Indications that GW will phase out computer labs in residence halls in favor of common wireless hotspots are somewhat understandable, as these areas are often unused by students. Administrators should realize, however, that issues of study space, wireless access and computer lab access have all coalesced to create a convoluted policy in all three areas.
Excitement and tension filled the air as the crowded room full of GW students watched the 2006 election results with bated breath. The Democrats had just taken control of the House of Representatives, and there were just four seats left to decide the Senate and control of Congress.
I got a bad grade because my professor hates me." Students sometimes moan like this to explain a terrible performance on a paper, test, quiz or report. Often, they are simply covering up a poor effort. Sometimes, however, a faculty member may show some bias in grading.
Each year, bickering and lack of consensus on planning for upcoming Student Association elections seem to dominate much of the SA's time and effort during the spring semester. This year, the Senate has started early, passing a resolution on the rules for next semester's election.
Sex columnist oversimplifies Dear Eve: As it is clearly not your strong suit, please don't speak for all women as you did in your recent column, "We're going to hook-up like it's 1955," (Nov. 13, p. 7). You may have been hurt by a "physical encounter" not resulting in a reaffirmation of your personal value, but your rampant generalization merely enforces the sexual objectification of women as provocative bodies whose only meaning ensues from male recognition of their "earth-shattering beauty.
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.
A Chipotle burrito is loaded with Vitamin A, has more calcium than a cup of milk and contains more sodium than the government recommends a person consume in a day. Thanks to junior Matt Silverman's Web site, chipotlefan.com, readers can figure out these facts and countless others about the burrito chain that has captured the stomachs of many Americans.
With Thanksgiving only a few days away, talk of "the turkey coma" resurges. But is it true? Does eating turkey really make you sleepy? "What's been speculated is that turkey contains a natural sedative called tryptophan," said Student Health Services Outreach Coordinator Susan Haney.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are no strangers to trick plays. Last year, the team ran one to clinch a rousing 21-10 win against the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. But this season, Steelers fans and Pittsburgh residents Chet Vincent and Jason Georgiades will try for an even trickier win: convincing the NFL champion Steelers to incorporate the pair's own gadget play into the team's offensive playbook.
D.C.'s MHz television network is looking to celebrate the filmmaker inside every kid with its annual Shortz Student Film Festival. "We create and change the world with our stories," said Elizabeth Pringle, education director of the MHz, an independent public D.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. With one game, Joe McKeown could have snubbed his nose at Maryland and iced years of pain of the University of Maryland refusing to play him. With one game against the top-ranked team in the country, the Colonials would have thrust themselves further into the national limelight and established themselves as a serious college basketball threat.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-When sophomore Jessica Adair posted her first career double-double in a tight 66-53 loss to Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, she demonstrated what type of impact she was capable of having. And with the Colonials' need for a strong inside presence heading into the season, it appears that Adair may be the answer after her solid play over the weekend.
After the GW men's basketball team's win over Longwood University, the names of two Colonials players, senior Carl Elliott and sophomore Rob Diggs, were seemingly on the tips of everyone's tongue, but for different reasons. Elliott, who played nearly flawlessly in GW's first two games, looked out of rhythm all game and shot just 2-for-12 from the floor.
Rafael Suarez takes a computer programming class, a graduate-level computer security class and is a member of GW's Anime Club. Sound like an average computer science major? He's not even a GW student. Suarez is a senior at the School Without Walls, a D.C. public high school on GW's campus that has a partnership with GW.
The tenured professor the University has been trying to fire is suing GW and two top administrators for incidents in fall 2005 in which police barred him from campus. The defendants - Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman and Engineering School Dean Timothy Tong - and attorneys representing the University received the civil complaint Wednesday.
Students successfully lobbied CVS Pharmacy stores that keep condoms locked up to display some condoms in the open for those who may be too embarrassed to ask. The group of students, who call themselves "Save Lives, Free the Condoms," are from a School of Public Health graduate class - Community of Organization, Development and Advocacy.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.- No. 1 Maryland managed 70 shots from the floor and held the No. 25 GW women's basketball team to five scorers. In 40 minutes, Maryland showed why it's unanimously the No. 1 team in the country. Crystal Langhorne, a pre-season All-American, took advantage of every hole in the No.
