January 17, 2006

After a nearly two-year hiatus, Foggy Bottom’s community-based newspaper is back to serve as an outlet for concerned neighbors. In 2004, 73-year-old resident Ellie Becker, then editor of The Foggy Bottom News, announced she would be retiring and that the paper would no longer be printed. In December, however, Michael Malloy, a 45-year-old West End […]

Our View: GW’s underhanded tactics to block the formation of an adjunct union must stop. Ever since (and before) GW’s part-time professors voted to form a union in an October 2004 National Labor Relations Board election, University administrators have opposed its existence. Even after certification, and subsequent legal rulings stipulating the legality of the union, […]

The University Police Department underwent an on-site review by a national accreditation group earlier this month and will find out in March if it meets the requirements to become an accredited law enforcement agency. If accredited, UPD will join the group of less than 1 percent of campus police departments that are nationally recognized by […]

GW is internationally known for its student achievers – among them are those interning at the White House, the U.S. Capitol, other government agencies, international organizations, non-profits and numerous volunteer programs. I am therefore pleased, yet not surprised, that GW has been selected by the Partnership for Public Service as one of six schools in […]

Walk into Ben’s Chili Bowl on a typical weekend and you may feel like you’ve stumbled upon a neighborhood block party. Just after 3 p.m. on a chilly Saturday afternoon – a time when most restaurants are caught in a between-meal lull – the old-school diner in Northwest Washington is filled with customers from front […]

One of the central figures in the Jack Abramoff scandal that has shaken Washington in recent months, Adam Kidan, is a GW alumnus. The New York businessman attended GW as an undergraduate in the 1980s and, according to Newsday, became acquainted with Abramoff, who attended Georgetown Law School, through their involvement with the College Republicans. […]

Junior Jeffrey Parker, a history major from Winston-Salem, N.C., is spending the spring semester in Oxford, England, after also spending the fall term there. Twice a month, he will share his experiences and observations from England as one of GW’s many expats. God save the Queen. When my editor asked me to take over the […]

As a new semester begins and students are buying textbooks, the Student Association is still unable to welcome them back to school with the Colonial Trader Web site, a campaign promise from President Audai Shakour. The online trading Web site is now more than four months delayed and may never see the light of day. […]

Students have sporadic schedules. A little class here, a little sleep there – thank goodness there is something regulating the day. On Foggy Bottom, 12:15 and 6 p.m. is fight song time. The top of Bell Hall, a fitting locale, is home to the University’s bells (well, they sound like bells) that play the fight […]

Law professor tapped for FTC post Professor William Kovacic of the GW Law School was sworn in as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Jan. 4. The Senate confirmed Kovacic, now one of five commissioners serving on the FTC, Dec. 17. All of the commissioners must be nominated by the president and confirmed […]