Stories from the February 27, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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