March 29, 2001

NORMAN, OKLA. – The GW women’s basketball team made its earliest exit from the NCAA Tournament under coach Joe McKeown with a first-round loss to Stanford University at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Okla., March 17. Stanford defeated the Colonials 76-51 with an offensive assault that GW could neither answer nor contain. Stanford’s Pacific […]

Actress Camille Cooper described barriers women face to students in the Marvin Center Tuesday night as part of Women’s History Month. “When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something wrong with her sexual organs,” said Cooper, quoting philosopher Friedrich Nietsche. Her lecture, titled “What’s the Price of Beauty,” highlighted double-standards women face on […]

Going into the Atlantic 10 Championships, GW gymnastics senior co-captain Darden Wilee was confident that her team would do well – the meet would be at home, which meant the team would be using its own equipment. Obviously a little home cooking worked well for Wilee, the A-10 Performer of the Year, who captured her […]

GW surprised seven D.C. high school students Tuesday with Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Scholarships. The University awarded four-year scholarships, valued at more than $138,000 each, to students from five District high schools. The admissions office chose the students from about 40 applicants, said Sammie Robinson, associate director of admissions. “It was so wonderful to see the […]

Opponents of affirmative action have good reason to applaud a U.S. District Court ruling that the affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan Law School are unconstitutional. Those who disagree with the ruling must understand that opponents of affirmative action are not opposed to racial diversity, nor are we blind to America’s racial problems. […]

A U.S. District Judge in Michigan ruled that the University of Michigan’s law school admissions standards are unconstitutional because they use race as a basis of admission. The judge said using race as a basis to assemble a racially diverse college atmosphere was not in the state’s interests. This ruling increases existing inequalities and threatens […]

By Alex Kingsbury U-WIRE Washington Bureau March 29, 2001 Women are “holding on to abortion rights by the skin of our teeth,” Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization of Women, told George Washington University students Tuesday night. The event, organized by the campus chapter of the Feminist Majority, hosted Ireland in an effort to […]

When GW became affiliated with Mount Vernon College in 1996, MVC professors never expected to lose their jobs. The pinkslips came, though, after assurances that GW would make MVC a top women’s college. Instead, a newly reconstituted MVC board of trustees, headed by GW administrators, terminated professors’ contracts in 1999. Now 13 of those former […]

More high schools are taking the approach of group work versus individual efforts. It’s been said this style of teaching is modeled after colleges and universities around the country that promote group work. When these kids apply to colleges are they going to apply as a group? In the real world there is a sense […]