Monday GW Remembers September 11 To honor the nine GW alumni and all those who died in the September 11 tragedy. 8 to 8:30 p.m. University Yard Tuesday Need Help Finding an Internship? Learn skills to help conduct a successful internship search. 4 to 5 p.m.
First female space tourist a GW alumna Anousheh Ansari is about to make history hundreds of miles away from where she went to graduate school in Foggy Bottom. Hundreds of miles above Foggy Bottom, that is. The GW alumna is set to become the first woman, and only fourth ever, space tourist when a Russian Soyuz-TM9A rocket launches her into space to the International Space Station Sept.
Adams Morgan celebrates diversity with fair Thousands of people strolled around Adams Morgan Sunday afternoon for the 28th annual celebration of the cultural and economic diversity in the Northwest neighborhood. First held in 1978, Adams Morgan Day featured many entertainment and dance acts alongside vendors selling international foods and crafts.
On the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11, there are many memorial events on campus and around the District today to commemorate the tragedy and discuss the impact of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Moment of silence The University will observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.
Today, the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, was marked by a copious amount of media attention. This comes months after the release of two 9/11-inspired feature films. The amount of hype during this solemn anniversary hides the fact that America has barely changed since that day.
Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook.com, appeared in a Washington Post article Thursday defending changes to his Web site that allow users to view up-to-the-minute updates about their friends' profiles. While there was abundant student protest shortly after the "news feed" feature went online more than a week ago, Zuckerberg gave me little indication that the Web site would change, and I expected that nothing would be done to protect student privacy.
You won't understand it until you've experienced it. While this applies to many things in life, it is especially true for Greek life. Greek life will enhance your college experience in a variety of ways, and there are many benefits to joining a fraternity or sorority.
Cut other services first Has The Hatchet become the University apologist? I, along with many fellow GW students, was extremely disappointed with The Hatchet's recent editorial ("Use paper funds wisely," Sept. 7, p. 4), which apparently supported the end of the GW Reads program.
In October 2004 the University took a hit when a former professor at GW's Virginia satellite campus was arrested for embezzling $1 million in federal research money. This summer, the campus that houses graduate programs and research laboratories put an eye to the future with the appointment of Executive Vice President of Academic Planning Craig Linebaugh as the University's chief academic operating officer of the Virginia campus.
Freshman Rebecca Adelson said she heard the hype about Thurston Hall before coming to GW. And as an early decision student, she was sure she'd be placed in her first-choice residence hall - the infamously branded freshman party central. But Adelson was assigned to the Potomac House instead, and after a week in her new abode, she's convinced fate worked to her advantage.
It's 5 a.m. and you've spent the night staring at your blank computer screen trying to get a paper done. You make it through the night and even hand your paper in on time, but then it strikes - muscle pains, neck cramps and a splitting headache. The reason could be your computer.
With its shops, bars, restaurants and traffic-clogged streets, many D.C. residents, tourists and even GW students, who often make the trek to the neighboring town by foot, wonder why Georgetown doesn't have its own Metro stop. The word is that Georgetown's elite resisted a local rail station for fear that it would "bring undesirables - the poor, the criminal, the nonwhite, and the tacky to their exclusive neighborhood," Metro historian and George Mason University Professor Zachary Schrag writes in his book, "Great Society Subway: The History of the Washington Metro.
Senior Sam Sherraden, an international affairs major and former Hatchet photo editor, spent the summer studying abroad in Beijing, China and will spend the fall semester further north in Harbin, China. Twice a month, he will share his experiences and observations from the Pacific as one of GW's many expats.
Every date throughout the year has some significance - from historical moments to celebrity news to sports trivia. Read below to find out what important events occurred on September 11 throughout history: In 1792, the Hope Diamond was stolen along with other crown jewels of the French monarchy during a weeklong looting of the government.
