September 6, 2001

At a time when residence halls, J Street and classrooms are teeming with students, GW administrators are trying to prevent overcrowding problems in academics. “Every seat is filled in most of my classes, but (they are) not necessarily overcrowded,” freshman Emily Appleman said. After learning that 300 more freshmen chose to attend GW than expected, […]

Posted 9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7- A coalition of student protesters attracted national media to Kogan Plaza today, protesting GW’s decision to shut down its Foggy Bottom campus during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings later this month. The University cancelled classes and is closing all Foggy Bottom campus buildings, including residence halls, Sept. […]

GW graduate student Natalia Slobodskaya was critically injured in a shark attack off the coast of North Carolina Monday. Her fiance, Sergei Zaloukaev, 27, was also attacked and died shortly after the incident of massive blood loss. Slobonskaya, a 23-year-old Russian national, was treated in the trauma unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia […]

“You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” While not delivered so succinctly, this was essentially the message relayed by GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in an e-mail to all students, faculty and staff regarding the University’s decision to close Sept. 29 to Oct 2 during protests against the International Monetary Fund […]

GW students will have an easier time getting to the shops and restaurants of Georgetown starting Sept. 12 when a new shuttle service connecting Georgetown to Foggy Bottom, Rosslyn and DuPont Circle Metro starts. The Georgetown and Rosslyn business communities began the Georgetown Metro Connection as a private initiative, Georgetown Partnership Executive Director Ken Gray […]

What’d you think of the GW crowd? That shit was hot. How bout those technical difficulties, did that make it hard for you? Yeah, at first there was a little technical difficulty, but I weaved it right out. That’s hip-hop, y’know? You gotta respect that. You were going to do an hour show and you […]

With Greek-letter recruitment week less than two weeks away, some students could get confused by the University’s system of on- and off-campus fraternities. The terms “on-campus” and “off-campus” do not relate to the location of a fraternity or sorority housing but, rather, whether they are recognized as an official University organization. Fraternities are considered unrecognized […]

There is a common misconception on campus that sororities can’t have houses because of a D.C. law that would consider it a brothel. “I have definitely heard of the brothel issue,” junior Sigma Delta Tau member Michele Spielman said. “(But) I never asked anyone, I just accepted it.” Spielman and other students attribute what amounts […]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s return to its spot on GW’s closest offering of a “Greek row” sparks an age-old debate on city campuses about how important houses are to fraternity life. Sigma Alpha Epsilon President Andrew Hopkins said a fraternity house provides an important meeting and gathering place for members. The fraternity returns to a renovated […]

GW appoints new Shapiro Fellow Carin Dessauer, former CNN executive and producer of the first online news interview, joins the School of Media and Public Affairs this semester as a Shapiro Fellow. “As a leader in cutting-edge integration issues, Dessauer will add a unique perspective to our understanding of the business and its future role […]