Volume 106, Issue 55
Stories from the April 12, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
The GW Women in Business organization heard from a former first lady of Peru and an international business expert at its first conference in Funger Hall Saturday. The conference – which centered on ways to turn classroom lessons into real-world experiences – included specialized panels on entrepreneurship, international business, business and government relations and corporate […]
An open invitation Vincent Barbieri’s column “Facing the futility of Earth Hour” (April 8, p. 4), is both misinformed and inaccurate, and I call into question his purpose for writing it. Earth Hour is not a “ridiculous” endeavor proclaiming that turning lights off will save the world from climatic catastrophe. It is a worldwide call […]
A former employee has filed a lawsuit against GW claiming she was unlawfully terminated from her employment with the University, and is charging a high-level administrator with racial discrimination, according U.S. District Court documents. The lawsuit, filed by 37-year-old Audrey Johnson March 31, claims the University unlawfully terminated Johnson’s employment on the basis of her […]
The residence hall at 2034 G Street is the third student-housing structure scheduled to be demolished for construction on a parking garage and a law school building, a University administrator confirmed last week. Executive Vice President and Treasurer Lou Katz said last week the University has submitted plans for the parking garage to the D.C. […]
With just over three minutes to play in Sunday’s women’s lacrosse game versus La Salle, La Salle midfielder Melanie Sarcinello scored a goal to tie the game at six. The GW defense had allowed two goals in the final 10 minutes, despite having one of its best games of the season. “[La Salle] started to […]
An individual was stabbed early Sunday morning in the 600 block of 21st Street near Strong Hall and was taken to an area hospital conscious and breathing, a Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman said Sunday morning. Public Information Officer Tisha Grant said that no further details were available about the incident that occurred after 1 a.m. […]
It had been a rough week for the GW baseball team, which dropped two mid-week nonconference games and then the first two games of a series at Dayton, but junior Eric Cantrell came up with a 16-strikeout complete game win Sunday to send the Colonials back to the District with a 7-2 victory over the […]
University President Steven Knapp appointed 16 people to the President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion last week, moving forward with a plan to make GW more diverse. The council – which was approved by the Board of Trustees in February – will focus on the diversity of the student body, the faculty and the curriculum […]