Monday Seniors: Focus on Your Job Search! With graduation quickly approaching, get information on how to find the right job for you. 4 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center 310 Sponsored by the Career Center Tuesday Faculty Lecture Series: Role and Identity in the Foreign Policy of Arab States Murhaf Jouejati, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, will examine the actions of the late Syrian leader Hafez Assad.
Members of the GW Africa Center for Health and Security are awaiting word from the Ethiopian government concerning a possible partnership. GW representatives traveled to Ethiopia in December to meet with government officials concerning the potential program, which calls for Ethiopian professors in the field to come to GW for an exchange program in health-policy analysis, and vice-versa.
With only one senior on this year's women's basketball squad, the ceremony paying tribute to class of 2006 was short but sweet. Senior Jessica Simmonds took center court to be honored for her two seasons as a Colonial before Sunday's game against Charlotte.
BRONX, N.Y. - Amid the boos, the vulgarities from the crowd and a flurry of questionable calls on both sides of the ball, there was a sixth-ranked basketball team struggling Saturday, a team with serious NCAA aspirations and without an emotional and physical anchor late in February at the tail end of a so far one-loss season.
Nearly every preseason, baseball experts point to the Atlanta Braves, who have won 12 consecutive National League East championships, as a team that might finally experience a drop-off and have a substandard season. Every season thus far, however, manager Bobby Cox has gotten his players, whatever that year's roster happens to be, to play as a team and win the division.
BRONX, N.Y. - After the Colonials defeated the Fordham Rams 76-65 at the historic Rose Hill Gym Saturday, head coach Karl Hobbs talked about why his team has been so successful this year. "Three words," he said. "Character, unselfishness and a determination to be special.
McDonald says he is out for the year Freshman forward Montrell McDonald said Sunday that he has been suspended for the rest of the 2005-2006 season for an unspecified team violation. In 20 games this season, McDonald averaged 4.4 points per game in 13.1 minutes per game, while providing a strong defensive presence for the sixth-ranked Colonials.
Following record growth in its endowment, GW plans to hire eight to 10 employees to assist with fundraising in an effort to help the University achieve a fourth consecutive year of increasing donations. At this month's Board of Trustees meeting, the board increased the amount of money GW is allowed to take from its endowment, called the yield.
GW alumnus Bill Westenhofer helps create visual effects for major motion pictures that transcend the boundaries of reality, but there was nothing phony about the announcement he heard Jan. 31: he's up for an Academy Award. Westenhofer, who graduated from GW with a master's degree in computer science in 1995, is nominated in the visual effects category for his work on Disney's blockbuster hit "Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Behind the monuments of marble that tower in the D.C. sky lies the Capitol City's dirty secret. D.C.'s Anacosita River is clogged with literally tons of trash, sewage, tires and shopping carts, and is surrounded by communities ravaged by crime and poverty.
March on Georgetown This past Saturday, 15 GW students engaged in what amounted to a pretty funny stunt by marching to Georgetown's campus and demanding a basketball game between the schools. In the process, they also continued to promulgate their inferiority complex with Georgetown and represented the GW student body in that light.
A few weeks ago, tragedy struck when I turned on my 20-GB iPod and was greeted by a frowning iPod with little x's for eyes - an icon I didn't even know the iPod was capable of displaying. It was readily apparent that it meant my beloved iPod was in need of repair.
After struggling with courses either closed or crammed into improbably small spaces and taught by adjunct faculty, who are often excellent, but less often available for discussion and/or recommendations "next" semester, a student can reasonably ask, "Where has my ample tuition payment gone?" As at any university, some of your money goes to purposes, administrative and academic, of questionable value, especially when basic educational resources are strained.
Stop hating Let me first get this out of the way: I'm a proud GW Colonial. I cheer for the basketball team. I talk up the school to friends and relatives. I'm even a GW STAR, walking backwards on Fridays as I show prospective students Thurston Hall in all its morning glory.
GW is one of the most expensive colleges in the country. Take a look at the student body and you might wonder if it shows. Gucci sunglasses, UGG boots and other designer labels are no strangers in many students' closets, and some fancy cars are no strangers on the streets.
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.
Senior Kunal Johar, The Hatchet Geek, is a computer science major and co-founder of www.computerhelpdc.com. Twice a month, he will solve typical computer problems facing students. E-mail The Hatchet Geek your computer queries at hatchetgeek@computerhelpdc.com.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the medical school's Early Selection Program, which has become more popular over the years, school officials said. The Early Selection Program is designed for GW students who have the desire to practice medicine but who also want to pursue interests outside the traditional premedical curriculum.
The city's proposal to revitalize the D.C. public library system could lead to the redevelopment of the West End Branch Library on 24th and L streets, but local residents are wary about the potential changes. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams' task force on the library has come up with a roughly $450 million plan to do an overhaul of the existing system.
Colonials star senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu is traveling to Birmingham, Ala., to get his torn meniscus examined by a renowned orthopedist who has operated on Villanova's Curtis Sumpter and football legend Emmitt Smith. Mensah-Bonsu, who sustained the injury in last Wednesday's win over La Salle, will miss GW's two remaining regular season games at least. GW athletic officials are unsure when the 6-foot-9 London native will return.
It rains in the School Without Walls library. During inclement weather, a trash can carefully placed beside the table where students come to socialize and study gathers water that falls from the inches-wide hole in the third-floor ceiling. Black trash bags are put over books to keep them dry.
For the two groups of GW students who interned and studied in Turin, Italy, the Olympics were not just fun and games. Ten GW students were recruited by NBC to work as interns at the Olympics, and about 50 students, split into two groups, went to Turin as part of a three-credit course.
Their message was loud and clear: we want Georgetown. Their reception by Georgetown University students was just as clear: go home. On Saturday afternoon about 15 GW students gathered in Kogan Plaza and marched down M Street to the gates of Georgetown's campus to show support for an annual GW versus Georgetown men's basketball game.
Separating the housing pools for rising juniors and seniors this year seemed to mitigate problems that occurred last year with junior housing, University Campus Housing Director Seth Weinshel said Sunday. Earlier this semester, Weinshel said that the Community Living and Learning Center decided to change housing selection so that each class had its own pool of dorms to choose from due to complaints his office received from juniors last year when they shared a pool of dorms with seniors.
When junior Sarah Kapenstein posted her resume on a job search site, she did not expect to be offered a position that wouldn't require her to leave campus. In December, the online music service Napster contacted Kapenstien, a political communication major, and offered her a job as one of two campus marketing representatives at GW to increase students' awareness of Napster's free service to students.
In 1963, blacks made history by marching on Washington to promote civil rights. By 2016, the Smithsonian Institution will make black history on the mall again, with the creation of a new museum. The Smithsonian's Board of Regents announced in late January that 14th Street and Constitution Avenue would be the site of the new African American History and Culture Museum it hopes to build by 2016.
USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds said President Bush's heart is not in the right place on civil rights issues at a C-SPAN-televised panel discussion Friday afternoon. The five-person discussion, held at the Center for American Progress think tank in downtown D.
Posted Monday, Feb. 27, 5:20 p.m. The National Park Service has made the Ellipse available for Commencement due to delays in planned renovations, but the University will probably stick with its plan to hold the ceremony on the Mall due to "real logistical difficulties." Due to construction in the area that will still take place, and the poor quality of the Ellipse's turf, the University is "unlikely" to move the ceremony back to the Ellipse.
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 28, 9:10 p.m. Senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu had surgery on his meniscus in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, Robert Chernak, senior vice president of Student Academic and Support Services, said. The forward's surgery was successful and he began rehabilitation in Alabama and will return to Washington Wednesday.
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