February 27, 2006

GW is one of the most expensive colleges in the country. Take a look at the student body and you might wonder if it shows. Gucci sunglasses, UGG boots and other designer labels are no strangers in many students’ closets, and some fancy cars are no strangers on the streets. At $36,400 for this year’s […]

Senior Kunal Johar, The Hatchet Geek, is a computer science major and co-founder of www.computerhelpdc.com. Twice a month, he will solve typical computer problems facing students. E-mail The Hatchet Geek your computer queries at hatchetgeek@computerhelpdc.com. The dilemma You have a paper due for your Friday 8 a.m. class and you decided to start it Thursday […]

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. Alan Keyes doesn’t care about black people either. Of […]

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the medical school’s Early Selection Program, which has become more popular over the years, school officials said. The Early Selection Program is designed for GW students who have the desire to practice medicine but who also want to pursue interests outside the traditional premedical curriculum. In 1986, the […]

It rains in the School Without Walls library. During inclement weather, a trash can carefully placed beside the table where students come to socialize and study gathers water that falls from the inches-wide hole in the third-floor ceiling. Black trash bags are put over books to keep them dry. “This school is excellence among the […]

The city’s proposal to revitalize the D.C. public library system could lead to the redevelopment of the West End Branch Library on 24th and L streets, but local residents are wary about the potential changes. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams’ task force on the library has come up with a roughly $450 million plan to do […]

Separating the housing pools for rising juniors and seniors this year seemed to mitigate problems that occurred last year with junior housing, University Campus Housing Director Seth Weinshel said Sunday. Earlier this semester, Weinshel said that the Community Living and Learning Center decided to change housing selection so that each class had its own pool […]

Colonials star senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu is traveling to Birmingham, Ala., to get his torn meniscus examined by a renowned orthopedist who has operated on Villanova’s Curtis Sumpter and football legend Emmitt Smith. Mensah-Bonsu, who sustained the injury in last Wednesday’s win over La Salle, will miss GW’s two remaining regular season games at least. GW […]

When junior Sarah Kapenstein posted her resume on a job search site, she did not expect to be offered a position that wouldn’t require her to leave campus. In December, the online music service Napster contacted Kapenstien, a political communication major, and offered her a job as one of two campus marketing representatives at GW […]

For the two groups of GW students who interned and studied in Turin, Italy, the Olympics were not just fun and games. Ten GW students were recruited by NBC to work as interns at the Olympics, and about 50 students, split into two groups, went to Turin as part of the three-credit course, Behind the […]