September 11, 2006

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Most freshmen are enthusiastic about coming to college. Emily Brooks has taken the excitement to an entirely new level. A week into classes, Brooks, a small but largely ambitious 18-year-old blonde-haired Tennessean, has already organized dinners for her classmates during Colonial Inauguration, declared her ambitions to run for a freshman non-voting seat in the Student […]

Demonstrators dressed as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice protest against the Bush administration Sunday afternoon on the National Mall.

GW will not hire an outside contractor to conduct health and safety inspections of residence halls this year, according to University officials. This year the University’s Office of Risk Management will conduct the searches, a change from last year when GW hired outside contractor HRH Mitigation Incorporated to inspect residence halls. Rooms will continue to […]

Posted Sept. 12, 2006, 6:21 p.m. Oscar-winning actor and comedian Jamie Foxx was seen practicing basketball with GW students Tuesday evening at the Lerner Health and Wellness center third floor. Foxx began playing at about 6:15 p.m. More details and photos coming soon. Check back at gwhatchet.com.

Students will have to wait until at least December to drink alcoholic beverages on the fifth floor of the Marvin Center. The University and Sodexho, which manages food services in the Marvin Center, have not yet submitted an application for a liquor license from the city because operational details of the Southwest style restaurant that […]

First female space tourist a GW alumna Anousheh Ansari is about to make history hundreds of miles away from where she went to graduate school in Foggy Bottom. Hundreds of miles above Foggy Bottom, that is. The GW alumna is set to become the first woman, and only fourth ever, space tourist when a Russian […]

var uslide_show_id = “67b04b1b-7431-438e-85b5-9115cbf831fe”;var slideshowwidth = “468”;var linktext = “”; Posted Sept. 11, 2006, 10:40 p.m. A few hundred students gathered in University Yard Monday night to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Student Association and Students Defending Democracy held the candlelight vigil in which University President Stephen Joel […]

Adams Morgan celebrates diversity with fair Thousands of people strolled around Adams Morgan Sunday afternoon for the 28th annual celebration of the cultural and economic diversity in the Northwest neighborhood. First held in 1978, Adams Morgan Day featured many entertainment and dance acts alongside vendors selling international foods and crafts. Patrons from all over the […]

Posted Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7:42 p.m. Clad in a blue New York Yankee hat and GW basketball garb, Jamie Foxx hooped it up with the Health and Wellness basketball faithful Tuesday evening. Foxx, who was accompanied by actor Dave Brown and three others, made at least three three-pointers in about an hour of play on […]