February 13, 2006

Experiences common to most GW students include night-time monument tours, waitingjavascript:runAll(); to cross a street while a motorcade passes by and waiting in hour-long lines at package services. The issues plaguing package services – long lines, lost or stolen packages and slow delivery of both packages and mail – are well-known to the students forced […]

PHILADELPHIA On a team usually marked by its balance, the gargantuan effort of one player was the difference between a win and a loss in the Colonials’ 64-62 triumph over Saint Joseph’s on Saturday. With GW trailing 62-61 and under a minute to play, senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu fielded a post pass from junior Carl Elliott […]

Despite announcements from several residents in the past few weeks that they would enter the race for the open Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat, it will be filled automatically at next week’s meeting after only one resident filed his paperwork in time. Area resident Michael Thomas will become the new ANC commissioner for the vacant seat […]

While Washington enjoyed its first snow of the semester, the women’s basketball team braved the harsh winter weather up north, first stopping in Pittsburgh Friday night to play Duquesne followed by a contest two days later in Olean, N.Y., home of St. Bonaventure. The Colonials battled back from 13 down to defeat the Dukes; the […]

Foggy Bottom resident Donald Kreuzer, who accuses GW of trespassing by building Ivory Tower on top of his house, pleaded his case in the D.C. Court of Appeals Friday in hopes of having the decision that dismissed his lawsuit in 2004 reversed. Kreuzer, a doctor who works in the Watergate complex, has accused GW of […]

Many might rather forget it. But the nearly 50 people who came out to the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue on the edge of Chinatown Thursday night wanted to relive their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. In a large basement lined with inflatable palm trees, blow-up monkeys, orange balloons and “Aloha” signs, D.C. locals gathered for […]

Start the slideshow! PHILADELPHIA – With time expiring Saturday, Saint Joseph’s Rob Ferguson, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, launched a desperation three-pointer to try to throw a wrench into GW’s storybook season. As the ball clanked against the back of the rim, the buzzer sounded, signaling the finality of No. 8 GW’s 64-62 win over the Hawks […]

For many students, preparing for class registration involves scanning course options, reviewing requirements and looking up dirt on their potential professors at ratemyprofessors.com. The Web site is an open forum that allows students to evaluate professors. Since it was established in 1999, the site claims to have amassed ratings for approximately 700,000 professors, 1,000 of […]

The University announced Friday that the D.C. City Council voted to give GW the School Without Walls parking lot in exchange for $12 million to renovate the school. At Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting the University announced that the council approved the measure last week. GW and the School Without Walls had been in negotiations […]

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 15, 3:01 p.m. A lit cigarette butt dropped outside of Funger Hall caused tiles near the entrance to smolder and forced more than 100 students to evacuate from both the building and neighboring Duques Hall Tuesday afternoon, firefighters at the scene said. The fire alarms went off in both buildings at around […]