Monday REAL Conversations - Affirmative Action: Defending Democracy or Discrimination? 7 to 9 p.m. Marvin Center 413 Sponsored by the Student Activities Center and the Organization of Latino American Students Tuesday The Struggle for Soviet Jews in American Politics Speech by Fred Lazin, visiting lecturer from Israel's Ben Gurion University.
GW students in top 10 in studying abroad participation GW has the 10th-largest percentage of students studying abroad in the country, according to the Institute for International Education. During the 2003-2004 academic year, the latest in which statistics are available, 41.
A front-page teaser for an article in the Jan. 26 issue erroneously stated that the Corcoran Gallery of Art's Andy Warhol exhibit is open until Feb. 7. It is open until Feb. 20, as stated in the article.
Students and parents could start paying higher fixed interest rates on student loans next year if the U.S. House of Representatives passes certain legislation when it reconvenes this week. The Deficit Reduction Act is an omnibus bill that includes provisions for cutting a total of $40 billion in federal funds for programs such as student loans, Medicare, Medicaid, agriculture and digital technology to decrease the national deficit over the next five years.
The School of Media and Public Affairs has narrowed its search for a new director to six candidates and hopes to have one chosen by April. Selected from an original pool of about 24, the six possible permanent directors will each have an interview with the chair of the search committee, professor Steve Roberts, who is in charge of fielding applications for the position.
The early bird gets the worm. Or, in this case, the internship. It may only be January, but the start of the semester already has students scrambling for summer job opportunities, and Anne Scammon, GW director of student employment and experiential education at the Career Center, said students should be doing exactly that.
A cashier at the Gallery Gourmet Market in the basement of Ivory Tower was detained Sunday night after University Police was called due to inappropriate remarks he made to customers. GW spokeswoman Tracy Schario said the man was "clearly very drunk."
Most GW students do not concern themselves with local politics - and with good reason. With the major agencies of the federal government only blocks from campus, there is not much interest in the minutiae of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions or the D.C. City Council.
One thing I love about the Metro is the train operator. Actually, they're just station announcers, as the trains are completely automated. Some of them are lazy and hate their jobs - you can tell from their tone of voice. And then there's the guy who LOVES his job; "The Next Stop is McPHEEEEEEEEEERSON SQUARE!" But there is one Metro operator that I am in love with.
When I sat down to write this column, I knew I wanted to write about the Roosevelt Institution, the student think tank that I helped found last fall at GW. But I didn't want it to look like shameless self-promotion for our upcoming Tuesday launch event that would be easily dismissed.
The morning after Hamas registered a landslide victory in last week's Palestinian Legislative Council election, I began to consider whether it was possible that the peaceful reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, to which I had dedicated my writing and activism over the past five years, was as naive as my detractors contended.
The Bush administration's effort to sustain support for the occupation of Iraq was dealt one of its biggest blows last week by the residents of Hebron, Ramallah and Gaza City, who gave an overwhelming victory in Palestinian legislative elections to Hamas. To the Western world, the terrorist group's victory drove home the messy truth that democracy has negative externalities, among them the possibility that the rise of terrorists, thugs and fascists is often abetted by free and fair elections.
It's not like peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies - college and cooking just don't go together well. Many students are clueless in the kitchen (if they have one), and time and facilities are of the essence. Whether your skill level peaks at Ramen noodles or you actually buy produce and cook with it, let The Hatchet give you a hand with cooking in college.
People say that food brings a family together. For the Culinary Arts Living and Learning Community in Fulbright Hall, even a bowl of cereal does the trick. Many nights, Fulbright's sixth floor is a potluck, with students meeting in the hall. The group gets together for feasting parties, including "BYOB" parties (as in "bring your own bowl" of cereal), Monday night Mexican dinners and pasta parties.
Junior Jeffrey Parker, a history major from Winston-Salem, N.C., is spending the spring semester in Oxford, England, after also spending the fall term there. Twice a month, he will share his experiences and observations from England as one of GW's many expats.
