December 6, 2007

Alex Ellis/assistant photo editor GW graduate student Kathleen Kelley plays Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op.15 by Anton Arensky at Chamber Music Masterpieces Wednesday night.

As they wait for renovations on their dilapidated classrooms to begin, School Without Walls students said they prefer their old school in Foggy Bottom to their modernized temporary location and are anxious to return. “We don’t have to worry about bricks falling from the roof here at Logan, but I still wish I was spending […]

The Student Association Senate confirmed all three of SA President Nicole Capp’s nominees for the five-person Joint Elections Committee Tuesday night in Rome Hall. Sophomores Daniel Boehmer and Will Rone were approved as the SA representatives for the spring election oversight body, and the SA accepted junior Ben Balter as the joint representative for the […]

If you have $5 Join the Arab Student Association for their annual Arab Hafla Dec. 6 at 8:30 p.m. in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom and Third Floor Terrace. Experience Middle Eastern food with crepes from Crepeaway, music, a bellydancer, DJ Hamza Ghaznavi, henna and hookah. Admission is $5, and the group is also taking […]

This week, GW students will attend their last classes and panic about the massive amounts of work to complete for finals. Most people will decline invitations to go out in order to stay home and (attempt to) study. That choice may be a bigger mistake than sleeping through the final review for biochemistry. After sold-out […]

Three GW law professors have endorsed Republican candidate Fred Thompson’s campaign for the presidency, joining the Lawyers for Fred coalition. Professors John Fitzgerald Duffy, Orin Kerr and Michael Abramowicz are members of the Law Professors Committee within the coalition. “Sen. Thompson is proud of his experience working as a federal prosecutor,” said Darrel Ng, a […]

Alex Platt, a research assistant for the Center for Communitarian Policy Studies at Gelman Library plays upright bass in the D.C.-based indie alt-country band Junior League, set to headline the Black Cat in an upcoming show Dec. 14. According to the theory of communitarianism, if you build a society based only on individual rights, the […]

Tempers flared during the Student Association meeting Tuesday night about an amendment that abolished slates from the spring election. The amendment, which passed the Senate during the meeting at Rome Hall, allows presidential and vice presidential candidates to campaign together but forbids slates of more than two candidates. Over the past three years, candidates who […]

So you missed Ben Harper in September, Blues Traveler in October and Van Halen in November. There are only a few weeks left to catch some good shows before the year’s end, but luckily there is plenty to choose from in D.C. this month. If you are up for an adventure (in the truest sense […]

When the GW men’s basketball team began this season, most of the hype surrounding the squad was focused on senior Maureece Rice. After somewhat disappointing performances in four of the Colonials’ first five games (Rice sat out during a loss at the University of Maryland Baltimore County for breaking an unspecified team rule), Rice finally […]