March 22, 1999

This spring Ed Meinert asked me to help him in his bid for Student Association president. I knew Ed through participation in a student group, so I decided to join the campaign. Little did I know what I would be exposed to in an SA presidential campaign. In my three years at GW, I have […]

This year’s student elections have taken a page from a soap opera script: Just when it seems Alexis Rice has finally won, a shocking ballot controversy takes away her victory. And just when it looked like Derek Grosso was gone for good, he surprises everyone by coming back from the dead for one more attempt […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Cinderella teams abounded after the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, as low seeds consistently beat top seeds in the first and second rounds. But the GW men’s basketball team forgot to get fitted for a glass slipper, as Indiana University escorted the Colonials from the “Big Dance” early with a 108-88 […]

The Elliott School of International Affairs received nearly $5 million in grants this month to build up different components of its East Asian studies program. The grants give the program a significant boost amid the economic crisis plaguing Asia and fierce competition by several area universities for limited funds. President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will match […]

The NCAA Tournament first and second round games in Orlando, Fla., were full of lots of little subplots, just like every site in the tourney. The first-round match-up between the University of Louisville and Creighton University featured two high-octane offenses that promised to put up huge numbers. Samford University was hyped as “Southern-Fried Princeton” because […]

A Community Living and Learning Center official says the Community Host Initiative has been “overwhelmingly successful,” six months after the program was introduced in several residence halls. “The students really like the homey touches created by the community hosts,” said Mark Levine, assistant dean of students. The program, which is in Crawford, Madison and Fulbright […]

To the outside observer, it might seem the many disciplines of the martial arts are similar. But upon closer examination, the martial art forms are vastly different, as exemplified by GW’s four martial art clubs. Three focus on self-defense. The other is geared toward competition in tournaments. The school clubs are karate, jukido jujitsu, tae […]

Student Association candidates are preparing for a two-day runoff election this Wednesday and Thursday, three weeks after the original campus elections. The student court, which postponed the runoff for a recount of ballots in the presidential race, ordered elections to proceed after the Joint Elections Committee released its latest results. Alexis Rice, who was originally […]

The GW gymnastics team placed last in a tri-meet at the University of Georgia Saturday and third in a four-team meet at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., March 13. At Georgia, the Colonial women finished with a score of 191.400 to place last behind Georgia (198.375) and North Carolina State University (193.600). […]

(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Discussions continued Thursday between University of Michigan administrators and student activists who have occupied President Lee Bollinger’s office in the Fleming Administration Building since Wednesday morning. Members of Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality said they will not leave the office until administrators meet their demands to develop a […]