October 3, 2005

GW deserves kudos for its efforts in seeking and securing a $74,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services earmarked for suicide prevention. After a tragic string of at least three suicides from 2003 to 2004, University efforts to improve suicide-prevention training and provide adequate resources to the student body have been steady, […]

Some on-campus GWorld partners are complaining about the new GWorld machines they bought, arguing that the University makes it costly for commercial business to offer the Colonial Cash service to students. Blackboard, the educational technology company that runs the Colonial Cash service, forced all of the merchants accepting the card to switch to a new […]

I always thought that my journey through GW would end at the same place it began – in front of the White House. On the second day of my freshman year, I set out with my new friends to explore Washington for the first time. There was no debate about the first place we would […]

Last week, I made the trek out to Bed, Bath & Beyond in Pentagon City with my roommates to pick up a new toaster oven. The top heating element in our old toaster was broken, and only the undersides of my bagels were getting crisp. For someone like me, who enjoys their bagels so hot […]

Hazy logic Zan Donovan’s column entitled “Student bites Oreo” (Sept. 29, p. 4) does a disservice to everyone who is genuinely concerned about substance policies. Comparing marijuana policies to alcohol policies does not illuminate any compelling reasons that would justify altering either, as GW’s tougher stance on marijuana use and acceptance of alcohol use is […]

Editor’s note: This story was written and reported by Bryn Lansdowne and the following students from last semester’s special topics in journalism class: Mariam Alkazemi, Sarah Belanger, Brian Calvary, Sacha Evans, Sarah Halzack, Anthony Moniello, Christiana Samuels, Jessica Smith, Andrew White and Emily Zeigenfus. Senior James Daley woke up one morning naked and drunk in […]

There are a lot of things that have contributed to the emergence of the hookup culture and caused today’s generation to move away from dating and toward random rendezvous. One reason, which can be an essential hookup tool, is technology. Think about it – before cell phones, pagers, beepers and online instant messaging, people couldn’t […]

The word “hookup” is as vital to the college vocabulary as pronouns. But for some college students, it’s just a word, not a lifestyle. While hooking up – or participating in a casual sexual encounter with little or no emotional involvement – is the norm, some students choose not to conform to the culture. Sometimes […]