March 10, 2011

It wasn’t supposed to end this way. At the end of Tuesday’s game, the Colonials stood in their customary circle as GW’s alma mater played. Senior forward Jabari Edwards tucked his head inside his jersey, shielding his face from sight. Senior center Joseph Katuka bowed his head, gazing at the court as junior forward Aaron […]

Thursday SA election results Watch the Student Association election results unfold live. Polls close at 9 p.m. Marvin Center, Continental Ballroom – 9 p.m. District’s Funniest College Competition Student comedians compete for the title of funniest college student in D.C. Marvin Center, Betts Theatre – 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday Race for Justice 5K Run […]

Dreary skies did not damper the first day of Student Association elections, as candidates and supporters took to H Street Wednesday in a final push for votes. Wearing colorful campaign T-shirts and handing out palm cards, candidates mingled with one another and talked with passing students about their platforms. Cory Grever, running for an undergraduate-at […]

Sexuality and love are common themes on campus – at least in GW’s longest-running student art and literary magazine, Wooden Teeth. “If you read the past issues, you will see that there is a style that GW students consistently lean towards,” editor in chief Aaron Friedman said. After a class activity inspired him, Friedman studied […]

Twenty-four people moved on to the second round of the National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds, a design competition sponsored in part by GW. A steering panel including GW faculty organized the event and a jury of nine experts chose the semifinalists after reviewing more than 500 applications. The competition – which began […]

It should come as no surprise to people who know me what this column is about: cheese. To those of you who don’t know me, let me just clear something up – I love cheese. Not like a, “No Strings Attached,” you’re-around-so-I-guess-you’ll-do kind of love. More of a “Brokeback Mountain,” “I wish I knew how […]

A different opinion on Chris Clark I inducted Chris Clark into Alpha Kappa Psi when I was the fraternity’s president in spring 2009. I then believed he had the leadership potential we sought in our brothers, and I knew he had charisma. But later I learned something that is now confirmed: Clark is not an […]

Salaries for all GW employees increased by an average of 2.6 percent for the 2011 calendar year, slightly higher than similar institutions. Executive Vice President and Treasurer Lou Katz said the University bases its salary increases on a privately commissioned compensation study that examines 16 institutions of comparable size and urban location. The University declined […]

Student members of a Mount Vernon Campus programming organization are alleging that they do not have adequate funding for student events, after the Vern saw an uptick in the number of residents living on the campus. Sophomore Josh Bochner, assistant coordinator for the Mount Vernon Programming Council, said the organization was given “significantly less” University […]