Thursday GW Band Presents: Transcription Conniption This fall concert will showcase orchestral pieces transcribed for band, and will feature the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. 6 to 8 p.m. Lisner Auditorium Sponsored by GW Bands Free Friday DanceWorks Fall 2006 A semi-annual modern dance concert featuring choreography and performance by GW students, faculty and guest artists.
SA hosts basketball tailgate barbecue About 300 people joined the Student Association, Colonial Army and the Interfraternity Council in a Kogan Plaza barbecue to kick off the home opener of the GW men's basketball game Tuesday night. "It's the first game, so we thought we'd start it off right - with food," said SA President Lamar Thorpe, a senior.
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority to host annual kickball tournament The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will host its third annual Kappa Kickball Tournament Saturday. The event, open to any group within the GW community, will take place on University Yard from noon to 4 p.
Of all the current job openings and unfilled positions in higher education, the GW presidency is likely the most coveted, the most competitive and the most highly sought. The Presidential Search Committee is tasked with finding a new leader for a school that has been on the rise for more than a decade.
A few weekends ago I took a trip to the University of Virginia to visit one of my best friends from high school. We spent the time catching up, while he gave me a tour of the beautiful campus designed by Thomas Jefferson and the very decent nightlife that takes place there.
Not long after registration closed this fall, the GW Office of Academic Support forwarded an e-mail to all the student-athletes concerning a particular class for spring semester. One professor, who teaches a women's studies class, made it clear that because her class would be located a bit off campus, athletes should factor 20 minutes into their commute from the Smith Center.
Other coffee choices In the fall of last year, I worked part-time in the Gelman Library Starbucks, which was always busy. After a semester of closing shifts, I quit in December to prepare for studying abroad in the spring. When I visited my old co-workers this past weekend, nobody seemed too happy about the one-sided article ("Starbucks closes earlier with no plans to increase hours" Nov.
I've been trying to get off club promotion juggernaut Jetset Mafia's listserv for months. Their barrage of e-mails beckoning me to places with names like "Dream," "Home" and "Fur" has somehow, week after week, failed to entice me to suit up in a tube top and subject myself to mild sexual assault.
Genre-benders in the music industry run the gamut from alt-country to pop-punk to anti-folk. Christopher O'Riley stands alone in a category that might be called alt-classical - he's a pianist trained at the New England Conservatory of Music, but plays the music of artists more likely to be found in the average college student's iPod than in a concert hall.
The 24-year-old Marc Broussard is poised to bring his impossibly soulful music to the 9:30 Club this Thursday and Friday, opening up for G. Love and Special Sauce. The blend of his Bayou music and G. Love's Philly-style grooves should provide a great atmosphere.
If you have $5 Put Mr. Lincoln back in your wallet and come to Lisner Auditorium on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. to support the Music Department by attending the University Symphony Orchestra's Fall Concert. Featuring selections by past masters Mozart and Beethoven, as well as contemporary composer Brian Wilbur Grundstrom, the concert will provide some exciting music and a nice break before you have to get into the finals mindset and won't be able to afford to devote your attention to anything but books.
It was around midnight on my friend's 22nd (read: unimportant) birthday, and we had already exhausted all the normal birthday activities. We had taken a round of 99 Apples shots (FYI: don't be enticed by their sweet candy aroma. They taste like lighter fluid).
On an unseasonably warm Friday night last week, the 9:30 Club hipped, hopped, bipped, bopped, swung, grooved and sometimes even rocked a long night of Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood. For two consecutive sets that clocked in at around three hours, these gentlemen gave their fingers and a dancin', clappin', shoutin' audience a good workout.
"We're actors - we're the opposite of people," members of the Generic Theatre Company kept telling me. It's a line from their upcoming production of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," opening tonight. Whatever it means, it's probably not true - but the Generic players don't want anyone to take them (or the production) too seriously.
Try to find someone who will argue that New York is not the center of the American contemporary art scene. After all, it is the birthplace of abstract expressionism - a movement many believe lit the furnace for domestic modern art production under such figures as Pollack, de Kooning and Rothko.
