Volume 107, Issue 5
Stories from the August 30, 2010 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
To all the incoming freshmen, transfer students and everyone else who has returned to the District after a long, hot summer: we could not have picked a more exciting time to come to Washington, where politics, culture and everything in between seem to collide. Nearly two years ago, GW erupted into euphoria when President Barack […]
As students and their families swarmed to campus for move-in on Saturday, tea partiers swarmed the District to attend the “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial. And while the timing served as a reminder of what living in D.C. means for GW students, it also indicated a recent paradigm shift in the Republican Party. […]
Consumers owe more on their student loans than their credit cards, according to data released this month by the Federal Reserve. The data found that in June, Americans owed $826.5 billion in revolving debt – which usually takes the form of credit card debt – and $829.78 billion in student loan debt. This is the […]
After years of complaints over procedure and transparency, the head of Student Judicial Services plans to reform the board that doles out punishments to students who have violated GW’s Student Code of Conduct. Tara Pereira, the assistant dean of students and head of SJS, said she will be holding town hall meetings throughout the year […]
Dean of Freshmen Helen Cannaday Saulny implored the Class of 2014 to make the most out of their four years at GW during Freshman Convocation in the Smith Center Sunday afternoon. Cannaday Saulny – along with University President Steven Knapp and Provost Steven Lerman – officially kicked off the academic careers of the freshman class, […]
The University’s endowment rose 13 percent over the last fiscal year to stand at $1.14 billion as of June 30, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Lou Katz said. The endowment gained $135 million during fiscal year 2010, which began July 1, 2009 and ended June 30, 2010, an improvement after its 18 percent drop last […]
Among a sea of yellow-shirted move-in volunteers, you’d think the University president would stand out. But on Saturday, President Steven Knapp was just one of more than 1,000 volunteers that were stationed to help lift the heavy luggage of freshmen moving onto campus for the first time. Students on both the Foggy Bottom and Mount […]
Correction appended For the first time in University history, the Student Association has more than $1 million to dole out to student organizations and fund University-wide events, a number that will greatly increase the amount of programming the SA can fund, the chair of the SA Finance Committee said last week. The exact figure won’t […]
The new GWorld 2.0 card system will require all off-campus vendors to pay for upgraded card readers, the University confirmed this week, a move that GWorld vendors called a frustrating but an unavoidable necessity. Ed Schonfeld, senior associate vice president for administration, said the new GWorld card reader systems are not compatible with the old […]