Monday Chalking for Change Help the College Democrats spread the word before Election Day by scrawling chalk messages of Democratic progress around campus. 8 to 10 p.m. Kogan Plaza Sponsored by the CDs Tuesday Hoffman Lecture on Entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Marcella Novak will speak about her journey from college student to successful entrepreneur over two decades and across several states.
About 70 parents attended the annual Parents' Association meeting in the Marvin Center Saturday to discuss the state of GW and the search for a new University President. After Saturday's meeting, some parents praised Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, who will be stepping down as University President in July 2007, and discussed qualities they would like to see in the University's next president.
Student Health Services is providing flu vaccine shots for students, faculty and staff at annual clinics around campus. The $25 shots will be offered at the Ames Pub on the Mount Vernon campus today from 12 to 2 p.m. or at Student Health Services Tuesday and Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.
The Hatchet erroneously reported the standing of senior Amanda Bates in the story "Panel discusses Latina success" (Oct. 16, p. 5). Brandon Neal was erroneously listed as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's youth director. He is the former NAACP youth director.
All University professors and members of the Faculty Senate will soon receive GW's report on a four-class, four-credit semester system in preparation for a vote by late fall. Even with such a deadline looming, members of the task force investigating this plan indicated that many faculty members remain skeptical of the system and have unanswered questions.
Last Thursday, Life and Liberty Ministries, a group unaffiliated with the campus pro-life group GW Colonials for Life, came to the University and displayed posters depicting abortions at various fetal stages of human development. CFL does not support this organization's tactics and had no foreknowledge that it would visit our campus.
"It is appropriate. The only way to get their message across is to show reality. What you see in the pictures is almost surreal, that this type of thing is actually occurring. These fetuses are living things that can feel the things that the doctors do to them.
Be fair to campus criminals While reading the article "Athlete kicked off team after arrest" (Oct. 19, p.1), I was surprised to see the name and photo of the freshman charged with intent to distribute marijuana. When I was a Hatchet editor, I refrained from making such disclosures in stories about ordinary GW community members charged with minor crimes.
GW's Muslim and Jewish communities came together Thursday night for Iftar, a daily breaking of the fast for Muslims during their holy month of Ramadan. University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg gave remarks in front of more than 300 attendees at the fifth annual interfaith dinner in the Marvin Center.
When they were freshmen in 1992, David Drykerman, Brad Jacobs and Eric Kaufman all lived in Thurston Hall and pledged the same fraternity. Last weekend, they attended their 10-year reunion together. "Thurston is still as gross as it was," said Drykerman, who now lives in Rockville, Md.
While only one GW academic building offers complete wireless Internet access, more than 50 percent of college classrooms nationwide offer the service, according to a recently released report. The Campus Computing Project's survey, which was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month, said 51.
"Mammovan" and Medical Faculty Associates offered free mammography and tips on early detection of breast cancer in recognition of National Mammography Day Friday. The event was hosted at the MFA building on 22nd and I streets. President Bill Clinton created National Mammography Day which is on the third Friday in October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Traveling to the lower level of the Watergate complex usually involves a blas? trip to the shabby Safeway supermarket. But Saturday, however, Washington's classiest patrons headed that way for an occasion that was anything but lackluster. In an intimate gallery just beyond the market, dozens arrived for the opening of renowned artist and Foggy Bottom resident Helen Zughaib's latest show.
Senior Sam Sherraden, an international affairs major and former Hatchet photo editor, spent the summer studying abroad in Beijing, China and is spending 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.
In a little office on the fourth floor of the School of Media and Public Affairs sits a man who has the ability to change students' futures. It looks like a pretty typical room - walls adorned with Yankees memorabilia and images of old colleagues, and windowsills overflowing with pictures of loved ones.
The commercials have been on the air for months - "Cancer caused by a virus? I didn't know that." Merck, a pharmaceutical company, is using these ads to urge women to tell someone about the sexually transmitted disease HPV, or the human papilloma virus, causing cervical cancer.
For all those seniors who hate answering pesky questions about post-graduation plans, here's one possible answer. Don't get a "real" job - be a virtual assistant. Virtual assistants, who are self-employed and work from home, set their own hours, schedules and receive tax benefits.
The infamous hippo statue on the corner of 21st and H streets isn't the only monument University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has brought back to GW from his travels abroad. If you've ever walked by the towering gold column in the Marvin Center lobby, then you've seen another example of Trachtenberg's decorative touches.
"This is the greatest day of my life. I'm in a gym," said Jerry Seinfeld, true to brutally sarcastic form as headliner for Colonials Weekend at the Smith Center last Friday. In between sold-out shows scheduled for 7 and 10 p.m., The Hatchet spoke to Seinfeld, experiencing his bluntness first-hand.
