Thursday Dining Out for Life Get a bite to eat at 150 D.C. restaurants raising money for citizens with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses. Check out www.diningoutforlife.com for a list of participating restaurants Sponsored by Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Women's Day Come discuss "Women Crossing Borders and Engaging Creativity for Empowerment" and participate in a silent auction to raise money for Bursa Gunyuzu Women's Solidarity Cooperative in Turkey.
The general election ended two weeks ago, but one Student Association Senate seat is still being contested. Former Senator-elect Matt Cohen (SoB-U) is filing paperwork with the SA Student Court to appeal the invalidation of his election, he told The Hatchet Tuesday night.
The Kappa Alpha Order Fraternity hosted its induction ceremony for its inaugural class of 29 members Friday. The reception and public induction ceremony took place at the Odd Fellows Lodge, at 24th and G streets. In addition to the new members of the chapter, representatives from the national Kappa Alpha Order office and other GW Greek-letter organizations attended the event.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg took heat at a recent Faculty Senate meeting for handing out a University-sponsored loan to the daughter of a multi-millionaire former Washington Redskins owner. Ultimately, the discretionary funds under the control of top-level administrators, such as the funds used to provide the aforementioned loan, send a convoluted message to students at a time of program cuts and high tuition.
As some students drink and party on beaches in tropical locations this spring break, others will build up a sweat while building houses in New Orleans or caring for the poor in Central America. Over the past few years, GW has seen the rise of so-called alternative spring breaks, in which would-be vacationers volunteer their time in service projects.
Just when we thought we couldn't possibly eat any more Airheads or stuff promise-filled palm cards into our bags, the Student Association elections ground to a halt. Ultimately, students chose sophomore Nicole Capp as the first female SA president in nine years.
In the heavily debated issue of smoking in public, along with the recent ban in D.C. on smoking inside restaurants, bars and clubs, one topic has yet to be addressed - flatulence. That's right ladies and gentlemen, I'm talking about farts. Although I have been labeled as a "humor columnist," I never imagined the day I would be writing with the sense of humor of a third grader.
Strong academics require solid infrastucture I've had better Valentine's Day cards than Andrew Siddons's open letter to me on Feb. 15 ("An open letter to our benevolent leader," p. 4). He finds my book of letters and the accompanying cartoons from The New Yorker not exactly side-splitting, believes my priorities are upside-down or out-of-date and seems relieved that I will be stepping down soon.
Disorderly Conduct 3/3/07 - Duqu?s Hall - 10:36 p.m. - case closed University Police Department officers responded to a complaint from an employee working in Duqu?s Hall. The employee said he was talking to another employee about work performance and the second employee became belligerent.
The Organization for Latino American Students: a place where everybody knows your name. At least that's how the members describe their group. "We are not just a student organization, we are a family," said OLAS president Priscilla Monico, a senior. "And that sense of family has been the backbone of my life as a GW student for the last four years.
Whether you're looking for a place in Foggy Bottom, or your first apartment after graduation, finding an apartment can be a daunting task. Here are some tips to help you organize your search. -Maura Judkis Figure out how much you can afford, and adjust your Internet search to your price range.
Many would think that going to school in the middle of a major city like D.C. enables GW students to live the ultimate urban experience. Despite this, students move off campus to get a more genuine city experience in neighborhoods such as Adams Morgan, Dupont, and Columbia Heights.
Cramped spaces, blocky furniture, pasty walls - these characteristics of most dorm rooms can threaten to cramp the style of anyone trying to create a homey and inviting living environment. Luckily, all it takes is a bit of creativity and cash to transform any setup from bland and awkward to stylish and functional.
When you think about it, true rock and roll is a lot like sushi - it's best served fresh and raw, preferably with a spicy kick. True, some people can't handle it, but most tend to warm up to the exotic delights it employs in the body's sensory system after a few tries.
If you have $5 Buy an obnoxious shamrock hat, and get to Constitution Avenue between 7th and 17th streets in the Northwest quadrant this Sunday at noon for the District's St. Patrick's Day Parade. Yes, we know St. Patrick's Day isn't until the 17th. Whatever.
Carl Elliott remembers the first time he came to GW to watch the men's basketball team. Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Omar Williams and Mike Hall were freshmen and they were facing Old Dominion University at Smith Center. Elliott was sitting under the basket next to his mother Debra Cook when Karl Hobbs started screaming in his direction.
On the eve of their first Atlantic 10 tournament game, members of GW's men's basketball team wore T-shirts reading "40 Hard" under their practice jerseys. The mantra, head coach Karl Hobbs said, represents the team's mindset of playing "40 hard minutes of basketball" and expresses a "statement of who we are.
Softball The GW softball team split games against Maryland-Baltimore County at Mount Vernon Athletic Complex Tuesday. The Colonials won the first game 5-4 in nine innings before dropping the second contest 5-2. The second game was shortened to six innings due to darkness.
