Volume 108, Issue 2
Stories from the May 16, 2011 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Dean Doug Guthrie of the School of Business encouraged graduates to begin their futures with open minds May 13 at the school’s undergraduate students celebration, saying they should be relentless in their career hunts. “Dream big things, do great things, change the world,” he said. The graduates gathered at the Smith Center with their families […]
Education and employment authority Anthony Carnevale urged graduates of the College of Professional Studies May 14 to make the most of their statuses as part of a different strain of student. Graduates of the college represent a diverse mix of professionally focused and custom majors ranging from public relations to police science. “In the parlance […]
Men’s tennis falls to Duke at NCAA Championship The men’ s tennis team fell in the first round of its first-ever NCAA Championship to No. 11 seed, Duke, May 13. The Blue Devils kept the Colonials from earning a single point, defeating GW 4-0. The Colonials were forced to compete without their No. 1 singles […]
The deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration likened graduates of the Elliott School of International Affairs to the missions and history of NASA in her keynote address at the school’s graduation ceremony Friday. Lori Beth Garver delivered her remarks in the Smith Center, sharing lessons from her career path with the graduating […]
Get married. That might not be the typical advice graduating seniors hear over Commencement Weekend, but those words were some of the pieces of advice imparted on students at the fourth annual Multicultural Senior Celebration May 14. “Stop partying, clubbing or going to the spa and find your true love,” Michael R. Tapscott, director of […]
Men’s basketball recruit Erik Copes has asked to be released from his National Letter of Intent to play at GW, and is headed to play ball at District-based competitor George Mason. The Department of Athletics is processing Copes’ paperwork, University spokeswoman Candace Smith said. She was not sure when the 6-foot-8 center asked to be […]
Baseball team owner Mark Lerner told graduates at the School of Business’ graduate and doctoral ceremony May 13 that he still gets the chills every time he walks onto the Washington Nationals’ field. “After five years of ownership, my greatest passion is still my day job,” Lerner said. Lerner, who graduated from GW with a […]
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will judge the GW Law School’s longest-running moot court competition next year. Kagan will be the first justice to preside over the annual Jacob Burns Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court competition since Associate Justice Antonin Scalia in 2009. Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito also […]
As Craig Helmstetter’s peers walked across the Smith Center’s stage May 14 to receive their degrees, the senior was in Worcester, Mass. preparing to compete in his penultiamte race as a Colonial. Helmstetter, the captain of the men’s rowing team, was honored along with nine other student athletes May 10, all who missed their own […]
Senior Ingmar Waterloh’s father once told him he should be able to make it in the world with nothing but a toothbrush in his pocket. After completing his undergraduate education at GW, the international student from Aachen, Germany finally feels he can live up to that advice. Waterloh is one of 545 international students graduating […]