November 9, 2009

In any truly tangible way, preseason games do not count. Their outcomes are not reflected in the columns tallying wins and losses; their statistics are exempt from any season-ending sums or means. Yet for a team such as this year’s men’s basketball squad, about which so little is known, an exhibition such as Saturday’s is […]

Put down the “Two Buck Chuck.” Walk away from the André. There are other cheap, but satisfying choices out there, and you don’t have to go far to find them. Wine snobs and newbies alike will appreciate this list of great buys at Trader Joe’s. Les Caves Joseph Bordeaux Type: Bordeaux Blanc Country of Origin: […]

First lady Michelle Obama and second lady Jill Biden will appear at GW on Wednesday to launch a network of service opportunities designed to help U.S. troops around the globe. The event, which will kick off ‘Mission to Serve: Forging a Continuum of Service,’ will be part of GW’s Veterans Day celebrations and feature remarks […]

Bittersweet. That’s how GW men’s soccer senior Mike Rollings described the last college soccer game he would ever play. Having been eliminated from Atlantic 10 playoff contention with Friday’s loss to Rhode Island, the team’s seniors ended their four-year journey in the program with a 3-0 home win over Massachusetts Sunday. Facing a must-win situation […]

National news media put a spotlight on GW’s Homeland Security Policy Institute this weekend after it was revealed that a man who killed 13 people in Texas had attended multiple events hosted by the institute. Multiple newspapers and blogs picked up the story, noting that U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the military psychiatrist accused […]

The GW women’s volleyball team bid farewell to a trio of veterans in Sunday’s Senior Day game, making sure to send them off in style with a 3-0 sweep of Charlotte for their second win in three days. Families came to support the departing Colonials (21-9, 8-5 Atlantic 10) as they said goodbye to their […]

Monday The People Speak Watch a sneak preview of The History Channel’s new documentary, The People Speak. Musician Lupe Fiasco and producer Chris Moore will perform and speak about the project that highlights famous American dissidents. Tickets are sold out. Jack Morton Auditorium | 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday</h4. Idealist.org nonprofit career fair Interested in […]

Before its season-opening match against Georgetown Friday, the GW men’s squash team warmed up to Lil Wayne’s “Sky’s the Limit,” an appropriate song for a young team that shut out their opponents and appears poised to have the best season in program history. “We’re not only stronger than our No. 23 showing at the end […]

An amendment proposed by a U.S. senator that would have prevented the National Science Foundation from funding political science research and put the University’s political science program in jeopardy failed this week, much to the relief of some University officials. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposed an amendment last month that aimed to “prohibit the […]

The GW men’s water polo team, which had lost nine straight games entering the postseason and all eight of its division contests this year, rallied behind 10 goals in three games from sophomore Cray Rogers to take fifth place at this weekend’s CWPA Southern Division Championship in Lewisburg, Pa. The Colonials (9-22) did not begin […]