Old Town Alexandria had the largest celebration for President George Washington's Birthday in the United States this weekend, with about 100,000 people attending the parade Monday afternoon. In preparation for the weekend of events in Alexandria, which included the 218th annual George Washington Birthnight Banquet and Ball Saturday, a Washington impersonator rode through Old Town in a horse-drawn carriage Saturday morning.
The Faculty Senate rejected the University's plan to adopt a four-by-four credit structure two months before their vote was scheduled to take place. At Friday's meeting in the Marvin Center, the body passed a resolution recommending that the schools should not switch at this time from the three-credit, five-class system to the four-class, four-credit plan administrators have proposed.
Two years after the fiery discourse of CNN's "Crossfire" left campus, political debate returned to the Media and Public Affairs Building last week.
University Police officers posted public safety advisories in Mitchell Hall this week after residents experienced six false fire alarms in one week.
Students are adapting well to the new preference-based computer system after rising seniors applied for on-campus housing last week, said Seth Weinshel, assignments director of GW Housing Programs. Whereas students previously chose available rooms during time slots governed by randomly assigned numbers, the new assignment system called iHousing uses a computer program to make assignments based on individual preferences of buildings, room sizes and roommates.
Two political activists from Bahrain described their fight for social justice and called on students to help bring democracy to the Middle East at the Marvin Center Amphitheater Thursday night. The activists were hosted by Students Defending Democracy, a student organization striving to educate Americans about the threat of terrorism and promote democratic ideals.
The Interfraternity Council's spring recruitment ended earlier this month with more people joining a Greek-letter group this year than any year in recorded history. Last academic year, 277 male students joined a Greek-letter organization compared to this year's 290.
GWTV is back on the air with new programming after a fall full of difficulties and a blank screen. Students who tuned into Channel 6 at the beginning of the year saw nothing and for months after that, the only thing airing was the class-produced news magazine show "The Source" on a continuous loop.
Though they consider collegiate honors distinctions, some graduate schools and employers agree graduating with "honors" is not the most important factor when selecting students and new hires. Laura Morsch, a career adviser at the Web site CareerBuilder.com, said honors distinctions do not necessarily matter to employers.
A GW-administered degree program that teaches District citizens to lead positive change in their communities received a $500,000 grant this year to expand its programming. Former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams approved the funds for the decade-old program, D.
Most GW graduates earning a degree in political science are more likely to aspire to take center stage at a debate than to take on the silver screen, yet 1999 alum Shane Morris has transferred his passion for politics into a big-screen career. Morris, who got his big break last summer by writing the prequel to the 2005 "Dukes of Hazzard" movie, started out at GW with a love for politics.
Since 1984, one of the world's foremost Islamic scholars has been teaching here at GW. University Professor of Islamic Studies Seyyed Hossein Nasr specializes in Sufism, Islamic philosophy and metaphysics. Nasr teaches "Islamic Philosophy and Theology" at the undergraduate level as well as a graduate course, "Man and Natural Environment" through GW's Department of Religion.
On Thursday, Gelman Starbucks was full of students typing away on their laptops and reading textbooks - at 3:05 a.m. Starbucks began 24-hour operation on Jan. 14, remaining open non-stop from Sunday until Friday at 10 p.m., and closing at 10 p.m. on Saturdays.
The Board of Trustees voted at their Feb. 9 meeting to approve an online Doctorate in Nursing Practice program to start next fall. The program will be the fourth entirely online DNP program in the country, according to Ellen Dawson, the chair of the department of nursing.
In the article "Colonials lose in Philly; Moore out for the season," Sports Information Director Brad Bower was quoted as saying that sophomore Cheyenne Moore is out for the season and will have surgery on his foot. Bower only said that Moore will be out for the season and GW head men's basketball coach Karl Hobbs said that Moore will have surgery.
In the article "Potomac House's Carvings eatery open" (Feb. 12, p. 1), The Hatchet reported that the new eatery Carvings will offer a meat-carving station. A Carvings employee said Monday that the food venue does not have enough room for a carving station by the food bar and will cut turkey in the kitchen.
Tuesday Senior portraits Last chance for seniors to take portraits for the 2007 yearbook. Fifth floor Marvin Center Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m to 6 p.m. Cost: $15 Sponsored by The Cherry Tree Yearbook Black history celebration event In honor of Black History Month, the Gelman Library Diversity Committee hosts University of D.
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