Thursday Get Organized Find out the best ways to manage your personal and professional time effectively. 4 to 5:30 p.m. 2033 K Street, #330 Sponsored by the Counseling Center Friday 2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular Catch this show highlighting traditional Chinese arts in honor of the New Year.
In the article "Popularity of social sites prompts monitoring, censorship" (Jan. 22, p. 1), The Hatchet mistakenly spelled out the acronym NFTY. The correct title is the North American Federation Temple Youth.
Students might be opening their wallets a little wider next year to support the Student Association. SA President Lamar Thorpe proposed a $1 per credit-hour increase in the SA student fee during his State of the SA address Tuesday night at Mount Vernon. The new student fee would apply to all new incoming undergraduate students and transfer students, said Thorpe, a senior.
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will host their 10th annual charity step show Feb. 3 to benefit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Fund and the Black Genesis Scholarship Fund. The show, Step Your Game Up, will feature "traditional step dancing" and hip-hop dance performances by GW's Capital Funk and Georgetown University's Groove Theory, said junior Eric Woodard, president of Alpha Phi Alpha.
The School of Business selected five full-time faculty members as their newest Dean's Research Scholars earlier this month. Each scholar participates in the program for two academic years, receives a $12,500 Crain research stipend, a reduced course load and a $2,500 annual stipend for research-related expenses.
University officials met with fraternity and sorority leaders Tuesday night to talk about safety and reimbursement as the University Police Department continues investigating the 21 thefts in Townhouse Row that occurred over winter break. UPD Inspector Mark Velasic said he could "only speak in generalities," but assured students that UPD was being thorough in its search for the culprit.
The smell of gas caused the evacuation of two separate building complexes on campus early Monday afternoon. At about 1:30 p.m. the fire alarms sounded in Funger Hall and the connecting Duqu?s Hall. About 10 minutes later Ross Hall, which is home to the medical school, was also evacuated due to the smell of gas.
A suspicious object across the street from 1959 E Street prompted several city blocks to be shut down and the residence hall and adjacent academic building to be locked down Wednesday evening. Just before 6:30 p.m., Metropolitan Police officers and bomb squad specialists began arriving on E Street between 19th and 21st streets, where they halted all vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Three big shots from the big leagues paid a visit to their alma mater Tuesday afternoon. Three Major League Baseball franchise officials - all of whom graduated from GW over the past 60 years - participated in a panel discussion after being inducted into the GW School of Business Sports Executives Hall of Fame in the Jack Morton Auditorium.
For students, it may be a dream come true, but the nation-wide trend of grade inflation is ultimately detrimental to our education system. Though a study pointed to rising student grade point averages, administrators are slow to take any action. Curtailing this phenomenon at the University would be a great way to buck the national trend and set an example for other schools to follow.
What would you do if GW kicked disabled students out of on-campus housing because they require wheelchairs or Seeing Eye dogs to move around? Shock and outrage would fill the pages of The Hatchet and students would likely erect barricades around Rice Hall, perhaps leading chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, disabled kids don't have to go!" Yet, current GW policy does not allow students to live with their children in on-campus housing.
College students are notorious for being chronically short on everything from money to time to sleep, but one thing that we never seem to have a shortage of is complaints. As a columnist, I see it as my job to tune in to what's happening on campus, to what people are saying, be it bad or good, and to put it down on paper.
Be courteous and quiet for our neighbors One of the great benefits of attending GW is its location in the Foggy Bottom/West End and Foxhall communities. We enjoy numerous cultural activities as well as excellent shopping, restaurants and entertainment opportunities.
Urinating in Public 1/18 - 1957 E Street Garage - 2:15 a.m. - case closed An officer observed a subject run into the parking garage, which is operated using a remote control. The suspect, who was unaffiliated with GW, then urinated in the parking garage. No further action Attempted Burglary 1/16 - Madison Hall - 1:15 p.
Former Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki Al-Faisal said students studying abroad in the U.S. are their nation's "true ambassadors" in a speech Monday in the Marvin Center. He said it is important to his country that Saudi students have the opportunity to come to the U.
These are not the cartoons you grew up with. They're artistic, twisted, tragic, sadistic and at times as funny as they are beautiful. Robert May, one of the producers of "The Animation Show," explains that the two creators of the festival, Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-Head fame and Don Hertzfeldt known for "Rejected" and "Billy's Balloon," wanted to showcase the short-films they felt were left out of the mainstream.
