April 4, 2005

Jake Delhomme and Brett Favre stare at a group of GW students with approving smiles. This isn’t an NFL huddle in the traditional sense. In reality, the quarterbacks are promotional cardboard cut outs standing up in a large boardroom on 2021 L Street, home of NFL Players Inc., the company in charge of licensing NFL […]

Pick up your jaws. Yes, Mike Hall and Pops Mensah-Bonsu – the GW men’s basketball team’s two best players – announced their intention to declare for the NBA Draft last week to the dismay of many students. Both have not hired agents and reserved the option to return to GW for their senior seasons. Given […]

“The one constant through all the years,” Terence Mann says in “Field of Dreams,” “has been baseball.” Since last autumn, baseball has constantly made headlines – at times for uplifting and emotional reasons, and at times for simmering realities that have made us question the game’s morals. The absurd cycle began last October, when the […]

Metropolitan Police officials are stepping up their efforts to shut down some nightclubs following a recent spate of violent incidents in and around local hangouts. Last week’s fatal stabbing near the GW Bhangra Blowout after-party in the Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue (see Univ., p. 1) was only the latest in a series […]

University officials are evaluating a stabbing that occurred outside a student organization-sponsored party March 27 to determine if any changes will be made to the event next year. Twenty-year-old Ranjit Singh died and two others were injured near the Old Post Office Pavilion at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue about one hour after the Bhangra […]

Bruce Johnson, a high school sophomore at the Thurgood Marshall Academy in Southeast D.C., put the finishing touches last week on an identity box project assigned by his English teacher. “I want to make a difference in society after I make money,” Johnson said as he put a pen symbolizing his love for writing in […]

When Secret Service officers spotted a fire in freshman Kevin McLaughlin’s ninth floor room in Thurston Hall two weeks ago, the blaze was not being stopped by the building’s hallway sprinkler system. Now, some are questioning whether in-room fire suppression systems could have prevented the severe burns that have left McLaughlin in critical condition since […]

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – The remains of Jessica Marie Lunsford, the latest juvenile victim of kidnapping and murder, were found last week after John Evander Couey, 46, confessed to committing the crime. This case is the most recent to bring to light the AMBER Alert Plan, which has been in effect since 1997 when 9-year-old Amber […]

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – When the country’s first black universities were established in the late 1800s, they were essentially the only option for African Americans to attain a college education in a segregated society. Yet new social realities are gradually changing the nature such institutions altogether. Though enrollment at historically black colleges and universities has increased […]

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – The Space Shuttle Discovery took the next step toward returning to space as it was rolled out to Vehicle Assembly Building early Tuesday morning. NASA plans to launch the first shuttle flight since the Columbia orbiter broke up during reentry killing all seven crew members in February 2003. “It’s been a tough […]