Monday International development studies program: Capstone Projects 2006 presentations Join these graduate students as they examine international policies from around the globe. 2 to 7:30 p.m. 1957 E Street, Lindner Family Commons Sponsored by the international development studies program Tuesday Chalk-In Leave your mark at the 26th annual Chalk-In.
SEAS students win awards Two students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Izaak Beekman and Nathan Green, recently received Goldwater and Fulbright scholarships, respectively. Beekman, a junior studying mechanical engineering, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, which promotes excellence in science and mathematics.
The article "Report criticizes 4x4 proposal" (April 17, p.1) quoted Faculty Senate four-by-force task force representative Robert Dunn as saying four-by-four is a "solution looking for a problem." Dunn did not say this; the quote was taken from a Faculty Senate report on four-by-four.
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.
Think prom is just for high school? Think again. More than 100 senior citizens and 180 student volunteers gathered Saturday for the fourth annual Senior Prom in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Two key Democratic lawmakers are promoting a bill to cut the interest rates for student loans in half in response to large budget cuts made to student aid earlier this year. The "Reverse the Raid on Student Aid Act," introduced earlier this month by Rep.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - In spite of a report that members of the suspended Duke University men's lacrosse team might transfer to Georgetown to play for the lacrosse team next spring, a Georgetown official said that no transfer applications have been filed by Duke lacrosse players.
Administrators, the University Police Department and the Office of Risk Management will discuss the possibility of acquiring an ambulance for EMeRG at their regular meeting later this month. But the process of acquiring an ambulance is not easy. EMeRG leaders said that for six years GW's student-run emergency response unit has been in pursuit of its own ambulance, but has been unable to acquire one because of bureaucratic roadblocks.
University officials said they do not know why a diesel generator's toxic exhaust seeped into Duqu?s Hall earlier this month, but precautions are being put in place in case a similar unexplained accident reoccurs.
More than 300 students, alumni and family members gathered at the Marvin Center Saturday night to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GW's Organization for Latin American Students. The festivities, which ran until well past midnight, included traditional musical performances, dancing, poetry reading, theatrical monologues and a feast of Latin American food.
Andrea Powell was in Germany about 10 years ago working at a domestic violence shelter. She befriended one of the victims in the clinic but was surprised when her new friend vanished one day. After searching in Eastern Europe and Bosnia, Powell became worried her friend had been victimized again.
While seven District residents are vying for the Ward 3 seat on the D.C. City Council in this fall's election, for candidate and GW law professor Mary Cheh, the competition is hitting close to home. Erik Gaull, an adjunct professor at GW, announced earlier this semester that he will also be running for Ward 3 council member, a position currently occupied by Kathy Patterson, who is leaving the seat in order to run for council chair.
The D.C. Zoning Commission decided last week that it would consider increasing overall density and altering height restrictions for GW's buildings. The changes are needed for the University to implement its proposed 20-year Campus Plan. The commission's decision Thursday kicks off the city approval process for GW's future development plans.
The GW golf team took a significant step toward making the NCAA Tournament for the first time in more than 40 years with a second-place finish this past weekend in the Rutherford Intercollegiate at State College, Pa. Coach Scott Allen said he thinks the win should guarantee the Colonials entrance into the NCAA Tournament.
A pair of heart-breaking road defeats this past weekend to two Atlantic 10 foes has all but guaranteed that the GW women's lacrosse team will not qualify for the conference tournament. The women fell 13-11 to St. Bonaventure Friday afternoon, followed by a 12-11 overtime loss to Duquesne Sunday.
GW women's head basketball coach Joe McKeown announced last week the hiring of Ali Jaques as assistant coach to replace Lisa Cermignano, who took an equal position at Vanderbilt three weeks ago. "She's a terrific coach," McKeown said Friday in a phone interview about Jaques.
Women's crew The GW women's crew team took fifth place in the Atlantic 10 women's rowing championship, and coach Rob McCracken was named A-10 coach of the year. Massachusetts won the championship for the 11th consecutive time. Saint Joseph's came in second, Dayton in third and Rhode Island finished fourth.
Last week it was reported that the FBI is attempting to obtain the private documents of Jack Anderson, a recently deceased Washington journalist whose files GW is in the process of acquiring for archival purposes. Anderson covered scandals from the CIA plan to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro to the Watergate debacle, and the FBI claims that his papers may contain classified information.
I went to New York City last weekend, and now I am broke. I am so broke. I have less than $100 left in my checking account, and even less on my GWorld. Going to New York City for a weekend is like gambling in a casino. You have a lot of fun while you're there, but once you leave you realize what a douchebag you've been toward your personal finances.
The Gelman Library basement's computer lab is more or less silent, save for the relentless hum of its Dells and the back-and-forth chatter among the building's relentless socialites. But every so often, its tranquility is pierced by someone who's freaking out because he didn't realize that files cannot be permanently saved to a library computer.
A Faculty Senate four-by-four task force report recently labeled the new curriculum proposal "a solution looking for a problem." Funny, since as a student, the problem has been obvious to me since I first cracked open the GW Bulletin. Four-by-four is a solution to the problem of curricular incoherence and excess.
GW officials announced Friday afternoon that they will put up signs outside of University buildings directing people not to smoke near the entrances, conceding to demands in a petition signed by more than 500 students and faculty members that were originally rejected earlier in April.
GW expects to get plans for the construction of its own boathouse along the Potomac River underway as soon as Georgetown University's boathouse plans are cleared through the National Park Service. But that may not happen anytime soon. GW acquired two townhouses on the Georgetown waterfront between 35th and 36th streets in 2003 and plans on trading them for land owned by the Park Service just east of the Key Bridge as the site for a new boathouse.
Administrators are mulling a budget for the next fiscal year that would call for cuts in academic affairs expenses. In the next two weeks, the University will announce final plans to bridge an $8.2 million gap between revenue and expenses for the next University budget, which goes into effect in July.
A year waiting for a campaign-promised online trading Web site was too long for five seniors. So in less than a month's time and without spending $11,000 of student funds, they created their own exchange site. Last April, when senior Audai Shakour was elected SA president, he promised a versatile online trading portal.
By his own account, graduate student and alumnus Paul Kendrick is about as stereotypically white as they come. With blue eyes, pointy bangs and an unmistakably pale complexion, he isn't one you'd expect would be intimate with the black experience. But since coming to GW almost five years ago, Kendrick has been one of the most active members of the school's black community, serving last year as the head of GW's chapter of the NAACP and co-founding a black living and learning community last year.
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