Pentagon Row - that corporate-tastic row of food and drink traps you might have seen on your trek from the Fashion Centre (they actually spell it like that, I looked it up) at Pentagon City to the various stores sprawling out from Pentagon City proper - offers a variety of restaurant-bar flavors for you to choose from, each offering a different blend of booze and food to soak it up with.
While D.C. struggled to clear the streets of snow and ice Sunday, New Hampshire pop-punk legends The Queers struggled to get into the city - and not just because of traffic. "We were playing north of Harrisburg and our bus broke down. We drove an hour away to get a rental truck, drove back to the van, picked up our stuff, and came here for the show," said Joe Queer (real name Joe King), founder, singer and guitarist of The Queers, The Queers arrived at the Rock and Roll Hotel in an Enterprise rental van, ready to blow the audience away.
During his interview with The Hatchet, Demetri Martin is looking for parking. "Two dollars for every 15 minutes?" he asks a woman. "I don't want to park here. That's really expensive. I hate Los Angeles. What a terrible place." The New York-based comedian usually moves by skateboard or bike.
If you have $5 Head over to Busboys and Poets, the caf?/bookstore at 2021 14th Street N.W., Saturday at 11 p.m. You can grab a delicious bite to eat, or for just $3, you can spend an evening with Jack D. Ripper, Bat Guano, and possible world destruction by watching the Stanley Kubrick classic "Dr.
Imagine this list of credentials: deputy U.S. representative on the U.N. Security Council, Emmy-award winning ABC News national security and Moscow correspondent, President Bill Clinton's assistant secretary of state for South Asian Affairs and a negotiator with Taliban officials for the release of terrorist Osama bin Laden.
College students around the nation may have to pay back less of their student loans under new legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill passed 356-71 last week and would halve the interest rate on Stafford loans, a type of federally sponsored financial aid, by 2011 if passed by the U.
While games and jokes characterized the GW's College Democrats State of the Union address viewing party, the College Republicans hosted an event to provide a serious environment Tuesday evening. "People's negativity toward the President is old. I wish I could hear something positive," said Michael Zekas, a sophomore in attendance at the CRs' party in the Marvin Center's Grand Ballroom.
Four years ago, James Zarsadiaz was involved in student government, yearbook and community service in his high school in California. Now a junior at GW, Zarsadiaz lists the following activities under his Facebook profile: Asian Student Alliance, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Philippine Cultural Society and East Coast Asian American Student Union, just to name a few.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe proposed a dramatic overhaul of the SA's structure that would reconfigure the legislative and executive branches in the annual state of the SA address Tuesday night. The plan - which is outlined in a proposed constitution - would keep the SA Student Court, but creates an Executive Board that would oversee a newly structured legislature and office of the president.
Like other schools nationwide, grades at GW are on the rise, but not necessarily because students are earning it. Some officials and faculty members believe that grade inflation is a problem at the University, but have decided not to take action against what they see as a futile situation.
More than 20 GW students joined an estimated 30,000 anti-abortion protesters in a march to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday on the anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The "March for Life" has been held annually since the first anniversary of the Jan.
A message from Saint Joseph's head coach Phil Martelli to a GW fan sitting behind his bench: the things said about Mrs. Martelli were completely out of line. Karl Hobbs, GW's head coach, also has a message for that fan: stop, because those kinds of insults are disgustingly inappropriate.
Senior Carl Elliott has spent the last three seasons making big plays in big situations. Now, he has taken freshman Travis King under his wing. Considering Elliott's play in a 74-65 win over Saint Joseph's Wednesday night, that is not such a bad place to be.
Junior Cheyenne Moore is playing despite pain from a lower leg injury and will likely be hampered for the rest of the season. "It's a struggle for him," Hobbs said of Moore. "It's really hard. He's fighting through it the best he can. The most frustrating thing for him is playing through the pain.
KINGSTOWN, R.I., Jan. 27- The GW's men's basketball team practiced in a cold gym Friday, the day before its 82-78 win over Rhode Island that gave the Colonials sole possession of first place in the Atlantic 10. The low temperature aggravated junior Maureece Rice's lingering cough and cold, but Rice was his cool self Saturday, scoring 27 points and hitting all 10 of his free throws.
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