Thursday Non-Profit Career Fair Interested in working for a non-profit? Stop by this career fair organized by Idealist.org. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marvin Center 3rd Floor Sponsored by the Career Center Spring Film Series: Children of Men Catch a free showing of this blockbuster.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe said Tuesday night that he will establish guidelines for using the $25,000 University grant the group received last week before he leaves office April 30. University officials announced last week a two-year pilot program to fund "socially responsible initiatives.
The Delta Gamma sorority's annual Anchor Bowl raised $5,000 this week for Service for Sight, an organization that provides services to blind and visually impaired individuals. Anchor Bowl consists of a week's worth of fundraising and social events that culminate in a football tournament for fraternities.
Thurston Hall will be closed for extensive renovations this summer and will reopen about a week before fall move-in. The 1,116-bed freshman residence hall will receive new windows, updated lighting fixtures and elevators, and fire sprinklers in each of the rooms, said Seth Weinshel, assignments director of GW Housing Programs.
Editor's Note: Due to a contributing reporter's error, junior Daniel November was quoted in the story "Gay at GW: a culture of acceptance?" (March 26, p.1) without his permission. He had given permission to be quoted in the contributing reporter's class assignment, but did not give the reporter permission for it to be printed in The Hatchet.
A bill to give D.C. a voting representative in Congress has stalled for a second time in six months amid debate over its constitutionality. The District has one non-voting representative in the House of Representatives, a position Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.
GW awarded nine D.C. public high school seniors full scholarships to attend the University beginning next year. The Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Scholarship program has provided full scholarships, including funds for room and board and book expenses, for 93 D.
Before he stepped on stage to audition for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," Herschel Bleefeld thought about some of the same things that used to go through his mind when he was a member of GW's comedy group Recess. "You either have it or you don't, and if you don't, you don't deserve to be out there.
Harry Houdini was a man of mystery, a world-renowned magician known for tricks as unbelievable as escaping from a burial coffin. But while his life was a spectacle, his recorded death fell short of a magical event. Houdini's death certificate says he died at age 52 on Halloween of peritonitis due to a ruptured appendix.
Disorderly Conduct 3/24/07 - 1900 Block of F Street - 4:09 a.m. -case closed A University Police Department officer observed a heated argument between two males - one GW student and one unaffiliated with the University. The officer approached the individuals and they stopped arguing and went separate ways.
A tiny, unbearably warm room in the basement of Ivory Tower wouldn't normally bode well for holding a young woman's attention. But fill that room with 12 young men who sing, rumors of pants-less rehearsals and a bit too much testosterone, and suddenly things get interesting.
Tropical drinks with the after-work crowd on L Street isn't exactly the craziest evening I can imagine. Cut the price of those tropical drinks in half, though, and we might be getting somewhere. Nooshi calls this phenomenon "Crazy Hour," a happy-four-hours it advertises with this inexplicable catchphrase: "Eat Drink Men Women.
Batman and Robin. Lennon and McCartney. Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida. Venus and Serena Williams. All of these duos brought out the best - and worst - in each other. With the release of "Blades of Glory," a standout film in the ubiquitous genre of homoerotic ice skating buddy comedies, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder join this list.
If you have $5 No money is required to enjoy a beautiful day. Spring is here, and you can celebrate the blooming of some of D.C.'s most famous residents by going out on Saturday for the beginning of this year's National Cherry Blossom Festival. From 10 a.m.
Despite its gentle name, "The Pillowman" is as dark and twisted as they come. The play, running at Studio Theatre March 14 through April 22, is part grisly campfire story, part cautionary tale. Set in an unnamed totalitarian state, police arrest and question writer Katurian Katurian (his parents were funny people) about the contents of his stories, which parallel a series of gruesome child murders in the area.
Before April showers us with an eclectic month of music in the District, there are a few musical loose-ends to tie up for March. Tonight, Iota Club & Caf? is hosting the CD-release party for Local folk singer/songwriter Vandaveer. His latest album "Grace & Speed," released on Gypsy Eyes, was released March 20.
CNN's Lou Dobbs hosted a live discussion Wednesday night in Jack Morton Auditorium focusing on the crisis of drug and alcohol abuse within America's youth. About 200 students, faculty members and invited guests attended the nationally broadcast program entitled "The War Within."
