WEB UPDATE: 'Crossfire' silences debate after 23 years
Posted Saturday, June 4, 2:53 a.m. The show, one of cable television's longest-running programs and the first debate program of its kind, made its final broadcast ever Friday afternoon.
Campus News
BREAKING NEWS: City and University officials investigate suicide outside Munson
Posted Friday, June 10, 9:55 a.m. Updated Monday, June 13, 10:36 a.m. In a statement released at about 4:30 p.m., GW spokesman Matt Lindsay said the victim is a middle-aged man who is believed to have no affiliation with the University.
WEB UPDATE: 'Deep Throat' from Watergate scandal is GW alumnus
Posted Tuesday, May 31, 9:35 p.m. W. Mark Felt, an FBI associate director who graduated from the GW Law School in 1940, provided crucial information about the scandal to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein under the pseudonym "Deep Throat," whose identity has been a source of great speculation for more than 30 years.
WEB UPDATE: GW-CNN relationship continues with 'On the Story'
Posted Thursday, June 23, 10:15 p.m. The 24-hour news network and GW announced Thursday that their three-year partnership through the now-defunct daily political debate show will continue with a weekly broadcast of "On the Story" from GW beginning with a first taping on July 8.
WEB UPDATE: University will not certify union
Posted Wednesday, June 29, 3:16 p.m. After a narrow vote in favor of part-time professor unionization at GW, administration officials continue to protest the formation of a collective barganing group.
WEB UPDATE: GW to welcome 2,400-person freshman class
Posted Monday, May 30, 11:33 p.m. Following a decline in applications from prospective undergraduates, GW's class of 2009 will have about 200 fewer students than the previous year's group. About 2,445 prospective students accepted offers to attend GW beginning Aug. 31.
WEB UPDATE: Aramark replacing J Street venues Miso and Baja Sol
Posted Monday, May 30, 11:40 p.m. Baja Sol will be replaced by The Salad Garden, a "new full-service salad station that will offer a variety of traditional salad options tossed-to-order and the ability to create-your-own salad," Moran said.
WEB UPDATE: University's property holdings not just classrooms and dorms
Posted Monday, May 30, 11:44 p.m. When George Washington bequeathed his 50 shares of the Potomac Company toward the creation of a D.C. university, he did not foresee an institution that would one day be the largest private landowner in the nation's capital.
WEB UPDATE: BU professor to head Law School
Posted Thursday, May 26, 10 p.m. Boston University law professor Frederick Lawrence will be the next dean of the GW Law School, assuming his duties August 1, officials announced Thursday.
WEB UPDATE: Jon Stewart to headline Colonials Weekend
Posted Thursday, June 16, 4:08 p.m. Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," will headline Colonials Weekend in October. Stewart was most recently on campus for a taping of "Crossfire" in October.
WEB UPDATE: 1989 graduate, a Marine, dies in Iraq
Posted Wednesday, June 1, 10:33 p.m. Crocker, 39, known simply as "Rick," was serving his second tour of active duty with the Marine Corps. He died on May 26 in an attack in Al-Anbar province.
WEB UPDATE: Georgetown professor to head ESIA
Posted Thursday, June 2, 1:11 p.m. Michael Brown will become dean of GW's international affairs school Aug. 1.
Grads celebrate on Ellipse
More than 6,000 students can now call themselves GW graduates after the May 22 blue-sky Commencement on the Ellipse. After planning for more than a year, the University hosted about 23,000 students, family, faculty and administrators in front of the White House.
A final coming together
Contrary to the idea of a formal, personal graduation, GW's ceremony took place in an outdoor setting, with members of the public mixing the informality of the event could be seen as spectators and even graduates moved freely throughout the massive crowd.
GW Briefs
Sophomore out of GW Hospital after apparent fall Tau Kappa Epsilon member Ben Golden was released from the GW Hospital last week, hospital officials said, after spending a week at the facility due to an apparent fall from his fraternity's house. While hospital officials have declined to speak about the sophomore's condition or injuries since Golden was admitted May 10, Tau Kappa Epsilon member Mike Heenan told The Hatchet after the incident that the student sustained some broken bones in his legs.
Trachtenberg-Manatt prize goes to free trade fighter
A fierce fighter for fair trade, Lina Musayev received the Manatt-Trachtenberg prize at Sunday's Commencement ceremony on the Ellipse. While starting two organizations calling for fair-trade policies and volunteering at numerous local charity events, Musayev has been steady in advocating humane labor and improved environmental and social standards.
Board delays faculty and staff pay raises
GW's Board of Trustees approved a six-month delay in faculty and staff pay raises Friday, making it the second time in three years that employees must wait 18 months for a salary increase that used to come every year. Some professors' concerns about the raise delay were not assuaged by an administration plan to allocate funds freed up by the deferment to other initiatives.
It's official: "Crossfire" to end June 3
Months after its cancellation was announced, CNN's "Crossfire," which has broadcasted from the Jack Morton Auditorium for three years, will end its 23-year run with its final show June 3, a Friday. Michael Freedman, GW's vice president for communications, said Thursday night that he remains "absolutely confident" that CNN's relationship with GW would continue in the form of another show.
Part-time faculty union to go forward pending certification
After seven months of deliberations, part-time professors are positioned to unionize, following a verdict from the National Labor Relations Board May 17. The move will change the way the University negotiates with its part-time professors, and at least one professor said, lead to the resignation of faculty who don't want to join a labor group.
Crime Report
Theft 5/17 - Public Property - case closed A female student reported that her bike was stolen from the bike rack on the H Street side of the Marvin Center. University Police officers filed a report. No suspects or witnesses. Breaking and Entering - Vending 5/16 - Aston Hall - open case UPD responded to a report that a vending machine in the building had been vandalized.
A summer dream job
The smell of freshly cut grass, the crack of a wooden bat, a six-foot tall bald eagle mascot and GW junior Stephen Roche. These are just some things a Washington Nationals fan may see during a typical game at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Roche is a member of the new team's "Nat Pack.
Grad party draws 3,000
Monumental Celebration brought more than 3,000 people to Union Station Saturday night, an increase from last year's drop in attendance. As of last week, ticket sales indicated that the event would be poorly attended for a second consecutive year. About 1,500 fewer people attended last year's celebration, a traditional bash for graduating seniors, their families and friends, than in 2003.
GW readies for summer
As students conquer their last finals and dorms begin to empty, heat and humidity sets in and lets people know that it's summertime in the city. For more than 3,000 students from GW and other schools, Foggy Bottom will remain their home for the next four steamy summer months; internships, employment at the University and summer classes are among the top reasons to stay.
SJS sanctions Order of the Hippo members
SJS received multiple complaints of hazing and underage drinking after several members of the administration-sponsored "secret" society were seen on campus April 28 with blindfolds on their eyes and mud or face paint on their bodies.
It's official:
Months after its cancellation was announced, CNN's "Crossfire," which has broadcasted from the Jack Morton Auditorium for three years, will end its 23-year run with its final show June 3, a Friday. Michael Freedman, GW's vice president for communications, said Thursday night that he remains "absolutely confident" that CNN's relationship with GW would continue in the form of another show.