Past years have seen rocker upon rocker perform at Fall Fest, while the hip-hop artist was typically reserved for Spring Fling. So it was rather uncommon when Program Board announced that Common, on the heels of his May 24 platinum album release "Be," would perform at this year's festival.
After 110 grueling minutes of soccer on Saturday, the GW men's soccer team could not find the back of the net. Fortunately for the Colonials, neither could their opponents. The Colonials and the University of Delaware finished knotted 0-0 in GW's home opener after 90 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtime periods.
GW's basketball program operates on two different levels. In one respect, they are a team that went 27-1 last season, stayed in the polls all season and garnered attention from many members of the national media. The way the program operates from the inside, however, doesn't match its performance last season.
Volleyball The volleyball team finished third out of four teams at the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, Va., Sept. 7-8. Virginia Tech (6-3) and Appalachian State (5-4) swept the Colonials before GW beat Liberty (0-7) 3-0. Senior Juliene McLaughlin had 19 kills in the win and 18 kills against the Hokies.
Four candidates in the race to be D.C.'s next mayor met in the School of Media and Public Affairs Friday morning in one of the last debates before Tuesday's primary. Front-runners Linda Cropp, longtime chair of the D.C. City Council, and Councilman Adrian Fenty squared off with Councilman Vincent Orange and former CEO Marie Johns and answered a barrage of questions about education, crime, city development and emergency preparedness in the debate co-hosted by GW and Washington Post Radio in the Jack Morton Auditorium.
To prepare for the upcoming year, 20 members of the Student Association took a look at the real thing. A visits to the City Council Chambers and the Mayor's Office were part of a Student Association retreat earlier this month. It also included lectures from various faculty members, teamwork-building on a Summit Challenge Course at Mount Vernon and required volunteer time to help on move-in day.
Most freshmen are enthusiastic about coming to college. Emily Brooks has taken the excitement to an entirely new level. A week into classes, Brooks, a small but largely ambitious 18-year-old blonde-haired Tennessean, has already organized dinners for her classmates during Colonial Inauguration, declared her ambitions to run for a freshman non-voting seat in the Student Association Senate and considers more than 600 other students her friends on the social Web site Facebook.
University officials will meet this week to discuss restructuring student ticket policies for men's basketball games, said Robert Chernak, senior vice president for Student and Academic Support Services. Chernak said administrators will discuss altering the ticket policy and early entry privileges of the Colonial Army, a 1,000-person student spirit organization.
GW will not hire an outside contractor to conduct health and safety inspections of residence halls this year, according to University officials. Instead, the University's Office of Risk Management will conduct the searches, a change from last year when GW hired HRH Mitigation Incorporated to inspect residence halls.
Students will have to wait until at least December to drink alcoholic beverages on the fifth floor of the Marvin Center. The University and Sodexho, which manages food services in the Marvin Center, have not yet submitted an application for a liquor license from the city.
On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, GW graduate Caroline Bevan has something to smile about. The 2005 graduate spent the past summer across from Ground Zero in New York City helping create the newly opened galleries in Tribute WTC, a visitor center providing history and personal anecdotes from the Sept.
A performance by hip-hop artist Common at Fall Fest Saturday capped off nine days of Welcome Week activities. Welcome Week offered students shopping trips to Target, a student organization fair in the Marvin Center and the transformation of the Smith Center into a dance club.
Demonstrators dressed as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice protest against the Bush administration Sunday afternoon on the National Mall.
A few hundred students gathered in University Yard Monday night to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Student Association and Students Defending Democracy held the candlelight vigil in which University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and SA President Lamar Thorpe, a senior, spoke.
Oscar-winning actor and comedian Jamie Foxx was seen practicing basketball with GW students Tuesday evening at the Lerner Health and Wellness center third floor. More details and photos coming soon. Check back at gwhatchet.com.
Clad in a blue New York Yankee hat and GW basketball garb, Jamie Foxx, accompanied by actor Dave Brown, hooped it up with the Health and Wellness basketball faithful Tuesday evening.
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