Monday Apples For Adoption Eat apples and support adoption and pro-life policies. Kogan Plaza 1 to 5 p.m. Free Sponsored by Colonials for Life Progress Through Poetry See D.C. slam poetry and get excited about upcoming midterm elections. Marvin Center Grand Ballroom 8 to 10 p.
The 58 students in "Analysis of Business Issues" class are using community service projects to hone their business skills. Community service becomes a business venture for the students, who will compete in groups and present their project strategy and results in December to a group of outside judges.
U.S. Ambassador John R. Miller, director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State, will leave his post to become an international affairs research professor next spring. Miller, who oversees efforts to combat slavery around the world as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will also conduct courses in the topic.
A tree on Foxhall Road fell across the road on power lines Saturday night, blacking-out the Mount Vernon campus for about an hour and a half. The power outage began at about 7 p.m. Backup generators kept only powered hallway lights on throughout the power outage.
Political journalists discussed midterm elections and the future of the Democratic Party at an event hosted by Slate Magazine Thursday in the Jack Morton Auditorium. Nearly 100 students attended the hour-long discussion, which highlighted several key issues influencing the November election.
Student Package Services has significantly improved its notoriously long wait times since last year, facility managers said. Package Services upgraded its facilities before the start of the school year by expanding its counter space and hiring more staff members, to improve the package retrieval process, University officials said.
Speech and hearing professor Joan Roddy Regnell died Friday at the Virginia Hospital Center of acute renal failure, the Washington Post reported Saturday. She was 74 and lived in North Bethesda, Md. Regnell, who taught at GW for more than 40 years, won the University's excellence in teaching award in 1991 for teaching a popular undergraduate class in voice and diction.
A former assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs hosted a panel discussion on responses to North Korea's nuclear weapons tests in an event sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs Thursday. Three professors discussed potential reactions from China, South Korea and Japan in response to the reported tests North Korea performed Oct.
Pangea, the fair-trade caf? and developing world market on Pennsylvania Avenue, plans to begin giving student discounts Monday after joining the GWorld program in late June. Two GW interns at the International Monetary Fund, seniors Lucas Keene and Rafi Menachem, helped open The Pangea Artisan Market and Caf? last spring, and the store, which is managed by an alumnus, continues to employ students.
Want a good Halloween story? Talk to history buff Natalie Zanin. She knows the ghosts who haunt the White House. Zanin, director of "The Ghost Story Tour of Washington," said ghosts roam the nation's capital frequently and freely - particularly around the White House - and she's there to share their stories.
It's been called a former orphanage, a mental institution, haunted and anything else crazy that students can think of, but what really was Mitchell Hall at 19th and E streets before it became a residence hall? University Historian G. David Anderson said the building itself was actually none of those things - it was a hotel that GW later bought and converted into GW's dorm of single rooms.
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. Eve's obligatory safe-sex note: A condom goes well with any costume.
"Welcome to Total Fright," an unexpected, eerie voice says, greeting you as you enter the small Halloween store in the basement of the Shops at Georgetown Park on M Street. The sound of thunder and screams - along with large creepy statues - puts the store in a true Halloween atmosphere.
Break out the costumes and candy because it's that time of year again - time for trick or treating. And whether your treat of choice is classic candy corn or bite-sized candy bars, it's common knowledge that sugar goes hand in hand with Halloween. Growing up, children are often warned by their parents against gorging on candy.
On Halloween, little kids go trick-or-treating, many high school kids egg houses and play pranks on neighbors, and college kids tend to go out drinking. Americans today associate candy, late-night pranks and carved pumpkins with Oct. 31, but the spooky holiday has ancient roots that trace back to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Two GW strangers, freshmen Dan Wessel and Lindsay Leshin, met at Firefly restaurant in Dupont Circle for an early Sunday dinner, good conversation and a few laughs Dan Dan: I've never been on a date before, let alone a blind date. I had heard stories from friends about blind dates that didn't turn out well, so I was half expecting something to go horribly wrong.
Extending their losing streak to three games, the women's soccer team lost to La Salle 2-1 in double overtime Saturday afternoon at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, ending the Colonials' season. The loss deflated the Colonials' hope of qualifying for the Atlantic 10 Championship.
The GW athletic department suspended freshman basketball player Hermann Opoku for 11 games because of his play on an Austrian club team that may have included professional players. Jack Kvancz, the director of athletics, said the University has been investigating the matter for nearly five months.
With only 11 days left until the men's and women's basketball teams tip off their seasons, the Smith Center doors opened for fans to see a practice. With the recently announced absence of sophomore Cheyenne Moore and freshman Hermann Opoku, the basketball teams will need to rely on a toned-down front court including senior Dokun Akingbade, sophomore Rob Diggs and senior Regis Koundjia.
