Volume 105, Issue 26
Stories from the November 13, 2008 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
An outside accrediting body will assess the University Police Department this month as part of a reaccreditation process that occurs every three years. Representatives from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will monitor the department and hold a public comment session for the GW community on Monday at 5 p.m. in the Marvin […]
Despite widespread economic uncertainty, the University has seen a major increase in early decision applications and pushed back the deadline for Early Decision I to attract even more prospective students to apply early, administrators said this week. The University will accept early decision applications for an additional two weeks to give high schoolers more time […]
Basketball Preview Issue Hatchet Video: The Adair Twins Anacostia isn’t the kind of place most people travel to voluntarily. Long plagued by crime and poverty, the historic neighborhood in Southeast has become synonymous with the District’s problems and the butt of its jokes. Its famed go-go music scene is a shell of its former self, […]
A former professor who entangled the University in a major criminal case in 2005 when he misspent nearly $1 million in federal research grants was denied a motion to reduce his sentence last month – three years after it was filed. Nabih Bedewi formerly headed the National Crash Analysis Center at the Virginia Campus and […]
A new Foggy Bottom nightclub signed an agreement with local community members last week that indicated they would not advertise to GW undergraduates, in response to concerns that the venue could become a neighborhood disturbance. Swaptak Das, president and CEO of The Shadow Room nightclub, located on 21st and K streets, arranged an agreement with […]
Forty students will ride on GW’s float in the presidential inaugural parade on Jan. 20 alongside a massive inflatable globe, a real-time stock ticker and other symbols of the University’s various colleges, the project’s organizer said this week. Charlie Burgoyne, the Student Assocation’s director of programming and activities, said the SA will guarantee spots on […]
CRIME LOG Sex Abuse 8/30/08 – Thurston Hall – open case A mother reported that her 14-year-old daughter visited someone in the residence hall earlier this semester after meeting them on Facebook. The mother reported that her daughter and the person had sexual intercourse, which constituted statutory rape. Referred to the Metropolitan Police Department. Disorderly […]
Freshman Lance Lacheen plans to be on the grounds of the Capitol in January to watch as Barack Obama is sworn in as the next president of the United States, but he faces an uphill battle to take part in the historic occasion. Like many GW students, Lacheen does not have tickets to the presidential […]
University officials are in the initial stages of developing a program to help students who enter jobs in public service pay off debt accrued while in college. The public service initiative is one of many service-related ideas that University President Steven Knapp charged a team of faculty and students to create. “The initiative is certainly […]
In “GW honors late-night staff” (Nov. 10, p. 5), The Hatchet erroneously reported that Student Staff Award winner Lauren Orvis works for GW Housing Programs. She is an employee of Residential Property Management.