September 24, 1998

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A GW student allegedly was raped by an acquaintance in her residence hall room Sunday evening, University Police Director Dolores Stafford said. To protect the victim and the investigation, details of the incident were not released, Stafford said. She said the student allowed the suspect into her room because she had met him earlier in […]

A former University Police officer could face up to 15 years in prison after he was convicted Wednesday of one count of felony child abuse in a Maryland court. Former UPD special officer Vernon Cooper faced two additional counts of abuse, but the jury could not reach a verdict on them and was declared deadlocked. […]

Three fraternities’ GW chapters recently were reprimanded by the Interfraternity Council’s hearing board for violations of rush policies, the IFC announced Tuesday. Beta Theta Pi has been placed on social probation because it was in violation of University and IFC policies, IFC President Neil Smith said. Smith said the fraternity held an illegal event because […]

A freshman Kappa Sigma rushee was taken to Georgetown Hospital Sept. 13 to be treated for excessive alcohol consumption. Jason Delp, Kappa Sigma president, said the freshman did not drink at a Kappa Sigma event that evening, where he said no alcohol was served. But Delp said the rushee arrived at the event intoxicated and […]

(U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH – Using drugs may soon become even more costly for college students – they could lose their federal financial aid. Under next year’s higher education bill, currently in a House-Senate conference committee, students convicted of possessing or selling marijuana or other illegal drugs could have their federal financial assistance for college suspended. “Taxpayers […]

Communication between the University and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has broken down after GW’s assistant general counsel canceled a scheduled meeting with the fraternity’s local alumni last week, fraternity officials said. An official at the office of the general counsel said employees of the office will not comment to the media about pending legal […]

Thirty GW freshmen are living at the Mount Vernon campus to participate in a program called Women and Power, as part of a Community Living and Learning Center project. The academic program is similar to other residence-based programs in which participants live together, take classes together, and attend outside seminars and events. According to the […]

Almost immediately after GW’s 1996 announcement that it would acquire the all-women’s Mount Vernon College, work began on the transition to another GW campus now known as GW at Mount Vernon College. But some Mount Vernon students said the integration has been a painful process. The transition programs were created to ease the problems of […]

Rosa Parks visits GW Rosa Parks, one of America’s leading civil rights activists, was on campus Saturday to kick off a program to send more disadvantaged young people to college and educate them about career options. Parks, who gained fame in December 1955 by defying a Montgomery, Ala., ordinance that forced African Americans to sit […]