Monday R.E.A.L Conversations Is the Civil Rights Movement Forgotten? Keeping Student Activism Alive Come together in a safe and trusting environment that supports and promotes the discussion of issues regarding diversity and multiculturalism. Mount Vernon Campus-Eckles Library 7 to 9 p.
The dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences told the Faculty Senate Friday that her school will likely not be able to comply with the Faculty Code's demands on percentages of tenured and tenure-accruing faculty by 2012. "It's plausible, but not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination," SPHHS Dean Ruth Katz said.
The Associated College Press named The Hatchet's Web site winner of its Online Pacemaker award for the first time since the ACP created the award in 1995, the organization announced last month. Formerly known as the Best of Net competition, the Online Pacemaker was the first nationwide competition for online college student publications.
Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S. stressed the need for economic investment in his country last Friday at the Elliott School of International Affairs. His Excellency Said T. Jawad spoke at the School of Business' Sixth International Development Forum about the economic future of Afghanistan, a post-conflict nation.
GW experienced an increase in international student enrollment this year for the first time in five years. The fall 2006 census, which was released in late October from the Office of Institutional Research, shows a 1.5 percent increase in international student enrollment this year, which University officials said is promising.
As a freshman, Lyna Saad never thought she would end up in Bahrain, a tiny island off the coast of Saudi Arabia, after graduating. Now, Saad is one of 50 GW students in the past five years who found work abroad through GW's chapter of the world's largest student organization - AIESEC.
A special committee proposed a four-class, four-credit curricular structure earlier this year with promises of simultaneous financial savings and a supposed boost to GW academics. This week, that plan hit another hurdle, highlighting the multiple issues that the committee's recommendations failed to address.
Two things that GW students can count on each fall semester are the arrival of winter and some type of Student Association scandal. Whether it's sex, money or both, students in the SA traditionally face scandal each November as their limited power and public disinterest combine to engender some rather poor choices among our student leaders.
While campaigning last weekend in western Pennsylvania for my good friend and recent GW grad Mark Harris in his bid for state representative, I passed two middle-school girls playing basketball in a suburban driveway. "Democrats rule!" shouted one, challenging my Mark Harris T-shirt.
The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Mu Beta Chapter "brought sexy back" with a date auction in the Marvin Center Friday night. The second annual auction featured 30 participants from eight of the nine National Pan-Hellenic Council chapters and one Multicultural Greek Council chapter.
A GW professor may be a step closer to finding a vaccination for AIDS. With his team, physics assistant professor Guanyu Wang has successfully created a computer model replicating the evolution of the HIV virus in all its stages within the human body. Wang did most of his research at Rice University in Texas with the study's co-author Michael Deem of Rice University.
The standardized test for most graduate students will nearly double in length next year and the law school entrance exam will see minor changes. Students taking the Graduate Record Examination, a test most graduate programs nationwide require for admission, will have a completely new exam beginning next September.
Piercings and tattoos are popular tools for self-expression among college students, but if you're not careful, these body decorations could become ugly scars or painful mistakes. According to a study published in September in the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, 24 percent of surveyed participants between the ages of 18 and 50 had tattoos, and 14 percent had body piercings, the Washington Post reported last week.
For the past few weeks, the Cherry Tree staff has been sitting in the lobby of Ivory Tower taking senior portraits. While snapping photos, they are also spreading the word - it's not uncommon for students to wonder what the Cherry Tree even is. Many students around campus were unaware that GW has a yearbook at all, but senior Lauren Moreno, the Cherry Tree's editor in chief, said the yearbook staff has been doing their best this semester to advertise and get out the word about the yearbook.
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 I have, at times, wished I were a man.
by Megan Marinos Hatchet Staff Writer It's 2 a.m. and you just left an off-campus nightclub - any number of nightmare-like situations could ensue. How do you get home? Has your friend had dangerously too much to drink? Where do you go from here? The solution to your problem could be on one convenient card, small enough to fit into your wallet - the "Safe Night Out" card.
