From Deputy News Editor Mark Abramson:
An early Monday morning fire at Eastern Market in SE caused severe damage to
the old brick building, leaving some local vendors without their businesses.
Firefighters said they responded almost instantaneously to the “box alarm”
that went off at the Market around 1 a.m.. Engine 18 was the first […]
Colonial Invasion and GW Reads - two of the most popular, recently discontinued University programs - will return for the 2007-2008 school year, according to a press release from Student Association President-elect Nicole Capp.
Invasion, the Spirit Week celebration that kicked off basketball season, and GW Reads, the program that provided free newspapers in dormitories, were […]
Police Chief Dolores Stafford said that there was no known cause for a fire alarm activated on the lower level of the Academic Center Tuesday afternoon, and that the alarm was checked and reset around 1:25 p.m. This differs from an earlier report that a sprinkler system was to blame. Students, faculty and staff were […]
Comedian Billy Crystal will perform on each of the two nights of Colonials Weekend 2007, taking place October 12-14, according to the GW Office of Parent Services. The shows will be held at the Charles E. Smith Center on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, at 9:30 p.m. Ticket prices range from $57 to […]
UPDATED: 9:27 p.m.
Commencement plans at GW have changed after the this week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech and last week’s controversy, the University announced this evening. Rather than having a single speaker, President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, graduates will be addressed by all five honorary degree recipients and a student speaker who recently ended a tour […]
The University has spent the last five years regularly updating their protocol and running through drills to improve their emergency response techniques.
John Petrie, assistant vice president for public safety and emergency management, said that the University’s incident teams engage in regular exercises that are designed to put GW’s administrators and response team in […]
That’s the question we’re going to be asking people today. Officials at Va. Tech are getting a lot of heat for their response to yesterday’s deadly shootings. From Time magazine:
Students bitterly complained that there were no public-address announcements on campus after the first burst of gunfire. Many said the first word they received […]
SJT’s House Party will now occur on May 1, in light of the shootings at Virginia Tech, according to Matt Lindsay, Assistant Director of Media Relations.
Originally scheduled for later this evening, the event commemorating the tenure of University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will feature a trolley tour of residence halls on the Foggy Bottom Campus […]
The University is on “heightened alert” after a gunman killed at least 32 people in dorms and classrooms at Virginia Tech.
GW Campus Alert sent out a blast e-mail at 2:30 p.m. reminding students and faculty to stay cautious of suspicious activity and to program UPD’s number into their mobile phones.
From the e-mail:
As you may have […]
Former Columbian College Dean William Frawley was charged with driving while intoxicated Wednesday, according to the Fredericksburg Police Department.
A police release says that Frawley, who is now president of the University of Mary Washington, refused to take a DUI breath test when he was pulled over.
Wednesday’s arrest came after he had been hospitalized Tuesday for […]