April 15, 1999

GW’s Shawnta Rogers won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, honoring the nation’s most outstanding men’s collegiate basketball player 6-feet or under, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Monday. The award seemed to be tailor-made for the 5-4 Rogers, who just slipped in under the height requirement – by 8 inches. The winner of […]

The Marvin Center Governing Board doled out office space Monday for student groups to use this summer while the Marvin Center’s fourth floor is closed for renovations. Mike Gargano, assistant vice president for Student and Academic Support Services, and MCGB Chair Mike Petron held a meeting Monday with representatives of student groups that occupy offices […]

Women’s tennis wins one of three Temple easily defeated the GW women’s tennis team this week, but the Colonial women were coming off a solid win against Rutgers University and a close loss to West Virginia University over the weekend. Temple defeated GW 8-1 Tuesday at GW’s Mount Vernon campus. Holly Huntley posted the only […]

GW will eliminate the Computer Information and Resource Center by next semester and divide its services into separate offices as part of the “evolution” of computer systems at the University, interim Chief Information Officer Alan Tuttle said. Tuttle said CIRC, which manages computer systems for faculty members and students, is being pulled in too many […]

Quietly, GW golf is having a spectacular season. The Colonials’ third-place finish at this past weekend’s Atlantic 10 Tournament was their highest finish in the championship since they finished second behind Temple in 1985. GW also had the highest finish in its district, beating Virginia Tech for the first time in 21 years. The showing […]

School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor C. Dianne Martin said in a lecture Monday that people will not confidently use services such as electronic commerce and online banking until the Internet is regarded as an actual place. The Internet, and especially the World Wide Web, is a burgeoning medium of learning, commerce, personal communication, […]

Wearing his “Final Four” sweater vest, GW athletic director Jack Kvancz sat back in his chair, legs crossed, and told the story of his greatest athletic experience. GW’s athletic director has been an administrator for more than 24 years and played in the 1967 NCAA Regional Finals for Boston College and head coach Bob Cousy. […]

AU to host Latino youth conference American University’s Latino and American Student Organization will host the first Latino Youth Conference Saturday for Washington-area Latino youth. “Leading the World into the Next Millennium and Beyond” will focus on preparing Latino youth for the next millennium. The conference will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. […]

The week before Hitler’s birthday, Ron Furey and 4,000 of his Nazi comrades celebrated the anniversary of their hero’s birth with a raucous rally in honor of the F?hrer‘s success. Raving drunk, the swastika-covered tribe raged late into the night, praising themselves and dreaming of the future of the Rhineland. The soir?e was straight out […]

GW commemorated the 11 million men, women and children killed in the Holocaust during Yom Hashoah, the day of Holocaust remembrance, this week. GW Hillel, the Program Board, the Diversity Program Clearinghouse and other campus groups sponsored several events throughout the week, highlighting various aspects of the Holocaust, World War II and the current state […]