Columbian College delays 4×4 vote
The Columbian College voted Friday to indefinitely postpone a vote on the four-by-four plan and review their curriculum with the incoming administration of University President-elect Steven Knapp.
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Stories from the April 5, 2007, Print Edition
Actor Arquette visits GW, promotes movie
As students watched the movie trailer for "The Tripper" in the basement of Gelman Library on Monday afternoon, the narrator of the preview declared that the film was "from the warped mind of David Arquette."
GW programs ranked in top tier of nation by magazines
Recent rankings of university programs place some GW areas of study among the best in the nation. GW's Law School and Graduate School of Public Health and Health Services both ranked in the top 25 for their fields by U.S. News and World Report. Other publications also ranked University programs among the nation's best.
Selling GW coast to coast: Regional admissions directors recruit highschoolers
For three months every year, Joe Greenberg is a traveling salesman. His best-selling product: higher education. From his home in Boston, Greenberg drives more than 20,000 miles a year, meeting high school students and educating them about GW. He sleeps in cheap hotels, wakes up early and travels during the weekend, he said, so he can visit more schools everyday.
TONIC liquor license delayed
D.C.'s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board denied the liquor license application for the soon-to-open campus restaurant TONIC last week after months of deliberation. The co-owner of TONIC, Jeremy Pollok, a GW alumnus who owns the same restaurant in the Mount Pleasant area, said TONIC will open without the license in late April.
iHousing still annoys some students
More than a week after housing assignments were announced, some students are still dissatisfied with the results of a new preference-based housing selection system. Complaints from students have ranged from not being placed in their requested room assignments to a lack of transparency in the new system.
Campus Calendar
Thursday Asian Women: The History, the Present and the Future Join this discussion as part of Pan-Asian Heritage Month. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Duqu?s Hall Sponsored by Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc, GLOW and MSSC Friday Film Event: In America Catch this film following the lives of an Irish family trying to make it in New York City.
Senate rejects fee increase
Students will not be paying up to $15 more to the Student Association after the Senate voted down the proposed student fee increase Tuesday night in Marvin Center. The failed bill, which was three votes short of passing, would require incoming undergraduate students to pay $2 per credit hour, doubling the amount students now pay to the SA.
Sorority honors black student leaders
The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority hosted the 11th annual Black Male Appreciation Dinner earlier this week at Marvin Center with about 90 students and administrators. The dinner, which is part of the community-service based AKA Month, honored Student Association President Lamar Thorpe, GW NAACP president James Walker and alumnus Antwayne Ford.
SPJ names The Hatchet best non-daily newspaper in region
For the fourth year in a row, the Society of Professional Journalists named The Hatchet the best all-around non-daily newspaper in the mid-Atlantic region. At the organization's annual award conference Saturday in Richmond, Va., Hatchet staffers also won 17 additional Mark of Excellence awards, including 10 first places.
Crime Log
Disorderly Conduct 4/2/07 - Mitchell Hall - 12:45 a.m. - case closed A student reported that he was outside Mitchell Hall when an unknown individual threw an object out a nearby window. He said he looked up and saw a male poking his head out of the window.
GW denied records in Bhangra murder investigation
Attorneys discussed the University's request to review police records Friday during the second hearing of a wrongful death suit filed against GW and a student organization. The father of a man who was fatally stabbed five times outside a Bhangra Blowout after-party two years ago filed the suit against the University and the South Asian Society.
WEB EXTRA: Students volunteer at Cherry Blossom Festival
As a New York Mets fan, junior Charlie Kruer has some reservations about idolizing Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard. But in the past couple of weeks, Kruer, also a left-handed power-hitter, has put up numbers that come close to rivaling those of last year's National League's most valuable player.
WEB EXTRA: Ambassadors discuss democratization in Middle East
Four Middle Eastern ambassadors discussed strategies for bringing democratic reform to their region Wednesday at Marvin Center. One hundred students from Duke, Georgetown and GW attended the symposium, hosted by the Global Language Group. Ambassadors from Qatar, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia discussed similar concerns about roadblocks to reforming private property holdings, a lack of women's rights, respect for human rights, political parties, terrorism and government corruption.
WEB EXTRA: AIDS event draws crowd
America's global AIDS coordinator said while much progress has been made on slowing down the international epidemic, much more needs to be done. Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, appointed by President George Bush, spoke to about 100 students from GW, Georgetown and Howard universities in Marvin Center's Continental Ballroom about Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief.
WEB EXTRA: Progressive student union gets State Plaza kicked off GW sponsorship
The Admissions Office removed a local hotel from its list of recommended businesses last week due to student complaints. The National Labor Relations Board convicted the State Plaza Hotel, which is located between E and F streets and 20th and 21st streets, of anti-union behavior last August.
Trachtenberg, other authors, sign books in Gelman
Last Thursday University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg presented his new book, "Write Me a Letter!" along with three other GW professors who have recently published books. "I feel a little bit like a fraud. (My book) is more of a dessert than a main course," Trachtenberg said, comparing his book to those of his colleagues at Thursday's Faculty Authors Book Signing Reception, one of several similar events hosted every year at Gelman Library.
WEB EXTRA: Womens leadership host conference on Mount Vernon
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's wife, addressed the demands of being a successful woman at work and at home last week. She spoke at the fifth annual Women's Leadership Conference Friday at the Mount Vernon Campus.
WEB EXTRA: Ceremony honors long-standing GW employee
Friends, family and colleagues honored Jane Lingo, the University's longest-serving employee, at a memorial service at Lisner Auditorium last week. Lingo died in late February of breast cancer, after dedicating 50 years of her life to the University. She was 83.
WEB EXTRA: Non-profit organizations participate in job fairs
Representatives from more than 100 non-profit organizations came to campus last Thursday to educate students about job opportunities. Last week's career fair, sponsored by Idealist.org and hosted by the GW Career Center showcased about 135 non-profit organization employers in the Marvin Center.
WEB EXTRA: Mind and Body Week offers free yoga classes
Lie down with your palms raised and toes turned out, take a deep breath, and repeat to yourself, "I love my body." This was the essence of this year's Mind and Body Week, hosted by the Lerner Health and Wellness Center which offered free yoga and pilates classes to students.
WEB UPDATE: Student services to occupy Marvin Center basement
Posted Friday, April 6, 7:22 p.m. A student service center will fill the empty space in the Marvin Center's ground floor that the District Market grocery store inhabited until last summer. Administrators met with student leaders Thursday and discussed how various departments located in Foggy Bottom will be moved to the 5,000-square-foot location in the Marvin Center.