ARLINGTON, Va.- The banner still hangs in the Marvin Center as a reminder of the victory. Texas Western, now the University of Texas-El Paso, was a 13-point favorite over GW in the 1957 Sun Bowl, so when the scoreboard read 13-0 at the end of the game only one thing was surprising: the Colonials finished on top.
Spurred by sophomore David Zenk, the Atlantic 10's reigning Most Outstanding Performer, the men's swim team defeated Georgetown University 120 points to 96 Saturday. The women's team fell to the Hoyas 138 to 90 at the Yates Field House at the same meet. Zenk won all three races he competed in, as the men earned first place in seven of the 11 events.
Freshman Abby Syverson only wanted to make her mom proud. In fact, Colonials' Weekend may have been just the spark she needed to help lead the GW volleyball team past Rhode Island (24-30, 30-28, 30-19, 30-12) Sunday at the Smith Center. Syverson led the team with 20.
Women's Soccer The women's soccer team was shut out twice this weekend in Ohio. The Colonials lost 1-0 Friday at Dayton, followed by a 4-0 trouncing Sunday at Xavier. GW (9-9, 2-6 Atlantic 10) finishes its regular season next Saturday at home against La Salle.
The players bellowed, the fans roared, the cool autumn breeze picked up sharply, and the gaze of all spectators gathered at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex shifted to seniors Joseph Siegel and Jeremiah Burke Sunday afternoon as they stepped onto the field for the final home game of their collegiate careers.
Peru's ambassador to the U.S. and South American studies scholars emphasized promoting Democratic ideals in the country last Thursday. Peruvian Ambassador Felipe Ortiz De Zevallos, senior researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos Julio Cotler and Professor Emeritus at Boston University Shane Hunt were featured at the event, hosted by GW's Center for Latin American Issues and the Peruvian Economic and Social Research Consortium.
Several hundred students engaged in an impromptu abortion-rights rally Thursday when three anti-abortion organizations came to Foggy Bottom as part of a nationwide tour. Nearly 150 GW abortion-rights activists gathered on H Street throughout the afternoon to counter-protest several dozen anti-abortion activists standing outside Kogan Plaza.
Junior Jesse Guyer is facing misdemeanor charges for assaulting a woman on Washington Circle Sept. 12. D.C. Superior Court Judge Linda Turner placed Guyer under court-ordered surveillance at a status hearing Tuesday morning. She required him to submit to weekly drug tests until his sentencing hearing in November.
Greek-letter group Pi Beta Phi has returned to campus for the first time since 1968 and will soon be GW's tenth sorority under supervision of the Panhellenic Association. Pi Beta Phi, GW's oldest female Greek-letter organization, has completed the initial stage of its colonization process to restore and re-colonize the D.
A team of GW medical students pushed a giant homemade syringe off a 30-foot barge into Baltimore's Inner Harbor Saturday for the city's first-ever Red Bull Flugtag. A Flugtag, which is German for "fly day," involves human-powered flying machines built by teams of up to five people that compete in design, distance and showmanship.
Sophomore Kevin Blanchard walks down the street like any other 24-year-old, except he has a mild limp. It's so unnoticeable that it's hard to believe he lost one of his legs while serving in the war in Iraq. At GW, Blanchard's like any other college student.
Thousands of students, family members and alumni gathered at events across campus last weekend to celebrate Colonials Weekend, headlined this year by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. More than 8,000 people attended Seinfeld's two shows in the Smith Center Friday night.
The final report on a four-course, four-credit undergraduate curricular structure will be distributed Tuesday for review by faculty members in all of the schools and the Faculty Senate. The report, which was posted on the GW website last week, proposes the faculty in the undergraduate schools vote on the adoption of the four-by-four plan by late fall.
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 24, 5:27 p.m. Students and staff evacuated Ivory Tower at about 4 p.m. Tuesday after an elevator's mechanical problem released fumes into the building. University Police and the D.C. Fire Department responded to the reports of a gas-like odor throughout the residence hall.
With the hood of her pink sweatshirt tied tightly around her head, Megan McGovern, a 19 year-old student at the University of Maryland, sits behind a folding table urging students to donate blood as the temperature slowly creeps towards 50. In the past, college students partied all night, slept late and would rarely be seen sitting in the cold at 9 am volunteering to help sign up blood donors.
Stanford University will have a "major presence" on the moon in the next decade if a group of determined school alumni has its way. Members of "Stanford On The Moon" met on the university's campus Oct. 13 along with academics and other alumni who want to see their alma mater take a lead in space exploration by 2015.
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