Stories from the September 25, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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.
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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