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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Club Schenley Looks to Change Tune on School Spirit
On an early spring day in Washington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” emanated from a set of cheap Logitech speakers placed strategically along a set of third floor window screens.
“You are now listening to Club Schenley,” an automated female voice announced after the song ended. “We are taking song requests through Twitter and we’ll be back with more music.”
The George Washington University’s Schenley Hall, located at 2121 H St. N.W., lies directly in the heart of the school’s urban campus. Two weeks ago, sophomores Pranav Sethuraman, Saager Enjeti and Peter Finn transformed their third floor dorm room into a disc jockey’s booth so they could share their sounds with the people around them.
The trio’s room is now known as “Club Schenley,” and different styles of music radiate from the third floor window screens weekdays between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
“We love playing our music, especially during nice days when there are people outside,” Enjeti said. “(Along H Street) You have the food trucks, Kogan Plaza, and a lot of foot traffic, which means we get more listeners.”
The group behind Club Schenley even created Twitter and Facebook pages where listeners can request songs, post comments, and interact with the DJs behind the eclectic sounds. Collectively, the sites have amassed over 100 followers. But the group never thought Club Schenley would be such a sensation.
“Originally, we wanted to play a raunchy song just once, just so we could see the reactions of
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Debating the Issues: Ann Coulter v. Lawrence O' Donnell
On Sunday night in Lisner Auditorium, conservative pundit Ann Coulter faced off against liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell in a debate.
O'Donnell focused more on Rush saying that, "It is about contraception for Rush Limbaugh. That’s all he’s talking about. And Rush Limbaugh has decided a college student or in the case he was talking about a law school student — if that law school student wants and uses contraception and advocates for others, she is a prostitute. She is a slut. That is what the Limbaugh position is.”
Even before either Coulter or O' Donnell took the stage, the people who were introducing them were jockeying for position such as mentioning that Coulter is "the New York Times bestselling author of eight different books" and that " O'Donnell is "donating his speaking fee to an organization that helps provide school desks for children in Guatemala."
The first hot button issue that was brought up was the current controversy surround Rush Limbaugh's criticism of Sandra Fluke in which he called her a slut and a prostitute. The moderator, Frank Sesno, couldn't even finish his sentence before being drowned out by the booing audience. The debate opening focused more on contraceptives than the controversy.
When asked for her opinion on the matter Coulter said "What I don't like about this and also what has annoyed me about a lot of the republican responses about the HHS mandate is that it is completely missing the point by making it a debate about contraception, which by the way why they really come to life when your talking about it. And about religious freedom, which isn't the issue here." She went on to say that it is not insurance.
“Insurance is to cover unexpected emergencies — fires, car crashes and dreaded diseases,” Coulter continued. “If we’re covering something that costs between $10 and at most $30 a month, well then what can’t be ruled on by the HHS secretary? This is them taking our freedom away — the government taking our freedom away. I think the next mandate if Obama is reelected is going to be that you will have to pay a higher insurance premium if you own a gun in your home.”
O' Donnell responded that "I wish that the government was not to require any insurance companies to do anything in the health care field area because I wish that the government would bypass the insurance companies completely."
When Coulter was further questioned about the Limbaugh controversy, she state that, “this red-herring, when liberals all get ginned up about some talk radio host who is very popular, I don’t know why Republicans, particularly elected Republicans are responding at all.” She further elaborated by questioning why other prominent individuals don't have to answer for their verbal gaffes.“Why doesn’t Obama have to respond to the things that his million-dollar donor Bill Maher has said, calling Sarah Palin the ‘c-word,’ for example. Why doesn’t my friend Lawrence have to respond his MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a slut? Or Rachel Maddow accusing the good people of Kentucky of murders of the census worker?”
O' Donnell truly won an advantage over Coulter when he brought up a quote from 2003 in which Coulter says "It’s true. It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in 64 –would have won, if only the men had voted." She was asked this by the British newspaper, The Guardian.
