Monday Grad Schools Day Meet with representatives from more than 300 professional and law schools from around the country during the Graduate and Professional School Fair. 3 to 7 p.m. Smith Center Sponsored by the Career Center An Evening with Mary Beth Cahill Join the GW College Democrats in welcoming one of the Democratic Party's most prominent strategists.
Pulitzer Prize winner Martin Sherwin to teach at GW Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Martin J. Sherwin will join GW as a visiting scholar in January, the University announced last week. Sherwin will teach at both the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences on courses in history and international affairs.
The Hatchet misattributed quotes to the chairman of the NIH Federal Credit Union in "Univ., NIH warns of phishing e-mails" (Sept. 18, p. 11). Chairman Lindsay Alexander's statements about the phishing scam and the credit union's response were taken from a fraudulent e-mail.
The Arabic program has nearly tripled the number of classes offered in the last three years to keep up with increasing interest in the language. Nearly 300 students are enrolled in Arabic courses in the Classics and Semitics department this fall. It offers 19 Arabic language classes this semester, an increase from seven in 2003.
The archbishop of Washington spoke to a packed Alumni House Thursday about the Catholic Church and its views on stem-cell research, war and Islam. The Newman Catholic Student Center invited the Rev. Donald Wuerl, who is a former college religion professor, to speak as part of a coffee house discussion series they host regularly called Theology on Tap.
More than 200 people gathered in Funger Hall Saturday afternoon for a public forum discussing the U.S. five-year imprisonment of five Cuban citizens. Known as the "Cuban Five," the men say they were arrested in 1998 after Cuba sent them to the U.S. to thwart several Miami-based anti-Castro organizations.
Amid the groans of exertion and shouts of frustration, something remarkable was taking place on Georgetown's tennis courts. GW was slowly capturing both the men and women's singles tournaments, defeating, most notably, Georgetown and Marist College (N.Y.).
Imagine students tailgating in the parking lot, bundling up to keep warm on chilly autumn afternoons with fellow boisterous fans, feverishly anticipating the home team sprinting onto the field. A staple of many college campuses, the atmosphere around collegiate football is tough to duplicate.
Kate Neeper is not exactly Pops Mensah-Bonsu. She's never been on ESPN, she certainly has never been ceremonially crowned the mayor of D.C. and her last name doesn't have anything to do with killing whales (at least we don't think). Like Mensah-Bonsu, on a slightly smaller scale, Neeper is breathing life into a program that has otherwise received very little attention from GW students: women's cross-country.
Volleyball The GW volleyball team extended its losing streak to five games with a 3-1 loss to Xavier Sunday at the Smith Center. Senior Juliene McLaughlin scored 18 points for GW in the loss. Classmate Abba Greenleaf had 12 kills, five blocks and two aces for GW, while junior Janine Brown had 10 kills.
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 East Asia as one of GW's many expats.
Sometimes junior Ahmad Rasheed gets urges to just stop walking and break out into dance. And whenever that happens he does just that - and he never has a problem attracting an audience. Rasheed, a bioinformatics major in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in GW's eight-year medical program, said his passion for dancing just flared up when he got to GW.
Life at GW can be a lot about mixing - mixing classes and internships, city life and campus life - but there are two things that students should think twice about before mixing: birth control and cigarettes. Women on the pill have probably already seen or heard the mile-long list of side effects that go along with the prescription.
Among the hordes of young undergraduates and 20-something graduate students who swarm GW's classrooms day after day to study politics, international affairs, business or law, there's one degree program at the University that truly caters to a unique crowd.
Sophomore Darren Miller is serious about being funny. On Saturday afternoons, when he sits around his townhouse laughing with his friends about making a mock tribute to the children's book "Where's Waldo?" someone is actually taking notes and considering angles.
At dinner at Firefly restaurant in Dupont Circle, sophomore Danny Barrow and senior Ashley Hines kept the conversation fairly clean of clich? topics from their initial meeting at the checkered table outside of the medical library to their farewell. Danny: This was my first blind date, and my second legitimate "first date," despite past relationships, so it was a good experience.
Last week, Chase promoted student credit cards with free rides around campus on bicycle carts. This week, students will be able try on Levi's jeans in Kogan Plaza for a shot to be the brand's next model. Corporate advertising helps to attract students and earn revenue for universities, but these displays highlight a trend toward the commercialization of higher education.
"Who in here is a senior?" The professor poses the question to the entire class. Ten hands shoot up. "Any juniors?" Again, a similar response "Freshmen or sophomores?" This time, realizing that they were the minority, the respondents hesitantly raise their hands and take on rather timid expressions.
There's nothing like owning a few tools to make a man (or lady) feel invincible. There's nothing like a little excursion into home repair, however, to teach us that we know nothing about tools. With our society's culture of self reliance quickly eroding, it's important that we teach ourselves a little about how the hardware around us works.
I will never forget the exhilarating, last minute men's basketball victory over Dayton at the Smith Center last year. What will stand out most for me from that game may not be Carl Elliot's half-court, game-winning buzzer-beater, but the emotion I shared with members of the Colonial Army.
Students planning to take the Medical College Admissions Test will have many more opportunities to take the exam this year. The Association of American Medical Colleges, which manages the MCAT, is administering all exams on computers. The change will allow 22 opportunities each year to take the MCAT, which was previously offered only twice per year.
Zoning officials described a "gulf" between GW and its Foggy Bottom neighbors Thursday night at the second public hearing on the 20-year Campus Plan. The Zoning Commission is in the process of considering GW's 20-year Campus Plan, filed with the city in February.
The University took its plans to reorganize basketball ticketing and admission practices to student leaders Thursday night to gauge reaction and solicit suggestions. The University is planning an overhaul of basketball ticketing that will likely strip the Colonial Army spirit organization of the early entry privileges that have ensured members seats in the lower section for the last three years.
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 announcement of a soon-to-air 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. His comments aired in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday. Since Sept. 11, President George W. Bush has referred to Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror.
It's 0700 hours on a Friday morning and freshman Chris Brinlee has already been up for an hour and a half doing physical training. His weekly drill session followed by an hour-long lecture is about to begin.
Admission for GW men's basketball games will be on a first-come, first-serve basis, a University official told The Hatchet yesterday. The University will not offer early admission to the Smith Center for any student organization and students will not be required to pick up tickets, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said yesterday.
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