Awkward silences were nonexistent on a date between Michael, a junior, and Adam, a sophomore, at Firefly restaurant in Dupont Circle as they talked non-stop about home towns, studying abroad and the GW social scene. Michael I have been on a blind date before, when I was in high school in Los Angeles.
Before Sunday's match-up with Coppin State, GW women's basketball head coach Joe McKeown was asked how he was feeling after missing the team's season opener on Friday, a 72-58 win over Maryland-Baltimore County. McKeown had been absent from Foggy Bottom for much of the week due to flu-like symptoms.
BOSTON, Nov. 10-During the second half of GW's men's basketball game against Boston University, senior guard Carl Elliott was knocked hard to the floor after a rough foul while driving. Rather than get in the face of the culprits, Elliott briefly lay on the hardwood floor, then smiled a big toothy grin, got up and calmly hit two free throws.
While the GW women's basketball team has received the strong play that it expected from its guards through the season's first two games, the Colonials likely would not have made it look so easy last weekend without the balanced attack of its post players. The team's innate need for solid efforts from forwards Chantelle John and Jamila Bates in the absence of Jazmine and Jessica Adair, who have been sidelined by injuries, played a key role against Maryland-Baltimore County and Coppin State and figure to do the same in the BTI Classic next weekend.
BOSTON, Nov. 10-Sophomore Cheyenne Moore, who is sidelined with a fracture of his left tibia, said before Friday night's game that he is rehabbing in hopes of coming back by mid-December. Moore said he recently rode on a stationary bike pain-free, something he was unable to do immediately after the injury.
Deliberations over using a tunnel or an above-ground rail delayed construction on Metro's extension to Dulles International Airport another year. The planned 23-mile extension runs through Tysons Corner, Reston, Herndon, Dulles airport and east Loudoun County in Northern Virginia.
A local elected body voted three to two Thursday to oppose GW's commercial investment plans on the old hospital site south of Washington Circle. The Foggy Bottom/West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which advises the D.C. Zoning Commission on local development, opposed the University's plans for a large commercial complex.
The Faculty Senate unanimously voted Friday to wait until April to make a decision on the four-by-four plan. The four-by-four final report was distributed to faculty at the end of October with an attached memo asking the schools and the Faculty Senate to vote on the plan by mid-January.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg discussed the importance of freedom of speech Saturday at Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of George Washington, to a group of British intellectuals and GW alumni.
Comedian Bob Saget performed for a sold-out crowd in Lisner Auditorium Thursday evening, marking the second time in two years that he has visited campus. Saget, who is now widely known for his risque humor, starred in family-themed television shows during the 1990s.
Fred Flatlow can still remember when they took his father away. On Nov. 9, 1938, Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo, arrested Flatlow's father. The crime? Being Jewish. His father was one of the many Jews rounded up on Crystal Night, when the Nazis destroyed Jewish shops, homes and synagogues across Germany.
Turnout among 18 to 29-year-old voters increased for the second cycle in a row, according to a nonpartisan group affiliated with GW. Election-day exit polls helped determine a 20 percent spike in turnout in the organization's findings last week. Young Voter Strategies, which took a comprehensive look into the youth vote, is the largest nonpartisan movement to register young voters in America.
The fifth annual Customer Service Celebration aimed to recognize the importance of customer service at GW last week. Consisting of workshops and award ceremonies, the celebration was intended to both sharpen customer service skills among employees on campus and honor those who have shown exceptional dedication to serving the community.
Student athletes and Title IX advocates across the country are in an uproar regarding James Madison University's elimination of ten varsity sports. According to university officials, the cuts are the school's only option for complying with Title IX, a law designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex.
Elliott's career-high 29 points leads GW to a 45-point victory over Dartmouth College.
It's "Iron Chef," D.C. style. Next Wednesday, the D.C. Central Kitchen (DCCK) hosts its third annual Capital Food Fight to raise funds for the work of the Kitchen. Tickets grant access to food samples, an auction and the battle royale. Similar to the popular Food Network Japanese import, local chefs take a secret ingredient and have only a brief period of time to whip up tantalizing treats.
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