Tuesday American Red Cross Information Session Learn about the Red Cross and other aid organizations in this information session. Career Center Workshop Room 5 to 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Career Center Crisis in Darfur: A Conversation with Activist Steven Krieger Steven Krieger, a leading advocate fighting to end the genocide in Darfur, will explain the crisis in Darfur and discuss ways for students to get involved.
William Quandt, a Middle East expert at the University of Virginia, has been named the James Clark Welling Visiting Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs. The position, which was created by University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and named in honor of GW's president from 1871 and 1894, is a two-year term.
Subscribers to satellite radio have a new voice of support at the GW Law School. A group of students recently formed the Consumer Coalition for Competition in Satellite Radio, or C3SR, to raise awareness about the dangers for consumers of a rumored satellite radio merger between Sirius and XM.
Former sophomore Isa Madyun skirted jail time after his father swayed a judge to reduce the admitted marijuana dealer's sentence to parole. The sentencing hearing Tuesday was postponed to Wednesday after D.C. Superior Court Judge Truman Morrison III heard Madyun's father speak.
In the article "UPD probes $25K in thefts" (Jan. 25, p. 3), The Hatchet mistakenly spelled the name of University Police Department Inspector Mark Balazik. In the article "Student activists join annual 'March for Life'" (Jan. 25, p.1), The Hatchet inaccurately described the number of protesters at the march.
GW alumnus Kibre Dawit knows all about the challenges of founding a school with limited resources. As a graduate student at the School of Business in the early 1990s, Dawit had a vision to start a university for the less fortunate. But after founding a school in 2000, she realized the hardships of getting an educational institution off the ground.
The first female ambassador from an Arab nation came to GW Thursday to speak about the benefits of a recent trade agreement between her country and the United States. The Elliott School of International Affairs hosted more than 100 students, faculty and visiting members of the State Department when Omani Ambassador to the United States HuNaia Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy discussed the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and the Sultanate of Oman.
In 2003, two years after Jeff Chatellier graduated from GW, he left a corporate job at a consulting firm in Tyson's Corner for a mud hut in Senegal. The hut had a thatch roof and was surrounded by a fence of elephant grass. Forty-four other GW alumni volunteered to be in the Peace Corps that year.
With late-night pizza and Hell Well packed at all hours of the day, it can be hard for college students to lose weight at school. Though diet pills may seem like an easy method to melt the pounds away, something so miraculous is usually too good to be true.
Streaks of red and yellow, mythical dragons and heavenly maidens invaded Lisner Auditorium this weekend as GW helped ring in the Chinese New Year. GW hosted the traveling Chinese New Year Spectacular performance, which takes its audience back to the country's legendary golden age, the Tang Dynasty, with singing, dancing and traditional music.
Nearing the commencement 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.
Most GW professors would rather hear nails scraped across a blackboard than allow their students to talk on the phone or connect to the Internet during class, but professor Richard M. Robin lets his students do just that. Starting this week, students in Robin's Intensive Basic Russian, course will be making some long distance phone calls from the classroom using Skype, the free Internet phone service, to talk to Russian students on the other side of the world.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28 - Since beating Georgia Dec. 28, junior Sarah-Jo Lawrence has struggled. The forward, who averages 12.7 points per game, has posted just two double-digit performances in seven since torching the Bulldogs for 12 points and three steals in December.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.- The GW's men's basketball team was forced to practice in a cold gym Friday, the day before its 82-78 win over Rhode Island that gave the Colonials (15-4, 6-1 Atlantic-10) sole possession of first place in the Atlantic 10. The low temperature, not a favorite of any athlete, 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.
. - Overachieving. NIT team. Terms that Karl Hobbs, GW's head coach, has coined during his press conferences that became GW basketball lore. In eight relatively relaxed minutes after GW beat Rhode Island 74-68 at Ryan Center, Hobbs used the word "young" six times.
Last week, Student Association President Lamar Thorpe proposed what many fed up with student politics have wanted for years - a restructuring of the Student Association. Unfortunately, the SA president's plan is too little at the wrong time, and it would likely counter his pragmatic efforts to change the group's culture thus far.
When The Hatchet began investigating the story of a student who was arrested for possession with the intent to distribute marijuana last week, background material was just a click away. The fact that Student Judicial Services and other campus offices use Facebook and other online sites to monitor student behavior should not be surprising, especially when access to potentially incriminating evidence is so easy.
There's an elephant in the Marvin Center and no one wants to do anything about it. It's like that one last pimple that you just can't seem to get rid of. For some it might be that one person not smiling in the family portrait. Use all the clich?s you want, but at the end of the day, the space formerly known as District Market on the Marvin Center's ground floor is a work in serious need of progress.
Second semester of senior year no longer connotes the same kind of lazy, laid-back attitude it was once known for at universities around the country. Sometime between when the job market sharpened its already-competitive edge and when many graduate schools began to rival Harvard University in selectivity, the death of "senioritis" occurred.
A not-so-happy birthday I thought my eyes were surely deceiving me as I got into the elevator in the Marvin Center this week. Alas, my glasses were fine and indeed I was seeing an advertisement for a birthday party for Roe v. Wade. A birthday party. This charming event is being sponsored by Voices for Choices and Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.
Freshman Sriram Prakash was arrested outside the GW Package Services Center Thursday afternoon for picking up a box containing four bags of marijuana, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told the GW community Thursday to have confidence in President George W. Bush's Iraq plan, adding that the consequences of immediate withdrawal could prove catastrophic for America.
GW golf coach Scott Allen isn't just worrying about his players' golf strokes anymore; he's worrying about their keystrokes as well. One of his players was drinking over the summer and posted photos of it onto the social networking site Facebook.
Thousands of activists swarmed the National Mall Saturday afternoon to voice opposition to the Iraq War and demand the withdrawal of American troops. The protest's main organizer was United for Peace and Justice, which is a coalition of more than 1,400 member groups in the United States advocating change in Iraq War policy.Protesters were fueled by President George W. Bush's new plan to deploy 21,500 additional soldiers to Iraq despite strong opposition from the public and the new Democratic majority in Congress.
A controversial safe sex advocate partially blamed higher education institutions for allowing unsafe behavior at a speech at a local conservative think tank Thursday. Mariam Grossman recently published a book "Unprotected," but authored it with the pseudonym "Anonymous, M.
GW professors urged legislatures nationwide to mandate vaccinations for a cancer-causing virus in public schools. Soon after the release of Gardasil, a vaccine for the human papilloma virus, the D.C. City Council and other state and local governments began introducing legislation mandating the drug.
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