Monday Washington Internship Program Info Session Come find out about this program combining work and study in D.C. 2 to 3 p.m. Marvin Center 307 Sponsored by the Career Center Ektelon Racquetball Demo Day Whether a beginner or an advanced player, come get some tips and demos of the latest gear.
Elliott School to add graduate program in Middle East Studies The Elliott School of International Affairs plans to launch a graduate program in Middle East Studies next fall. "We feel that since 9-11, we need more of a focus on the Middle East," said David Grier, the associate dean for academic programs for the Elliott School of International Affairs.
The Hatchet erroneously attributed quotes in the Sept. 14 issue to Gary Livacari ("GW Dems offer alternative club," p. 6). Some of Livacari's quotes should have been attributed to junior Peter Glessing, the College Republicans Director of Public Relations.
Beginning next week, students seeking to switch from their residence hall to another hall must find a willing partner also seeking a room swap. While this new policy may ease the housing staff's workload, forcing students to facilitate their own housing shift is an unwise policy.
Congress approved a bill last week providing the public easier access to information about federal academic contracts and grants - including those financed through bill earmarks - through a Web-based search engine. Access to this database will no doubt help America's scholarly research institutions.
On October 1, the Student Association will allocate funds to hundreds of student organizations. Shrieks of injustice will fill the Foggy Bottom air, as students curse the SA for doling out insufficient sums. Thus continues the proud GW tradition of squealing about money.
My last so-called home in Leeds, U.K. had missing floorboards that my crafty housemates and I fixed with duct tape and ripped-up newspaper pages. My European student accommodation before that had a bathroom so small that the shower was actually right above the toilet.
I wanted to express my opinion and partial opposition to the "Bar Belle" (Sept. 14, p. 8). I live two blocks north of the bar you reviewed, The Red & The Black (1212 H St., N.E.), and I found the repeated mention that the neighborhood is dangerous to be offensive.
D.C.'s subway authority ran an annual crisis drill Sunday morning to practice police and fire response to an explosion on a train traveling toward Foggy Bottom. A flash-bang grenade and volunteers with mock wounds were used to make the drill as realistic as possible.
About 40 students wearing buff and blue pins reading "Grow Up, Not Out" - the University's catchphrase for proposed development - traveled downtown Thursday night to attend a D.C. zoning hearing to support the University's proposed 20-year Campus Plan. Campaign GW, a group founded by last year's Student Association administration, bussed the students from campus to the meeting.
Steve Meima left his home in Montgomery County, Md., for Southeast D.C. Saturday afternoon, toting two kids and a few guns. Meima, who goes hunting and skeet-shooting, is one of many D.C.-area residents who sold back their firearms to the Metropolitan Police Department Saturday.
The Trader Joe's specialty grocery store that opened this month near the Foggy Bottom campus may be accepting Colonial Cash, according to Nancy Haaga, director of Campus Support Services. Many students have walked to the 2425 L St. store in the past two weeks since District Market downsized into a convenience store this fall.
On the same street where today's soldiers nurse their battle wounds in Northwest Washington, a series of simple white stones stand guard over the ghosts of the soldiers from another era. Just blocks away from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C., and only about five miles away from GW's campus, lies Fort Stevens from the Civil War, where some 40 soldiers during the mid-nineteenth century died defending the nation's capital in one of the war's last battles.
Most sexually active students know the potential consequences of not using a condom when having sex - possible pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS - but when it comes to oral sex, it seems the condom consideration is often left out.
At the onset of her fourth year in college, Eve has learned quite a few things about sex. Eve, The Hatchet's anonymous sex columnist, will share her observations and (sometimes dirty) thoughts about sex at GW with the population that fuels her fire. My name is Eve.
At Wasabi Sushi, there's no waiting for a waitress to come and take your order. Your food is ready the moment you sit down - you just have to catch it before the person sitting next to you grabs the prawn cucumber pesto roll you wanted. Food moves fast at this 17th and I Street eatery.
In a handful of campuses across the country, students' cell phones are blowin' up - not with calls from their friends, but with text messages from professors. A new technology known as Rave Wireless allows students to stay in touch with campus information through their cell phones.
Ivory Tower is the premier upperclassman dorm, but some residents walk into their building and have flashbacks of freshman year - yells by a University Police Department officer to swipe your GWorld and groups of people forming a line to sign in their guests.
When graduate student Heather Bradley started a program in El Salvador that helped orphan children take photographs, she never imagined the United Nations would exhibit the children's work. Bradley, who got her undergraduate degree last May with a major in Latin American studies and women's studies, first traveled to San Salvador two years ago with a United States Agency for International Development internship in San Salvador.