The president of the United Nations Foundation said the U.N.'s budget decisions and climate change are the most important issues to address during a speech Wednesday in the Elliott School. More than 50 people gathered to hear Timothy Wirth, a former U.S. senator and representative from Colorado, in an Elliott School-sponsored event titled "The U.
Journalism is rapidly changing, but not disappearing, panelists said at Monday night's "The Kalb Report" at the National Press Club. The theme of the discussion was the future of journalism, and former "Meet the Press" host Marvin Kalb guided the panel of four prominent media executives.
While televisions hang on the walls of the Marvin Center's Columbian Square, a student organization is searching for a more artistic alternative. The Marvin Center Governing Board is calling all artists in an effort to beautify a hub of GW student life. The board plans to offer $500 to the individual or group it chooses to paint a mural in the eating area and meeting space.
New York? Of course. Milan? Naturally. Paris? That's obvious. But Washington D.C., home to thousands of starched collared politicians, congressmen and lobbyists hosting its very own fashion week? In a city where who you are voting for is more important than who you are wearing, it is hard to imagine that this past weekend the nation's capital played host to D.
While at GW, Kerry Washington ("Ray," "The Last King of Scotland") performed with Generic Theater Company and loved watching Recess Improv Group. She was a resident adviser (now called House Proctors) for what she called the "scandalous camera clad halls of Thurston" and her favorite memory was performing on the Lisner stage for the first time her freshman year.
Figuring out who you are is never easy - it requires a delicate balance between recognition of heritage and involvement in trends of modern culture. As Mira Nair's "The Namesake" (Fox Searchlight) shows, this task can be especially difficult when one has to balance two cultures from opposite ends of the Earth.
If you've ever wondered what it sounded like when two worlds collided, this weekend at the State Theater should be quite interesting. Los Lobos are coming to town to howl at the moon with some help from an old friend, Taj Mahal. In their over thirty years of music, Los Lobos' sound has matured, becoming increasingly "traditional" as of late.
"Kettle of Fish," a romantic comedy written by indie-director Claudia Myers, opened this Saturday to D.C. audiences. The film sports an impressive cast of notables like Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon and Eddie Kaye Thomas Modine plays Mel, a saxophone playing ladies man who can't seem to find a meaningful connection with a woman.
The Law School's Creative and Innovative Economy Center is located in Foggy Bottom, but its projects can be found around the globe. This month the center released a report on piracy of "Bollywood" movies - a name for the Indian film industry - and increasing the availability of medicine in order to solve the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.
Worlds apart from the collegiate hustle and bustle of Foggy Bottom, the 14th Street neighborhood retains a cooler mystique punctuated by glowing pockets of theater, ethnic carryout and edgy galleries. The difference is palpable and enticing. Actually, there's something quite magical about the chilled solitude of 14th street on a March evening.
"'Drunk Kid Catholic!'" "'Arienette!'" "'The City Has Sex!'" "It's a new song," says the thin man on stage with shoulder -length raven hair. "It's on our new album." The crowd murmurs something not quite approaching approval, unsure of what to think. They wanted the hits, if that's what you could call them.
Last Friday night, my friends and I launched a girls-night-out attempt to occupy ourselves with something other than getting drunk - a trek down to E Street to catch Forest Whitaker as really, really bad guy Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland." It turns out that Whitaker won something called an Oscar for the movie a few days earlier, and the show was sold out.
Imagine gazing at an army a million strong bent on destroying you, your family and your city. What would be your reaction to the sight of such an ominous force, knowing that only a few hundred soldiers stand between your city and imminent destruction? A Spartan would laugh.
Three 18-year-old men - one reportedly carrying brass knuckles - allegedly attacked two freshmen on campus Monday night, according to police reports. Freshman Lee Gautier said he left his room in Thurston Hall to go to the gym and noticed three black males watching him at about 10:15 p.m. Monday.
In February, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg offered to loan the daughter of late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke money for tuition to be paid back after she settles a dispute over her father's estate. While some were startled by this proposal, this is not the only time Trachtenberg has offered to help students using his discretionary funds.
Audience members at former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's speech Thursday will be the first group able to ask unscreened questions on his tour of colleges. Carter, who has already visited Brandeis and Emory universities, has until now only answered questions that have been through a screening process.
Gerald Kauvar has been working with University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg for so long that sometimes he can anticipate what the witty, at times outrageous and always unpredictable president is thinking. "He backs me up," Trachtenberg said of his special assistant of the last five years and friend of 30 years.
Half of the student-employees working at WOW Wingery and Cafe quit Monday over frustration with management and complaints about wages. Four of eight students working at the southwestern-style chicken wing venue tendered a letter of resignation to managers of Sodexho, the University's food-service provider.
Kendra Piza did not want her daughter to go to GW. As a single mother raising two children, she insisted that a great education need not be expensive. She tried to show 17-year-old Jackie Piza other schools, but her efforts made little difference, she said.
