January 31, 2008

The University plans to continue offering early decision admission to prospective students despite declining numbers of applicants and a national trend among top universities to discontinue use of this admission option. GW’s number of early decision I applicants in 2007 dropped by 6 percent. The University received 1,009 applications for its binding November deadline in […]

Presidential candidate endorsements often come from high profile national politicians or organizations, but here in the District some of the loudest voices are D.C. City Council members and some of their voices have not yet been heard. D.C.’s primary elections will take place on Feb. 12 and endorsements from the city’s elected lawmakers continue to […]

Saint Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli said he “never knows what (he is) going to see on the road.” What the Hawks saw, along with 2,703 people at Smith Center Wednesday night, was a game whose lead seesawed through 40 minutes. In this down season, they watched a piece of theater starring a Colonials team […]

Moyo Onibuje, 43, an eloquent man with a college degree and faint British accent, said he followed a love-interest from the United Kingdom to the United States seven years ago. He made the wrong friends, was robbed of everything he owned, and battled an alcohol and cocaine addiction. Today he is homeless, and he camps […]

PARK CITY, Utah — As far as anticipated releases go, “Be Kind Rewind” (Partizan, 2008) is probably in the pole position since all the Oscar contenders are already in theaters. Coming to D.C. Feb. 22, this feel-good comedy packs a star-studded punch. Rapper/actor Mos Def and Jack Black team up with the French imaginative genius […]

Assault 1/26/08 – Thurston Hall – 1 a.m. – case open A male student told University Police Department officers that he had been approached by an unknown male individual, who asked him if he was pressing criminal charges against his brother in a court case. The student replied that he was pressing charges, and the […]

In a two-point game like GW’s 61-59 loss to Saint Joseph’s Wednesday night, any number of things could be viewed as the difference between victory and defeat. Yet it would be difficult to fault junior Rob Diggs, who turned in a 20-point, 10-rebound performance on career-high 10-for-10 shooting from the field. His emphatic baskets sparked […]

PARK CITY, Utah – Another star-studded indie film emerges in “The Great Buck Howard” (Bristol Bay Productions.) Narrated and seen through the eyes of “Orange County’s” Colin Hanks (“Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny,” “King Kong”), the movie is another laugh fest. The always-interesting John Malkovich plays Buck Howard, a great, yet aging magician. Though his […]

Dayton entered Tuesday’s game with the GW women’s basketball team with a 16-game winning streak on its résumé from earlier in the season – a far cry for the lower-caliber Flyer teams of years past. Still, the Colonials did not seem to notice and rolled to an 81-73 victory. No. 16/13 GW (AP, ESPN/USA Today) […]

After senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence scored to give GW a lead late in the first half of Tuesday night’s 81-71 victory over Dayton, a whistle cut short the Colonial’s transition to defense. A few brief seconds of confusion and finger-pointing ensued before the officiating crew explained that junior Jazmine Adair had been called for a technical […]