October 17, 2005

Cindy Norden was chatting with a family friend at a party in September when the topic of conversation turned to Cindy’s daughter, Megan, a GW freshman. “Is she involved with any school organizations?” Cindy recalls her friend, a Democratic Massachusetts state representative, asking. “Yes,” Cindy replied. “She’s a member of the GW College Republicans.” A […]

D.C. might not be an outdoorsman’s paradise, but this big city has more to offer than concrete jungles and asphalt gardens. The nation’s capital is actually an extremely outdoor-friendly city, with miles of trails, parks and waterways. So, interested in crossing a stream rather than 23rd Street? Or want to ditch the cab for a […]

Junior Geoff Bendeck, an international affairs major, will spend two semesters studying abroad in Cairo and Beirut, Lebanon. Twice a month, he will share his experiences and observations from the Middle East as one of GW’s many expats. “I not member of Hezbollah, but I support very much,” the manager of the restaurant said. He […]

Amid rising public opposition to the war in Iraq, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes asserted that “freedom is a universal desire” in a speech at GW on Friday. Hughes, who had just returned to America from a trip to the Middle East, reiterated that Iraq’s constitution vote this past […]

Like many college students, Jason Sterlacci has a lot of music stored on his computer. Also like many of his peers, he hasn’t paid for much of it. Sitting in his dorm room in Ivory Tower, the senior uses a program called myTunes Redux to browse through nearly 50,000 songs from more than 100 people […]

A graphic novelist and a scholar of comics gave keynote speeches Friday night at an event commemorating the addition of more than 300 graphic novels to Gelman Library. Over the next year, the University will be adding the graphic novels, which are defined as comics of at least 48 pages that tell a story. Gelman […]

The only J Street in the District is at the corner of 21st and H streets. In a salute to one of D.C.’s left-out letters, GW named its food court J Street when the place was renovated in 1994. Students, however, may not know the real reason Washington’s alphabet-ordered street plan jumps from I Street […]

While facebook.com has become an essential to college campuses, this year the most popular college networking Web site has a new rival. Last month a group of students launched XuQa.com – a racier alternate social directory that has sparked competition between the two Web sites. XuQa co-founder Ali Moiz, who graduated last year from Williams […]

Students were forced to evacuate New Hall Friday afternoon after students playing Frisbee in one of the hallways hit either a fire alarm or sprinkler head, causing the sprinklers to go off. Witnesses on the ninth floor said a fire alarm began to sound and the sprinklers began to spray water all over the hallway. […]

Instead of playing one game the length of two normal ones, like the Astros and Braves’ 18-inning marathon two weeks ago, the GW softball team played two games half as long as normally scheduled Saturday. In the final games of their fall season, the Colonials won both parts of their doubleheader via the eight-run “mercy […]