Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Andy Rooney will keynote the University's May 22 Commencement ceremony on The Ellipse. President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg called the CBS journalist a "man at the peak of a long and interesting career who has devoted himself to thinking out complex issues and sharing them with the rest of the country.
While most of the GW community watched the events of the Southeast Asian tsunami unfold from the safety of their living rooms, three students spent Dec. 26 running from the giant wave.
The University may turn the Hall on Virginia Avenue into an upperclassman dorm or sell the property following a recent city order that prevents freshmen from living there after August 2006. University officials said they do not know what will happen after 2006 when HOVA cannot house freshmen.
Members of the Afghan Student Organization are helping to encourage education after 30 years of oppression in their home country by sending educational materials through the Books for Afghanistan project. Since the beginning of last semester, the ASO has collected more than 3,000 books that will be sent to the new American University library in Kabul, Afghanistan, a facility that is projected to open next fall.
City officials denied a request from members of a Foggy Bottom community group that would have prevented non-students from eating at Ivory Tower's dining venues at a meeting Tuesday night. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a community group that makes zoning recommendations, urged the D.
The University began construction earlier this month on an F Street residence hall that is scheduled to open for the fall 2006 semester. Tracy Schario, GW's director of Media Relations, said no groundbreaking ceremony was held for the building, which will provide GW with 379 on-campus beds.
Graduate student Ken Kern's experiences in student government did not just provide him with some practice in politics. It also gave him the backdrop for his first mystery novel. As an undergraduate at the University of Florida, Kerns, a GW political management graduate student, saw an elitist student government that did not live up to its potential.
Alumnus Eric Porter did what his mother told him would be the "most exciting thing in he would ever do in his life." He was a contestant on the trivia show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Porter, a 2004 GW graduate and law student at Temple University, won $16,000 on the ABC game show, which aired his turn in the hot seat on Friday and Monday.
Destruction 1/16 - Ivory Tower - case closed University Police officers responded to noise in the men's bathroom and found two females and a broken seat cover dispenser. Officers smelled alcohol on both females. Referred to Student Judicial Services 1/15 - Public Space - case closed The passenger window of a vehicle parked at 20th and H streets was smashed.
Senators criticize Woodard's JEC nominees Several Student Association senators questioned the experience of President Omar Woodard's three nominees for the 2005 Joint Elections Committee at Tuesday night's Senate meeting. Woodard nominated sophomores Kathryn Lux and Alexandra Valenti and graduate student Chris Jenkins to sit on the body, which will oversee the election of a new SA president in March.
IFC, Panhellenic Association elect new leaders The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, the student governing bodies for sororities and fraternities, will transition in their new leaders this month. Both organizations held elections at the end of last semester.
Thursday Tsunami Disaster Relief Fundraiser Eat at Baja Fresh and proceeds will be donated to the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children 4 to 9 p.m. Baja Fresh, 20th and I streets Sponsored by GW Satyam GW Inaugural Ball 8 p.m. to midnight Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, N.
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