Thursday Black Heritage Celebration Kick-Off: 'It's a Different World' Put on your best 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s inspired gear for this fashion show. Internship and Part-time job fair See what employers are offering in internships, part-time and summer employment.
The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association's Phi Sigma Sigma and Sigma Delta Tau sororities are sponsoring spring recruitment events for new members. The IFC began its spring recruitment Sunday with an event at the recently opened WOW Wingery, located on the fifth floor of the Marvin Center.
The growing field of candidates is preparing for the Student Association elections, with only 21 days remaining. The candidates for SA president include juniors David "Tito" Wilkinson, Casey Pond, SA Sen. Marc Abanto (U-At Large), Michael Ray Huerta and sophomore SA Sen.
New School of Media and Public Affairs Director Lee Huebner is forming a Director's Advisory Council in an effort to hear more student feedback about the school. Huebner, who began his term as SMPA director in July 2006 after a nearly two-year search process for a director, said the council is still in the planning stages.
Four students visited Uganda over winter break to bring American and Ugandan students together to learn more about the challenges facing the African country. This gathering, called the Global Youth Partnership for Africa's Youth Summit: The Role of Youth in Post-Conflict, brought 13 American college students to meet with Ugandan students and hear from leaders in the country.
Mount Vernon's Pelham Hall is the next residence hall slated for renovation, a project the University expects to start and finish in the next two to three years. Pelham Hall houses about 80 students in single rooms with communal bathrooms. The University has proposed that Pelham Hall II differ a great deal in design from the existing Pelham Hall.
Two Darfur activists spoke on campus this week urging students to get invovled in stopping the genocide occurring in Darfur . Activist Steven Krieger challenged an audience of about 50 students to take action Monday night to confront the crisis in Sudan.
Colonials Basketball The men are off to a strong A-10 start this season, while the women - who have not lost a game since Dec. 7 - continue to perform at the top of their game as a ranked team. Continued success will help build prestige for the programs and the University.
There aren't many bands that get to THAT level; the point where every time they take the stage, it's not just a concert. it's an event. For the past couple of weeks, there was a buzz (err. a low murmur) around campus about last Thursday's Red Hot Chili Peppers show.
The North Face apparel that so many on this campus seem to wear must be bored. Instead of climbing jagged rock faces in the Alaska wilderness or tearing down blankets of powder in the Wasatch mountains, these clothes are instead defending America's upper middle class against the brutal D.
Okay, I guess I'm over it by now - the New Orleans Saints aren't going to Super Bowl XLI. Having lost to the Chicago Bears last week and being the die-hard New Orleanian that I am, I had a bit of a fit. So I stabbed my couch with a kitchen knife - my bad. But for once in my life, I was proud to be a Saints fan.
Secondhand smoke is harmful, in any amount Recently The Hatchet quoted Student Health Services as claiming that "the occasional breath of secondhand smoke may not be so bad ... For the average nonsmoker, being around smokers on occasion does not prove to be a huge health risk" (Weekly check up, Jan.
Law professor and recently elected D.C. City Councilwoman Mary Cheh announced she will take temporary leave from school in April, after previously insisting her teaching would not interfere with council business. During Cheh's run for the Ward 3 Council seat, the professor said that being a law professor at GW would in no way impede her work.
Drug Law Violation 1/28 - 9:44 p.m. - Mitchell Hall - case closed University Police officers responded to a noise complaint in Mitchell Hall. As they were responding they detected a marijuana smell from another room. Officers contacted the community director, who conducted an administrative search.
Where in the world is Stephen Joel Trachtenberg? It's another day and another journey for GW's out-going president. Trachtenberg has embarked on a world-wide tour, meeting with alums, highlighting changes to the University that have taken place over his tenure and raising some money along the way.
Students who out-source their laundry loads have fewer options than they used to. Soapy Joe's merged with competitor student laundry service University Mom last semester and is beefing up its operations this semester. Matt Sternberg, co-owner of Soapy Joe's, now the only major student laundry delivery service, said, "students will benefit from the lack of competition.
Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Film Festival, might claim that filmmakers, stars, journalists and Hollywood-types journey to Park City, Utah, each January to see movies. But in fact, many Sundancers stay the entire 10 days and see only a few. While The Hatchet did plow through 25 films in five days, to only report on the life within the dark and crowded theaters would be to ignore the reason why Sundance is a festival and not just a Cineplex.
Chicago, Ill., 1968. It's August, and the Democratic National Convention is about to take place. You're young and pissed off at President Lyndon Johnson, his despicable war, and how he's sending your generation off to die for their country thousands of miles away from home.
Walk out of the Courthouse metro, past the blocks of cookie-cutter condos and into this totem pole-marked bar tucked behind the Taco Bell, and you'll see why the streets look so dead on a Saturday night: everyone's in here. Dr. Dremo's Taphouse - a funky bar with two crowded stories and an underworld feel stranded in the heart of square, suburban Virginia - is a veritable mecca of all things alternative, absurd and alcoholic.
