Category: News

  • Updates On GW’s Strategic Plan: Interim Reports

    By Tori Mandato The finalization of GW’s Strategic Plan is approaching. Each of the four Strategic Plan committees published their reports on January 24, 2020, all of which outline the goals and improvements that the committees want to include in the final plan. I read them so you don’t have to.   So far, the two…

  • Kobe Bryant: Acknowledging the Positives and Negatives of a Complex Legacy

    By Alex Teerlinck | Community Contributors: Roxana Hernandez and Andrea Hinojosa Content Warning: Mentions Sexual Assault and Rape  The world was shocked with the news of basketball legend Kobe Bryant’s passing this Sunday. Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on the way to attend a basketball game…

  • Bokamoso at GW: Students from South Africa Visit the University

    By Brandon Wallace, EIC News “His name is Blessing,” Alejandro Arango, a junior in Elliot, said while sitting on a patio table behind the Anthropology office in Square 80.  Blessing Rakgoale, an Art and Design student from Tshwane North College in South Africa, is staying with Arango for the week as a part of The…

  • GW Students For Bernie Have Its First Meeting

    By Brandon Wallace, EIC News “As long as he is in the race, he has my support,” Alejandro Arango, co-founder of GW Students for Bernie said on Saturday regarding the presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.  GW Students for Bernie had their first general body meeting this Saturday. Approximately 35 students turned out voicing their support for Bernie…

  • Women’s March on Washington 2020: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do

    By Alex Teerlinck  The Women’s March started in 2017 as a reaction to the election of President Donald Trump in November of the previous year. Since its founding, the march has become a place for women in cities across America to come together and voice their concerns on many social and political issues including climate…

  • What You Should Know About “GW’s Strategic Plan”

    By Tori Mandato You may not know this, but GW is set to undergo an extreme makeover within the next five years. At the beginning of this academic year, President LeBlanc introduced “GW’s Strategic Plan.” This is a plan of “preeminence,” designed to make GW the greatest school ever. According to LeBlanc, these four factors…

  • Life as a First Generation College Student at GW

    By Brandon Wallace, EIC News and Aryana Richardson Being an under-represented student is hard—at a predominantly white institution like GW, this is no different. Through the hardships and highlights, first-generation college students discuss their experience at GW. Pictured: Fasica Mersha Fasica Mersha’s family came from Ethiopia. She, both a first generation American and college student,…

  • Updates on The Thurston Hall Renovation: Is Thurston 2.0 Really Happening?

    By Lauren Ofman, EIC We all have our own opinions of Thurston Hall. I never lived there, but I’ve heard some pretty shocking stories about life in the biggest dorm on campus. You may know about the proposal to renovate Thurston, which according to GW Today, could be an $80 million project. Over the summer,…

  • Is 20 Tables Addressing Food Insecurity at GW?

    By: Caroline Dehn, EIC Lifestyle GW’s meal plan has been a hot topic since the removal of the Foggy Bottom dining hall, J-Street. While GWorld offers a decent selection of foods to choose from, the amount of money given does not cover the average diet of a college student. For freshman without a kitchen, the…

  • Are We Satisfied With Barstool GW Or Do We Need A New Holder?

    By: Kaleigh Werner, EIC Academics When comparing the stereotypical state school Instagram posts of drunk undergraduates wearing empty thirty pack “Natty Light” boxes on their heads in the midst of hyping up their Division I football team, to that GW boy who decided the trash can on the street would be an ideal object to…