Volume 104, Issue 5
Stories from the September 4, 2007 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
GW and Sodexho’s recent decision to shut down the fair trade coffee venue, Grounds for Change, in J Street is more than just a change of coffee beans. It’s a dramatic and unforeseen change in the way the administration works with student organizations, or in this case, doesn’t. We’ve had several successes lately regarding student […]
Kosher dining is returning to campus in a new form this year after one-and-a half years without the option in Foggy Bottom. The Colonial Kosher Caf? will begin serving kosher lunches in the next two weeks every weekday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. out of a newly refurbished kitchen in Hillel’s basement. In addition […]
Writer only wrote about bad Some of my violent experiences here in Iraq were mentioned in Jennifer Easton’s article on Army ROTC (Aug. 30, A7), all of which are of course true. But I also wrote about bringing a small child to receive specialized medical care from American doctors and the unimaginable gratitude and joy […]
Thurston Hall’s most recent renovation – which has been ongoing for two years – costs more than one-third of the building’s total taxable value and is the largest exterior building renovation in University history, according to a University spokesperson and D.C. land records. The building is valued at more than $28 million, according to D.C. […]
The D.C. City Council passed controversial “emergency” legislation this summer to sell the area surrounding the West End Library to a private developer without the approval of community groups. The legislation would allow Eastbanc, a private developer, to purchase a public plot of land on 24th and L streets. Emergency legislation bypasses the Foggy Bottom/West […]
The fall semester has just begun and almost all of the Student Association’s goals for the school year were accomplished or are nearing accomplishment just four months after the organization’s election. SA leaders successfully lobbied Safeway to join the GWorld program, worked with administrators for the return of the GW Reads free news publication program […]
After a little more than one year on the job, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs Lee Huebner has already left his mark on the school’s long-term goals, curriculum and students. Two such long-term goals, Huebner said, are to prepare students for a climate of quickly and drastically changing media and to […]
Media Credit: Ben Solomon/senior photo editor University President Steven Knapp and his wife Diane help move boxes from a vehicle outside Ivory Tower on 23rd Street during Move-In Saturday.
When Stephen Joel Trachtenberg left office this summer, he took his right-hand man, his special assistant Gerry Kauvar, with him as he moved on to jobs at a headhunting firm and as a professor. As University President Steven Knapp moved into Rice Hall this August, he too was accompanied by assistants working closely by his […]
Three study abroad programs affiliated with GW are suspected providing unlawful monetary incentives to universities who use their services and are now under investigation by the New York attorney general’s office. The Institute for Study Abroad at Butler University, the Center for Education Abroad at Arcadia University and the Institute for the International Education of […]