Stories from the April 10, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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.
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.
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