January 20, 2005

Senators criticize Woodard’s JEC nominees Several Student Association senators questioned the experience of President Omar Woodard’s three nominees for the 2005 Joint Elections Committee at Tuesday night’s Senate meeting. Woodard nominated sophomores Kathryn Lux and Alexandra Valenti and graduate student Chris Jenkins to sit on the body, which will oversee the election of a new […]

IFC, Panhellenic Association elect new leaders The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, the student governing bodies for sororities and fraternities, will transition in their new leaders this month. Both organizations held elections at the end of last semester. New Panhellenic officers include President Kelly Shea; Executive Vice President Alex Loundsbury; Vice President of Recruitment […]

Alumnus Eric Porter did what his mother told him would be the “most exciting thing in he would ever do in his life.” He was a contestant on the trivia show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” Porter, a 2004 GW graduate and law student at Temple University, won $16,000 on the ABC game show, […]

Members of the Afghan Student Organization are helping to encourage education after 30 years of oppression in their home country by sending educational materials through the Books for Afghanistan project. Since the beginning of last semester, the ASO has collected more than 3,000 books that will be sent to the new American University library in […]

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s wild opus into a man’s erased memories of a doomed love is a personal best for everyone involved. Gondry lends heart to Kaufman’s wild imagination and long overdue gravitas to Jim Carrey’s sorely underappreciated performance. The romantic comedy is literally turned inside out, as […]

City officials denied a request from members of a Foggy Bottom community group that would have prevented non-students from eating at Ivory Tower’s dining venues at a meeting Tuesday night. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a community group that makes zoning recommendations, urged the D.C. Zoning Commission to stop area residents, businesspeople and other non-students from […]

Destruction 1/16 – Ivory Tower – case closed University Police officers responded to noise in the men’s bathroom and found two females and a broken seat cover dispenser. Officers smelled alcohol on both females. Referred to Student Judicial Services 1/15 – Public Space – case closed The passenger window of a vehicle parked at 20th […]

The University began construction earlier this month on an F Street residence hall that is scheduled to open for the fall 2006 semester. Tracy Schario, GW’s director of Media Relations, said no groundbreaking ceremony was held for the building, which will provide GW with 379 on-campus beds. The building will stand adjacent to Francis Scott […]

Earlier this week, GW head coach Karl Hobbs stressed the importance of his men’s basketball team getting off to a quick start Wednesday night. On the road, he wanted the Colonials to control the tempo early in order to avoid an deficit similar to the one they faced during Saturday’s loss to Massachusetts. The Colonials […]

Graduate student Ken Kern’s experiences in student government did not just provide him with some practice in politics. It also gave him the backdrop for his first mystery novel. As an undergraduate at the University of Florida, Kerns, a GW political management graduate student, saw an elitist student government that did not live up to […]