Thursday Blood Drive 1 to 7 p.m. Marvin Center Grand Ballroom Sponsored by Colonial Donors Friday Free HIV Testing Find out your status on World AIDS Day. 1 to 3 p.m. Marvin Center 301 Sponsored by GW Student Global AIDS Campaign, Student Health and the Student Association World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil Join in the ceremony to commemorate the fight against AIDS.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe has nominated two of the five members for this year's election oversight body. The Joint Elections Committee is in charge of running the SA, Marvin Center Governing Board and Program Board elections next semester.
Greek-letter organizations are in the process of choosing their executive board members for the 2007 calendar year. While the Interfraternity Council elected new members during the week before Thanksgiving break, the Panhellenic Association and Multicultural Greek Council will be electing new board members this week.
A 19-year-old sophomore was arrested earlier this month for possession with the intent to distribute marijuana and is scheduled to appear before the D.C. Superior Court Monday. University Police officers received a call about a loud party in JBKO, according to a police report.
Two seniors are spearheading efforts to revive GWTV - a student organization that has been largely inactive so far this year. After three months of sporadic programming on the channel, seniors Matt Saunders and Curtis Raye have begun recruiting students to join the executive board of GW's television group.
Disorderly Conduct 11/25/06 - 1900 block of F Street - 4:44 a.m. - closed The University Police Department received notice that a blue-light emergency phone was activated near Thurston Hall. Officers observed four students pass the phone. A garbage can across from the residence hall had been knocked onto the ground.
The Foggy Bottom Association invited University officials to its monthly meeting Monday night to discuss student disturbances, despite barring GW administrators from attending meetings in fall 2005. A panel of University officials, a Metropolitan Police officer and a Student Association representative answered questions and listened to concerns of the FBA, a group of residents committed to protecting the neighborhood from development.
Political science professor Mark Croatti brought 90 students onto Jordanian and Israeli soil Monday night. Continuing a tradition he started in spring 2003, Croatti brought his students to embassies to learn firsthand about the countries from diplomatic representatives.
At its Monday meeting, the D.C. Zoning Commission scheduled a second hearing in January before it makes a decision on the proposed complex on GW's old-hospital site. Boston Properties, an office development company that signed a 60-year lease on GW's old-hospital site, submitted an application before the commission in spring 2006.
International news reporters examined the changes in journalism and the importance of international news in an increasingly globalized world at a panel discussion Tuesday. The event, hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists, was held in the Alumni House and had a small audience of about a dozen.
Still waiting to get high with Harold and Kumar again? Well, you're going to have to wait a little longer. But this Friday, Kumar, a.k.a. Kal Penn, returns to his roots as Taj Mahal Badalandabad in "National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj." Taj enters Camford University hoping to follow in his father's footsteps as a ladies' man and member of the Fox and Hounds fraternity.
Walking up to the 9:30 Club on Sunday night, I was a little concerned. My assignment was to do a live show review of Peaches and the Herms with supporting act Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Peaches shows are notorious for pushing sexual boundaries, being flamboyant, featuring nudity and for often having giant penises on stage.
Last Friday night, my friends and I experienced the inevitable decline of an evening that begins with an utterly depressing and ultimately incomprehensible Darren Aronofsky film. How, we asked ourselves, were we to shake the image of a completely shaven, space-pod-encapsuled, and hysterically crying Hugh Jackman from our minds? Where, as we stumbled out of the theater, were we to go from there? We began, naturally, with chocolate: assorted tiny delicacies dipped in flaming fondue at the Melting Pot.
The Christmas season has arrived, and so has the Studio Theatre's newest holiday offering, "The Long Christmas Ride Home" by Paula Vogel. However, Vogel's play is far from your typical feel-good Christmas story. "The Long Christmas Ride Home" centers around a dysfunctional family trying desperately to keep up the fa?ade of a happy family on one of the most magical days of the year, Christmas.
If you have $5 Put it in the Christmas (or Chanukah or Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice) gift fund and go to the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, your go-to source for free entertainment, for a Merry Tuba Christmas. You'll get to hear holiday favorites interpreted by local tuba, euphonium and sousaphone players.
In the second round of the 2003 NCAA Tournament, the Villanova women's basketball team defeated GW en route to an Elite Eight showing. That game, Colonials head coach Joe McKeown said, still sticks in his mind.
