Stories from the September 7, 2006, Print Edition
Thursday Club G22 Dance the night away at Club G22 as part of Welcome Week. 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Corner of 22nd and G streets Sponsored by Colonial Night Cap, Student Association and Mount Vernon Campus Life Friday MSSC Block Party Join the organizations of the Multicultural Student Services Center for an evening of barbecue, music and games.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe's cabinet is not shaping up as planned. Interim vice president of academic affairs, sophomore Hayley Haldeman, announced her resignation from Thorpe's cabinet this week. The move marks the second departure of one of Thorpe's top advisers since he took office four months ago.
A block party sponsored by the Multicultural Student Services Center will take place this Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Kogan Plaza. Students in attendance will be able to meet members of the University's various multicultural student and Greek-letter organizations, and enjoy prize giveaways and free food.
The bookstore has enhanced its Web features this year in order to keep up with online textbook vendors. The high cost of textbooks prompts many students to turn to online services selling books at lower costs. Students can now go online to place a backlog order on the bookstore's Web site for a book not in stock at the store.
The Hatchet erroneously reported in the Sept. 5 issue that the bistro TONIC is located in Columbia Heights ("TONIC to open in Jan.," p. 3). The bistro is located in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. The Hatchet erroneously reported that Andrew Salzman is a former Student Association senator from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development ("SA seeks four new judges" p.
The federal government continues to be denied access to documents it believes contain classified information that are being held by the University. In May, the Hatchet reported that two FBI agents visited the home of Mark Feldstein, an associate professor of Media and Public Affairs, asking that the University grant them access to a collection of documents belonging to the family of the late famed investigative journalist Jack Anderson.
New features on the popular social networking site Facebook sparked discussion about online privacy on college campuses nationwide Tuesday. A "news feed" on the site's homepage and "mini feed" on profile pages shows users the most recent actions of their online friends.
A Foggy Bottom hotel GW recommends to visiting parents was charged with violating federal labor laws. The State Plaza Hotel located was found guilty of coercing employees to oppose its workers' recent unionization attempt.
If students want to read The Washington Post, they are going to have to pay for it. University administrators announced this week the GW Reads program, which has provided newspapers in residence halls for free since 1997, has been canceled due to budget constraints.
On Monday afternoon, Willard Rocky Johnson stood at the intersection of 27th and K streets holding a sign that read, "I am homeless could you PLEASE help for food." Balancing his cardboard message and a big McDonald's soda cup, he approached drivers sitting in their cars waiting for the light to turn green. Johnson is one of many homeless people who recently moved closer to Foggy Bottom after being evicted from Georgetown.
The morning-after pill is expected to be available over the counter to adult women in D.C. before the end of 2006. The Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency contraceptive, also called "Plan B," to be sold without a prescription Aug. 24. Plan B reduces the risk of pregnancy by 89 percent when taken within 72 hours after sex, according to Duramed, the company manufacturing the drug.
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