Stories from the March 29, 2007, Print Edition
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.
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.
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.
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