April 16, 2001

Student band Waterstreet reclaimed its title at Program Board’s Battle of the Bands along with singer Adam Richman in a packed Hippodrome Thursday night. Both GW performers will open for The Roots in next week’s Spring Fling on the Quad. Four GW acts – Waterstreet, Dave Nelson from Bradford Ave., Richman and the rock and […]

CDC warns students about outbreak The D.C. Public Health Department told GW Student Health Friday that students who vacationed in Acapulco, Mexico, during Spring Break may have contracted the respiratory illness acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. Student Health Medical Director Isabella Goldenberg said the health department asked GW to compile a list of students who stayed at […]

Ani Difranco’s new double-CD release offers the best of several worlds. Funk, folk and slow groove are only a few stops on Revelling (Righteous Babe Records). But if its soft, muted tunes are what you’re in the mood for, simply flip over the CD case and pull out the sister disc, Reckoning. Revelling/Reckoning is not […]

GW ranked as a safety school for the “new Ivies” in The Wall Street Journal’s Dow Jones Safety School Index, an informal list that recognizes a rise in admission standards for top schools in recent years. The Journal describes the11 “new Ivies” as schools once considered back-ups to traditional Ivy League schools, but now selective […]

While the Faculty Senate and GW continue a three-year effort to draft an official sexual harassment policy, students said they have difficult time defining sexual harassment. Sophomore Naomi Hackenburg said there are many forms and degrees of sexual harassment. “It can be someone saying things or doing things that make you feel uncomfortable,” she said. […]

I was in Adelaide, Australia, wandering the streets and trying to work off a hangover. The flashing lights and bustle of Christmas shopping teamed with Australia’s blazing heat did little to improve my already poor condition. And the teeth-rattling decibel level was about to increase. As I ambled down the marketplace I was deafened by […]

By Jane Smith U-WIRE Washington Bureau April 16, 2001 GW Pride — George Washington University’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender student organization — proved to hundreds of college students Friday night that looks can be deceiving. The organization sponsored a performance of spectacular drag queens and kings Friday evening, all of whom sparked the interest […]

By Sarah Lechner U-WIRE Washington Bureau April 16, 2001 While the Department of Education will receive the largest increase of all domestic departments in President George W. Bush’s proposed budget — including a proposed $1 billion toward federal Pell Grants — some groups say the increases in higher education spending are not enough. If passed, […]

It smells like a combination of gym locker, fertilizer and stale Fritos. It is covered with every stain from grass to blood to Cheeze Wiz. It looks like your dad’s slippers after your new puppy hunted them out of the closet and shredded them. And as filthy and gross as it is, men seem unable […]

By Ashley M. Heher U-WIRE Washington Bureau April 16, 2001 It was a crisp October weekend in New Hampshire when Kelly Pearson’s father told her they were going to have a barbecue in honor of her weekend visit home from college. “Oh really? What are we having?” she asked as her father hit the gas […]