March 24, 2011

Baseball losing streak at six after loss to Terps The baseball team dropped its sixth-straight game Tuesday, falling 8-2 at Maryland. Sophomore outfielder Tyler McCarthy led off the second inning with a double, ultimately scoring on subsequent plays to give GW an early 1-0 lead. Maryland tied it in the bottom of the third, but […]

Correction appended A young writer looks out over the New York skyline, pen in hand. As he thinks back on the defining relationships in his life, he writes not of life but of death as he considers what to say in his suicide note. The young writer is the protagonist of alumnus Nate Wolfson’s one-act […]

Destruction 3/9/11 – Time unknown Location: Ivory Tower Case closed A student reported to the University Police Department that another student punched a hole in the wall of her room. Referred to Student Judicial Services 3/11/11 – 12:51 a.m. Location: Public property on campus Case closed UPD officers responded to a report of two subjects […]

A wink, a smile, a second glance from her eyes, spurs just enough excitement to rouge your face with a light blush. This is the ancient art of flirting at its roots. Throughout time people have gone from exchanging written secret letters and romantic telegraphs to affectionate telephone calls and stimulating texts with their significant […]

The Colonials ended their doubleheader Tuesday against Cornell with a win and a tie, battling back from an initial four-run deficit to earn a win in game one before the second had to be called due to darkness. In the first game, Cornell took a quick 4-0 lead over GW (10-9-1) in the first inning, […]

ABC’s “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer reflected on her career as a pioneering female journalist and discussed the future of broadcast journalism at Tuesday’s installment of “The Kalb Report.” Recalling her own initiation rite into elite journalism, Sawyer shared her experiences as the first female anchor of the award-winning CBS program “60 Minutes.” “I knew […]

A leading House Republican launched investigations last week into claims that alumnus and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray paid a former mayoral candidate to attack competitor and former Mayor Adrian Fenty on the campaign trail in November. Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced the probe after former […]

Members of the Faculty Senate are asking University administrators for a greater oversight role on the upcoming Gelman Library renovations. Spurred by student complaints and a desire to direct the revamps, the faculty leaders hope to form a committee that would give them power to oversee the renovations and voice their opinions about improving the […]

Montgomery County Police arrested a suspect Friday for the murder of alumna Jayna Murray, who was beaten and stabbed to death earlier this month in a Lululemon Athletica store in Bethesda, Md. Police arrested 28-year-old Brittany Erin Norwood, a co-worker of Murray’s, for first degree murder after detectives found inconsistencies in the story Norwood told […]

The face of GW’s relationship with its surrounding neighbors will step down from his position at the end of the month, amid a brewing battle with the neighborhood over upcoming development projects. Michael Akin, the assistant vice president for the Office of Government, International and Community Relations, is credited with building GW’s office of community […]