Water Polo The men's water polo team won three of four matches at the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Championship in Lewisburg, Pa. The Colonials (14-12) defeated Penn State Behrend 16-9 and Mercyhurst 18-8 and lost to No. 18 Navy 10-5 Saturday and then beat Gannon 20-10 Sunday for a fifth place finish.
Arnold "Red" Auerbach, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics coach, GW alumnus and cigar-smoking champion, died Saturday night of a heart attack at 89. Auerbach, a revolutionary basketball mind, won 938 regular-season games and nine NBA championships as a head coach.
The family of a college student killed outside an after-party for a GW-sponsored event in March 2005 is suing the University and the South Asian Society for responsibility in their son's death.
It's a cold, rainy Friday night in the sixth District of the Metropolitan Police Department. Officer Francis Jenkins III is on a call for a missing person.
An annual University census determined that there are more full-time undergraduates at GW this year than the University projected. Due to the increase, the University has allocated $1 million dollars to be spent on academic spending. The Office of Institutional Research, which compiles the annual census, projected a 3.
A fire forced the evacuation of The Empire Apartments building at 2000 F St. early Sunday morning. Firefighters on scene said they responded to a kitchen fire in room 710 that filled the room with smoke. Residents who were stranded outside the building said smoke began billowing out of an apartment window.
Many student organizations experienced Student Association budget cuts this year, and some leaders of Greek-letter governing groups said they are disappointed with their funding. The Interfraternity Council, which oversees 13 fraternities and about 500 members, received $12,300 this year, an 18 percent reduction from last year's allocation.
Members of EMeRG worked as emergency response volunteers at the 31st annual Marine Corps Marathon Sunday, which drew tens of thousands of runners, spectators and volunteers. Emergency Medical Response Group is a student organization that provides free emergency medical service to the Foggy Bottom area and offers support for D.C.-area events year-round.
About 20 people including 6 GW students protested low wages for McDonald's employees Saturday outside the fast-food chain's store on Columbia and 18th streets in Adams Morgan. Protesters, who included Georgetown students and impromptu supporters, painted their faces like clowns and wore clown costumes outside the restaurant.
SA away from Gallaudet Student Association President Lamar Thorpe wisely decided not to push to use student funds to buy blankets and food for Gallaudet University protesters. In doing so, Thorpe rightly kept GW out of a matter of internal policy specific to that university and its deaf community.
Universities, whose apparent goals include the dissemination of knowledge and the creation of a learned society, also have a business side that is seemingly separated from those goals. Although this capitalistic take on such a venture seems contradictory, it is necessary.
For the past month and a half, my male roommate and I have had the pleasure of sharing a bathroom with two girls. Besides the occasional hairs in the sink and the tubs full of makeup, it was like sharing a bathroom with anyone. The oh-so-socially-progressive experiment was running marvelously until we received an e-mail from GW Housing Programs two weeks ago, informing us that our housing situation had been an error (The Hatchet reported on this last Thursday).
Last week, The Hatchet reported that a GW student was caught plagiarizing when the student's professor used the detection service Turnitin.com, which compares student work to a database of previous publications and student papers. The Hatchet asked students whether Turnitin.
A panel of professors and community members gathered Thursday night at Hillel to discuss baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his effects on race relations, their personal lives and achieving the American dream. The presentation was the third in a Jackie Robinson lecture series sponsored by GW's Multicultural Student Services Center and the student-run Jackie Robinson Society.
Kids and their parents enthused with Halloween spirit packed University Yard and the Mount Vernon quad on Saturday for the fourth annual Kidsfest, sponsored by Neighbors Project and the Residence Hall Association. About 150 children attended the events including some GW faculty and their children, organizers said.
In a special session Sunday, Gallaudet University's governing board voted to "terminate" embattled incoming President Jane Fernandes, the Washington Post reported. Fernandes, who was appointed in May to replace current President I. King Jordon, has faced opposition from alumni, faculty and students because she has been able to speak since childbirth and did not learn American Sign Language until she was 26.
The governing board of Gallaudet University this Sunday (Oct. 29) retracted its appointment of incoming president Jane K. Fernandes in response to months of protests by students and faculty that culminated in a days-long standoff with administrators. The decision was greeted with cheers from students and other protesters.
A former student who alleged that GW barred him from campus and suspended him from class as a result of his treatment for depression has settled his lawsuit against the school out of court, his lawyer announced today.
Nearly two years have passed since President Bush was re-elected, it is getting colder outside, Halloween has passed and the month of November is here. What does that mean? It's election time! What is the focus of the 2006 midterm elections? Why do they matter? What's at stake? The House is comprised of 435 representative and all are up for reelection.
Dickinson College president William G. Durden gave three words of advice to incoming freshmen choosing their extracurricular activities: "quality over quantity." His warning reflected a prevailing belief that students are stressed out and overwhelmed, but talking to students themselves suggests just the opposite.
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