Stories from the January 26, 2006, Print Edition
Student Association members met Tuesday night with a plan to resolve a constitutional crisis. They were unsuccessful. On Monday evening the SA Student Court invalidated a proposed new constitution that students voted on in a December election. Upon the court's announcement the same constitution that has been in effect for the entire year remains the SA's governing document.
Sigma Chi prepares to colonize The Sigma Chi fraternity will be joining the men's Greek-letter community this spring as colonization begins next month for the group's Foggy Bottom chapter. The University invited Sigma Chi to return to GW's campus in October, after an eight-year hiatus.
Thursday AMSA meeting Learn about membership and events at the American Medical Students Association general body meeting. 6:30 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater Parties and Party Substitutes: Russia's Relationship with Democracy in Comparative Perspective Henry E.
Law School students and professors had a few unexpected visitors to their classes Wednesday, and they weren't guest lecturers. Supporters of longtime presidential candidate and convicted felon Lyndon LaRouche intruded on two classes Wednesday afternoon.
Destruction 1/22 - 619 22nd St. - case closed University Police responded to a report of vandalism that occurred at an on-campus townhouse between 4 a.m. and noon. An officer found that two windows in the house had been broken and it appeared that someone had thrown bricks through the windows.
For the last year, they had been political rivals. But in an unlikely union, Student Association President Audai Shakour and SA Sen. Ben Traverse announced plans on creating a committee to recommend changes to Student Judicial Services to create what they hope will be a fairer system.
It's a new year for journalism professor Janet Steele, and once again, she is facing a classroom of students who hope to learn the ins and outs of reporting. But this time, instead of presiding over a room of students in Foggy Bottom, Steele is teaching on the other side of the world in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Everything from Bush-bashing to anti-liberal rhetoric to blasting politicians in general bellowed through the halls of 1957 E Street Tuesday evening at a discussion about National Security Agency wiretapping. The Elliott School of International Affairs and the non-partisan group Americans for Informed Democracy sponsored an at-times heated roundtable discussion with three prominent speakers who sparred over President Bush's domestic intelligence program.
In more than 30 years of working for the U.S. State Department, former-ambassador-turned-GW-professor Edward "Skip" Gnehm has not had very good timing. In the 1960s, his semester in Cairo was cut short by the Six Day War between Israel and several Arab states.
The position of community facilitator will be eliminated from dorms starting next year and replaced with class-specific advisers who will focus more on fostering a sense of community among students and less on disciplinary issues, housing officials said. Under a new system created by CLLC staff, CFs will be supplanted by house proctors in freshman dorms, house scholars in sophomore dorms and house mentors in junior and senior dorms.
Several dozen GW students joined the tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists who rallied on the National Mall Monday on the day after the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. The 33rd Annual March for Life, sponsored by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, centered on the slogan "Roe v.
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