The first thing I noticed about this group at their show at Velvet Lounge was how much musical clout they have while only playing three instruments. Jukebox the Ghost is a trio comprised of drummer Jesse Kristin, guitarist and vocalist Tommy Siegel and keyboardist and vocalist Ben Thornewill -- all seniors in their first semester back from studying abroad.
GW Current ranking (ESPN/USAToday, AP): 25, Not ranked 2006 post-season result: NCAA second round 2005-2006 record: 23-9 (13-3 A-10) 2006-2007 record: 2-0 Returning Starters: Four The skinny: Injuries to sophomore twins Jazmine and Jessica Adair could hurt the Colonials' depth, but sophomores Chantelle John and Jamila Bates have shown poise under the net.
Sophomore Rob Diggs averaged just seven minutes a game last year - not because he was not good enough to contribute, but because there was no room for him on the court. Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Omar Williams, Mike Hall and Alex Kireev were all frontcourt players and all seniors; Diggs would have to wait his turn.
GW vs. Longwood When: Friday, 7:30 p.m. Where: Smith Center Television: None Radio: WTWP 107.7 FM, 1500 AM, GWRadio.com History: This is Longwood's second year in Division I college basketball. The two have never faced each other. Game notes: This game should be another clobbering, but there is at least one thing to watch out for.
Students are increasingly flocking to YouTube - a popular video-sharing Web site developed last year - as a means to promote extra curricular activities. YouTube was founded by friends and former Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in San Bruno, Calif.
At least one Student Association senator has already questioned the constitutionality of new rules passed Tuesday for this year's SA, Marvin Center Governing Board and Program Board elections. The Senate passed the Joint Elections Committee Charter Act with little opposition Tuesday night in the Marvin Center.
Students discussed the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and student activism at the latest R.E.A.L. Conversations event Monday. The discussion, "Is the Civil Rights Movement Forgotten? Keeping Student Activism Alive," encouraged open dialogue with the crowd of about 45 students at Eckles Library on the Mount Vernon campus.
Two new commissioners were elected into the Foggy Bottom/West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission last week, and they may change the dynamics of the group that opposed all three University zoning proposals this fall. The commission advises D.C. government on zoning issues and neighborhood concerns.
Drug Law Violation 11/10/06 - JBKO - Unknown time - case closed A UPD officer responded to a noise complaint in the residence hall. When the occupant opened the door, the officer smelled marijuana. The community director was contacted and conducted an administrative search, finding 7.
Students explored multiracial identities on campuses and in the workplace at a panel discussion Tuesday night in Phillips Hall that was part of Mixed Race Awareness month. Remix, GW's Racially and Ethnically Mixed student organization, hosted the discussion called "Caught in the Mix.
President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton attended a ground-breaking ceremony Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial near the Tidal Basin. "We have gathered in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, to the ideals he held and to the life he lived," Bush said.
Computer labs in residence halls may be phased out and replaced with wireless common areas, a University official said. Alexa Kim, executive director of Technology Services for Information Systems and Services, said the need for these labs has decreased because of the number of students who own computers.
The D.C. Zoning Commission unanimously approved a joint construction project between GW and School Without Walls Monday evening - a decision that will lead to a new residence hall on campus. The University and D.C. Public Schools filed the application to build an addition to the high school and a dormitory on F Street behind the school.
GW's Medical School has plans to launch an online program aimed at increasing the number of nurses after a study found a nationwide shortage of faculty teaching nursing courses. The program will give students a doctorate in Nursing Practice through online courses and will allow graduates to teach nursing.
A new law limiting online gambling has caused some students to cash out for good, while others continue to place their bets. The law that President George W. Bush signed Oct. 13 forbids financial institutions such as banks and credit card companies from transferring money to online gambling sites.
When senior Dokun Akingbade's name was announced during the starting lineups Tuesday night at the Smith Center, the injured Cheyenne Moore stood waiting to greet the center at the end of a makeshift catwalk lined with GW men's basketball players. Akingbade stepped up to Moore and raised his hands, awaiting a pat down from his teammate.
About 50 students screened a documentary about conscripted child armies in northern Uganda in the Marvin Center Sunday to raise awareness and money for preventing it. The documentary, "Invisible Children," sparked the creation of a national organization that encourages college campus' nationwide to show the film and take donations.
