An ugly win, but a win nonetheless
Friday's game against BU, a 63-58 overtime win, was considerably closer than 2006's because GW didn't have a player like Carl Elliott to lead the offense and come up with baskets when needed.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Volleyball makes A-10 tournament
For the GW volleyball team, this season has been all about the Atlantic 10 Championships.
70 percent switch to GWMail; CMail to expire in March
More than 70 percent of the 24,500 eligible undergraduate and graduate students have switched to the Google-hosted GWMail since the new e-mail system launched this August.
District prepares artifacts for 2009 Lincoln bicentennial
Beginning this month, the District will mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth with a yearlong schedule of remembrance titled "Living the Legacy: Lincoln in Washington D.C."
Bozeman leads women to victory
"There's no fear in those guys," first-year head coach Mike Bozeman said of his freshmen. "I don't know if it's that they're so young they don't understand what they're doing or not, but I know one thing: I like it."
Delta Tau Delta initiates first class at GW in four years
After a four-year absence from GW, Delta Tau Delta initiated their first pledge class of 57 members last week in a public ceremony held in the Marvin Center.
Divine schooling
Perhaps it was fate that brought Sister Mary Gretchen and Sister Mara Lester to Foggy Bottom. After all, Midwestern nuns are somewhat of a rare breed at GW's medical school.
Remix sponsors Mixed Race Awareness Month
Remix, a student organization which raises awareness and provides support for mixed ethnicity students, is sponsoring "Mixed Race Awareness Month" this November.
Staff Editorial: Promoting public service a worthwhile goal
Maybe soon, GW students will not have to take a huge hit to their pocketbooks to be so socially conscious.
Breaking the racial barriers of dating
Room 209 in the Multicultural Student Services Center is almost completely colorless, but a discussion on Tuesday night illuminated it as people recalled their diverse experiences with interracial dating.
Peter Konwerski: Service learning gives back
The pedagogy of service-learning has empowered my students to attempt to find solutions to some of our nation's most pressing social problems.
Niketa Brar: The way through the glass ceiling
Michelle Obama has managed to do what neither Hillary Clinton nor Sarah Palin have achieved.
Lucas Hagerty: Give GW a football team
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will be getting a football team in 2013, 62 years after the school was founded. Why not us?
Sex Column: Overcoming a sexual taboo
Let's talk about anal sex.
Andrew Clark: I voted ‘yes’ on Prop 8
I'm coming out of the closet: As a Californian, I voted yes on Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage.
Staff Editorial: Concerns about UPD? Be involved in the process.
Ever since the University announced it was taking a serious look at arming the University Police Department, the floodgates were thrown open for complaints.
Alumna, professor reportedly on Obama short list
Two members of the GW community are reportedly on short lists for top positions in President-elect Barack Obama's new administration.
GW campaigners reflect on election
For the students who took a semester off to work on political campaigns, the days of long hours, cold pizza and reams of voter contact sheets are over.
Faculty discuss science center
Members of the Faculty Senate presented a controversial plan on Friday to build a multimillion-dollar science center in the middle of campus.
Museum to exhibit student’s office
Many GW students helped make history in their efforts to elect Barack Obama to the presidency. But senior Kyle Lierman will have elements from his campaign activities for the president-elect preserved for history.
‘Spoon serves up opening win
BOSTON - The GW men's basketball team squeaked out a 63-58 victory in a game that seesawed wildly in its last 15 minutes.
Surgeon general returns to GW
Kenneth P. Moritsugu, former acting surgeon general of the United States, credited the GW Department of Preventive Medicine and the diverse D.C. community for his rise to the top public health job in America at a talk on campus Thursday.
BSU celebrates Obama
The Continental Ballroom was transformed Friday night into a dimly lit club where about 50 students dressed in red, white and blue attire for Presidential Swagger, an event sponsored the Black Student Union.
Williams House honors leaders
On the surface, the George Washington Williams House is a student organization that serves as a center for Africana history and cultural promotion both nationally and in the District.
Secretaries give advice to Obama
As the inauguration of Barack Obama rolls closer, three former White House cabinet secretaries said at a forum Thursday in the Jack Morton Auditorium that compiling a group of people that get along with each other and can work successfully together is the most important task for the president-elect.
Students honored for service abroad
Living in a dangerous area was just part of the job for graduate student Larissa Hotra and alumna Krystal Sirman during their time working for Survivor Corps this past summer.
Students rally against Proposition 8
Students and alumni joined thousands of other gay rights protesters on the National Mall Saturday.
Group raises awareness about D.C. biking
As the Friday evening rush hour traffic began to clog the streets around Dupont Circle, a group of more than 50 bikers began their ride.
Women’s basketball throttles Coppin State, 77-36
Monday, November 17 Every GW women's basketball player contributed in the Colonials' 77-36 drubbing of Coppin State at the Smith Center Monday.
