BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police Department reportedly rejected a request from GW officials to clear student protesters from the U-Yard encampment early Friday morning, The Washington Post reported Friday evening
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall, according to an email addressed to students in the seminar that was obtained by The Hatchet. Thomas is no longer listed as a lecturer on GW Law’s course list
BREAKING: GW suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU from organizing or participating in campus events for at least 90 days after four of its members projected anti-Israel and anti-GW messages onto the side of Gelman Library last month
Protesters have pitched nine tents on F Street outside of GW administrative offices. Thurston Hall is in emergency mode and more than a hundred police have blocked off the street. Live updates here:
BREAKING: Officials will announce Friday that GW will participate in U-Pass, providing students with access to unlimited Metro rides after a years-long push from student leaders
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on the Metropolitan Police Department’s reported refusal to clear the GW encampment. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, MPD Chief Pamela Smith invited to testify. Story to come
BREAKING: Officials announce that all students, faculty and staff coming to campus this fall must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning
BREAKING: Officials announced that MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki will deliver this month’s Commencement address. Story to come
BREAKING: Officials suspended an unnamed student accused of tearing down posters of Israeli hostages in the GW Hillel building Friday, according to a statement from a GW spokesperson. Officials have removed the student from campus pending completion of the student conduct process
BREAKING: A GW Alert states a dangerous individual escaped from GW Hospital. A large police response has been reported on campus, including a helicopter flying above Foggy Bottom and K9 officers
BREAKING: Board of Trustees votes to rename Marvin Center as "University Student Center" after decades of protests over Cloyd Heck Marvin’s racist and antisemitic legacy
After weeks of student protests demanding GW divests from companies with ties to Israel, Dean of Students Colette Coleman said on Friday that the University is not considering changes to its "endowment investment strategy" or academic partnerships
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Despite the use of pepper spray, clashes between protesters and police and more than 30 arrests, GW released a statement Wednesday saying local police conducted an “orderly and safe” operation to clear the U-Yard encampment early Wednesday
Protesters have pitched nine tents on F Street outside of GW administrative offices. Thurston Hall is in emergency mode and more than a hundred police have blocked off the street. Live updates here:
Minutes after Joe Biden was projected the 46th president of the United States, thousands took to the streets in D.C. in celebration
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BREAKING: The Student Association’s executive cabinet voted to remove SA President Christian Zidouemba from office and appoint Vice President Yan Xu, according to a letter Xu sent to SA leaders Friday.
More than 50 pro-Palestinian students pitched tents in University Yard beginning at about 5 a.m. Thursday, joining a movement of encampments at more than a dozen universities nationwide
BREAKING: The Board of Trustees Task Force of Environmental, Social and Governance Responsibility recommends divesting GW’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry by 2025, according to an email sent to the GW community this afternoon
BREAKING: The University will continue online instruction this spring in light of ongoing pandemic concerns, officials announced at a Faculty Senate meeting
NEW: Brandon Hill, the SA executive vice president, was sworn in as the organization's president this evening, about one hour after Howard Brookins stepped down from the role
The decision leaves Howard University as the last higher education institution in D.C. with an enrollment greater than 10,000 that still plans to bring students to campus, according to its Fall 2020 reopening plan
BREAKING: AU announced that it will go fully online for the fall semester, cancel on-campus housing and discount tuition by 10 percent. AU will provide emergency housing. Story to follow.
BREAKING: The history department is looking to continue Jessica Krug's fall classes without her as the instructor, according to an email sent to students in her classes. Krug began teaching Latin American and African history this week. Story to come
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BREAKING: Students living in Townhouse Row are being temporarily moved to hotels after officials evacuated the spaces Sunday evening after reported “environmental concerns,” telling students their relocation will likely last at least 2-3 weeks
Officials made the announcement following a student petition that has garnered more than 900 signatures calling on the University to cancel classes on Nov. 3
BREAKING: Fall classes at GW will be held entirely online with "limited exceptions," and students living off campus will receive a 10 percent discount on tuition
Among the Republicans who will visit, per a media advisory: Reps. Lauren Boebert, Anna Paulina Luna, Byron Donalds and Eric Burlison. The release says they’ll meet with GW leadership and tour U-Yard at 3 p.m.
Dr. Anthony Fauci will receive the President’s Medal – the highest honor that can be bestowed by GW’s president – alongside Dr. Cindy Liu and professor Andrew Maurano, who have helped combat the COVID-19 pandemic at GW and in D.C.
