This semester, two male students and two females moved into a University residence hall room together because of an error, despite a GW policy prohibiting co-ed rooms. GW has since ordered either the male or female students in the room to move out. This situation raises the question as to whether or not the exclusion of co-ed rooms is the best possible policy.
Though the University lacks any concrete statistics, administrators estimate that up to 10 percent of GW professors use Turnitin.com, an online plagiarism prevention service. The company allows professors to use a database to compare student papers to previous, unpublished works and works available on the Internet.
"Why-a you gotta be-a such ugly Americans?" With much excited gesturing, my Italian professor commented on student's classroom demeanor. I went to class prepared for a lesson on verb forms, but Italian 001 quickly turned into an etiquette and fashion lesson.
Keep it civil and keep the children out I would like to commend John McCormack for his well-communicated position on the fight between pro-life and pro-choice ("Look to civil debate on abortion, not extremism," Oct. 23, p. 4). While I have a different position than he does on abortion itself, I agree that the screaming, the hellfire messages, and the pictures of dismembered babies do not change people's minds - they only fire up both sides.
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