Prominent gay congressman Barney Frank spoke about issues ranging from same-sex marriage to the war in Iraq to more than 60 students at Marvin Center. Frank, who was voted funniest congressman in a recent Washingtonian magazine poll, showed his sense of humor while cracking jokes on almost every subject he discussed.
Most students received one of their top-three housing picks for next year, according University statistics. During the inaugural run of the computerized program iHousing, 82 percent of applicants received one of their top-three housing choices, with 71 percent receiving their first choice, said Seth Weinshel, assignments director of GW Housing Programs.
GW is absent from a list of more than 100 colleges and universities that agreed to work toward eliminating carbon emissions and promote a more environmentally friendly campus. The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, a group dedicated to tackling global warming through eliminating carbon emissions on college campuses, invited GW to join the group last December.
With the conflict in the Middle East raging, Palestinians and Israelis spoke at the Law School Monday about a peaceful and moderate resolution of the region's problems. The speakers, who are part of a mediation-based group called OneVoice, spoke about the thousands of people in Israel and the Palestinian territories who want to solve the conflict peacefully.
Alumnus Roy Lee's recent work won him and his colleagues some distinctive awards: four Academy Awards, in fact. It's not every day that people get to work with Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Oscar-winning best director Martin Scorsese.
GW will welcome two musical performing acts to campus this spring within almost one week of each other. Grammy award-winning artist Sheryl Crow will perform in Smith Center April 22 as part of the Stop Global Warming College Tour.
Construction on the old hospital site just south of Washington Circle is set to begin next academic year after the Square 54 commercial project received unanimous approval from the D.C. Zoning Commission Monday night. The go-ahead from the commissioners came after GW agreed to reduce the height of a residential building along 22nd Street - a request the commission made after postponing a decision on the plan in late February.
It's the classic "High Fidelity" question: "Is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins; is it better to burn out or fade away?" With the release of "The Sebadoh" in 1999, Sebadoh felt hated by fans, critics, even their label; lead songwriter Lou Barlow admits, "No one liked our last record, and they stopped going to shows.
Rumors about a Connecticut university becoming the 15th member of the Atlantic 10 conference are completely false, a conference official said Wednesday. The Hartford Courant reported that Quinnipiac University, a private school in Hamden, Conn., is pushing to join the A-10 after its basketball team finished11-7 in the Northeastern Conference this year.
Despite its international following, many Americans aren't very familiar with the British sport cricket. But walk through University Yard, and students might get a lesson. Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, freshmen Alexander Sternberg and Ankit Sheth assemble on their makeshift field at the grassiest spot on the Foggy Bottom campus, using an unnatural winding motion to bowl a hard ball toward a structure known as a wicket that is defended by a batsman.
Baseball The GW baseball team dropped games to Georgetown, 5-4, and at Towson, 19-2, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. The Hoyas scored a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the victory. The game was played at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, Md.
Campus Plan Following months of deliberation, D.C. Board of Zoning's acceptance of the 20-year Campus Plan is a major step toward centralizing GW. Foggy Bottom residents should realize that this is a positive proposal for all members of the community. SA platforms Student Association President-elect Nicole Capp and Vice-President-elect Brand Kroeger have proposed ambitious agendas for next year.
There's a not-so-great rumor around campus that you might have read about on this page. In her March 1 column, "Beating the 'buff and blue' blues," (p. 4) Hatchet Contributing Opinions Editor Diana Kugel mentioned the possibility that President-elect Steven Knapp might be moving into Alumni House.
The District of Columbia: the name alone evokes images of neoclassical buildings, wide avenues and the National Mall. As a four-year resident of this great city, I cannot help but feel an immense sense of pride when strolling around the Lincoln Memorial late at night or while standing amidst a pink snowfall in early April.
CNN relocated the Lou Dobbs Tonight special that was scheduled for Jack Morton Auditorium to the network's Washington bureau, the University and the network announced Thursday afternoon. "This was an editorial decision," GW Director of Media Relations Tracy Schario said.
Many D.C. high school students smiled last Thursday with the announcement of a $122 million grant that will help students from low-income families attend college. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the grant will support the city's effort to double the number of high school and college graduates by 2010.
The U.S. Department of Education convened a March 22 summit on higher education to address the goals of its plan to reform higher education in America. Over 250 business and academic leaders and officials gathered in Washington, D.C., and hammered out a list of 25 "action items" to help the Department achieve some of what it set out to do.
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