Monday Blood Drive Help out and save a life 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sponsored by the American Red Cross Colonials Donors Screening of "Left Behind: The story of the New Orleans public school system" The documentary chronicles the corruption, controversy and failures of the New Orleans city schools with a panel discussion afterward.
In the article "Students find their roots in February" (Feb. 22, 2007, p. 1) Kevin Powell was erroneously paraphrased as saying that 65 percent of black women are HIV positive. Powell said that 65 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases are black women. In the article "Fewer students run in elections" (Feb.
Images from the years of President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's presidency are on display at the Luther W. Brady Gallery. The exhibit in the Media and Public Affairs building, is showcasing the physical changes to happen across campus over the past 19 years.
Associate Vice President for Advancement Eugene Finn will be leaving GW in April to begin working at Kent State University as Vice President for Development, Finn said. This recent addition to the Kent State faculty is a promotion of their commitment to increased fundraising and consistent financial support for academics.
DALLAS - Living a few blocks from the White House, students at GW are used to President Bush's policy decisions making some noise in their neighborhood. But Dallas - Bush's old backyard - is typically a less-hostile environment. So, there was little surprise in December when Southern Methodist University learned that it was the finalist in the campaign to land the George W.
Tons of students rush in and out of Gelman Library's doors each day but most fail to notice the little room stashed off by the left-hand side of the foyer. The small, inconspicuous place, called the David S. Brown Memorabilia Room, is filled with artifacts from authentic documents to photographs to significant objects, quietly chronicling GW's history.
Bobby O'Brien stands in front of a large, black rectangle painted on the wall. The paint is chipping off, but he'll use what is left of it as a chalkboard. Weaving through the drawer-less wooden desks that fill the classroom, he stops beside an 11-year-old Chinese girl sitting on a mounted two-by-four.
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.
The University rang in its namesake's 275th birthday Thursday with an annual birthday bonfire, s'mores, hot cider and a cherry pie-eating contest. University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and GW's "secret" society, the Order of the Hippo, sponsored the event.
Magical. That's what Dawn Staley called the GW women's team's season. Junior Kim Beck's play exemplified that late in the team's game against Temple Sunday night. With 25 seconds left Sunday against Temple, GW had a three-point lead with history on the line.
When the game ended Sunday afternoon, sounds of her name filled Smith Center. Senior Kenan Cole should be used to it by now since Joe McKeown, GW's head coach, has been screeching it from the sidelines for four years. But this time, the chants came from the crowd.
PHILADELPHIA - The GW men's basketball team had five players in double figures in Saturday's 86-74 win over La Salle at Tom Gola Arena. They shot 51 percent from the field, out rebounded the Explorers by nine and had two players with double-doubles. But Karl Hobbs was not happy.
A large unidentified man reportedly assaulted a female sophomore in an Academic Center classroom Tuesday morning. The student told the Metropolitan Police Department that she was alone in room 510 when a 28- to 35-year-old black man approached her.
Round two of the campaign for Student Association President will include junior Marc Abanto and sophomore Nicole Capp, the election oversight committee announced early Friday morning.
The top two vote-getters Thursday night for Student Association president could not have had a more different approach to campaigning. While both are veteran SA Senators with two years' experience, one ran the only full slate of the year's election with a team that almost swept the senate seats.
A decade - that's how long it had been since the GW women's basketball team went undefeated in Atlantic 10 conference play. And then came Sunday afternoon. The ninth- ranked Colonials defeated Temple 56-53 at Smith Center to finish undefeated in the conference and win the A-10 regular season title.
Jane Tunstall Lingo, an alumna and staff member for 50 years, died at 83 of breast cancer in the early morning of Feb. 23.
The Residence Hall Association raised more than $20,000 for need-based scholarships Friday at the annual Martha's Marathon housing auction. Students battling for three of the top five housing picks in the Marvin Center collectively raised $19,300, with the highest individual bid at $6,800.
Four former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioners discussed controversial issues that have politicized the agency in a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon in the Jack Morton Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the GW Medical Center's Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy, drew about 200 professors, doctors and government employees to campus.
While many students might aspire to work with the President of the United States someday, a GW professor has already had that distinction - four times. Stephen Hess, a distinguished research professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, has served on two White House staffs under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, and has advised both Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Many graduate students living in the Hall on Virginia Avenue say they're moving out next year due to a large increase in housing rates. This year, students living in HOVA pay $700 per month including utilities such as cable television, Internet access and housekeeping.
Some GW graduates earn their degrees without setting foot on any campus. Known as "distance learning," the online programs GW offers allow students to take courses using the Internet to gain the same credits as traditional on-campus classes. The programs were designed by GW to reach a wider variety of students, said Sheryl Elliott, an associate professor at the School of Business.
It took a shot to the face from a sniper riffle and two tours of duty in Iraq for former GW student Todd Bowers's opinion of the war to change. But now Bowers is wary of a proposed troop increase to the war-torn country. "I was fully supportive of it at first," he said.
The Student Association run-off election is reflective of two opposing trends. One candidate, ostensibly, slid in as the top vote-getter by sharing a mobilization campaign with a slew of senatorial candidates working together on a slate. The other was the only candidate to successfully mobilize graduate school voters, outpacing her opponents in paper ballots - the ones used mostly in the law school and medical school - by a wide margin.
The two candidates running for Student Association executive vice president in the run-off election are two of the individuals least-qualified to run the senate from the original field of five. Neither Nick D'Addario nor Brand Kroeger seems to fully understand the advocacy role of the SA, and they each espoused positions that would poorly suit them for the position of EVP.
The morning I was supposed to leave for winter break, I awoke to the noise of a person slamming doors and yelling in our New Hall living room. Upon investigating, my irate roommate threw a rotten tomato at me - one that I had placed on her desk after she refused to throw it away.
Without a doubt, GW is a political campus. From students interning on Capitol Hill to congressmen speaking at the Marvin Center, GW is the school for future policy-makers, movers and shakers. Common summer jobs include campaigning and canvassing, and political science students seem to dominate campus - but maybe it's just that we're much louder than everyone else.
Don't bash effective programs In his column in the Feb. 20 issue, John McCormack disparagingly characterizes the $13,000 Student Association Colonial Coach program and the $1,000 program providing free condoms in residence halls as "offensive" and "pork-barrel projects" ("Why the SA president does not deserve $15,000 of your money," p.
Disabilities Support Services hosted an event last week that explored the academic study of disabilities. The event, titled Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, focused on areas of study that involve disability studies including English, history or women's studies.
While many have been quick to make parallels between the Iraq War and the brutal conflicts of 1960s Vietnam, a professor is saying that he thinks the comparisons are false and uninformed. Professor Shawn McHale of the Elliott School of International Affairs delivered a lecture Thursday regarding his personal research about the history of guerrilla warfare and drew parallels to the current situation that American forces face in Iraq.
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 27, 12:45 a.m. For about six hours Monday night, residents of the Aston and other buildings between N and L streets and 21st and 24th streets were in the dark. Pepco, D.C.'s electricity provider, regained power at about 11:15 p.m. after electricity went out at about 5:30 p.
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