Corrections and Clarifications
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Baseball drops contest to Towson
Among Jackie Robinson's innumerable accomplishments was his ability to overcome adversity. Unfortunately, the GW baseball team was unable to emulate this spirit in the seventh annual Jackie Robinson game.
Organization will honor sports pioneer
As the baseball community celebrates the 61st anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier, the GW Jackie Robinson Society will honor him with its own event in the Jack Morton Auditorium.
Kalb talks to Pulitzer-winning investigative journalists
Web Extra
Marvin Kalb grilled Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker and Dana Priest of The Washington Post about what investigative journalists owe to society.Staff Editorial: Plausible changes for study abroad
With a few weeks left in her term as Student Association president, Nicole Capp has recently tackled an issue that will inevitably roll over into the next academic year - study abroad reform.
Josh Akman: Selling research to students
Regardless of our decent academic status and the number of exciting projects propelled by students on this campus, GW still lacks the undergraduate research considered crucial at many other universities.
Claire Autruong: Reimagining general requirements
In re-evaluating the decades-old GCRs, CCAS should go back and evaluate the reason the requirements were created in the first place.
Saumya Narechania: Abusing the label-maker
My unabashed idealism and liberal enthusiasm will soon be leaving me, so I'm told.
Live Review: Spoon in Baltimore
There's no doubt about it, Spoon has been around the block. Over the past decade the unlikely band of ragtag misfits from Austin, Texas, have made the slow and gradual transition from being Austin's backyard heroes to America's greatest underdogs.
Can hip-hop change lives? National Geographic thinks so
Committing to social change, Chuck D used his celebrity for a cause: joining Sol Guy and Josh Thome, co-founders of Direct Current Media, in promoting the release of the upcoming television series 4Real.
A new Mule?
Gov't Mule frontman Warren Haynes' reputation will live on this weekend, when he performs three shows in two days here in the District.
Bar Belle: Clarendon Grill
I have four more weeks to excuse my erratic, sometimes psychotic and definitely crazy behavior of being in college.
Washington welcomes the pope
Two minutes after noon at 21st Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, a glass-enclosed Pope Benedict XVI pleased hordes of his faithful, and those just along for the ride, with waves and smiles as he made his way from the White House to the Vatican embassy.
Experts debate Iraq refugees
While immersed in Iraq's boiling hot weather during his 2003 and 2005 tours, GW sophomore and U.S. Marine Sean Robinson assessed the damaging effects of the Iraq War.
Intelligent students decrease
While record-high numbers of academically prestigious freshmen are enrolling at Ivy League colleges, fewer smart students are choosing to attend GW.
SA president tackles study abroad woes
In the waning weeks of her administration, Student Association President Nicole Capp met with the director of the Office of Study Abroad to address a growing number of concerns students have with the office.
Honoring Virginia Tech’s fallen
It has been a long year for Jessica Forbes, a senior who transferred to GW from Virginia Tech in 2006.
Mock trial team nabs first place
GW Mock Trial will begin its next competitive season ranked No. 1 in the nation after finishing in second place in a national tournament last week.
University closes Thurston for second summer
Students attending Colonial Inauguration will once again miss out on the Thurston Hall experience as the residence hall undergoes its second consecutive summer of renovations.
GW preps for student loan scare
The subprime mortgage crisis, which tore through the financial markets over the last year, has reached student loans.
Activists protest lax gun laws on anniversary of shootings
Web Extra A silent crowd of demonstrators filled the steps of the Supreme Court with their lifeless bodies on the one year anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech in an appeal for stricter gun laws.
GW Brief: School of Business to offer sports management master’s program
Web Extra This fall the School of Business will offer a new master's program in sports management, initially accepting only 10 students.
Experts, students observe Israel’s 60th anniversary
Web Extra At GW, traditionally a hotbed of Middle East debate, experts are putting Israel's 60th anniversary into context, saying that the U.S. has been an important part to the state's survival.
At Nationals Park, pope condemns abuse
Thursday, April 17, 4:25 p.m. Pope Benedict XVI condemned the sexual abuse of minors by American clergy and prayed for forgiveness on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church during a standing-room-only mass.