Congressman Donald M. Payne (D- NJ) spoke to a crowd of more than 100 students and guests Tuesday evening in the Elliot School of International Affairs about indigenous approaches to conflict prevention, management and resolution of violence among people of African nations.
I was going to give this foursome from Seattle, Wa., a B- for their efforts, but because of my benevolent nature and my desire to pay tribute to GW's grade inflation policy, I'll bump them up to a B. It would be unfair to compare this show to other acts I've seen this year like Umphrey's McGee and John Scofield, as it is unfair to expect the same kind of experience.
In 1930, legendary jazz bandleader Cab Calloway recorded a song called "Happy Feet" with his orchestra. Calloway sang of an uncontrollable urge that came over his ten tapping toes to dance when he heard a low-down beat. Before his death twelve years ago, do you think that in his wildest dreams he'd believe his song would be the premise for a film featuring computer-animated penguins that sing and dance in Antarctica? In "Happy Feet," the latest CGI spectacle to hit screens, the penguins attract their mates with a song from their heart.
This Saturday at 8 p.m. in the third floor Continental Ballroom of the Marvin Center, DreamCity, a youth-run organization, will be hosting an event entitled "Rep Where U Step." This event was designed to utilize hip-hop in order to expose GW students to the organization, while integrating the university with the city.
Although the band's name seems foreign, the French Kicks are a local band. Since 1998, D.C. natives vocalist/drummer Nick Stump, bassist Jamie Krents and vocalists/guitarists Matt Stinchcomb and Josh Wise have been making experimental, creative music that explores the boundaries of pop-rock while still maintaining an appealing accessibility.
Whenever a new biopic comes out, critics jump all over each other pointing out the inaccuracies. Ray Charles never stopped doing drugs. John Nash was mean. Cole Porter was gay. There can be no such hand-wringing over "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.
It is not always easy to find a contemporary jazz musician whose repertoire is not at least a slight throwback to a particular formula or style of any one of jazz's great pivotal legends. What makes guitarist Bill Frisell an exception to this is his ability to carry a primarily jazz rooted sound to the next level and even manipulate it well beyond there.
Gene Simmons once instructed us to get up and more importantly, get down, in Detroit Rock City. It turns out we don't have to "shlep" all the way to Detroit to have a good time, because the Detroit Cobras gladly offered up a solid rock show, sans the leather and makeup, at the Black Cat last Sunday.
All the blinds are drawn on a brand-new tour bus that reads "The Format" on the window. Inside, the stagnant air smells heavy with the tinge of smoke (of several varieties), stale food, and body odor. Two small plastic guitars sit in the back room of the bus.
I don't remember a negative discourse about fast food growing up, certainly not one approaching the campaigns about the "evils" of smoking. Then, in 2001, journalist Eric Schlosser wrote "Fast Food Nation." Though I've never read the book, I recall hearing about the impact it would have on my friends who did, it making them aware of all the things they didn't really want to know when they ordered their "Large No.
Recent changes to federal grant programs have largely ignored recommended changes by various higher education organizations, several organization officials have said. In July, the Department of Education dispatched a Federal Register bulletin outlining rules and regulations for the Academic Competitiveness Grant and the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant programs.
A Korean company wonders if Americans consider social sites like MySpace to be as close to their hearts as their friends. Cyworld, the Korean equivalent of networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook, hopes that American teenagers and college students are open to meeting a new friend.
The No. 25 GW women's basketball team beat Arizona 69-65 in the opening game of the BTI Classic.
The GW men's basketball team overcame an eight-point halftime deficit to beat Longwood at the Smith Center Friday night.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 18 -- Junior Kim Beck had 18 points and eight assists as the No. 25 GW women's basketball (ESPN/USA Today) team topped TCU 88-77 in the BTI Classic at the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland. GW (4-0) had trouble early in the game, battling to take control of the pace.
The Department of Education is investigating an allegation that Princeton University discriminated against an Asian American student in its admissions process. Princeton, which has promised full cooperation with the investigation, still denies exercising any form of discrimination in terms of racial quotas, though they state that they "act affirmatively to ensure diversity.
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