Volume 107, Issue 50
Stories from the March 24, 2011 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
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 […]
Two players from the men’s basketball team and one from the women’s team will transfer from GW this spring, opening up scholarship spots for the Colonials to bring new players to the respective teams before the start of next season. Men’s basketball sophomore guard Tim Johnson and freshman forward Chris Fitzgerald will transfer from GW, […]
Faculty are again criticizing GW’s proposed plan to offset parking spaces that will be lost when its main garage is torn down for the Science and Engineering Complex. The University Parking Garage on H Street will close after Commencement weekend in May. Valet parking at several on-campus garages and discounted Kennedy Center parking rates will […]
Members of a committee devoted to continuing the educational purpose of Stevens Elementary School suggested last week that GW’s School of Education and Human Development could be part of the historic school’s revitalization. Since the end of former Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, previous plans to develop the closed school into housing were scrapped, and residents […]
This year’s Student Association presidential election comes down to one simple question: Do you want an SA insider or outsider? Both candidates have serious flaws they never addressed before asking students to cast votes, flaws that will hopefully be acknowledged before a winner takes office. But there is no golden choice or obvious candidate this […]
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board renewed the liquor license for the local restaurant Bayou last week, after the restaurant and a neighborhood group finalized a cooperative agreement that sets guidelines for the restaurant’s operations. The Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission, along with five other individuals, had filed a protest against Bayou’s reapplication […]
For New Orleans residents like myself, whose memories of?Hurricane Katrina?are indelible, the tragic aftermath of?Japan’s tsunami?seems eerily similar.?Waves washed homes off their foundations, piled cars on top of houses and dumped large boats inland as if they were children’s toys.? After Katrina, Japan’s government and citizens came to our aid right away. Within 24 hours […]
The District’s Office of Planning recommended last week that the Zoning Commission approve the plan for the Science and Engineering Complex, but encouraged GW to revise its design to accommodate another Foggy Bottom Metro entrance. The approval is conditional and will be reevaluated if GW fails to provide a detailed drawing illustrating the streetscape before […]