The University is in the planning stages of hosting an on-campus forum in early June for Democratic presidential candidates, administrators said Wednesday afternoon. U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York, John Edwards of North Carolina and Barack Obama of Illinois are on the list of invited candidates, said University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.
Free newspapers in residence halls and a basketball pep event are likely to return next year after the University axed them due to budget cuts in September, a University official said. GW Reads and Colonials Invasion are a "high priority" next year.
Officials said programming and academic cuts are expected to be less drastic next year due in part to increased fundraising. Last year, an $8 million gap forced the University to reallocate money and cut academic and service programs. This year, only $4 million will need to be made up.
A District-run public bus replaced the popular Georgetown shuttle that previously stopped next to the Foggy Bottom Metro station.
The University will need to find housing for more than 60 law students who were planning to live in The Aston residence hall starting this fall. GW Law School and GW Housing Programs advertised the Aston, located on 21st Street and New Hampshire Avenue, as the first University-owned residence exclusively for law students.
After months of construction and delays, TONIC Restaurant will open the first or second week in May, the restaurant's co-owner said. The full-service eatery was originally scheduled to open in January but delays in both renovating the restaurant's location and securing a liquor license pushed opening day back about five months.
While students can attribute much of the political activity on campus to the College Republicans or College Democrats, these organizations are not the only political players on campus. Within the confines of Foggy Bottom are the smaller, but equally resolute GW College Libertarians and College Socialists.
Some of what international affairs professor John Miller knows about human trafficking, he learned from a woman named Katya. Katya, a mother from the Czech Republic, agreed to move to the Netherlands and earn money waiting tables. Once she arrived in Amsterdam, she was taken to a brothel and told that unless she worked there, she would not see her daughter again.
Students won $1,000 for rent and two $500 gift certificates to IKEA, among other prizes, at the Off-Campus Student Services Fair Thursday at Marvin Center. An announced crowd of 450 students flocked to the fair for giveaways and information on housing options and needed services such as banking, recycling and furniture.
Subscribers to a University text message alert system grew 10 percent last week in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, a University official said. The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management and the University Police Department sent a campus-wide e-mail Tuesday night informing students and faculty to sign up for Alert DC, the text-message based alert system, to check Campus Advisories and gave instructions on how to be safe in the event of an "active shooter" on campus.
A GW professor and her husband are simulating the effects of sun exposure on children using newborn mice. Professor Frances Noonan, who has been conducting research on UV radiation for more than 25 years, and her husband, Edward DeFabo, exposed newborn mice to UV rays at GW Medical Center.
Every time I've walked into The Hatchet townhouse - across the street from GW Deli - I've walked, or run, up a flight of stairs to get to the editorial offices where I work. After this article, I will no longer have a need to go up those stairs. In a sense, with this final piece I'm walking down those stairs, out of my cozy home in the ivory tower of The Hatchet and into the real world.
I've realized that as my time at GW passed, each moment was more important than the last. I attribute this correlation to deeper relationships, increased responsibility and forceful introspection. So in the spirit of a purist news article - here is my "inverted pyramid" reflection, which ends up being more like that "backward" episode of Seinfeld.
Except for when we wear our logo-sweatshirts or are walking into or out of 2140 G St., Hatchet employees are basically incognito. No one really knows who we are or why we do what we do. Most students just do the crossword puzzle, anyway, so there is no point in wondering about the inner-workings of the student newspaper.
Anytime during the past four years when someone learned that I worked at The GW Hatchet, the following conversation more or less would ensue: "You work at The Hatchet - are you a journalism major?" "No, I am actually majoring in Spanish language and literature.
Disorderly Conduct 4/20/07 - 800 Block of 23rd Street - 11:00 a.m. - case closed A GW faculty member reported that he was verbally threatened while he parked and unloaded equipment on 23rd Street. Another individual, unaffiliated with GW, pulled up beside him and ordered him to move the vehicle.
The Student Association is taking steps to ensure that students will vote on a fee increase before the final day of undergraduate classes, officials said. If students approve the initiative, the fee students pay to the SA would increase to $30 for undergraduate students and $20 for graduate students per semester.
The Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority raised more than $500 Saturday in a tie-dye event for the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation. "We got really great feedback from the participants," said Alpha Epsilon Phi President Becky Katz, a junior.
Grad student Badri Shynm and junior Dinesh Lohani play guitar and sing in Kogan Plaza Wednesday afternoon. Photo Credit: Ryder Haske/Hatchet staff photographer
Thursday Battle of the A Cappella Groups Watch the groups battle it out for great prizes and the title of GW's Best A Cappella Group! 7 to 11 p.m. Grand Ballroom Sponsored by Class Council Large Group Worship Come discover the love and power of God with a night of worship and prayer 7:30 to 8:30 p.
Corrections In the article "Shootings spark Nott debate" (April 23, p. 1) The Hatchet erroneously reported that the Jordan Nott lawsuit was settled in November 2006. It was settled in October of that year. In the article "Clubs win SAC Awards" (April 23, p.
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