November 13, 2003

Five Democratic presidential candidates who withdrew their names from the D.C. primary may find their names back on the ballot, with or without their consent. Members of the D.C. City Council are considering the introduction of legislation that would put the candidates’ names on the ballot regardless of their intention to stay out of the […]

Organizations to hold blood drive The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will co-sponsor a blood drive for the American Red Cross Monday afternoon. The drive will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Marvin Center room 302. The Red Cross is in “dire need” of blood donations this winter, […]

Posted 9:35pm November 13 by Vanessa Maltin U-WIRE Washington Bureau As the prosecution rested its case against sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo entered a plea of “not guilty” before Judge Jane Marum Roush in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, for the slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot store on […]

SJT and J Street I found myself fuming after attending the annual “Late Night with the President” with my residents Tuesday evening in the Hippodrome. Full of his usual disgrace and unwitting jokes, a jolly University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg answered questions from this year’s freshman class. The freshmen, with painted faces and pom-poms, probably […]

Washington Post editor Bob Woodward talked about his investigation of the Watergate scandal and his new book on the Bush administration at Monday night’s “Kalb Report.” Calling Woodward “an institution, even an industry,” moderator Marvin Kalb prodded him about the identity of “Deepthroat,” the White House official who helped then-Post reporters Woodward and Carl Bernstein […]

Destruction 11/8 – Hall on Virginia Avenue – 3:10 a.m. – case closed University Police found that a male student had punched a hole in the eighth-floor ceiling. UPD concluded that the student was intoxicated and transported him to the hospital for treatment. Referred to Student Judicial Services Disorderly Conduct 11/8 – Public Space – […]

As part of the University’s overall strategic plan to improve school-wide academics, a task force is assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the School of Media and Public Affairs. At this point in the school’s 13-year history (from 1990 to 1995 the school was named the National Center of Communication Studies), it is appropriate to […]

University Police officials said there is no evidence of widespread cocaine use on campus following the discovery of four grams of the drug in an International House room last week. Metropolitan Police arrested a male student at an unidentified off-campus location Friday for marijuana possession, according to a UPD crime report. Upon being informed of […]

A recent incident involving a physics professor placing student names, Social Security numbers and grades on an insecure Web site once again serves as a wake-up call to the potentially serious problem of identity theft. University administrators repeatedly point to the exorbitant cost of overhauling the system as a prohibitive factor in change. While officials […]

The Elliott School of International Affairs will add requirements for intra-University transfers this spring and refrain from accepting transfers until the end of the fall semester. ESIA administrators expected 450 incoming freshmen to enter the school this fall, but 500 ended up enrolling, said Hugh Agnew, ESIA associate dean for curriculum and student affairs. He […]