June 14, 2010

Donations for this year’s Green Move-Out markedly increased from 2009, with some donations more than doubling during the program’s second year. The program – which collects clothing, food and other items students do not want to take home or store after they move out of their residence halls in May – saw a 60 percent […]

Eleven of GW’s 22 athletic teams received perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1000 for the 2008-2009 academic year, according to an NCAA report released on June 9. The APR report – which lists baseball, women’s cross country, men’s golf, gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s swimming, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and volleyball […]

Destruction 3/27/10 – Lisner Auditorium – 7:30 p.m. – Case closed A staff member reported observing a female suspect, unaffiliated with GW, kicking and shattering a glass door at the entrance to Lisner Auditorium. She was allegedly upset because she did not have a ticket to the night’s event and was denied entry. When a […]

GW lacks spirit, community and spontaneity, or so I said in my very first Hatchet column. I said students didn’t take pride in their school and I lamented the fact that monotony had taken over my daily schedule. How wrong, or rather, how ignorant I was. Students pride themselves on their school and prove it […]

Ashley ‘Scout’ Seide has worked on 30 shows, memorized thousands of lines and spent long, grueling nights at rehearsals. But when the curtain fell on “Chicago,” – her final show this April – it wasn’t the effort she remembered. It was the feeling of closeness and fond memories that came with the GW theater family. […]

If you’re reading this, I envy you. Because you’re probably an incoming freshman, just like I was three long years ago. It also means that you have some of your most amazing years ahead of you. But nobody can tell you what the next four years will be like; that is up to you. So […]

Today is the start of our journey together – yours as a new first year student and mine as the new dean of students. Like you, I am both eager and excited to begin my new role. After years of striving for academic success in high school, accomplishing numerous personal achievements in your student activities, […]

Following the retirement of long-serving Dean of Students Linda Donnels, GW alumnus and University administrator Peter Konwerski will take the lead of a restructured arm of Student and Academic Support Services. The changes are the first phase in a realignment of top administrators and their duties in preparation for the arrival of the University’s new […]

While this may seem like strange advice to give you during your intense three-day orientation program, the most important thing to do during Colonial Inauguration is to stop and take it all in. After all, CI is a one-of-a-kind experience. I mean that literally. You will never go through anything like this again. And very […]