Thursday PROGRESSIVE STUDENT ORGANIZATION FAIR Check out these groups and get involved in progressive causes on campus. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kogan Plaza Sponsored by GW College Democrats FALL FILM SERIES: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Catch a free showing of the movie that has created a buzz about the environment.
Thorpe nominates junior for SA Court Junior Ryan Sullivan will be Student Association President Lamar Thorpe's first nominee for the Student Court, the SA executive said at a special address Tuesday night in the organization's office. Chosen by Thorpe from a field of seven candidates, Sullivan served on last year's Joint Elections Committee, the organization that oversees the SA elections.
Tau Kappa Epsilon wins "Top Teke" Award The Tau Kappa Epsilon national organization chose GW's chapter of the fraternity as winner of the "Top Teke Award," the most prestigious honor a chapter can receive. The fraternity's national organization evaluates the excellence of each chapter on standards like fundraising, philanthropy, academics, extra curricular involvement and community service.
An article in the Sept. 14 issue ("For some, extra classes isn't overbooking," p. 1) erroneously reported that 15 credits is required to achieve full-time student status. Only 12 credits are needed for a student to be considered full-time.
Members of GW's highest oversight body solicited student, faculty and staff opinion in two forums in an effort to gain feedback about the University's academic and strategic plans for the next two decades. Discussions focused on the search for a new University President and what attracted students and faculty to Foggy Bottom.
President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai are scheduled to speak on campus. Musharraf will speak this Friday in the Marvin Center's Betts Theatre and Karzai is set to give his address next Tuesday in the Jack Morton Auditorium.
The first female space tourist, alumna Anousheh Ansari, an alumna, will answer students' questions in the Marvin Center while she is circling the Earth on the International Space Station Friday. Local-area middle school, high school and GW students will participate in the event Friday in the third floor amphitheater.
Sororities invited a slightly higher number of women into their organizations this year compared to last year, according to the organization that oversees sorority recruitment. The process was completed Tuesday and 240 women were invited to join one of the eight organizations on campus under the Panhellenic Association, the group that oversees those eight Greek-letter groups.
I couldn't help but notice the irony earlier this month when, the same weekend I was furiously studying dozens of bizarre, unfamiliar vocabulary words for the GRE, I had also been assigned reread one of my favorites for class, William Strunk and E.B. White's "Elements of Style.
Our View: Despite the Colonial Army's loss of ticket benefits, the group can still maintain a strong presence on the GW sports scene. Colonial Army, the spirit group that dominated the attendance of men's basketball games last season, will no longer have access to tickets before the rest of the student said Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz.
Earlier this month, GW administrators made the decision to yank free copies of The New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today from dorm news racks. Associate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Johnnie Osborne told the Hatchet that students have many other avenues for newspaper readership and the elimination of the GW Reads program would have "minimum impact.
When the Columbian College tightened its purse strings last spring, there was a great deal of noise made about changes to the Music Department. Fortunately, as The Hatchet reported last week, those changes won't affect as many students as was once feared. Budget cuts also targeted another culturally oriented department - the film studies minor.
Persians, Indians, Southeast Asians, Americans, Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists, students, professionals and government employees gathered at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning two weekends ago on the second floor of the Elliott School building. Lured by hot coffee and oversized muffins, an impressive crowd turned out for the second day of the "9/11 + 5" conference, hosted by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID).
Disorderly Conduct 9/14 - Aston Hall - 6:33 p.m. - case closed A man who is a permanent resident in the Aston became disruptive and yelled at a University Police officer in the lobby. The man was upset that he had to show ID to an officer who was stationed at the residence hall because a malfunctioning door allowed access to non-residents.
Almost 10,000 participants in an American Cancer Society rally came to the National Mall Wednesday to lobby their members of Congress for increased treatment and research funding. Organizers said ACS intends to get every member of Congress to sign a pledge to continue funding for cancer research and pass legislation for other preventative care efforts.
GW law professor Mary Cheh won the primary election for a D.C. Council seat last week and said she will continue teaching if she is elected in November. Cheh won the Democratic nomination for the Ward 3 Council seat last Tuesday, defeating eight opponents including fellow professor Erik Gaull.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) emphasized the importance of changing security policies and the plan for the war in Iraq in a speech Tuesday night in the Elliott School of International Affairs. Boxer told the audience that the U.S. troops in Iraq need a defined objective, but said it is difficult when the reasons for entering the war have changed many times.
About 50 students and faculty attended GW's Constitution Day tribute Tuesday featuring author Walter Isaacson discussing his book "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life." Isaacson, who was formerly the CEO and Chairman of CNN and managing editor for TIME Magazine, spoke about Benjamin Franklin's transformation from a printer's apprentice to a national leader.
Members of a national progressive student organization with a GW chapter want to repeal a federal law that prohibits students with a criminal drug history of being eligible for financial aid. According to a section of the Higher Education Act, legislation creating federal grant and loan programs for colleges and universities, students who have a drug conviction are unable to receive federal financial aid.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized President George W. Bush's handling of the war on terror in a speech at Georgetown University Monday night. Albright was the guest of honor at the fourth annual Snowdon Lecture, a speech by a public figure addressing the intersection of faith and social justice in the world.
Facebook and Chase Bank are offering free bike-taxi rides for students to promote their joint credit card. Blue three-wheeled bicycle carts parked outside the Marvin Center are offering rides from C Street to Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street to 25th Street from 9 a.
Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs promoted his new album "Press Play" Wednesday in a Northwest D.C. public school. Combs, formerly known as "Puff Daddy," "Puffy" and "P. Diddy," spoke to students at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Combs, who referred to the school as "Diddy High," offered advice to the students about continuing education.
