Stories from the September 11, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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