Our View: Despite the Colonial Army's loss of ticket benefits, the group can still maintain a strong presence on the GW sports scene. Colonial Army, the spirit group that dominated the attendance of men's basketball games last season, will no longer have access to tickets before the rest of the student said Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz.
I couldn't help but notice the irony earlier this month when, the same weekend I was furiously studying dozens of bizarre, unfamiliar vocabulary words for the GRE, I had also been assigned reread one of my favorites for class, William Strunk and E.B. White's "Elements of Style.
Earlier this month, GW administrators made the decision to yank free copies of The New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today from dorm news racks. Associate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Johnnie Osborne told the Hatchet that students have many other avenues for newspaper readership and the elimination of the GW Reads program would have "minimum impact.
When the Columbian College tightened its purse strings last spring, there was a great deal of noise made about changes to the Music Department. Fortunately, as The Hatchet reported last week, those changes won't affect as many students as was once feared. Budget cuts also targeted another culturally oriented department - the film studies minor.
Persians, Indians, Southeast Asians, Americans, Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists, students, professionals and government employees gathered at 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning two weekends ago on the second floor of the Elliott School building. Lured by hot coffee and oversized muffins, an impressive crowd turned out for the second day of the "9/11 + 5" conference, hosted by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID).
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