November 12, 1998

Fire and pep. That’s what GW women’s volleyball head coach Susie Homan said senior captain Angela Vitale and sophomore Devin Cahill, GW’s two defensive specialists, provide the team. As back-row players, they keep the ball alive and the momentum of the game going by digging the ball, passing to the setter, moving quickly, and chasing […]

Program Board leaders agreed this week to give a portion of the group’s funding to graduate students for separate programming. The deal calls for the majority of the money graduate students contribute to the PB to be put into a Graduate Student Programming Fund. The plan needs approval from PB’s executive board, which is expected […]

Basketball games to be broadcast on WRGW For the first time ever, WRGW 540 AM campus radio will broadcast GW men’s and women’s basketball games live on the air. Coverage will include every game, home and away, with the exception of the games over winter vacation, when the residence halls will be closed. If the […]

“Faces of Homelessness” brought an emotional slide presentation and panel of local homeless military veterans to GW to share personal stories about life on the streets. Wednesday night’s panel was the first at GW to spotlight homeless veterans. The event was sponsored by the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Coalition for Homeless […]

Father Jim Greenfield, a Catholic chaplain at GW’s Newman Center, was playing Bingo with about 225 students at J Street last week to help kick off GW’s Religion Week. At stake: tickets for Tuesday’s lecture by the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, donated by the Newman Center. Greenfield said the gesture is […]

Students complain about breakfast bar hours Changes in the operating hours of J Street’s breakfast bar have prompted mixed reactions from students. Dawn’s Best, the station at J Street that serves breakfast food all day, originally was scheduled to be open until midnight. Recently however, the breakfast station has closed as late as 7 p.m. […]

Rabbi Gerry Serotta, director of GW’s Hillel Jewish student center, sits behind a desk that overflows with papers and books. Behind him on the wall hangs his degree from Harvard University. In the middle is his proof of smicha, the confirmation of his rabbi ordination. “Rabbi Gerry,” as students call him, began his service at […]

A new student group working to create a women’s center at GW has met roadblocks in its search for a location for the facility. The newly formed student group, GW Women’s Center, “will give women a place to voice their concerns, socialize with other women, achieve academic growth and self-confidence and secure peace and solitude,” […]

“Cuba and Puerto Rico are two wings of one bird.” This poetic image, written more than a century ago by the Puerto Rican poet Lola Rodriguez del Tio, comes alive in the performances of Dos Alas/Two Wings. Their inspiring show will be performed at Lisner Saturday. The Dos Alas/Two Wings project celebrates the musical traditions […]

The rejection of two pieces of legislation at the Student Association Senate meeting Tuesday night sparked concern among senators about the larger role of the Senate and its accountability to the student body. Bones of contention included the rejection of a bill that would require the Senate Finance Committee to meet every two weeks and […]