Comedian Bob Saget performed for a sold-out crowd in Lisner Auditorium Thursday evening, marking the second time in two years that he has visited campus. Saget, who is now widely known for his risque humor, starred in family-themed television shows during the 1990s.
The Faculty Senate unanimously voted Friday to wait until April to make a decision on the four-by-four plan. The four-by-four final report was distributed to faculty at the end of October with an attached memo asking the schools and the Faculty Senate to vote on the plan by mid-January.
Elliott's career-high 29 points leads GW to a 45-point victory over Dartmouth College.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg discussed the importance of freedom of speech Saturday at Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of George Washington, to a group of British intellectuals and GW alumni.
GW experienced an increase in international student enrollment this year for the first time in five years. The fall 2006 census, which was released in late October from the Office of Institutional Research, shows a 1.5 percent increase in international student enrollment this year, which University officials said is promising.
Turnout among 18 to 29-year-old voters increased for the second cycle in a row, according to a nonpartisan group affiliated with GW. Election-day exit polls helped determine a 20 percent spike in turnout in the organization's findings last week. Young Voter Strategies, which took a comprehensive look into the youth vote, is the largest nonpartisan movement to register young voters in America.
Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S. stressed the need for economic investment in his country last Friday at the Elliott School of International Affairs. His Excellency Said T. Jawad spoke at the School of Business' Sixth International Development Forum about the economic future of Afghanistan, a post-conflict nation.
As a freshman, Lyna Saad never thought she would end up in Bahrain, a tiny island off the coast of Saudi Arabia, after graduating. Now, Saad is one of 50 GW students in the past five years who found work abroad through GW's chapter of the world's largest student organization - AIESEC.
Deliberations over using a tunnel or an above-ground rail delayed construction on Metro's extension to Dulles International Airport another year. The planned 23-mile extension runs through Tysons Corner, Reston, Herndon, Dulles airport and east Loudoun County in Northern Virginia.
A local elected body voted three to two Thursday to oppose GW's commercial investment plans on the old hospital site south of Washington Circle. The Foggy Bottom/West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which advises the D.C. Zoning Commission on local development, opposed the University's plans for a large commercial complex.
The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Mu Beta Chapter "brought sexy back" with a date auction in the Marvin Center Friday night. The second annual auction featured 30 participants from eight of the nine National Pan-Hellenic Council chapters and one Multicultural Greek Council chapter.
The standardized test for most graduate students will nearly double in length next year and the law school entrance exam will see minor changes. Students taking the Graduate Record Examination, a test most graduate programs nationwide require for admission, will have a completely new exam beginning next September.
A GW professor may be a step closer to finding a vaccination for AIDS. With his team, physics assistant professor Guanyu Wang has successfully created a computer model replicating the evolution of the HIV virus in all its stages within the human body. Wang did most of his research at Rice University in Texas with the study's co-author Michael Deem of Rice University.
The dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences told the Faculty Senate Friday that her school will likely not be able to comply with the Faculty Code's demands on percentages of tenured and tenure-accruing faculty by 2012. "It's plausible, but not a guarantee by any stretch of the imagination," SPHHS Dean Ruth Katz said.
The Associated College Press named The Hatchet's Web site winner of its Online Pacemaker award for the first time since the ACP created the award in 1995, the organization announced last month. Formerly known as the Best of Net competition, the Online Pacemaker was the first nationwide competition for online college student publications.
The fifth annual Customer Service Celebration aimed to recognize the importance of customer service at GW last week. Consisting of workshops and award ceremonies, the celebration was intended to both sharpen customer service skills among employees on campus and honor those who have shown exceptional dedication to serving the community.
Monday R.E.A.L Conversations Is the Civil Rights Movement Forgotten? Keeping Student Activism Alive Come together in a safe and trusting environment that supports and promotes the discussion of issues regarding diversity and multiculturalism. Mount Vernon Campus-Eckles Library 7 to 9 p.
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