October 19, 2000

Film director John Waters spoke freely with GW students Wednesday night about some of the factors that influence his eccentric movies. He said his influences include Wicked Witch of the West, murder trials and the youth of America. Students from Silver Screen, a Community Living and Learning program for freshmen interested in films and acting, […]

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GW political science professor Lee Sigelman was recently named as the editor of the American Political Science Review.It is a place where political scientists write for other political scientists, Sigelman said about the APSR. First published in 1906, it is the foremost publication of academic research on politics, according to a University press release.It is […]

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As Ernestine Buck sat among thousands of people from all walks of life on the National Mall Monday for the Million Family March, she reflected on the same sense of enthusiasm she experienced as an activist in the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights. Now, almost 40 years later, the Northwest D.C. grandmother says […]

The Ambassador Program, which links freshmen with upperclassmen from their home state, has doubled its membership in its second year at GW. The number of ambassadors in the program has jumped from 100 to more than 200 this year, said Raina Lenney, retention assistant of Academic Planning and Assessment. The University also extended the program […]

Students participating in the Academic Mentor program said they were misled about the terms of their positions in the program’s first year of expansion to all first-year residence halls. The program places sophomores in freshmen residence halls to help new students with their academics. Several of the nine mentors said they thought they would receive […]

A lengthy tenure as an official of the Student Association is not a common phenomenon. Last week SA President David Burt fired Dining Services Commission Director Christian Berle last week, and SA Vice President for Public Affairs Liz Cox quit over frustrations with internal nit-picking. With this latest round of SA departures, students must question […]

Gathering in public places to defend a position or oppose a policy is an American tradition enshrined in the Bill of Rights. But these assemblies lose their meaning when the public is over-saturated with unfocused marches, walks and rallies. Monday’s Million Family March is the most recent example of events in the name of activism […]