The Student Association Senate passed a resolution Tuesday night submitted by GW's chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which calls for the reduction of sanctions imposed on students caught using marijuana. Greg Hersh, president of GW NORML, proposed that sanctions imposed for marijuana use be less than or equal to alcohol violations.
Thursday Mock Interview Mania Hone your interviewing skills to help land that dream job. Log onto GWork to see participating employers and schedule a time. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Locations vary Sponsored by the Career Center Doc Bengali Hypnotist Show Catch the show after the Women's Basketball game as part of Air George: Winter Hoopla 2007.
This week the Alpha Phi sorority is hosting its annual Healthy Heart Week to raise awareness about heart disease in women and to raise money for the Alpha Phi Foundation. The foundation is part of the sorority's national philanthropy and has been a focus of the GW chapter since it was chartered in 2003.
Corrections In the article "Activists protest Iraq War" (Jan. 29, p. 1) "Dancing Flowers for Peace" member Noel Martz was mistakenly characterized as a male. She is one of the seven female members of the group. In the article "Endowment breaks $1 billion" (Feb.
The Zoning Commission unanimously voted to advance GW's 20-year Campus Plan application Monday night, after postponing its decision in mid-January. The 20-year plan would replace the current agreement between the city and GW on development restrictions. In its Jan.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg offered to help the daughter of late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke pay for college, while the 19-year-old settles a dispute over her father's estate. Gerald Kauvar, special assistant to the president, said the University offered Cooke financial aid in the form of loans if she qualified for admission to GW.
Four members of prominent Arab news sources debated Middle-Eastern opinion on the Iraq War and what it means to be an Arab journalist during Monday night's "Kalb Report" at the National Press Club. "The Kalb Report" is a public affairs debate program hosted by notable journalist and former "Meet the Press" host Marvin Kalb and is aired on radio and television.
Some professors are wary of a student and faculty proposal to make old tests and syllabi available for free on a University Web site. For the past three years, members of the Student Association have promised to update the test and syllabi file kept in their Marvin Center offices by increasing available materials and uploading documents onto a Web site.
Simple Assault 2/04/07 - Marvin Center - 1:05 a.m. - open case The University Police Department was on patrol after an event in the Marvin Center when officers witnessed a fight occur between two individuals. Before the officers could break up the fight, one person was thrown into a window, shattering it.
When some bands are looking to channel their influences, they intensely study a stack of records. Others concentrate on deriving influence from one or two albums that they find to have the most impact or similarity to what they are trying to sound like. Their goal, of course, is that the feeling and vibe of their favorite classic albums will come through in their own music.
It's no accident that the Apples in Stereo had to add the "Stereo" to their name to avoid sounding too much like the Beatles' record label - with their bright harmonies, catchy guitar hooks and "woah-oh-woah" lyrics, the Apples in Stereo just sound a heck of a lot like the Beatles, period.
February isn't known for being a great month for live shows, but fortunately a lot of great artists are visiting D.C. this month on rare winter tours. Yeah, we're all still sad about missing Justin Timberlake last Friday at the Verizon Center, but luckily there are plenty of shows you can see this month that can take some of the pain away.
What's a drinker to do on a Tuesday night when the pretty young things at McFadden's have turned you down and the tables at 51st State have all filled up? If you're a salt-and-pepper forty-something with a short-term memory problem and a big credit limit, you head down the block to Marshall's, sit near the corner and jump on every group of girls that walks in the place.
Bea, one of the characters in "Breaking and Entering," doesn't understand the concept of metaphors. She should consider herself lucky, because her world is filled with some real clunky ones - not to mention all the awkward similes and inept analogies. Director and writer Anthony Minghella ("Cold Mountain") is making a statement about communication in his film, and from the loaded title on down, he won't stop hitting us over the head with it.
If you have $5 Pocket it and take in some cinema at the Black History Month Film Festival, sponsored by William C. Smith and Co. On Monday at 11 a.m. you can see "Stormy Weather," a 1943 musical featuring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller.
As the women's basketball team moves into the top 10, athletic officials have a lot to be happy about. There's just one big letdown. "If I can be blunt, the only disappointment is that students don't come," Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said about game attendance.
The GW's men's basketball game Saturday comes under a set of unusual circumstances. The Colonials (15-6, 6-3 Atlantic 10) are playing to avoid its first three-game losing streak since the 2003-2004 season, when the team lost four in a row. The game is also on national television (ESPN2) and Smith Center is sold out, both firsts for the season.