If you have $5 Add some relish to your Super Bowl festivities this Sunday by going to Arlington Drafthouse to check out live music before watching the game. Get off at the Pentagon City metro, and 2903 Columbia Pike is just over a mile away and easily accessible by the Route 16 bus.
Last year, "Little Miss Sunshine" rocked Sundance. Abigail Breslin, as young Olive, quickly became everyone's adorable little sweetheart and the dynamo cast was lauded by almost every major publication. So this year at Sundance, the buzzing question was "What will be the next 'Little Miss Sunshine?'" I had to apologize when I shoved my mini recorder into Reece Thompson's ("The Sandlot 2", "SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2") face.
There were 196 films screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and The Hatchet managed to see 25 of them. While this might seem like a meager percentage, sitting and watching movies for 12 hours a day is no easy feat. Thankfully, the duds were few and far between.
"Once" is a put-your-arm-around-your-girlfriend kind of movie. A modern-day musical, "Once" could best be described as a happenstance meeting between two lonely people who wind up making sweet music - literally. He's a self-described "broken hearted hoover fixer sucker guy" - working in his father's vacuum cleaner repair shop by day, playing his own music on the streets of Dublin by night.
CEOs representing NASCAR and Sprint-Nextel discussed how to market the fastest growing sport in America for a Public Broadcasting Station series Tuesday. "Capturing the Checkered Flag" is the sixth installment in PBS series "CEO Exchange." The event, which attracted more than 200 people, took place in the Marvin Center's Betts Theater.
Government statistics say at least one in 10 college-aged women have a stalker, which prompted GW and colleges nationwide to participate in the fourth annual National Stalking Awareness Month this month. University Police Chief Dolores Stafford attended a summit earlier this month hosted by the U.
DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 31 - Karl Hobbs didn't seem to want to answer questions after GW lost to Dayton 84-69 here Wednesday night. When he got to the podium in the University of Dayton Arena's media room, reporters were still turning on their recorders when he assumed there were no questions.
Just over three weeks ago, the GW women's basketball team hosted Richmond and beat them 57-50 - a win that didn't come easily. Richmond controlled the lead for a good portion of the first half and fought back every time No. 11/12 GW (AP, ESPN/USA Today) gained a significant lead in the second half.
Sophomore Cheyenne Moore spent last year practicing every day with the GW men's basketball team, doing all of the lifting and conditioning drills that go along with being part of an upper-echelon Division I men's basketball program. The team was ranked sixth in the country and his teammates were treated as heroes on campus, but Moore sometimes felt left out.
Strategic management and public policy professor Mark Starik runs 100 percent of his home's electricity on wind energy, drives a hybrid vehicle and regularly purchases solar energy products.
A GW alum from the '80s is heading to Capitol Hill today to become the nation's top spy. The U.S. Senate will begin confirmation hearings Thursday on President George W. Bush's nominee for the next director of national intelligence, 1986 graduate Mike McConnell.
High-ranking Department of Defense military and civilian leaders will be walking among students, faculty and staff this semester as part of a new joint venture between GW and the U.S. Government.
GW's endowment has broken the $1 billion mark, the University announced yesterday. In a statement distributed Wednesday afternoon, GW announced that as of Dec. 31, the endowment stood at about $1.019 billion.
DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 31 - Two years ago, a miracle shot at the buzzer from Carl Elliott forced Karl Hobbs off the court at the University of Dayton Arena with tears of joy in his eyes. Wednesday night, two technical fouls sent Hobbs to the locker room dragging his khaki-colored suit jacket on the ground and hurling obscenities at a referee as his GW men's basketball team snapped a five-game winning streak with an 84-69 loss here in Ohio.
It's 9 a.m. on Friday and I'm not sleeping in. I'm rubbing elbows with Coelogyne ochracea and Oerstedella centradenia. Amidst great halls of fossils and colossal taxidermy in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, one will find "Orchids: Take a Walk on the Wild Side," the 13th annual orchid exhibit presented by the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division and the U.
It's been nearly 40 years since Rod Stewart first shook his British booty into America's hearts (and loins) with his breakthrough single, the infamous older-woman love lament "Maggie Mae." Rod Stewart is 62 now, and Maggie's probably dead. But to the 10,000 screaming over-the-hill women inside the Verizon Center last Friday night, Stewart's boyish charm is still very much alive and kicking.
"The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show" is being heavily promoted on Comedy Central these days. You may have seen clips of David Koechner (pronounced Kech'ner in Iowa) ("Anchorman") wrestling a bear aside an 18 wheeler while an elderly man in the nude (Dave 'Gruber' Allen, "Freaks and Geeks") watches on in disapproval.
If you are homeless, handicapped, gay, black or Jewish, you are not safe from Sarah Silverman. In her new show, "The Sarah Silverman Show", scheduled to air this evening on Comedy Central, no joke is too crass, no quip is too offensive, and no one leaves unscathed.
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