Stories from the March 9, 2006, Print Edition
Thursday Spring Film Series: "The Producers" Catch Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in their Broadway roles on the big screen. 7 to 11 p.m. Marvin Center Third Floor Continental Ballroom Sponsored by Program Board Faculty authors signing reception Join three GW faculty authors at this reception and book signing.
Web site still not ready, officials 'disappointed' Student Association President Audai Shakour's administration acknowledged fault in its role in the production of the Colonial Trader Web site at a town hall forum Monday night in the Marvin Center. The Colonial Trader Web site, a pillar of Shakour's presidential campaign last year, was officially launched after a semester-long delay two months ago under the domain name www.
Sigma Chi welcomes 41 members GW's newest fraternity held a pinning ceremony last week to officially welcome the 41 men that make up its founding father class. "It was primarily a symbolic milestone for the organization," said Dean Harwood, assistant director of the Greek Life.
Junior Caitlin Carroll said she plans on bolstering staff development, particularly with new writers, and publishing more special issues and outside projects next year as The Hatchet's editor in chief. Hatchet staffers voted Carroll, the features editor, to the newspaper's top spot last week.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar or limit military recruiting on their campuses. Monday's decision put an end to a decade-long fight led by a coalition of law schools, including GW's, that were trying to strike down the statute as unconstitutional.
Former professor Paul Spiegler, who served as a lab coordinator and taught introductory biology to non-science majors last semester, died of prostate cancer over the weekend. Spiegler, who earned his master's degree from GW in 1959, has been teaching here ever since, said biology professor Robert Knowlton.
Liquor Law Violation 3/4 - Thurston Hall - 9:44 p.m. - case closed A male student entered the building and indicated to University Police officers on duty that he had a knee injury. Officers notified EMeRG and while waiting for them to arrive, the subject told officers that he was involved in an altercation at a local bar while playing pool.
Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne have followed through on a 2001 pledge and donated $2.7 million to the School of Medicine and Health Science for the creation of a cardiovascular institute in their names, the Medical Faculty Associates announced last week.
A litigious law professor said he will threaten legal action against the University unless it decides to take at least some action on a student's proposal to ban smoking within 25 feet of GW-owned buildings. Carlye Austin, a GW graduate student and member of the local group Smokefree DC, is leading an effort to rid GW buildings of the "gauntlet of smoke" that lingers by each entrance.
GW denied any wrongdoing in a response it filed Monday to a lawsuit from a former student who alleges the University breached his confidentiality when he sought depression treatment. In a civil suit filed in the D.C. Superior Court in October, former student Jordan Nott alleges that GW policies discriminate against students with mental illness and stigmatize those who seek help.
Greek-letter life officially expanded Monday with the Panhellenic Association's announcement of its newest member: sorority Pi Beta Phi. It is the second Greek-letter organization to join GW this year. The Interfratenity Council expanded in October by adding the Sigma Chi fraternity.
The price of the least-expensive room in residence halls will increase by $900 next year as a result of an overall percentage increase in housing costs and the decision to collapse pricing into fewer rate categories. GW's Board of Trustees approved a 1.7 percent overall increase in the amount of revenue GW should bring in from room and board costs at its Feb. 10 meeting.
Posted Friday, March 10, 3:23 p.m. President Bush will speak at GW Monday, the second time in his presidency he has come to the University. His first visit to campus was on Oct. 15, 2002, when he delivered a speech on minority homeownership in the School of Media and Public Affairs building's Jack Morton Auditorium.
Posted Monday, March 13, 5:24 p.m. President Bush stressed the need to strengthen Iraqi police forces and combat the use of improvised explosive devices in a speech Monday at the Marvin Center's Betts Theatre.
Posted Friday, March 17, 3:46 p.m. The University answered two question marks about graduation Friday, announcing that it will definitely hold Commencement on the National Mall and it will host Monumental in Union Station. The University also announced that in the event of severe weather, the University hopes to use the Verizon Center, previously called the MCI Center, as an alternate Commencement site.
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