December 7, 2009

Planning has begun for a comprehensive fundraising campaign that will redefine the roles of school deans and further increase the University’s fundraising efforts, President Steven Knapp said in an interview on Friday. Knapp and other University officials are launching a fundraising campaign to raise a “significant amount” of money, Knapp said, to fund student aid, […]

Three more GW students are facing charges stemming from an October drug raid at a Foggy Bottom townhouse, and now all five students arrested that evening are co-defendants in the case.

The BFF Girls: Get her the newest Marc Jacobs perfume, Lola, to help with the boys. It’s around $48 for the 1-ounce bottle with an adorable floral cap (www.sephora.com). Guys: Get him an engraved flask with his nickname on it (no matter how obscene). It’ll keep your inside joke alive every weekend. For around $20 […]

When Vincent Gray was an undergraduate at GW, he almost left after his freshman year. After two out of the three high school classmates he knew attending GW dropped out during their first year, Gray, who said he was one of just 50 black students at GW in the 1960s, went to his parents for […]

The University has found the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity guilty of hazing and providing alcohol to minors, but lifted its suspension pending the imposition of sanctions, a University administrator said Sunday. An anonymous tip last month prompted a Student Judicial Services investigation into the organization, which included interviewing many members of the fraternity. Tara Periera, […]

Web Exclusive While many of their peers are spending spring break in the sun, some members of GW’s Jewish community will go to Israel for an alternative spring break to repair schools and buildings falling into disrepair. Unlike other GW alternative break programs, the Jewish National Fund, not GW, organizes the trip to Israel. Because […]

Almost midway through the second half of the GW men’s basketball game against Navy Sunday at the Verizon Center, as the Colonials treaded water with a double-digit lead, the Midshipmen launched an offensive. But even as Navy bombed a trio of threes to key an 11-2 run that cut GW’s lead to just one, the […]

Tennis balls with “HIV” printed in red letters were passed behind the backs of student athletes and D.C. middle school students, while chants of “find the ball” echoed through the Athletic Director’s Club in the Smith Center last Tuesday. As the chants subsided, the game participants would try to guess who on the opposing team […]

Web Exclusive GW’s highest governing body, the Board of Trustees, will add an uncertain number of new members to their ranks this spring, replacing five long-standing members that are set to leave at the end of this fiscal year on June 30, Chairman of the Board Russell Ramsey said. Vice Chairman Lydia Thomas, Trustees Michele […]