March 5, 2009

The chair of the sociology department chased down a woman who tried to steal one of his employee’s wallets Wednesday, preventing her from fleeing campus until police officers could arrive. Executive assistant Octavia Kelsey reported that her wallet had been stolen around 2 p.m. Wednesday and alerted department chair Steven Tuch. Tuch then saw the […]

The Senior Class Gift Committee has received donations from about 12 percent of the senior class so far – totaling more than $15,000. The committee hopes to eventually get donations from as much as one-third of the graduating class, but 361 seniors have already donated. David Anderson, coordinator of the Senior Gift Committee, said the […]

With close to $54 billion directed toward education, the recently signed stimulus bill may be cause for many students and teachers across the country to celebrate. But private institutions, like GW, may not be so lucky. Close to 75 percent of the education stabilization fund in the stimulus package has been designated for states to […]

Last summer, when I mustered the inner courage required to view my first tuition bill without swooning or breaking something, I noticed a $50 library donation that I didn’t remember making. Being naive however, my initial reaction was not, “Where did this extra charge some from?” Rather it was, “Cool, does this mean I get […]

How many flat-screen televisions does one school need? Apparently, between J Street and the lobby of Duques Hall, we don’t have enough of these around campus yet, because the plans for the Gelman Library first-floor renovations include an Information Hub decked out with a number of these flat panels. Any GW student who has ever […]

GW is looking to implement an online advising system, but in digitizing an already impersonal process, the University must take care not to alienate students. The problem with advising here is twofold, and an online system would only solve one of those problems. It goes without saying that accomplishing simple tasks at GW can be […]

The other day I was sitting in World History 038, and after a cold trek across campus to the Elliott School, I was less than ecstatic about the exchange of people, plants and animals from the Old World and New World after Columbus landed here. But after a surprisingly interesting lecture, my professor raised his […]

It still counts as discrimination The only thing more disgusting than discrimination is that there are still people who justify it. Joshua Hock’s op-ed (“The right decision,” March 2, p. 4) defends a policy that bans gays from serving in the military on the grounds that cohesion will suffer because fellow soldiers will be “perturbed” […]

Thursday Anya Ulinich The GW creative writing department presents a free reading by the author of the novel “Petropolis.” 8 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater, 3rd floor Friday The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later A symposium remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. 12 p.m. State Room, 1959 E […]