Monday Security, Stability and Reconstruction: the Iraqi Police Mentoring and Training Program Hear Billy Kearney speak about his experiences as a former training program manager in Basra. 5 to 6 p.m. 1957 E Street, Room 213 Tuesday Making Study Abroad a Reality Come receive student insight about ways to finance your study abroad plans.
University to define how to use proposed science center The University is in the process of defining how an on-campus science center will be utilized across the science and engineering departments. As one of the focuses of the 20-year Campus Plan, the science center would be located on I Street between 22nd and 23rd streets, where a parking garage now sits.
In The Hatchet article "Newman hosts Archbishop" (Sept. 25, p. 5) The Hatchet innacutately reported Donald Wuerl's title. He is the Most Reverend Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Freshmen are increasingly unprepared for college, according to a study released this month by the Association of American Publishers. Zogby International, a nationwide survey company, conducted the study for AAP in which a majority of polled college professors believed that incoming freshmen are more and more unprepared for college-level work.
Last week, Student Association President Lamar Thorpe announced that a Student Association initiative will provide condoms in freshman residence halls. While some have derided the program as promoting sexual promiscuity on campus, making free condoms available to students will more likely encourage them to have safer sex.
I had the unpleasant experience of checking my e-mail two weekends ago only to find a whole host of prank messages from the entire senior class, of which I am reluctantly a member. The incident started when a member of the Senior Class Gift Committee solicited fourth-year students for class gift recommendations, providing mischievous students with the listserv address for the whole group of seniors.
Walking home late one Saturday night, I noticed a large gathering of what appeared to be my fellow classmates, mostly drunk, crowding around an ambulance and the EMeRG suburban. I spotted a friend. "Yo, this girl passed out on the curb, so we called EMeRG," he informed me.
It's Sunday night and you're just coming back from a (insert student organization here) meeting in the Marvin Center. You know that you have about 80 pages of reading to power through, along with a paper to write. You walk into your room to find that your roommate has finished all of her homework and is trying to get some much-needed extra sleep.
Dressed in casual jeans and a vintage-style shirt, it was easy to think "The Dorm Room Diet" author Daphne Oz was a college student at her book-signing event last Friday in the GW Bookstore. That's because she is a college student. In addition to being a published author, Oz is a full-time student in her junior year at Princeton University.
Senior Annie Kelly is in Minnesota this semester working as assistant campaign manager for Governor Tim Pawlenty's re-election run. She said she owes her job, and every other internship she has had, to one student organization. "I got this job because I am a College Republican," Kelly said.
In one of his final gestures as manager of the Washington Nationals, Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson met with a group of journalism students Thursday to discuss media coverage of Major League Baseball. On Saturday, the team confirmed reports on its Web site that Robinson will not return as the National's manager after two years at the helm of D.
After a two-year hiatus, Crepeaway is back in the neighborhood. The restaurant, which serves a selection of sweet and savory cr?pes, is hoping to attract GW students as it did when it was located in J Street. In September, the new shop at 20th and L streets had a 50 percent discount for students with GWorld cards, and it will begin accepting the cards as payment Oct.
Zipcar, a membership-based car-rental service, increased the number of cars offered on campus in response to growing Foggy Bottom demand. The company offers 20 cars on or near campus ranging from pickup trucks to MINI Coopers for the 1,000 students and staff members who subscribed to Zipcar this year.
Seniors Dan Kirkwood and Tommy Siegel, like many students at GW, have government jobs - but unlike most, theirs entail wearing clothing from the 1800s, playing the banjo, speaking in colonial accents and knowing a lot about American history.
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. Editor's note: names have been changed to protect the naughty.
You run four miles, do 30 minutes on the stationary bike, lift some weights, take an aerobics class and finally emerge from your workout four hours later. Sound familiar? If it does, you may spend an unhealthy amount of time at the gym. College students are one of the biggest at-risk groups for gym overuse.
Walking through campus, it seems that every other student is clutching a Starbucks drink. Maybe that's what led to the idea that one of GW's Starbucks' is the highest grossing on the East Coast. While the lines are definitely long enough to make people start considering it, it turns out this potential bragging right is just not true.
Vanessa Maltin, a 2005 graduate, went 21 years without knowing that she suffered from a disease that prevents her body from properly digesting gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and many commercially prepared foods. Maltin, a journalism major as an undergraduate, said she still remembers University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's inspiring words at her Colonial Inauguration five years ago: "Don't let your studies get in the way of your education.
Jack Hornberger did not always plan on playing water polo. The Houston, Texas native played football, but an injury forced him to give up the gridiron. A friend's mother insisted that the 6-foot-1 Hornberger try water polo. He was reluctant, but after nabbing All-American honors in high school twice, he visited GW.
For a blowout game that meant nothing in the standings, Saturday night's game at RFK Stadium had New York Mets fans in an uproar. Mets fans, some of whom were GW students, came out by the thousands to cheer on their team, which has the best record in baseball, and they had a lot to cheer about during their team's 13-0 victory over the Washington Nationals.
On Saturday night, for perhaps one of the first times in his career, Frank Robinson completely ignored the score. The Washington Nationals' 13-0 pummeling by the New York Mets seemed to roll off the skipper's back. No concerns about hitting. No rant about trying to get on a roll to pick up some games in the standings.
Dorm life is one of the most talked-about aspects of college culture. Residence halls have reputations - the party dorm, the honors hall, the artsy house and so on. Since students are fascinated with living arrangements and how their place stacks up against others', The Hatchet has compiled a comparison of dorm life at GW and other area schools by interviewing officials at five colleges in the metro area.
Emmy award-winning journalist Frank Sesno is finishing some projects before beginning teaching at the School of Media and Public Affairs this spring. One of those projects, an in-depth documentary on Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, debuted Saturday night on CNN.
It's that time of year again - student organizations want their money. Every year, student groups wait for money to be distributed from the Student Association, and every year some groups do not get all of the money they want. Organizations may be even more concerned this year because the SA has less money available to allocate to students groups than it did last year.
GW approved a plan this month to annually give a full four-year scholarship to one student from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. Last year, student activists on campus urged the administration to divest University holdings from companies that do business in the African country.
The D.C. Zoning Commission tentatively scheduled another hearing for the 20-year Campus Plan Thursday in order to hear testimony on GW's enrollment numbers. Zoning Commission Chair Carol Mitten said the date may change from Oct. 11.
GW Students for Fair Trade achieved one of its primary goals when the Grounds for Change coffee shop opened in the Marvin Center in late September. The student organization's leaders said they had been lobbying the University for a fair trade coffee shop for years.
Nearly 2,000 people attended the fourth annual neighborhood West End/Foggy Bottom Block Party Sunday in the I Street Mall, organizers said. This year almost 100 vendors reserved booths for the event including businesses in Foggy Bottom, University departments and community groups.
Now arriving on platform two: a college education. The University of Montana, in an effort to attract students and promote its new financial aid program, sent officials, faculty, and student representatives on a three-day, whistle-stop train tour across the state earlier this month.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on Sept. 26 announced plans to overhaul post-secondary education nationwide by revamping the financial aid process and holding college and universities accountable for student learning. Her announcement came on the heels of a report released the previous week by a 19-member higher education commission formed last year.
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