March 5, 2001

In his March 1 Forum column (“Flaws could sink harassment policy,” p. 5), Professor Banzhaf states that the majority of law school faculty who considered the proposal on sexual harassment found it “deeply flawed.” In fact, a minority of Law School faculty expressed opposition to the policy. The member of the law faculty who actually […]

GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs will host the grand opening of its new building Wednesday and Thursday. The event will feature panel discussions with SMPA faculty and nationally renowned speakers, including CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer and Bob Scheiffer, chief Washington correspondent for CBS. “I truly believe this will be the biggest and brightest […]

Roger Kapoor won the race for Student Association president with a commanding 56.5 percent of the vote, defeating Bob Simon and Daniel Loren, the Joint Elections Comittee announced to a calm crowd in the Hippodrome Wednesday afternoon. The victory hinges on the outcome of two JEC hearings on Kapoor’s campaign spending Wednesday night. Josh Singer […]

His classes are some of the first to close during registration, not just because many of them end with dinner at T.G.I. Fridays. Students line up to take a class with one of journalism’s premier professionals and one of GW students’ most beloved School of Media and Public Affairs professors, Steven Roberts. Between appearing weekly […]

The Muslim Students Association hosted a presentation of the pilgrimage to Mecca right out of the Marvin Center on Thursday night. Hajj, the name of the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islam, which is the framework of the Muslim faith. The Hajj takes place between the eighth and 13th […]

The Joint Election Committee stripped presidential candidate Roger Kapoor of his victory Wednesday night, ruling that he exceeded the $1,000 campaign spending limit. The JEC ruled unanimously that Kapoor used a Papa John’s pizza discount — which he received because he buys pizza regularly — to stay under the spending limit. JEC spending rules require […]

March 3, 2001 Dorothy Betts Theatre 2:05pm I have been dancing for 17 years. I’ve taken everything from jazz to tap to ballet to baton to acrobatics, and I have attended numerous master classes with various dance organizations. I even danced competitively for eight years, spending the majority of my weekends in auditoriums across western […]

Rep. Joseph Hoeffel (D-Pa.) encouraged GW College Democrats and other students to get active in politics in an address Wednesday evening. “If you can relate to people, if you have personal values and views, if you have an agenda to pursue, you can be very successful,” Hoeffel said to group of about 50 students. “There […]

PHILADELPHIA – For the second-straight year, the GW women’s basketball team will face No. 12 Xavier in the Atlantic 10 Championship game after defeating Temple 74-59 in Sunday’s semi-final game at the Liacouras Center. GW had Xavier marked ever since its two-point road loss Feb. 4, which ousted the Colonials from first place in the […]

Stamp and penny collecting, woodworking and scrapbook making usually come to mind when people think about hobbies. More unique hobbies can get lost in the clutter of coins, paste and pictures – but they do exist. Some GW students dare to diverge from the norm to pursue their interests on the side. Many people are […]