Volume 107, Issue 33
Stories from the January 13, 2011 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
With the ceremonial repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Todd Belok has finally seen the change he’s been waiting for. By a vote of 65 to 31, the Senate voted Dec. 18 to end the program that has prevented thousands of Americans from serving in the military. The Clinton-era policy’s total repeal now hangs on […]
One former and another current GW employee have joined a lawsuit filed against the University and a top official, claiming they faced racial discrimination on the job. Former University employee Audrey L. Johnson’s original lawsuit filed last March was amended last semester to include two more women, Mary K.L. Wallace and Tiffani A. Worthy. Worthy […]
Although most GW students are looking forward to a long weekend, many Colonials are also looking forward to Monday’s day of service, which honors Martin Luther King Jr. This national day of service serves as a reminder that the first official weekend back is not simply a time to catch up with friends or get […]
A civil rights leader and an education pioneer will join New York City Mayor and keynote Commencement speaker Michael Bloomberg on the National Mall this May, to receive honorary degrees from the University. The specific degrees William Coleman and Peggy Cooper Cafritz will receive have not been determined, a University spokeswoman said Wednesday. The University […]
The addition of a Nobel laureate to GW’s faculty shows that the University’s commitment to science is becoming more pronounced, a positive step after GW pledged $300 million to the Science and Engineering Complex last semester. Ferid Murad, a biochemist from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, will serve students in the […]
The largest bikesharing program in the U.S. plans to expand its D.C. service by 36 stations this year, but still is unsure if the Foggy Bottom Metro will get new bikes. John Lisle, a spokesperson for District Department of Transportation, said the agency is still evaluating if the current Foggy Bottom Metro Smartbike D.C. station […]
GW’s Google-based email switch on Dipity. Faculty and staff are set to switch their Colonial Mail e-mail accounts to a Google-based system this month, two and a half years after student e-mail accounts made the transition to GWmail. Administrative departments will be transferred by the end of January and faculty within the different schools should […]
My mom and I have our own private joke going: We’re trying to see who can make the waiter laugh first. Tall and stoic, he takes our order totally deadpan, and looks decidedly out of place in his uniform, silhouetted by stone walls and soft, flickering candles. We tell him about our little bet and […]
A Nobel laureate in medicine will join the University’s science team this spring, a first for GW that will likely boost its reputation as a research institution. Top administrators welcomed biochemist Ferid Murad with the distinction of University professor – the highest title professors at GW can hold – in a ceremony Tuesday in the […]