Thursday National Depression Screening Day Free, confidential screenings will be provided and staff will be on-site to answer questions. 12 to 2 p.m. Marvin Center Suite 101 Sponsored by the University Counseling Center Friday Airmen of Note with special guest Junior Mance Join the jazz ensemble of the U.
Senate welcomes six new members Six senators were sworn into the Student Association Senate and one senator left the legislative branch during a special session Tuesday night in the Marvin Center. The special session took place because not enough members were present to meet quorum at last week's meeting.
Newest sorority to begin colonization process The Pi Beta Phi sorority returned to campus this week to begin registration for its colonizing recruitment as the newest Panhellenic Association sorority on campus. Pi Beta Phi is actually GW's oldest sorority - it was founded at GW in 1889 and remained on campus until 1968.
Editor's Note: Foggy Bottom resident Ellie Becker said her quote about GW student behavior was misrepresented in "Zoning hearings extended" (Oct. 2, p. 1). She claims she said "a small minority of students" do not know how to behave, not that "students" in general do not know how to behave.
With more than half of all professors teaching part-time, many maintain places of full-time employment outside GW. Last fall, almost 3,000 of the nearly 4,500 professors taught part-time, according to Office of Institutional Research information. "(My workplace) is totally convenient, at 18th and K," said Katherine King, a part-time professor for the School of Media and Public Affairs and director of Marsteller, Washington D.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), D.C. bureau chief of Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz and a fellow from the Middle East Forum discussed conflicts in the Middle East before about 100 people in Funger Hall Tuesday night. The Student Alliance for Israel and the College Democrats hosted a panel discussion called "Hezbollah, Israel and the U.
Blackboard, the company that developed GW's online academic portal, is suing another software company for patent infringement. Blackboard filed the lawsuit against Desire2Learn in July for selling a similar online service to Texas universities. The Ontario-based Desire2Learn filed a rebuttal to Blackboard's complaint last month, stating that Blackboard's patent is too broad to be enforced.
Students may be able to do some celebrity-spotting later this month. Hollywood stars Tom Hanks, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts will be in the District filming director Mike Nichols' latest film "Charlie Wilson's War" and some actors will be wearing GW paraphernalia, according to Media Relations.
I hate Cursive. Don't get me wrong - they were great when I saw them at CMJ Music Marathon last fall, and Tim Kasher seemed like a really interesting guy on "Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek." But I hate Cursive. Cursive, you see, was booked at the 9:30 Club on Tuesday night, the same night as Regina Spektor, which meant an early show and a shorter set for the Moscow-born, Bronx-raised piano prodigy, poetess and all-around musical whirling dervish.
October 19 marks Washington, D.C.'s first annual "Free Night of Theater." Twenty-three theaters across D.C. will open their doors for free to a limited number of patrons in participation with this annual event. Presented by The League of Washington Theaters and the Theater Communications Group, "Free Night of Theater" is being launched as a campaign to draw more people into the theater scene.
If D.C. Fashion Week had any sway in the style realm, next season's attire for men and women would be brimming with sequins, velour, pleather, mesh, iridescent fabric, feathers, shells, sparkles and rhinestones. Bare midriffs would be back, and gaucho pants would have never left.
If you have $5 Let it help pay for your copy of the new Hold Steady record (seriously, it's really good) and go to University Yard on Friday to join campus literary magazine Le Cult de Moi for a reading of "Lolita," Vladimir Nabakov's classic account of Humbert Humbert's forbidden lust.
Cartoon Network was not interested in "Freak Show," a cartoon about a group of circus freaks who moonlight as second-string superheroes for the Pentagon. David Cross (Mr. Show, Arrested Development) and H. Jon Benjamin (Home Movies, Dr. Katz), the show's creators, think it was a mistake that Cartoon Network wrote it off as a "Justice League" parody.
After depleting my cache of Loretta Lynn, Third Eye Blind and Of Montreal, I thought I had run out of ways to be ironic with my musical tastes, but my fears have been answered by the theatrical antics of DragonForce, a British fantasy metal band. At this point, you might be asking yourself what fantasy metal actually is.
Ever since I was a little girl, aged 21, I've had one dream: to find a real, live dive bar to make my own. But in Foggy Bottom's sea of yuppie bar and grills (you get that Mike's Hard out of my face, Front Page) and frat pubs (toga parties, McFaddens? Get ahold of yourself), all hope is lost.
Destruction 9/29 - Fulbright Hall - 5:40 p.m. - case closed The University Police Department received a report that a fire alarm had been falsely pulled in Fulbright Hall. Upon arrival, UPD discovered that the plastic cover had been pulled off, which triggered the alarm.
They ain't afraid of no gum. With neon green t-shirts asking "Who you gonna call," a team of gumbusters has been making rounds at GW to keep campus sidewalks free from gum. The University contracted GumBustersDC in September to remove dried gum spots from sidewalks outside Lisner Auditorium, Gelman Library, Kogan Plaza, 1957 E Street and the Foggy Bottom Metro station.