The University's appeal to prevent the creation of an adjunct professor's union was heard by a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Friday. The University is appealing a vote by the faculty to create the union, arguing that some faculty members were not given an opportunity to participate in the 2004 vote.
Students in GW's dance program were on a mission over the weekend to expose the community to modern dance through their semi-annual dance concert. Danceworks Fall 2006, which attracted more than 240 audience members at each show, featured 28 dancers and seven student choreographers in the Marvin Center's Dorothy Betts Theater on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Monday Represent Come watch some of GW's best dance groups compete against each other. Betts Theater 8 to 9:30 p.m. Free Admission Sponsored by GW Class Council Transgender Day of Remembrance Learn about issues facing transgendered individuals while honoring those who have lost their lives because of gender-related crimes.
As part of the 30th Annual Great American Smokeout, the GW Cancer Institute, Medical Center, Hospital and Medical Faculty Associates partnered last Thursday to offer a free one-second lung function test outside the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The pulmonary function test helps to detect lung disease before symptoms appear simply by blowing into a device that tests breathing capacity.
Beginning Nov. 30, the GW bookstore will launch a holiday book drive for Books From The Heart, an initiative of the national non-profit organization The Heart of America Foundation. The program's goal is to find books that aren't being used and make sure they find their way to those in need, especially poor children and school libraries in need.
Terry Schue, a visiting professor and the former director of Electronic Media and Digital Arts in the School Media and Public Affairs, unexpectedly resigned this month. Lee Huebner, the director of SMPA, sent out an e-mail to Schue's students that said any grades he assigned the students would not be recognized.
GW students cooked and served a Thanksgiving lunch Saturday to more than 40 residents of St. Mary's Court elderly home. The Student Association organized the third-annual lunch at the federally funded low-income facility at 725 24th St. About 15 students prepared turkey, pie and other traditional Thanksgiving fixings in the food court of the community cafeteria.
The number of alcohol-related sanctions has continued to drop significantly in the first two months of school compared to last year, according to University officials they said the culture of alcohol consumption on campus has not changed despite the decrease in sanctions.
Singer and songwriter Jewel hosted the Fannie Mae Foundation Help the Homeless Walkathon Saturday on the National Mall, which thousands of walkers and more than 40 GW students attended. Jewel spoke before the walk about her experiences with homelessness. She said her perspective on life changed instantaneously in her late teens when she lost her job and lived in a car for a year.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) discussed his party's victory in this year's midterm elections and what the Democrats will do for college students at a College Democrats-sponsored event Wednesday night in the Marvin Center. Pallone, who won reelection in one of this November's heated midterm races, stressed the need to address concerns of college students and the need to motivate students to get involved in government.
The Public Diplomacy Council and the School of Media and Public Affairs sponsored an open forum titled "International Broadcasting: The Public Diplomacy Challenge" Thursday in SMPA's Jack Morton Auditorium. Two panels of international broadcasting and public affairs experts spoke at the event, fielding questions from a packed room of 150 journalists and scholars.
The National Park Service held a public symposium at the Navy Memorial Wednesday to hear complaints about the National Mall's facilities, ranging from restrooms to handicap access. The symposium is part of an NPS planning initiative for improvements and preservation to the National Mall launched after Congress declared the Mall a "substantially completed work of civic art" in 2003.
University Professor Peter Caws discussed the state of American democracy and the importance of education in the modern political system at an event in the Marvin Center Wednesday. About 200 people attended the speech, which focused largely on the differences between modern politics and the original intentions set forth by the founding fathers.
Robert F. Kennedy once said, "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Upon entering the theatre for a screening of Bobby, the fifth feature film from director Emilio Estevez (yes, the Mighty Duck man himself), I had but two thoughts: this can either be really good or really bad.
Until now, the best James Bond movie of the last 10 years was "Der James Bond Blumen" ("The Flowers of James Bond"), a little known German film from 2002. It's about a German James Bond trying to save the world from an evil mastermind named Herr Dr Sven. It was shot at my friend Rob Miller's house, James Bond was played by Shawn Sterbinsky, and it was directed by me.
