Monday What I Didn't Learn in High School Sex Ed Make sure you know how to play it safe with your partner. 8 to 9 p.m. Marvin Center 310 Sponsored by the Out Crowd Tuesday Freshman Feast Dig into an all you-can-eat Chinese food feast and see a performance by the Chinese Performing Arts Troupe.
Media Relations director heads PR chapter Tracy Schario, GW's director of Media Relations, was named the 2006 president of the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America last month. Schario leads the group's largest chapter in the country with 1,200 members, which comprises about 5 percent of the national membership.
Students' reaction to the changes to the on-campus housing selection process, which separates and designates residence halls by class, is sure to hinge on whether they receive the housing of their choice. While some may see their system of housing entitlement based on credits withering away, the policy change is a positive move for the Community Living and Learning Center.
Things really have changed in my fair city of New Orleans since Katrina came through and turned everyone's lives upside-down. While we still have many challenges to overcome on our road back to normalcy, I was fortunate enough to witness over the break my city showing some signs that it was coming back to life.
Going into this weekend's games at Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the women's basketball team had the added pressure of proving its right to be in the top 25 of women's college basketball, an honor bestowed on Jan. 16. The added pressure may have added to the Colonials' road slipup.
Modeled after collegiate Greek-letter organizations, Delta Lambda Phi has a formal pledging process, an official song, a crest, a fraternity pin and a motto: "Lambda men are making their presence known."
When you are trying to get into your dorm and you realize you don't have your GWorld, it's OK; just sign in. Forget your GWorld at the library? That's not a problem either - use the sign-in sheet. Trying to go the gym without your G? Good luck getting on a treadmill today.
Samson Hall reopened Friday morning after a small explosion resulting in no injuries sent ambulances, fire trucks and hazardous materials vehicles swarming to the building at about 5:50 p.m. Thursday. University officials initially termed the explosion a "very small, adverse chemical reaction.
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Dorothy Miller lost her position as vice chair after annual elections for the group took place last week. Miller, a longtime opponent of GW's expansion, has served on the Foggy Bottom ANC for 13 years and was voted vice chair last January by the other commissioners.
The article "Resident revives Foggy Bottom newspaper" (Jan. 17, p. 6) incorrectly stated that the Foggy Bottom News is distributed through the Dupont Current. The Foggy Bottom News is actually distributed as a paid advertisement through the Foggy Bottom Current, a weekly paper established last month.
GW gets 87 on A-10 honor roll Eighty-seven GW student-athletes were named to the 2005 Fall Semester Commissioner's Honor Roll. To be eligible for the list, a student must have a 3.5 or higher grade-point average. The women's rowing team had 17 members qualifying while men's and women's soccer, men's and women's diving, and men's and women's cross country each had 10 or more students placed on the list.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Before the days of a ranked GW men's basketball team, head coach Karl Hobbs used to shrug off home wins, stating that his team's success would be validated with consistent wins in hostile Atlantic 10 arenas. Two down, only a few more to go in those arenas.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - After Charlotte's successful run in Conference USA - marked by NCAA tournament appearances in seven of the last nine seasons - coaches in the Atlantic 10 conference voted the 49ers to finish second in the league behind GW. Because of the team's past achievements, pundits often pointed to the two games during conference play when GW and Charlotte would face off as critical contests for both squads.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte and the Halton Arena may house some of the toughest fans in the Atlantic 10. Fans behind the GW bench employed techniques that should be considered cruel and unusual punishments to any human being. 49er fans started off by telling seniors Mike Hall and Pops Mensah-Bonsu - who both considered going professional last year - that they don't belong in the NBA but proceeded to tell them several times that they should go back to the pros.
GW graduates are known for their political prowess. One has climbed to the ranks of the Senate leadership, and another is being talked about as a possible Democratic presidential candidate. But alumnus Mitchell Barak has his sights set on an entirely different political arena: the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem.
The University has upgraded the Mount Vernon Campus' Internet access system to the same quality as Foggy Bottom's, allowing greater security and a faster connection. Over winter break, the University upgraded the technology systems on the Mount Vernon Campus, requiring all students to obtain new technology equipment before gaining Internet access.
Students will not receive their housing lottery numbers this year based on the number of academic credits they have. They'll instead be issued numbers based on their class and will select from a pool of dormitories specifically designated for certain classes.
It begins again. With the Student Association elections more than five weeks away, seven students have announced they will be seeking to run for president in early March. The group includes those who call themselves SA outsiders, veteran members of the SA, former senators, current senators and members of the executive branch.
The Panhellenic Association, the group that oversees the eight sororities on campus, announced Saturday the three organizations that are finalists to become GW's newest sorority. The three finalists are Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi and Chi Omega. These organizations were chosen from the 15 national Greek-letter organizations that applied.
They may not be the best athletes or have the biggest muscles, but some members of GW's Computer Science Department could hold the keys to the gold medal for the U.S. Olympic swimming team. Professor James Hahn, chair of the Computer Science Department, along with graduate students Samir Roy and Jean Honorio, have developed a software program that can capture a swimmer's movement underwater in three dimensions.
For New Orleans area college students, New Year's Eve marked just the first in a series of new beginnings. Just days after the start of 2006, thousands of students at colleges across the Gulf Coast returned to begin their first post-Katrina semester in an academic community that has changed greatly from the one they left nearly five months ago.
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