Stories from the September 18, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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