What does it take to make the front page? A panel of Washington Post editors and reporters addressed that question - and more - at the West End Neighborhood Library Saturday morning. Six Washington Post journalists addressed a 50-person audience consisting mostly of Foggy Bottom residents at the program, titled "The Front Page - How National Headlines Impact Us All.
The GW team basketball pundits have been lauding showed up Saturday in the No. 14/15 Colonials' 81-62 come-from-behind win over Rhode Island in front of 5,000 Smith Center fans. Senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu, the preseason All-American candidate, played like the player whose name was tossed around in June's NBA draft, with 17 points and 12 rebounds.
The final score in GW's home win against the Rhode Island Rams was somewhat misleading. Although the Colonials registered an 81-62 victory, the game was very close until a commanding GW run over the game's last 10 minutes put it out of reach. Still, though, there were many aspects of the game that provided compelling storylines.
With Atlantic 10 conference play nearly halfway through, the women's basketball team finds itself in a tie for first place in the conference with Charlotte. The Colonials posted weekend wins over Fordham on Friday and at Richmond on Sunday, giving them a 14-5 record overall, 7-1 mark in conference.
Hard works pay off After GW's 55-53 loss to Massachusetts Jan. 22, the Colonials recommitted themselves in the gym last week knowing that their opponents saw them as vulnerable. The increased effort was evident in the 31 turnovers that GW forced Sunday while allowing Fordham the lowest point total of any Atlantic 10 opponent since 1992, a performance head coach Joe McKeown called "one of our best defensive efforts.
Winning streak and upcoming contests With Saturday's win, the Colonials extended their winning streak to eight games, the highest among ranked teams. The Colonials' record is 14 games in 1935-36, a season that ended with a 16-3 record. To keep the streak alive, GW will need to top Xavier at the Cintas Center, where the Colonials have never won.
Junior Zej Moczydlowski, a member of the men's rugby team, knows a thing or two about taking hits, but that didn't alleviate the shock of plunging into near-freezing temperatures Saturday. "It feels like you're getting punched in the chest because it's so cold," said Moczydlowski, who along with 20 members of the GW men's and women's rugby teams participated in the Polar Plunge in the Chesapeake Bay this weekend.
William Frawley, dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, is among three finalists being considered for the presidency of the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Last week Frawley attended two forums on the UMW campus giving students, faculty and administrators an opportunity to meet him and ask questions about his vision for the university's future.
The Elliott School of International Affairs will be one step closer to adding a new major that focuses on African development, politics and health if the Joint Committee of Faculty and Students approves the proposed program next month. While the Elliott School already offers a regional concentration and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences offers an Africana Studies minor focusing on the humanities of the country, there is no Africana studies major at GW.
A special election will be held in March to fill the vacant seat on the Foggy Bottom Advisory Neighborhood Commission because a commissioner moved out of the neighborhood last month.
Local newspaper editor Davis Kennedy may only have one staff of reporters, but that doesn't stop him from publishing four different community newspapers every week. Kennedy has been the publisher and editor of the Current Newspapers for almost 13 years, and with the creation of the Foggy Bottom Current in December, he handles bringing the neighborhood news to four popular D.
The Georgetown University College Republicans hosted Take Back Georgetown Day Saturday, kicking off what featured speaker Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and Fox News called a "war of liberation" against the university's perceived liberal majority. Barnes joined keynote speaker Rep.
Posted Monday, Jan. 30, 5:50 p.m. For the first time since Jan. 3, 1956, the GW men's basketball team has broken into the top 10 of Division I college basketball. The Colonials are No. 10 in The Associated Press writers poll and the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll after opening up the season 16-1 and 6-0 in the Atlantic 10. GW's next game is Thursday against Xavier in Cincinatti.
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 1, 12:56 a.m. A fire on the first floor of The York apartment building at 20th and F streets severely damaged a room late Tuesday night. Firefighters arrived at the scene around 11:30 p.m.
She still checks her online profile two or three times each day, but University of Kansas sophomore Holly Garringer is starting to get a little scared of Facebook. "(Facebook) has entirely changed how you get to know people," Garringer said, describing the online networking site where millions of college students have posted pictures and descriptions of themselves for the world to see.
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