October 24, 2005

At Colonials Weekend 2004, comedian Jon Stewart made scathing attacks on CNN’s “Crossfire” that would ultimately change GW by playing a role in the program’s cancellation. When Stewart returned to GW for Colonials Weekend 2005 on Friday, he addressed the fateful Friday show that took the GW community by surprise. “It wasn’t supposed to be […]

M. Soccer The Northeast was not kind to GW this weekend, as the Colonials tied Rhode Island and lost to Massachusetts. The Rams’ Jeffery Gonsalves scored the only goal of the game in the 71st minute. Juniors Arturo Pedroso and sophomore Abimbola Pedro had two shots each. Sophomore Greg Yahr had three saves in net […]

The University will hire an additional financial adviser to monitor top University officials’ spending, said Charles Manatt, chairman of GW’s Board of Trustees, at its first meeting of the academic year on Friday. While the move is not a direct response to former American University President Ben Ladner’s alleged frivolous spending that resulted in his […]

The Boston Pops, accompanied by the Grammy award-winning New York Voices, presented an eclectic musical selection for Colonials Weekend Saturday night-including a sing-a-long and a rousing rendition of the GW Fight Song. The Pops began with a string of patriotic numbers such as “The Star Spangled Banner.” This portion of the concert was highlighted by […]

Some students say they feel old when they get to college. But compared to most roaming Foggy Bottom, some students feel really old. This semester 355 part-time degree-seeking and 753 non-degree-seeking students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate courses. Many are not typical college students, primarily because they are much older than most of the […]

Monday Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision Three women – a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim – who are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will share their experiences and hopes for peace. 5 to 7 p.m. Lindner Family Commons room 602, 1957 E St. Sponsored by the Elliott […]

University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said Friday he wants to cancel the May Monumental graduation ball to help pay for a Commencement ceremony that could cost $150,000 more than it has in previous years. The announcement, which was made at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, comes nearly a month after the National Park Service confirmed […]

Duques Hall to get Java City Aramark will open a Java City caf? on the ground floor of Duques Hall this spring, when the new business school home begins holding classes next semester. The coffee shop will be located in between Duques and Funger Hall, but only accessible from the business school or an outside […]

Though hundreds of items have been confiscated from rooms, and parents and students have complained to the University about this month’s health and safety inspections, GW has no plans of creating an appeals process to reclaim confiscated items deemed dangerous. The inspections, designed to remove potentially dangerous items from student housing, are about halfway complete, […]

A GW group protesting the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region is calling for the University to divest from any stocks or bonds of companies doing business in the African nation. Student Taking Action Now Darfur is following the lead of Stanford University, asking the GW administration to divest in companies that give money to the […]