Metro unveiled new fare gates Monday that only permit riders with SmarTrip cards to pass through in an effort to decrease wait times. The Pentagon City, New Carrollton, Vienna, Bethesda and Anacostia stations are the first to receive the new gates. The "express lanes" will allow 32 riders per minute - 10 more than the fare gates that take both paper cards and SmarTrip, to pass through the gates Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority officials said.
You can hear it before you can see it. The squeaking of sneakers, the bouncing of balls and the cadence of competitive language fills the air the moment one steps off of the elevator onto the third floor of the Lerner Health and Wellness Center. On the hardwood is a GW athletic match that never receives cheers from loyal fans or the bright lights of the Smith Center.
Corinne Turner, a senior, will not rejoin the women's basketball team this season, head coach Joe McKeown said. Turner experiencedc decreased playing time during her junior year and has been hampered by injuries during her tenure at GW "She is still part of the program and is still on scholarship," McKeown said.
Last year in Toano, Va., at the par-70 Stonehouse Golf Course, recent graduate Brian Carroll finished the Joe Agee Invitational with a score of 210, not only grabbing first place, but also thrusting the GW golf team to a victory as a well. This year, history did not repeat itself despite a pair of eagles by freshman Tyler Wendelken, the reigning Atlantic 10 rookie of the week, as the Colonials finished 11th out of 18 teams with a combined score of 884 (310-292-282).
The slang, idioms and nonverbal gestures prevalent on college campuses can make learning English extremely difficult for international students. A discussion group sponsored by the Multicultural Student Services Center and the International Services Office aims to ease students into life in America and at GW.
The number of students cited for alcohol-related violations has nearly doubled this September compared to last year, while the number of Student Judicial Services sanctions for alcohol has decreased from 93 to 13, according to University Police Department and SJS statistics.
University officials are working with student leaders to decide how to use a 5,000-square foot vacant space in the ground floor of the Marvin Center. No official plans have been made for the area that District Market used to occupy, but members of the Student Association and the Marvin Center Governing Board met with the Marvin Center's managing director, Michael Peller, Tuesday to discuss possibilites.
The University decided late last week not to offer a headlining musical performance as part of this year's Colonials Weekend, said Robert Chernak, senior vice president for Student and Academic Support Services. For the past three years, the University has booked both a high-profile comedic act and musical act as main events during Colonials Weekend.
Last March, it seemed as though D.C. was a hotbed for men's college basketball. Three District-area universities qualified for the men's basketball NCAA Tournament, and this year, those three schools have taken different approaches to their Midnight Madness celebrations: one is being televised by ESPN, one is beefing up entertainment and one axed the event.
GW released statistics that show a noticeable increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations and UPD citations, but a decline in Student Judicial Services alcohol violations. While some may interpret these figures as proof that recent changes in the residence hall system have led to widespread alcohol-use, the exact causal relationship must be first determined before any conclusions are reached.
Under pressure from Foggy Bottom resident groups, the D.C. Zoning Commission agreed to hear additional testimony regarding whether Mount Vernon residents and other uncounted students should have been registered in a campus enrollment estimate. While this effort to stall GW's development may not significantly hamper planning efforts, it represents an irrelevant point.
There have been too many courses I've taken at GW that I would characterize as "a complete waste of my time." Most of these courses were during my freshman and sophomore years, and since then I've learned the importance of doing some research to ensure a semester with five academically fulfilling courses.
The shocked and overwhelmed looks on their faces say it all - they are on a tour of GW. Mesmerized with the idea of bathrooms in each room, once-a-week housekeeping and almost 100 channels of cable television, the parents and the students seem to have a positive outlook on every service the University provides.
The RACs are working hard Recently, a column was published in The Hatchet explaining the plagues and problems that residents of the famous Thurston Hall are experiencing this year ("The party hall has gone too far," Oct. 2, p. 4). The author mentions a lack of authority due in part to the removal of CFs, and the establishment of the Thurston Residential Advisory Council, which she suggests has yet to ensure order.
Hundreds of students and grassroots activists are expected to unite in Washington D.C. next week for "Northern Uganda Lobby Day", in an effort to address the lack of US involvement in northern Uganda's civil war. Activists will seek to persuade Congress to become more involved in promoting peace in Uganda, as well as to provide more aid for displaced families and rebuilding the war-torn region.
"Lose 20 pounds in three weeks." "Drop weight while you sleep." And now, add a "Slim Down Booster" to your smoothie to give your mind and body a boost. Weight loss advertisements are everywhere. Promises of rapid weight loss with minimal effort entice buyers desperate to change their bodies.
According to a new poll, 63 percent of young adults are paying "a lot" or "some" attention to candidates in the upcoming November elections. But are the candidates paying attention to them? Young Voter Strategies, a nonpartisan group supporting political involvement by students and young adults, released its own analyses of the annual Battleground poll taken at George Washington University.
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