PHOTO: Students protested the Board of Trustees' recent decision to arm some GW Police Department officers throughout the Commencement ceremony Sunday. Photos by
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Senate unanimously approves resolution calling for the removal of GW's Alpha Phi chapter and the implementation of sweeping new diversity measures. Story to follow.
Heather Swain, who was announced as GW’s new vice president for communications and marketing earlier this week, will withdraw her offer following criticism for her role in a sexual assault case while she worked at Michigan State University
Officials are set to install a contraceptive pill vending machine in the University Student Center this week in an effort to support students’ access to reproductive health resources following SA push
BREAKING: The three remaining
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GW will make a decision on in-person fall classes by June 15, with the possibility of extending that deadline by a week as we near that date, University President Thomas LeBlanc said at a faculty meeting today. Rest of coverage of Faculty Senate to follow
BREAKING: A GW Alert states a dangerous individual escaped from GW Hospital. A large police response has been reported on campus, including a helicopter flying above Foggy Bottom and K9 officers
Breaking: Federal government rescinds DHS and ICE rules that would have prevented international students from staying in the United States if they take only online classes this fall
BREAKING: The Joint Elections Commission found incumbent SA President Christian Zidouemba guilty of violating an election rule prohibiting the impersonation of other candidates while campaigning, disqualifying him from next week’s election
Thomas is “unavailable” to teach the course this fall, the email from co-lecturer Gregory Maggs states. The withdrawal comes a month after officials declined to remove him from his role as a lecturer after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade
A 10 p.m. alert confirms that MPD has left campus and the suspect is not believed to be in Foggy Bottom. All in-person classes and events will resume Thursday, GWPD will increase campus patrols and University buildings will be accessible only with a GWorld card, per the alert
Former GW Law adjunct professor Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Supreme Court.
Upon joining the court, she will become the third sitting justice to have taught at GW Law
NEW: Police arrested murder suspect Christopher Patrick Haynes on Thursday, according to a Washington Post report. Haynes’ escape from police custody at GW Hospital last month plunged the Foggy Bottom Campus into a four-hour shelter-in-place order
The Black Student Union has raised more than $9,000 in three days to support three organizations working to cover arrested protestors’ bail and legal fees
Brookins is an SA senator who ran on a platform to improve the financial aid office and curb food insecurity. He will be the first black
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NEW: The suspect was arrested earlier today and charged with homicide, per an MPD release. The Foggy Bottom Campus remains under a shelter-in-place order after he escaped from police custody at GW Hospital at about 3:30 p.m.
Student Coalition for Palestine members are protesting U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. They hung a giant Palestinian flag from the roof of 1959 E St., next to where she's speaking Thursday. The flag was removed after about five minutes.
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NEW:
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senator Thomas Falcigno, CPS-G, announces plans to begin impeachment proceedings for SA President Howard Brookins, who has been called on to step down in recent days amid claims of sexual misconduct (1/2)
Clips from a pair of recordings appear to show University President Ellen Granberg saying she wished she could expel students who engaged in certain types of pro-Palestinian speech, clips a GW spokesperson said distorted Granberg’s message
University President Ellen Granberg said on Sunday that GW is unequipped to manage the pro-Palestinian encampment in University Yard, calling on GW’s partners for their “full support”
People fled to the National Mall today to celebrate the heaviest snowfall in two years. Some joined a snowball fight, while others teamed up to build a snowman
BREAKING: The SA’s former chief of staff is suing President Christian Zidouemba in Student Court, contesting the legitimacy of his presidency after the executive cabinet voted to remove him in July. (1/2)
BREAKING: Officials say in an email to the GW community that the University will continue with mostly virtual operations this summer but will initiate "phased reopening" in lead-up to fall
A total of 219 faculty members across 11 of GW’s schools and colleges signed a letter urging the Board of Trustees to reverse its decision to arm roughly 20 of the GW Police Department’s 50 officers this fall
Officials announced Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will continue teaching his constitutional law seminar after thousands called for his firing after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade
BREAKING: GW to reimpose its indoor mask mandate effective Saturday, following the District's own announcement of a citywide mask mandate taking effect the same day
The University announced in an email Thursday that a free weekly shuttle between the Foggy Bottom campus and Safeway begins operations on Saturday and will operate each Saturday throughout the spring semester
NEW: Social justice advocate, attorney and author Bryan Stevenson to deliver 2023 Commencement Address, according to a GW release. Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit working to end mass incarceration