Volume 103, Issue 50
Stories from the March 29, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Alumnus Roy Lee’s recent work won him and his colleagues some distinctive awards: four Academy Awards, in fact. It’s not every day that people get to work with Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Oscar-winning best director Martin Scorsese. But for Lee, it’s all just part of the job. The 1991 graduate worked as […]
Posted Thursday, March 29, 7:57 p.m. CNN relocated the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” special that was scheduled for Jack Morton Auditorium to the network’s Washington bureau. “This was an editorial decision … It is the nature of TV news to make changes on the dime,” GW Media Relations Director Tracy Schario said. CNN aired a special […]
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe said Tuesday night that he will establish guidelines for using the $25,000 University grant the group received last week before he leaves office April 30. University officials announced last week a two-year pilot program to fund “socially responsible initiatives.” Thorpe, a senior, said officials wanted to show support for the […]
Thursday Non-Profit Career Fair Interested in working for a non-profit? Stop by this career fair organized by Idealist.org. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marvin Center 3rd Floor Sponsored by the Career Center Spring Film Series: Children of Men Catch a free showing of this blockbuster. Valid GWorld required. 10 p.m. Jack Morton Auditorium Sponsored by […]
Many D.C. high school students smiled last Thursday with the announcement of a $122 million grant that will help students from low-income families attend college. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the grant will support the city’s effort to double the number of high school and college graduates by 2010. One of the […]
A bill to give D.C. a voting representative in Congress has stalled for a second time in six months amid debate over its constitutionality. The District has one non-voting representative in the House of Representatives, a position Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) holds. The District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007 – sponsored […]
The Delta Gamma sorority’s annual Anchor Bowl raised $5,000 this week for Service for Sight, an organization that provides services to blind and visually impaired individuals. Anchor Bowl consists of a week’s worth of fundraising and social events that culminate in a football tournament for fraternities. Upcoming events this week include a Baja Fresh fundraiser […]
The U.S. Department of Education convened a March 22 summit on higher education to address the goals of its plan to reform higher education in America. Over 250 business and academic leaders and officials gathered in Washington, D.C., and hammered out a list of 25 “action items” to help the Department achieve some of what […]
GW awarded nine D.C. public high school seniors full scholarships to attend the University beginning next year. The Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Scholarship program has provided full scholarships, including funds for room and board and book expenses, for 93 D.C. public school seniors during the last 18 years. Three of the nine recipients receiving the offer […]
Thurston Hall will be closed for extensive renovations this summer and will reopen about a week before fall move-in. The 1,116-bed freshman residence hall will receive new windows, updated lighting fixtures and elevators, and fire sprinklers in each of the rooms, said Seth Weinshel, assignments director of GW Housing Programs. He explained that one building […]