October 19, 2009

Best-selling author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will speak on campus next semester, the University announced Friday. Friedman will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 21, but the location of the “lecture” and information regarding tickets is not yet available, Assistant Vice President for communications Sarah Baldassaro said. The event will be free […]

George Washington envisioned a great university in the capital of the nation he did so much to create. He wanted to attract students from all the former colonies so that, together, they might overcome their regional prejudices and forge a new identity as citizens of the nation as a whole. Today, we are that university, […]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell presented GW alumna and Undersecretary for Veterans Affairs Tammy Duckworth with the inaugural Colin Powell Public Service Award Thursday night at the Museum of American History. The award was presented to Duckworth during the event – titled “A Celebration of Service” – which recognized the role that GW and […]

This is the second column in a three-part series on GW’s medical amnesty policy. Last week, the author discussed need lack of a true amnesty policy at GW. Next week, the author will lay out the basic criteria for a rewrite of the policy, discussing the positive and negative changes made this year. E-MeR-G-ed [i-mur-juh-id] […]

In the evenings after class, Deborah Akinniyi packs up her bags to go to work in a part of D.C. that most GW students never see. Cigarette butts litter the streets, signs offering quick cash for paychecks and promises of stimulus money yet to come decorate the part of Seventh Street near Bread for the […]

Older students trying to find “New Hall” on a map may be a little confused, now that the building has been officially dedicated in a ceremony as Philip S. Amsterdam Hall. Students, alumni, University President Steven Knapp, former President Steven Joel Trachtenberg, and several members of the Board of Trustees gathered Saturday in the lobby […]

Correction appended Web Exclusive Representatives from all walks of Foggy Bottom life congregated in the cold weather in the small park near the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop Sunday for the seventh annual Neighborhood Block Party, sponsored by GW-backed community group FRIENDS. “[The block party] is a joint activity with neighbors and the university as a […]

Developing democracy in Pakistan is the only way the country will know peace and security, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States said at an Elliott School event Thursday evening. More than 200 students and faculty members filled the Harry Harding Auditorium for a discussion sponsored by the Elliott School’s Ambassadors Forum to address the […]

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy addressed the GW Law School Thursday, giving an animated speech about judicial review and several past Court decisions. The 73-year-old justice stood beside the podium, at times gesturing with his hands and bouncing on the balls of his feet when making an exciting point. The audience, which filled the Marvin […]