More and more college professors are looking at pornography. Some of them are even watching it with their students. But it's not the latest student-teacher sex scandal - it's an emerging phenomenon in academia and one that some say has an important future in university curriculums.
For many college students, iPods are an indispensable companion for those long walks in between classes. Yet at some universities, the popular music players are making their way into the classrooms themselves. Faculty at a number colleges are experimenting with various ways to allow students the chance to use their iPods for educational purposes, be it reviewing lectures through their headphones or downloading audio-visual course material.
The number of international students applying for admission into U.S. postgraduate institutions is on the rise, according to the Council of Graduate Schools. The group's "International Graduate Admissions Survey" found that the number of international graduate school applicants rose by 11 percent between 2005 and 2006, after applications had dropped by nearly a third over the previous two years.
Anyone who has followed the Student Association elections for the past three years would have had a case of d?j? vu last week. During the general election, the Real GW slate overwhelmingly dominated the Senate election, and the group's presidential and vice-presidential candidates were expected to prevail in last week's run off.
Have you ever seen one of the bigwig's offices over in Rice Hall? If you think that our dorm rooms are palaces, get ready to have your world turned upside-down. Extremely spacious, extravagantly finished and filled with memorabilia of all sorts - this is the type of space that President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has used for the past 18 years as his command central over the University.
Polarizing figures may be bad for politics, but they've been pretty good to academia - and to GW. Our University has been the proud host to a number of controversial academics in recent weeks. Last Thursday, the academic "royal rumble" of the year took place on campus between conservative author David Horowitz and far-left professor Ward Churchill.
It is widely recognized that the situation in Iraq is highly problematic and the management of the occupation has, up until now, been exceptionally incompetent. Members of both parties have expressed discontent and frustration with the Bush administration's policies in Iraq.
Last week, I forwarded a private e-mail asking students to voice their opposition to a divestment event sponsored by the group Students for Justice in Palestine. Regrettably, that correspondence included an unfortunate characterization of one of the lead activists, Fadi Kiblawi, and has overshadowed the issue. As Kiblawi pointed out, the issue at hand should not be one of personality, but one of substance.
Tuesday Jackie Robinson panel discussion Discussion addressing the life and career of Jackie Robinson and his effect on society. 7 to 9 p.m. Gelman 207 Sponsored by the GW Jackie Robinson Society Idealist.org nonprofit career fair Job-seekers can distribute resum?s and speak with organizational representatives about current and future employment and internship opportunities.
Two GW seniors are among the country's most promising minority students, according to the American Advertising Federation. Adette Contreras, a marketing and international business major, was selected as a finalist for the federation's award; senior Christopher Pitre received an honorable mention from the federation.
The Hatchet's April 3 edition erroneously reported in the graphic titled "General election winners" (p. 6) that Kenny Brown won a Student Association Senate seat representing the School of Business. The School of Business has two Senate seats, not three, and Brown came in third place in the race.
Monday through Friday, junior Lauren Glasser is out of her door by 7:45 a.m., works until 5 p.m., goes to class until 10 p.m. - and then it's straight to the library. Glasser works for the anti-piracy litigation team of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Despite rain moving the event from its traditional spot on University Yard, this year's Spring Fling was no disappointment. Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli was the main attraction Saturday, a step up from last year's disappointing Lloyd Banks and his gun sound effects.
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.
After torching the Temple Owls for four unanswered goals in the opening 5:30, the GW women's lacrosse team stumbled, losing the game 13-10 on Sunday. In front of about 300 GW and Temple fans at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, attackers Colleen Schmidt, a senior, and Laura Hostetler, a junior, scored three goals apiece, but it was not enough to propel the Colonials past the Owls.
The rain that fell over the Potomac River and the 19th annual GW Invitational Crew Classic did not deter the men's crew team from rowing to a fourth-place finish Saturday. The Naval Academy took first place, followed by Georgetown and Virginia, the 2005 winner.
A lot of GW students got a haircut this weekend. Buzzing for Change, an event that raises money to send children with cancer to summer camps, held its third annual head-shaving event Sunday in Kogan Plaza where $13,500 was raised and 247 students either got hair cuts or buzzes to raise money - and hair - for charity.
University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill said teachers should be allowed to interpret and express political views in the classroom, while conservative author David Horowitz said teachers should not at a hot-tempered debate held on campus Thursday night.
Liberal radio talk show host Al Franken broadcasted his show, typically based in Minneapolis, live from GW's Jack Morton Auditorium last week, giving him the opportunity to criticize and satirize President Bush in a building five blocks from the White House.
In the past four years GW has managed to increase its level of minority professors by 3 percentage points, but despite efforts to recruit them, has made no progress increasing the number of Hispanic professors on campus, University officials said. According to GW's Office of Institutional Research, the percentage of full-time faculty identified as racial minorities - black, Asian, Hispanic and Native American - has slowly risen from 16 percent in fall 2001 to 19 percent in fall 2005.
The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences unveiled its newest science degree program this year - biophysics. Five students have opted for the biophysics major so far, which studies science at the molecular level and works to understand the structure of individual molecules and their interactions.
Junior Lamar Thorpe beat opponent Morgan Corr, also a junior, by 186 votes for the SA presidency. Junior Josh Lasky beat sophomore Angela Chang by 439 votes and will be the SA's executive vice president next year. Liz Fox, chair of the JEC, made the announcement at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday in the Marvin Center, after two days of a runoff campaign and a week after the general election.
For some, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's legacy will be the growth of GW or his testy relationship with Foggy Bottom residents. But many students said they will remember the president for bringing something else to GW: an unofficial mascot. Trachtenberg brought the hippo to GW in 2000.
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton attended a memorial service Sunday in Lisner Auditorium to pay tribute to the late Eli Segal, a Cabinet aide and chief executive of the service organization AmeriCorps. GW students, Segal's family, friends and some of the politicians that Segal worked with, including 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, attended the event.
The owners of Froggy Bottom Pub - one of the neighborhood's most popular hangouts - will soon be opening a restaurant and motel a world away based on the Pennsylvania Avenue venue. Hien Bui has owned the Froggy Bottom Pub for seven years. Along with her husband, Hoang, she plans on opening a Froggy Bottom Pub in suburban Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
It's a familiar sight: thousands of college students snaked around the Smith Center waiting to get inside. On Sunday night, however, it wasn't for an athletic event, but rather a night filled with the lyrical and musical spectacle that is Matisyahu and his blazing band.
Law professor John Banzhaf, who has threatened to sue the University if it doesn't ban smoking outside its buildings, took his threats one step further last week when he sent a letter of intent to sue to the director of the GW Office of Risk Management and Insurance.
Universities may be forced to reevaluate how they deal with depressed students after a recent settlement stemming from the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student. On April 3, the family of former MIT student Elizabeth Shin settled with the university for an undisclosed sum, ending nearly six years of controversy surrounding the circumstances of her untimely death.
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