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 throughout history on September 18: In 1793, the first cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol building was laid by then-President George Washington.
When junior Molly Nelson participated on the Project Exploration trip as a freshman in 2004, she didn't know that two years later she would be almost single-handedly coordinating the trip. The same goes for senior Sara Neumann who planned and coordinated Experience D.
Five Duquesne basketball players were shot Sunday morning on the school's Pittsburgh campus, putting two of the players in critical condition, according to The Associated Press. Sam Ashaolu and Stuard Baldonado are the most severely injured of the five, the AP reported.
The University and the NIH Federal Credit Union warned students and other account holders of receiving scam e-mail notifications meant to look like official bank communications. The University has sent two mass e-mails - the most recent was last week - to students alerting them about the dangers of following the fraudulent e-mails' instructions, said Alexa Kim, director of ISS Technology Services.
Seth MacFarlane, creator, producer and voice of the popular animated series' "Family Guy" and "American Dad," shared jokes and wisdom with a crowd of fans at the Smith Center Saturday night. Audience members filling about half of the Smith Center were treated to a preview of Sunday night's "Family Guy" episode and were able to ask MacFarlane questions.
When head coach Tanya Vogel glanced down the sideline at the visitors' bench during the GW women's soccer team's 2-1 overtime victory over Vermont Sunday, the scene reminded her of her GW dorm room 15 years ago. The metal benches and soccer players may not have been the dorm d?cor back then, but one thing remained the same: standing not too far away was Vogel's former college roommate and current head coach of Vermont, Kerry Dziczkaniec.
The University is considering having students line up the day before home men's basketball games to pick up tickets, the co-president of the Colonial Army said. Frank Dale, the co-president of the student spirit organization, said the administration has not made a decision about whether his organization will be able to gain early entry into basketball games.
The cold and clouds were an ominous sign for the GW men's soccer team's Saturday match-up against George Mason. This year's installment of the annual meeting, which bounces between the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex and George Mason Stadium, found the Patriots with a 1-0 advantage after Mason sophomore Dan Ames tapped in the game-winning goal in the 26th minute.
Volleyball The volleyball team dropped three straight games at the Wake Forest Black & Gold Challenge in Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 15-16. Friday they fell 3-2 to Wake Forest, followed by 3-0 defeats at the hands of Winthrop and then Davidson on Saturday. The Colonials (7-6) had just 49 kills in their first game, compared to the Demon Deacons' 80, while Winthrop tallied 65 total points compared to GW's 29.
As University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg prepares to say goodbye to his presidency in July, he is also saying goodbye to as many alumni, in as many places, as possible. Over the next year Trachtenberg will be traveling to 10 alumni receptions within the United States and other events in London and Oxford, England.
Clinical psychologist Mark D. Lerner discussed how individuals can help and support victims of traumatic events at a University Counseling Center presentation Friday in the Marvin Center. Lerner helped write "A Practical Guide for University Crisis Response" and is president of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress He has also worked with the United Nations Department of Safety and Security.
With 15 food venues under review for becoming Colonial Cash partners, it may be a while before anyone can swipe their GWorld at Trader Joe's, among other places. University officials say the process to joining the approximately four-dozen D.C. restaurants and food-providers accepting Colonial Cash can be a long one.
Next week GW Housing Programs will switch its room change policy to a room swap policy for students who want new housing assignments. Students in the past were able to move out of one housing assignment and into another as long as the second room had an unoccupied bed.
University officials defended the 20-year Campus Plan proposal before D.C.'s Zoning Commission Thursday night in the first of four public hearings to advise the commission on their decision to approve or deny the plan. The proposed 20-year plan is intended to replace the current 10-year plan, set to expire in 2009.
Reform Judaism magazine ranked GW the sixth private school in its "top 60 schools Jews choose" rankings earlier this month. This year, Hillel - the national foundation promoting Jewish college life - reported that GW's student body is 32 percent Jewish.
The Colonial Army will not receive preferential seating and Colonial Invasion will not take place this basketball season, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said. The University will likely release lower section tickets to students one business day before the game, Kvancz said.
"I check it, like, 7000 times a day . mainly to stalk people," said 17-year-old Brianna Russo. "Yeah, I check my email, and go on Facebook," added Kristen Warn, 18, who also uses the popular internet site to "stalk people." The University of Maryland freshmen laughed as they described their obsessive relationship with Facebook.
The United States Mint has called for students to apply to its Artistic Infusion Program, which was created specifically for outside artists to contribute to the design of the Mint's coins and medals. Up to six college or graduate-level student designers will be chosen, in addition to 10 new associate designers and 10 current master designers.
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