Swan Lake "Beast Moans" Jagjaguwar SUPERGROUP COMES OUT WITH SINGLE OF THE YEAR Okay, maybe not. Swan Lake is a supergroup to a certain group of people (it's comprised of Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown, Dan Bejar from Destroyer/New Pornographers, and Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes), and "All Fires" is a single insofar as it was released ahead of the record.
Part of a quest to find career revitalization, The Fountain is the story of a once acclaimed director trying to return to relevance in the film world after an extended hiatus. Darren Aronofsky's new film is the story of a man trying to save his wife from different forms of spreading infection jumping in context of three specific points over the course of a millennium.
Many GW students walk by it every day, but few are familiar with it. This area of Foggy Bottom is a campus for more than one educational institution. School Without Walls - a D.C. public high school named for its "outside-the-classroom" experiential learning philosophy - shares a neighborhood with GW and, thanks to a 25-year-old partnership between the schools, some facilities.
What makes a dumb movie good? Where is that elusive line between laughing at.lets say Steve-O putting a fishing hook through his cheek in the recently released "Jackass 2" and rolling your eyes at Jack Black's dick, weed, and fart jokes? I wish I knew the answer to this comedic conundrum, because then maybe the two hours or so I wasted in the movie theatre trying my best to piece together some vague meaning in "Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny" would not have been in vain.
This past Thursday night, GW dance students gave their first performance of the semi-annual modern dance show, "Danceworks" at the Dorothy Marvin Betts Theatre. An enthusiastic crowd gathered to watch this fall's performance which showcased seven contemporary and powerful pieces choreographed by the department's senior students, along with a final work by guest artist Juliette Mapp.
I'm still looking at Halloween pictures on Facebook, Thanksgiving hasn't hit, yet Christmas is already everywhere. If "Jingle Bells"-themed Old Navy commercials aren't enough to put you in the holiday spirit, consider seeing Woolly Mammoth Theater's production "Martha, Josie, and the Chinese Elvis" directed by John Vreeke.
"This production will make use of HAY, NUDITY, and FOG," reads a sign in the lobby of the Washington Shakespeare Company's production of "Equus." Those three words - meant as a light caution to the allergic, the prude, and the faint-of-breath - serve as a more ominous warning for the rest of us.
It is never a good idea to get drunk and then appear on camera. Three fraternity brothers from the University of South Carolina learned this lesson the hard way after their drunken ramblings were shown in the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America Make Benefit for Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Providence College beat GW 86-67 in Rhode Island to end the Colonials 22-game regular season winning streak.
Even as the number of students coming to the U.S. from many Muslim countries has fallen since 9/11, the number of Saudi students coming to the U.S. has suddenly skyrocketed. The kingdom of less than 22 million people has well over 11,000 of its subjects studying in U.
When the trustees of Gallaudet University on Oct. 29 withdrew their appointment of Jane Fernandes as the next president of the 152-year-old school for the deaf, many thought the university's problems had been solved. The decision to retract the appointment was the result of cooperation between students and faculty through months of protests that included stakeouts and the commandeering of university buildings by the Gallaudet United Now Movement, which was organized to oust the appointee.
Nathan Bush had the bad luck of being a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by police who uncovered a small stash of marijuana inside. The political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was charged with felony drug possession. Craig Selken, now a senior majoring in history at Northern State University in South Dakota, was charged with a misdemeanor when officers found a small amount of marijuana in the common area of the dorm room he then shared with two roommates.
Posted Wednesday, Nov. 29, 6:43 p.m. The GW administration was handed another legal defeat this week in the ongoing dispute over part-time faculty unionization. Less than two weeks after a U.S. Court of Appeals heard GW's case against the creation of a part-time faculty union, the court denied the appeal and ruled that the University must bargain with the union within a week's time of the Nov.
A real and dramatic difference is emerging in how teenagers handle personal relationships compared to adults in their late 20s, transforming the social lives of teens and often bewildering their elders. For the younger crowd, online time is steadily supplanting personal contact with friends.
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