April 13, 2009

Baseball After riding a five-game winning streak into the week, the Colonials have gone cold, dropping five games in six days, culminating in a three-game sweep at the hands of Charlotte over the weekend. GW (16-19, 5-6 Atlantic 10) saw its ninth-inning rally fall short in Sunday’s 6-4 loss to the 49ers and lost 10-9 […]

An Ethiopian man has pleaded guilty to the murder of 2007 alumnus Brian Adkins, a Foreign Service officer found dead in his Ethiopia home this February, according to the Adkins family. State Department officials told family members that a man named “Sammy” had admitted to beating Adkins to death with a baseball bat in the […]

Correction appended About 80 percent of students received their top housing choice for the fall semester and 85 percent received one of their top three, University officials said this week. The number of third- and fourth-year students on the nonguaranteed waitlist has already been reduced from 400 to 200, said Seth Weinshel, director of housing […]

The consultants from James Lee Witt Associates continue to study the issue of arming the University Police Department, and they have recently been holding focus groups with students on campus, a University official said this week. University spokeswoman Tracy Schario said the consultants held a series of meetings in which students were asked multiple-choice questions. […]

The University will honor Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and two others at the Sixth Annual Cancer Gala hosted by Wolf Blitzer on April 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Kennedy, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer, will receive the Cancer Compassion Award for his involvement in pushing for affordable health care on Capitol Hill. Additionally, […]

Charged up by recent marriage equality victories in states like Iowa and Vermont, members of Allied in Pride – GW’s LGBTQ student organization – are pushing to make the District allow same-sex marriages. On the heels of Vermont’s vote to approve gay marriage in the state on Tuesday, the D.C. City Council voted unanimously last […]

Attorneys for both the Foggy Bottom Association and the University presented arguments this month in a pair of FBA appeals that challenge GW’s plans to construct more buildings on campus. In the complaints – which were originally filed in the D.C. Court of Appeals last summer – the FBA seeks to overturn a pair of […]

Web Extra At least one D.C. tourism company has shifted its focus from solely hailing the city’s architecture and government institutions to advertising the life and local interests of the president himself. In attempts to ride the coattails of President Obama’s popularity and the hype surrounding his inauguration, Destination D.C., the District’s official tourism corporation […]

Last Tuesday, I read in The Diamondback, the student-run newspaper at the University of Maryland, that the university senate has decided to remove the prayers from the general graduation ceremony in light of the secular nature of the university and the diversity of its students. I’d spent so much time working toward graduation here at […]