Graduating Seniors: The Daily Colonial wants to hear the highlights of your college experience. We are putting together a senior special for our Commencement edition next week and your story could be a part of it.

What was your best decision during college? Your worst? And what are you planning to do after graduation?

Entries can be everything from light-hearted to serious. The best ones will be published in our Commencement edition.

To enter, respond in the comments section of this blog or send an email to daily@gwu.edu. Please include your first name, email address and school within the university.

The Daily Colonial is looking for reporters, photographers, web developers and marketers interested in gaining professional experience with GW’s only daily news source. Stop by an informational meeting to meet our staff and learn more – January 29 from 7-9 pm in Marvin Center Amphitheater or January 30 from 6-8 pm in Ivory Tower Common Room.

If you can’t attend, you can also email us at daily@gwu.edu.

After resolving some technical problems with our server, The Daily Colonial will be back and running for the Spring 2008 semester beginning Wednesday, Jan. 23. We look forward to another great year as a part of The George Washington University community.

The Daily Colonial would like to thank all our readers and staff for joining us in the past semester. We’d also like to send special wishes to all the graduating seniors.

Dec. 10 was our final day of regular publication for the Fall 2007 semester. We will continue bringing you the latest breaking news and basketball coverage over winter break.

Good luck on finals and have a safe trip home. We will see you again in full swing in January.

The Daily Colonial is proud to announce it is a 2007 winner of the Associated Collegiate Press’ Online Pacemaker Award.

The distinction is widely considered the “Pulitzer Prize of student journalism,” and publications were judged holistically by a panel of professional media judges from The Washington Post.

Thanks to all our loyal readers who continue to make publishing the newspaper worth it, and to the staff who make that possible. We are supremely honored to receive this award, especially as a publication barely in its third year.

The Daily Colonial is always looking for writers, photographers, web designers and marketers to join our staff, especially as we prepare to launch our newest site design, Daily Colonial 3.0. Email Daily@gwu.edu for more information.

The Daily Colonial is holding info sessions about joining our staff this week and next week. All are welcome to attend our Wednesday, Sept. 12, meeting in Marvin Center 308 at 8 p.m. and our meeting Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Marvin Center third floor Amphitheater at 8 p.m.

You can also send us an email at Daily@gwu.edu for more information.

Female genital mutilation and ‘glocalization’: Safari and Maasai culture in Africa

Join The Daily Colonial in welcoming Patrick Mendis, Ph.D., an adjunct GW professor, for a conversation about the controversial practice and the questioning of cultural rights versus individual rights.

The lecture will be followed by a 20 minute question and answer session about FGM and other issues related to glocalization, the increasingly local nature or globalization.

The event will be held in Marvin Center 307 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., May 3.

The Daily Colonial wishes to recognize three of our staff members for their accomplishments in the past week.

Joshua Meredith ‘07, former sports editor and current senior columnist, was awarded first place in the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional Excellence Awards in the Online Opinion and Commentary category. His work is now headed for the national level of the competition.

Former Managing Editor Gillian McHale ‘08 was honored by our Executive Committee with the title of Editor Emeritus, and will now serve on The Daily Colonial’s advisory Trustee Council.

Corbbmacc O’Connor ‘10 moved from his position as technical director to interim general manager this week. He is slated to permanently fill the role pending confirmation.

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