Stories from the October 23, 2006, Print Edition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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