Volume 106, Issue 32
Stories from the January 11, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Incidences of theft, fraud, robberies, disorderly conduct, harassment, and destruction occurred on and around campus over winter break, University Police Chief Dolores Stafford said. Stafford said several individuals reported bizarre behavior constituting harassment and stalking to UPD, including a Jan. 4 report from several staff members regarding phone calls from a male subject about coursework […]
Web Exclusive More international students are attending American colleges than ever before, but difficulties obtaining and understanding visas can stop students from traveling home during breaks. More than 2,000 international students studied at GW in the fall of 2008 – the last year for which data is available – and Seth Weinshel, the director of […]
The University has launched new efforts to promote fundraising devoted to student aid after more students applied for increased financial assistance last fall than in the entire 2008-2009 academic year. In a letter to the GW community last month, University President Steven Knapp announced the establishment of the Power and Promise Fund. The University hopes […]
Correction appended Web Exclusive More than a dozen D.C.-area colleges and universities will be subpoenaed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in an effort to determine whether undergraduate admissions offices discriminate against women in an effort to correct gender imbalances on campus, a spokeswoman for the commission said. Subpoenas will be issued to the […]
A $500,000 lawsuit filed against the University by a former student, expelled in 2008 for alleged possession of LSD and other drugs, has been dismissed with prejudice, a final judgment that bars the student from reopening the case. The lawsuit, filed by former student Maximillian Jack, was dismissed on Nov. 19, less than a month […]
The University is offering buyout packages to 39 full-time professors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science as part of a move to increase the school’s research presence, top-level University officials said in December. All full-time faculty on active status were mailed letters on Oct. 22, and professors offered the package – those who […]
Eight months before they will arrive in Foggy Bottom for their first semester, hundreds of the 570 accepted Early Decision I students are seeking out classmates and dishing about the District on Facebook. High school senior Chris Welch, from Massachusetts, admits that like most high school students in the U.S., he spends a good deal […]
Political science professor Lee Sigelman passed away Dec. 21 after a two-year battle with colon cancer. He was 64. Sigelman is credited by peers with helping to transform the political science department during his time as department chair and after. He was a prolific author with five books and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles to his […]
The University’s annual Alternative Breaks Program had to contend with new challenges this winter – not because of participants or planners, but due to mother nature. The program, sponsored by the Office of Community Service, took students to Atlanta and New Orleans from Jan. 3 to Jan. 10 to work on reconstruction after natural disasters […]
A GW graduate and controversial anti-war advocate is making a bid for a Congressional seat in New Mexico’s third district. Adam Kokesh, a 2008 political management graduate, best known at GW for inciting a campus-wide controversy when he co-authored notorious posters regarding Muslims in 2007, launched his campaign in July. Kokesh said the posters – […]