The writing is on the wall at Xavier - literally. When talking about the Musketeers - for years the cream of the crop in the Atlantic 10 - Karl Hobbs mentions the jerseys hanging on the wall of Cintas Center in Cincinnati. They commemorate the 13 former Xavier players that have found their way on to NBA rosters.
Professor W.M. Kim Roddis teaches at GW, but in a way, she instructs students across the nation every day. Roddis, an expert on civil engineering, developed software that thousands of students use in scores of engineering programs around the nation. She developed a CD in response to her observation that engineers are often visual learners.
There is almost nothing more frustrating along the academic path through GW than the lack of information provided about courses prior to registration. An often out-of-date class bulletin, cryptic course titles and the lack of consistency in similar courses taken with different professors confounds students and forces them into classes without sufficiently articulated expectations.
Washington is an attractive place for GW students to spend their four undergraduate years for reasons ranging from its rich history to being the other city not too far from New Jersey. Chances are, however, that most GW students are attracted to D.C. for those important buildings located on or near Pennsylvania Avenue.
I was vibrating and almost falling. People to each side of me on the wooden bench were jumping up and down at different times, so I couldn't keep my knees straight. In fact, standing up in the middle of a bouncy inflated castle filled with six-year-old kids who've eaten too much sugar would have been easier.
The University is expecting a capacity crowd for Saturday's men's basketball game against conference rival Xavier at Smith Center and is taking measures to ensure a "level playing field" to get lower-tier seats, Assistant Athletic Director Jason Wilson said.
A new GW program is helping train shopping mall security guards to prevent terrorism. For the past 18 months, the GW Homeland Security Policy Institute has been working to develop and administer a 14-hour program to train mall security guards to recognize signs of evolving terrorist attacks and to take preventative measures.
Musician Steven Tyler, actor Joaquin Phoenix, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and other members of Congress came to Lisner Auditorium Monday night to lobby for the creation of a Department of Peace in front of an eclectic crowd of 200 people.
Students won't be able to purchase alcohol at the WOW Wingery and Cafe until nearly May, a GW official said. WOW, which opened the first week of spring semester after four months of delays, was expected to serve beer and wine upon opening Jan. 17. It will take three more months to obtain the correct liquor license for the venue on the fifth floor of the Marvin Center, said Nancy Haaga, director of Campus Support Services.
The recent onslaught of below-freezing temperatures has dealt a heavy blow to campus water pipes since Tuesday. Four buildings experienced flooding after pipes ruptured in the Marvin Center, the hospital, a sorority townhouse and the Law School, prompting evacuations into weather in the mid-20s.
Tuesday night GW students took to the stage in the Marvin Center to be named the District's Funniest College Student. Graduate student Yvonne Orji and senior Chris Singel, who were named GW's winners, are invited to a final competition among all the participating D.
Alexi Murdoch has kind of stayed away from the "whole major label thing". That being said, it's not surprising that eight months after the release of his debut album "Time Without Consequence," he's hitting the road on an 18 date tour across the US, including a D.
You could call Oxford Collapse's latest release, Remember the Night Parties, a return to classic indie music. You could call it a big time sound from a small time band. You could indeed call it a party. Call it whatever you want - this group really doesn't care what you think.
Feeling uninformed? Out of the loop? Well get in line to see Outformation, where the insider info says the "Out" is In in a big way. This blossoming gem of American rock'n'roll has been impressing crowds in intimate venues across the country with their blues-infused Southern twang and far out improvisations based on rock solid songwriting.
For the first five minutes of the GW women's basketball team's 76-46 home win over Duquesne Thursday night, the action could have been called 'the Sarah-Jo Lawrence show.' The junior scored the team's first eight points on two three-point shots and another jumper, while the Dukes remained scoreless.
In the next couple of weeks, college students across the country will begin studying for midterms. Thanks to technology, some of them will be able to go back and listen to their lectures again. Podcasting - or the technology that makes it easier to download audio files as they are released - has begun to take hold in the lecture halls of our nation's universities.
For the first time in a few years, fans began filing out of Smith Center with time remaining on the clock. It's been a while that a game was so out of reach that even an highlight-worthy run, one which the GW men's basketball team always has buried in its arsenal, would not matter.
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