When my editor called me Thursday night with the opportunity to see Ludacris in concert and visit his tour bus I said what any other college student vaguely familiar with his singles would - "Hell yes!" I spent the rest of that evening telling anyone within earshot that at this time tomorrow, I would be asking "Luda" himself exactly how many hoes he had in the "202" area code.
"Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!" to Arena Stage's rendition of "Cabaret" (director Molly Smith) - the highly praised and Tony Award-winning 1966 Broadway musical. With a magnificent blend of talented actors who tell a tale embodied with scandalous and wildly entertaining elements, this is definitely one performance that audiences cannot afford to miss.
"We're actually doing a whole new set," says Architecture in Helsinki singer Cameron Bird from San Francisco, a week before his band begins its fall tour. "We're doing twelve new songs. We're playing three old songs, I think. We haven't actually played any of them yet, so I'm totally freaking out.
If you have $5 Donate it to 5-10-20 as a token of your appreciation for all the money we save you every week, because you won't need it to enjoy The Music of Jos? Luis Greco at GW's own Lisner Auditorium. Straddling the lines separating the music, theater and dance worlds, Greco's compositions are sure to pique the interest of those with more eclectic tastes.
The best way to describe "Confetti" (Fox Searchlight) would be to say that it's a romantic comedy directed by Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap," "Best in Show," etc.) - except that Guest isn't directing it at all. Filling in is a Brit by the name of Debbie Isitt, a writer and director new to American audiences.
A band with a name like "Pink Martini" might initially conjure up images of smoky, dimly lit piano bars where customers gather for dreamy lounge music and colorful cocktails. While some sounds from this 12-piece, Portland, Ore.-based ensemble may lend themselves to these associations, many fans would insist that the lounge element is only one component of an otherwise unexpected landscape of sounds to come from a band named after a cocktail.
When five seasoned veterans of the D.C. music scene get together to collaborate, it could easily turn into a creative nightmare. However, the nightmare never came to fruition as Chris Connelly got together with Shane German (formerly of Trixie Delicious), Rich Dejong (formerly of Phaser), Mike Harbin (formerly of Burning Airlines) and Alexia Kauffman (of Engine Down).
Perhaps, while on your way to purchase a few wine coolers for your fraternity-house shindig, or while idly following the scent of that vile temptress that is SizzEx, you have spied the Magic Gourd Restaurant. Perhaps, on a whim, you have wandered in beneath its neon sign to view its dim, serene interior and surrender yourself to its host of Chinese delicacies.
"Today's generation really only knows three things about John Lennon," said GW alum David Leaf in an interview Tuesday. "That he was a Beatle, that he wrote 'Imagine', and that he was shot." Therein lies the appeal of his new documentary "The US vs. John Lennon," which Leaf co-directed and produced with John Scheinfeld.
"Whatever your haven is, it's your responsibility to protect it," says director Frankie Flowers. With the release of "Haven" in theaters this week, Flowers hits a jackpot in his first major full-length film. Shot entirely in the West Indies' Cayman Islands, the movie's gorgeous, tranquil setting proves to be anything but a haven for corrupt businessman Carl Ridley (Bill Paxton).
"All the King's Men" is a new film based on the old Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren. The film is the melodramatic, archetypal tale about the nature of men and the world colored with shades of gray that they inhabit. Whenever a movie comes out based on a classic novel, there is the natural controversy about whether or not film can do novels justice, whether or not ideas can be successfully translated across mediums.
The restructuring of the ticketing and admission procedure for men's basketball games is a step towards changing the "culture" of GW basketball and preparing fans for a major overhaul of Smith Center seating, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said. Within the next three years, barring any unexpected budgetary constraints, the University is planning to replace at least the upper portion of the student section with individual stadium-style seats - a project that is estimated to cost about $1.
Colonial Army president Frank Dale returned to campus looking forward to basketball season and the front section Smith Center seats his three-year-old spirit organization has always received for home games. Instead, Dale, a junior, came to Foggy Bottom and learned that the future of the organization he leads is up in the air.
As the women's soccer team battled against an unwavering American University squad Sept. 19, the squad's emotions were left on the field. In the end, GW proved itself to be a stronger competitor than its local rival, as the Colonials trumped the Eagles 2-1 in a thriller that came down to the game's final minutes.
To accommodate more seating for the WOW Caf? and Wingery set to be in the Hippodrome, the University is eliminating the video games and ping-pong tables in the arcade area. The Southwest-style wing restaurant was originally slated to open by Sept. 5 with the rest of the new Marvin Center dining venues.
A former GW student's parents allegedly bound and kidnapped her in Maine last week and planned to force her have an abortion, a police officer said. Katelyn Kampf left Boston College last year after her parents, Nicholas and Lola Kampf, became aware of her relationship with a man now in jail, the Boston Globe reported this week.
The University is planning a major overhaul of ticketing and student seating for basketball games, which will likely take away the Colonial Army's early admission to the Smith Center, an official said. Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said the group will lose its early entry privileges.
Colonials Invasion will not take place this year due to nearly $900,000 in budget cuts to Student and Academic Support Services, an official said. Robert Chernak, senior vice president for Student and Academic Support Services, said the University was forced to axe the three-year old pep event that introduces the basketball season.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe said Tuesday that he will not be lobbying the University for student representation on the Board of Trustees. For two years a group of SA leaders have been petitioning for student representation on the Board of Trustees, the University's highest governing body that makes decisions about tuition and enrollment and is in the process of choosing the next president of the University.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dodged the topic of Sept. 11 at his speech on Pakistan's development in the Marvin Center's Betts Theatre Friday afternoon. Musharraf's speech comes a day after the airing of a CBS program in which he alleged the U.S. threatened to bomb his country if it did not join the U.S in the war on terror.
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