Volume 105, Issue 2
Stories from the May 19, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Wednesday, June 4 More than ten buildings on the Foggy Bottom campus will be become wireless hotspots by the end of August as part of the continuing GWireless project to make the entire campus wireless, the University announced last week. By the fall semester, the University expects academic and mixed-use buildings like the Marvin Center, […]
New York City Public Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden discussed his long and distinguished career in public health at the School of Public Health and Health Services graduation ceremony Saturday at Lisner Auditorium. Frieden praised public health professionals as the people “who see the faces and lives behind the numbers,” and said his efforts in […]
Wednesday, June 4 Two high-school boys headed across University Yard Saturday with some pieces of wiring and duck tape in hand, but they were not en route to repair any possible damage caused by the heavy rain that morning. The teenagers carried the remnants of their entry in “Robo-Cross,” one of several events in the […]
Web Extra Nobel prize winner Leon Ledermen emphasized the importance of teachers and science in a speech to the graduates of the College of Professional Studies and the Graduate School of Political Management at Lisner Auditorium Saturday. Lederman won the prize in 1988 for discovering of ‘neutrino’ particles – which travel at light speed but […]
Rain showers and the threat of thunderstorms did not deter an estimated 25,000 people from gathering for Commencement on the National Mall Sunday. Organizers planned a shorter ceremony to account for the rain, which started falling about halfway through the ceremony during the presentation of honorary degrees to former University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and […]
Wednesday, June 4 Some of the most prestigious architects in the world gathered in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday morning to share insight into their trade with talk show host Charlie Rose. The panel was taped for Rose’s show, which is slated to air on PBS Tuesday. French architect Jean Nouvel, a guest on the […]
Wednesday, June 4 University President Steven Knapp held a small-group discussion with local alumni Thursday at Alumni House to discuss GW’s role in the larger D.C. community. The event marked the second in a series of “Colonial Conversations,” which attempt to reach out to graduates in the greater metropolitan D.C. area. “The conversations are a […]
Civil rights leader Julian Bond reflected on the legacy of race and slavery during his keynote Commencement address on the National Mall Sunday. Bond, the chairman of the NAACP and a prominent activist of the civil rights movement, addressed graduates and families after being awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree from the University. […]
An array of prominent city and University officials gathered for a rainy baptism of Square 54 Friday, and hailed the future commercial and residential center as the greatest development project in the District. The groundbreaking marked the end of a three-year controversy between the University and the community over the former site of the GW […]
Wednesday, June 4 The University handed over the names of several students targeted by the recording industry for illegal music downloading last month, prompting record companies to withdraw a federal lawsuit and seek settlements out of court. Liz Kennedy, a spokesperson for the Recording Industry Association of America, said it is normal procedure for the […]