By leading Villanova 37-20 at halftime and winning 73-47, the GW women's basketball team reversed a recent undesirable trend. Prior to Wednesday night, the squad has been plagued by sluggish first-half starts. They have routinely found themselves facing early deficits, forcing them to play from behind.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-For 22 regular-season games, teams couldn't solve the juggernaut that was GW men's basketball. Providence College head coach Tim Welsh found the solution, sitting at the end of the bench, with 11:29 remaining in its game against the Colonials Sunday night at Dunkin' Donuts Center.
Elected colonials A GW senior, a professor and an alum bestowed a little more prestige on the University by winning their respective races for local and Congressional office. ANC opposition The ANC voted to continue its opposition of GW's plan for a mixed-use facility on Square 54.
GW may have the highest tuition in America, but have you ever thought of the true value our tuition brings us? This year's freshmen will pay $37,820 a year in tuition for the next four years, no small sum; however those students will not have a fall break and many will stay until Dec.
GW students have an odd habit of popping up all over D.C. From Congressional offices to the hippest clubs, we help to keep this sometimes-stodgy town vibrant and fresh. If the District's tantalizing cultural institutions aren't enough to draw students into the city, GW helps students to engage the city through adjunct professors who also work as professionals in their fields and classes that require field trips to exhibits or performances.
Check numbers and facts about adjuncts This might seem a bit technical for most Hatchet readers, but let me correct a few minor factual inaccuracies in Mr. Grossman's otherwise fine article "Court of Appeals hears GW case against part-time professors union" (Nov.
The first thing you notice when The Living End takes the stage for a live performance is the bass. It's a stand up bass that you rarely expect to see outside an orchestra or a smoky jazz club, but here it is being hammered on to keep up with the punkabilly beats of this Australian rock band.
Why do Egyptian Plover birds perch on the bodies of crocodiles? More intriguing is the question of why the crocodiles endure the birds' presence. The answer is a matter of symbiosis - the croc relies on the plover to get rid of harmful parasites, and the bird depends on the crocodile for food.
In the past two years, I've interviewed my fair share of bands. Whether they're a pop diva or punk rocker, all interviewees get the same treatment and the same question: "What does your music mean to you?" "I think it's a treatise on the geopolitical state of the world," answered guitarist Jason Bell.
Cat Power is, quite possibly, indie's most infamous performer. Any fan knows just how far her reputation precedes her. Blame it on the alcohol; blame it on her sensitivity; it has been such a shame to hear indie's finest female singer-songwriter struggle to perform.
Several crimes in residence halls this month have tested the strength of the new Residential Advisory Council committees.
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.
Bang! Bang! Shots rang out. After a few minutes of gunfire, several insurgents and American soldiers had been killed. After the gunfire ceased, cadre members, officers and sergeants of the United States Army, went over what participants did wrong and what they did right.
Students may be irritated with Gelman Library's Starbucks 10 p.m. closing time, but food service provider Sodexho announced this week it will keep its J Street Coffee shop - Grounds for Change - open until midnight.
Elie Wiesel, a famous holocaust survivor and author, said at last week's sold-out Kalb Report that the Iranian president is a disgrace. The Kalb Report is a GW-sponsored public affairs series hosted by distinguished journalist and former "Meet the Press" host Marvin Kalb.
It seems that whenever the California-based band Deadsy hits the studio, complications ensue. In 1997, the band's first release was placed on the back burner while the record company changed ownership. In 2002, after a second and third struggle, the debut album "Commencement" was released.
Whether serenading girlfriends or singing on the corners of Georgetown just for fun, the all-male GW a cappella group, Sons of Pitch, has been keeping busy this year as they try to get their name out to as many people as possible. With a performance coming up on Friday, December 1, and even more events in the works, SOP is successfully making themselves known as the premier a cappella group on campus.
I haven't seen the movie, but the soundtrack to The Rise of Taj made it onto my iPod. Though a lot of it consists of nasal whining into your ear about rejection, it is surprisingly entertaining and it will fit quick snugly into a college movie. "Get Steady" by Jonny Lives is the first track "I'm ready, I'm ready, get steady, get steady".
A homemade video recently posted on the video sharing site YouTube presented a master and slave scene with a man in blackface being beaten for not following commands. The video was made by three white students from Texas A&M University in College Station.
Posted Saturday, Dec. 2, 1:18 a.m. Twenty students, including six GW students, were arrested at about 4 p.m. Friday for protesting on White House property without a permit as a part of the World AIDS Day rally. The students dressed themselves as needles, pill bottles and doctors with coats stating "Missing Doctors."
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