November 9, 2006

Alumnus and Chief Information Officer of the FBI Zalmai Azmi discussed how his job has changed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a group of about 65 students and faculty Monday night in Duques Hall. Azmi talked about his background as an Afghan native who immigrated to the United States in 1982, served as […]

Last year’s amazing basketball season ended for me not in the Smith Center or on the couch in Guthridge Hall where I watched many a Colonials victory. Rather, three friends and I sat at the airport bar in San Jose, Costa Rica and saw the match-up we had always dreamed of – and feared. From […]

Two Marvin Center ballrooms were transformed into the “blue room” and the “red room” Tuesday night when students gathered to watch election returns after a day of events celebrating the midterm elections. GW College Democrats, College Republicans and Program Board sponsored the election festivities. When students in the “blue room” learned that Democrats had gained […]

Assault 11/1/06 – Mitchell Hall – 1:07 a.m. – case closed After receiving a call about a disturbance in Mitchell Hall, University Police officers arrived on the scene. They witnessed a student standing on the sidewalk arguing with someone who was looking out of a window. The complainant said the individual had thrown several eggs […]

Students should reconsider ridiculous cost I was amused to no end reading that GW officials would like to dispute CNN’s finding that their University levies the highest tuition rate in the nation. It is laughable that GW staff would like to dispute the technicality of this ranking, when this University clearly uses one of the […]

While some GW alumni lost prominent races in Tuesday’s midterm elections, a student, professor and alumnus will be serving in several public offices next year. Senior L. Asher Corson beat incumbent Anne Savage for a seat on the Foggy Bottom/West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission with 63 percent of the vote. Corson, whose family owns a […]

Student Association President Lamar Thorpe’s nominees to the Student Court spoke about what they would like to see for the future of the SA’s judicial branch before their confirmation hearings in the next week. Junior David Rosenbaum and sophomore Christopher Wimbush joined second-year law student Michael Gore last week as Student Association President Lamar Thorpe’s […]

Rebuilding. Inexperienced. New beginning. Those are the types of phrases that GW men’s basketball coach Karl Hobbs is using to describe this year’s team, which features just two players who played every game during last year’s historical season. With the graduation of Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Mike Hall and Omar Williams, as well as the departure of […]

If you have $5 Head to Alexandria, Va., where you can ignore all your mother’s advice from childhood and spend a day playing with swords. Go to Gadsby’s Tavern Museum at 134 N. Royal Street, and enjoy the Swordsmen’s Rendezvous. Tours are from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., last an hour and require a reservation […]

Although the College Board recently reported that the rate at which college tuition fees are rising is not as rapid as in previous years, families are still feeling the effects of tuitions which increase faster than the inflation rate. The College Board’s data shows that although the inflation rate is 3.82 percent, tuition at a […]