As the nation mourns for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, many GW students are struggling to cope with the tragedy that has impacted colleges nationwide. On Monday, an assailant shot and killed more than 30 people in an academic building at Virginia Tech in what is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will not deliver the keynote address at this year's Commencement ceremony and it is unlikely another keynote speaker will replace him, according to a news release.
Comedian, movie star and Tony Award-winning actor Billy Crystal will headline next year's Colonials Weekend, the University announced Wednesday. Crystal will perform October 12 and 13 at 9:30 p.m. at Smith Center for the annual combined parents' and alumni weekend festivities in October, according to a University press release.
Virginia Tech may be more than 200 miles away from Foggy Bottom, but it felt close to home Tuesday night as students sought comfort in each other at a candlelight vigil.
In response to heightened anxieties about campus safety at GW in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, officials have said the University's emergency management plans are adequate and not in need of an overhaul. After Sept. 11, administrators examined the school's preparedness for catastrophic incidents occurring on or near campus.
Marguerite "Peg" Barratt, an official with the National Institutes of Health, edged out four other candidates and was announced as the next dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Monday. After an almost 10-month-long process, the CCAS Dean Search Committee selected Barratt following a series of interviews and deliberations with University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman and President-elect Steven Knapp.
Thousands marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol Monday afternoon to protest the District of Columbia's lack of a voting representative in Congress. Despite strong winds and cold rain, protesters of all ages marched holding signs and chanting "Free D.
While the 2008 U.S. presidential election is more than a year away, some students are already actively mobilizing their peers to support candidates. Three groups supporting Democratic candidates have already been formed including Students for Hillary, Students for Barack Obama and Students for John Edwards.
Students will be able to vote this semester to increase the amount of money they pay each year to the Student Association. The SA, which grants money to the more than 300 student organizations on campus, unanimously approved legislation that creates a referendum on the mandatory student fee before the end of the semester.
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Some students said they feel unsafe because of the effects of a renovation project of GW's largest freshman residence hall. The sidewalk along 19th Street between E and F streets has been closed for months and has forced pedestrians to either walk on the road of a busy one-way street or cross the street to avoid being inches away from passing cars.
A group of students that believe in raising awareness of global organ trafficking have set out to create a national non-profit organization committed to addressing this issue. IGOT, the Initiative on Global Organ Trafficking, was formed in February by GW students Charles Channon, Geoffrey Cain, Kevin Weingold, and Joseph McCullagh.
GW's Jewish community remembered the Holocaust Monday night and made connections to current tragedies including the shootings at Virginia Tech and genocide in Darfur. Students commemorated the Holocaust in the Marvin Center by listening to a survivor and creating a long, symbolic paper chain, the links of which represent the names of those who have died.
About 15 students assembled at the Marvin Center Tuesday night to give input about the search process for a new associate dean of undergraduate programs for the Business School. At the meeting, hosted by Student Association Senator Nathan Brill (SoB-U) and Senator-elect Matt Cohen (SoB-U), students helped compile a list of suggestions for the search committee.
This week the Sigma Chi fraternity had its first annual Derby Days, a 1990s-themed fundraiser, to support the Children's Miracle Network. The organization became the campus' 14th male Greek-letter organization last year after a six-year hiatus from GW. Nationwide, Derby Days raises more than $600,000 for CMN, said Sigma Chi Public Relations Chair Mike Belleville, a freshman, in a news release.
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