now be accessed by a new entry in the main lobby of the building.
Tuesday Artistic Expressions of the Jewish Renaissance See original artwork expressing various aspects of Jewish life at the turn of the 20th century. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gelman Library 710 Sponsored by the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection GW NORML Meeting See what the GW chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is up to.
Law professor tapped for FTC post Professor William Kovacic of the GW Law School was sworn in as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Jan. 4. The Senate confirmed Kovacic, now one of five commissioners serving on the FTC, Dec. 17. All of the commissioners must be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate before assuming their positions.
After visiting seven universities to examine their implementation of four-class, four-credit systems, a task force of GW faculty, administrators and student representatives is set to decide by March whether to recommend such a plan. If the plan is recommended, it will then be discussed by each of the schools within the University, the Faculty Senate and GW's senior staff.
A former GW student has filed suit against the University, GW Hospital and eight campus administrators because he was suspended from classes, removed from his dorm and barred from campus after he sought treatment for depression and suicidal thoughts.
When many GW students take a part-time job, it involves answering phones, filing documents and stuffing envelopes. But when Kemp Kernstine found a part-time job, he ended up overseeing an integral part of a research project funded by the U.S. Air Force. Kernstine, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in aerospace engineering, is the leader of a project supervised by professor David Chichka.
The hearings are over, the verdict is in, and after a two-month judicial process, Student Association President Audai Shakour has been cleared of sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations.
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