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Celebrating Colonials Weekend

Lectures, plays, sports—there is something for everyone at GW’s 2009 Colonials Weekend Oct. 16-18.

The weekend kicks off at 3 p.m. Friday with myriad events, including massages, lectures and...

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Officers Excel Off the Beat in GW’s Police Science Program

By Julia Parmley

As a crime scene investigator for Prince George’s County Police Department, Paul Julius, B.A. ’05, would spend hours collecting fingerprints, locating weapons and...

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Colonials Think Pink

By Jamie L. Freedman

October is national breast cancer awareness month, and GW athletics is thinking pink.
Throughout the 2009-10 season, Colonials women’s athletic teams will unite...

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Compensation Czar Kenneth Feinberg Keynotes Law Symposium

Kenneth Feinberg has the thorny task of setting pay for 175 of the nation’s top executives—and it’s a job he’s doing pro bono. A prominent Washington, D.C., attorney, Mr. Feinberg is serving...

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Essential Advocacy

By Jamie L. Freedman

One of nine programs comprising the internationally recognized Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics at GW, the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic focuses on civil law...

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Water Polo Dives into Season

By Rachel Muir

It’s not for the faint of heart—or body.

“Water polo is one of the most physiologically challenging sports around,” says Scott Reed, coach of the GW men’s and...

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Reaching Out to Latinos

By Menachem Wecker

Growing up in New Jersey, Yasmin Yaver was used to being surrounded by a large Hispanic population. It’s a sense of community she wants to foster at GW by creating the...

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The Economics of Free

By Menachem Wecker

Although just about everything else in life could be free, a college education—and the personal interaction with professors and classmates it brings—is still worth...

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Online Exhibition Highlights Rare Hebrew Books

By Rachel Muir

A Gelman Library exhibition—on display in the library through January and online indefinitely—charts the course of printing in the territory that is now Ukraine. Through a...

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Attorney General Meets with Basketball Team

By Jaime Gacek

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder used a page from his personal playbook to encourage the GW men’s basketball team to prepare for success.

The nation’s first African...