GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg conferred honorary degrees on four distinguished speakers - oncologist Luther Brady, physicist Leon Lederman, Shakespearean scholar and former GW professor Gail Kern Paster and former Gen. John Shalikashvili.
A GW alumni group is questioning the business practices of several University Board of Trustees members and is gradually posting information about each member on its Web site.
About 2,000 less people went to the University's annual Monumental celebration this year, a dramatic attendance decline that will lead officials to consider ways to make the event more attractive to students and their families.
Next year's freshman class will swell to almost 2,600 students, as a higher-than-expected yield rate caused the number of incoming students to exceed University officials' admissions expectations by about 200.
The service traditionally marks the beginning of graduation weekend and has been sparsely attended in recent years. But about 500 graduates, family members and friends packed the Virginia Avenue church on Friday.
After a Scottish bagpipe player led graduates of the School of Public Health and Health Services to their seats in Lisner Auditorium, Dean Ruth Katz offered words of wisdom to those in attendance. "Being proud on a day like today is not sin and not vanity," she said at Saturday's celebration.
The University is still deciding whether to eliminate a program that provides students with free copies of three major newspapers in residence halls, said one GW official who stated last month that the program would be cut. The Hatchet reported April 26 that Johnnie Osborne, associate vice president and chief financial officer of Student and Academic Support Services, wrote in an e-mail that the Collegiate Readership Program would be eliminated amid budget cuts for next year.
University officials said they will consider building a new science facility to address concerns by professors who said current facilities are dilapidated and do not provide enough space. At a meeting two weeks ago, the Faculty Senate urged President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and the Board of Trustees to look into the construction of a new science building on the former GW Hospital site, located on the 2200 block of I Street.
Elliott School to house Starbucks Students will no longer have to go to the Marvin Center to get a Frappuccino on campus when Starbucks opens a new shop at 1957 E Street this fall. The University will not incur any cost for housing the chain coffee conglomerate, which, along with Subway will be paying rent to occupy the residence hall's first floor, said Louis Katz, executive vice president and treasurer.
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