Stories from the February 23, 2006, Print Edition
Two student leaders are calling for the creation of a new representative body that would replace the Student Association Senate. Junior Caitlin Bevin Doherty, who was running for SA president, has dropped out of the race and is working with sophomore SA Sen.
About 60 more rising seniors utilized their squatter's rights this year compared to last year, University Campus Housing Director Seth Weinshel said Tuesday. Weinshel said 390 current juniors have chosen to remain in their current rooms for their last year at GW instead of re-entering housing selection.
A discovery made more than halfway around the world is creating splashes at GW. Professor James M. Clark, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, was part of a team that discovered a fossil of the earliest-known ancestor of the famed Tyrannosaurus Rex during a dig in the Wucaiwan area of northwest China in 2002.
A slight decrease in the number of freshman applications for the second year in a row does not have University officials worried. Although not all of the applications have been processed, Kathryn Napper, director of Admissions, expects a 1.5 percent decrease in the number of applications compared to the number her office received a year ago.
Liquor Law Violation 2/17 - New Hall - 1:10 a.m. - case closed The University Police Department was notified by a community facilitator about a male subject passed out in the hallway of the seventh floor of the dormitory. The individual said he had been out with friends celebrating his birthday.
Thursday Free yoga session Relax as part of Love Your Body Week. Bring own mat or towel. 5 to 6 p.m. Marvin Center 402 Sponsored by Student Health Services, HOPEs and the Health and Wellness Center Friday Ambassador John O'Keefe O'Keefe, a former ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, will discuss the importance of understanding foreign languages and cultures, specifically for international affairs.
SA confirms election committee members; sets election date The finalized Joint Elections Committee, which was confirmed Tuesday night in the Marvin Center, set the date for the Student Association presidential election to be March 29 and 30. The elections will give students an opportunity to elect a new SA president, a new SA Senate, representatives to the Marvin Center Governing Board and the Program Board leadership.
Alpha Delta Pi has highest GPA among Greeks The Alpha Delta Pi sorority achieved an overall grade point average of 3.42 this semester, the highest of all Greek-letter groups on campus, according to the Student Activities Center Web site. The overall Greek-letter organization GPA for the fall 2005 semester, including sororities and fraternities, was 3.
Maria Tyler, a former Foggy Bottom Advisory Neighborhood commissioner and community activist, died last week of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Tyler - an immigrant born in Kaunas, Lithuania - served on the Foggy Bottom's ANC, a local group that makes zoning recommendations, for 20 years before choosing not to run for re-election in 2004.
While GW announced this month its plan to pursue new international investments, University officials have not yielded to student requests to renounce any ties they may have with companies doing business in Sudan. Genocide in that African country's Darfur region has killed more than 200,000 people and left another two million displaced.
GW filed its newly proposed Campus Plan with the city last week, initiating the approval process for the University's development framework over the next 20 years. Sherry Rutherford, a GW administrator, said last Thursday that the University filed the complete version of the 2006-2025 Campus Plan, which outlines developable spaces on campus and establishes conditions between GW and the community.
A former GW student pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court last week to assault with a dangerous weapon for striking and kicking another student until he was unconscious outside of a local nightclub in October, court documents show. Chad Dauman, a former junior who spent one semester at GW as a transfer student from the State University of New York-Albany, entered into a plea agreement at his status hearing last Friday.
OneVoice, a Middle Eastern-based grassroots organization advocating for Arab-Israeli peace, made a stop at GW Wednesday night to discuss the possibility of a violence-free future in the region in the wake of Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections last month.
The University's Office of Foggy Bottom/West End Affairs launched a new version of its neighborhood Web site earlier this month to make it more neighborhood-friendly, officials said. GW created the Web site, www.neighborhood.gwu.edu, a year and a half ago to inform residents about campus development issues and to receive feedback on its plans.
Posted Saturday, Feb. 25, 1:46 a.m. PHILADELPHIA-The GW women's basketball team fought back from an 11-point deficit at halftime to defeat No. 17 Temple 55-50 in overtime in a key Atlantic 10 match up Friday night. The Colonials trailed the Owls 25-13 at the half, but they crept back because of strong play by sophomore Sarah-Jo Lawrence and an all-around powerful defensive effort.
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