Deciding what to wear to work can be a difficult task, which is why two multicultural sororities had businesswomen walk the runway at a fashion show Monday night. The Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi sorority and the Sigma Psi Zeta sorority sponsored the event, "The Professional Guide to Success: What to Wear?" fashion show, in the Marvin Center's Grand Ballroom.
Law School professor and Ward 3 D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh is under investigation for allegations that she improperly reported contributions during her 2006 campaign. One of Cheh's opponents in the Democratic primary, Jonathan Rees, brought the allegations of fraud to the D.
A film on radical Islam recently shown on college campuses across the United States has sparked controversy in its wake, causing some campuses to cancel future showings. Director Wayne Kopping's documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" has aired to crowds at such institutions as New York University and University of California, Los Angeles.
A couple weeks ago, police arrested a woman who had been loitering around the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania dorms. She was charged for prostitution and afterward told the police that she was HIV positive and had had sexual contact with ten male students.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter firmly defended his new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," in both prepared remarks and a lengthy, uncensored question-and-answer session at Lisner Auditorium Thursday. The 39th president has been criticized for the subject matter in his book, which some say contains a pro-Palestinian bias.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 - Junior Maureece Rice scored 16 points in 37 hard-fought minutes. He turned the ball over three times and had three steals against Saint Joseph's during a 58-48 win. That was the easiest part of his day. Rice, a Philadelphia native, attended his grandmother's funeral Thursday morning and met his team at the hotel here around 5:30 p.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 8-When GW's men's basketball players adopted "40 hard" as its team motto, they seemed like they meant it. Excluding a brief stretch in the second half where they stuttered, the third-seeded Colonials played like men on a mission Thursday in the 58-48 win against Saint Joseph's in the second-round of the Atlantic 10 tournament.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 - Somewhere here in this casino-laden town, the GW men's basketball team seemed to find a treasure trove filled with tricks from last year's success. In that chest: an effective and swarming trapping defense, an up-tempo offense and big men that can bang with some of the strongest in the Atlantic 10.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 - After missing some of Thursday's game with an injured wrist, senior Regis Koundjia showed no signs of being hurt Friday against St. Louis. Koundjia played one of his best defensive games as a Colonial, holding St. Louis star Ian Vouyakas to just six points and four shot attempts.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 10 - Cue the mayhem. Bring on the seed predictions and welcome to the Big Dance, Foggy Bottom. Forget what you heard about this team for the last six months. After all, this was branded to be a rebuilding year for the GW men's basketball team.
ATLANTIC CITY, March 10 -Senior center Dokun Akingbade has been known as a somewhat shy, almost sheepish player during his five-year stint at GW. However, over the course of the season, Akingbade has shown signs of an inner-intensity, culminating in Saturday's performance.
California, here they come. Fresh off of an Atlantic 10 tournament championship, GW's men's basketball team drew an 11 seed and a match-up with sixth-seeded Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The game will be played Thursday in Sacramento, Ca.
The D.C. Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve GW's 20-year Campus Plan Monday night, nearly one year after the University first submitted the development proposal.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was convicted last Tuesday of lying to the FBI and a grand jury in the investigation of the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters. Libby was found guilty on four of the five charges of perjury and obstruction of justice brought against him.
The campaign for the 2008 presidential election is underway earlier than ever. With nine months until the first primaries and caucuses, candidates from both parties are emerging, and each has made education issues part of their platform. Looking at Democrats first, "improving our schools" is one of the main issues of Illinois Sen.
If you think your state, county or city doesn't care about your higher education, think again. According to a study released by the State Higher Education Executive Officers March 8, state and local support "per full-time equivalent student in public institutions" increased to $6,325 in fiscal 2006-a 5.
The United States' performance in college education is lagging on the world stage, and the situation will only get worse unless radical changes are made, according to a new report. "Hitting Home: Quality, Cost and Access Challenges Confronting Higher Education," says that the United States' higher education system will be unable, at its current rate, to produce enough degrees to meet the demand of its own workforce.
SACRAMENTO, March 15 -- Before GW's men's basketball team's game against Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament, some members of the team shaved their heads to have a fresh look for a potential NCAA tournament run. The ritual did create a new look, but not one the team wanted: the look of a team getting outplayed and out-hustled.
After an almost two-week hiatus, the No. 5-seed GW women's basketball team took the court Saturday afternoon to face No. 12-seed Boise State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Despite the lengthy break since the Colonials' early exit in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament on March 4, GW showed it wasn't rusty, taking an early 19-0 lead and continuing on to a 76-67 victory.
LOS ANGELES, March 19 -- GW women's basketball coach Joe McKeown said it was a game of heart. Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said it was a game of composure. But in the end, it was a game that sent one team to Dallas for the Sweet 16.
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 12:28 p.m. The vice president returned to the GW Medical Center for a second time this month Tuesday morning after experiencing discomfort in his lower left leg. Dick Cheney went to his cardiologist at the Medical Faculty Associates for further treatment of a blood clot in his leg.
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