College Media Network

News

Stories from the October 20, 2008, Print Edition

Students host mock CSI workshop at crime museum

by Justine Karp

Four current and former graduate students are teaching a program that helps visitors at the Crime and Punishment Museum step inside the mind of a crime scene investigator.

Thousands attend sixth annual Foggy Bottom block party

by Caitie Daw
Hatchet Reporter

More than 125 tables and thousands of members of the Foggy Bottom community gathered on the Eye Street Mall Sunday to celebrate the neighborhood and the University.

Correction

Delta Tau Delta to recruit after four-year suspension

by Julie Bailey
Hatchet Reporter

Officials from Delta Tau Delta have started recruiting students to help recolonize the fraternity at GW, four years after the organization was suspended for hazing.

Campus Calendar

Snapshot: Presidential Power

University President Steven Knapp tests his grip at a GW Physical Therapy booth during the Foggy Bottom/West End Neighborhood Block Party Sunday afternoon at the Eye Street Mall.

Univ. offers mobile mammograms

by Elise Kigner

Cecilia Salinas and her husband, Jaime Galdames, received help on Friday from the GW Mammovan, a breast exam clinic on wheels.

Lewis performs raunchy act at Lisner

by Madeleine Morgenstern

Comedian and actor Richard Lewis promised an audience at Lisner Auditorium Saturday night that their lives would seem better and "your vaginas will be fuller and your penises will be longer" after they saw his performance.

Writer addresses annual YAF event

by Gabriella Schwarz
Hatchet Reporter

Author and activist Nonie Darwish spoke about the threat of radical Islam on Thursday as part of the Young America's Foundation Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

Hussein trial judge visits GW

by Danielle Meister

The chief investigative judge for the trial of Saddam Hussein said that the legal proceeding for the former Iraqi dictator was "the biggest turning point in Iraqi history" on Thursday at the Jacob Burns Law Library.

University reduces class capacities

by Amy Rhodin
Hatchet Staff Writer

A top University official said last week that GW is reducing class sizes to improve its ranking in US News & World Report's annual list of the nation's best universities.

SMHS addresses recent probation

by Lauren Hoenemeyer

Following widely reported news last week that an accrediting body had put the School of Medicine and Health Sciences on probation, school officials appeared before the Board of Trustees on Friday.

Williams draws big laughs

by Alli Hoff

"What the fuck is buff?" asked comedian Robin Williams during a sold-out show in the Smith Center Friday. "Supposedly, it's the color of George Washington's teeth."