The fact that this followed Coulter mentioning that people shouldn't be able to vote until they can afford health insurance- at age 26- didn't go over that well with the audience-mostly college students under 26. She effectively said that the majority of people listening should not be able to vote in the next presidential election. These statements elicited the loudest boos of the night and many members of the audience seem genuinely stunned at her comments.
Ann Coulter and Lawrence O' Donnell put on quite the show for GW students and shortly after wrapped up the debate. Mr. O' Donnell took some time to answer some question posed by WRGW's own New Director, Joey Rabinowitz. The interview can be found on our blog. And both Coulter and O' Donnell took some time to meet with students from the College Democrats and Republicans afterwords and answer questions and pose for pictures.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Gelman Library on Lockdown After Threat of Gunman
Gelman Library was on lock down tonight after the U.S. Secret Service alerted the university of a gunman threat. Dorm hall officials are asking residents to stay indoors and to avoid congregating on H Street to watch police activity.
The University blasted the first GW safety alert via email at around 9:30 p.m. and warned students of a "white male with a handgun, balding, possibly wearing eye glasses, wearing a gray fleece sweater, headed towards campus from the White House." A second safety alert sent at 10:18 p.m. advised students to keep an eye out for suspicious activity.
Police and Secret Service agents then entered Gelman Library at 2130 H St. NW around 10:50 p.m. armed with assault rifles. According to witnesses at the scene, police canvassed the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors of the library extensively. No student was allowed to enter nor leave the building during this time.
After a search of the entire library, officials were not able to find the gunman. Gelman Library was then reopened at around 11:30 p.m.
Students are advised to remain indoors and keep an eye out for any suspicious activity on campus. Anyone who believes they have seen the gunman should contact 911 or the University Police Department at 202-994-6111 immediately.
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
The University blasted the first GW safety alert via email at around 9:30 p.m. and warned students of a "white male with a handgun, balding, possibly wearing eye glasses, wearing a gray fleece sweater, headed towards campus from the White House." A second safety alert sent at 10:18 p.m. advised students to keep an eye out for suspicious activity.
Police and Secret Service agents then entered Gelman Library at 2130 H St. NW around 10:50 p.m. armed with assault rifles. According to witnesses at the scene, police canvassed the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors of the library extensively. No student was allowed to enter nor leave the building during this time.
After a search of the entire library, officials were not able to find the gunman. Gelman Library was then reopened at around 11:30 p.m.
Students are advised to remain indoors and keep an eye out for any suspicious activity on campus. Anyone who believes they have seen the gunman should contact 911 or the University Police Department at 202-994-6111 immediately.
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Narla Wins Presidential Election in Run Off
For the second consecutive year the race for Student Association President came down to a runoff between two candidates.The cheering sections for candidates John Bennett and Ashwin Narla enthusiastically chanted their candidates' name back-and-forth at each other across Funger Hall lecture room 103 minutes before the results were announced.
After 45 minutes of waiting, Joint Elections Committee Chair Phil Gardner announced the results. Ashwin Narla will be the next and 37th Student Association President at The George Washington University.
Narla won the race 53 percent to SA Finance Chair Bennett's 47 percent in a runoff election that broke a University record for voter participation with 4,385 students voting. The election took place online between Wednesday at 9 a.m. to Thursday at 9 p.m.
Narla appeared stunned and a little emotional as supporters rallied around him, hugged him, and chanted his name as soon as the results were announced.
"I'm just really overwhelmed. It feels great," Narla told WRGW. "I had great grassroots support. If I didn't have friends I wouldn't be here," he said.
John Bennett appeared disappointed but gracious in the aftermath of the results. Narla and him walked towards each other following the announcement and met at the center of the room shaking hands and trading a few words before returning to their supporters. Bennet told WRGW in a live interview following the results how much he appreciated all of his supporters.
"I just feel lousy that I wasn't able to follow-through for them," Bennett commented. "I kind of feel guilty I don't have something a little more concrete to share with them," he said.
Narla will be succeeding junior John Richardson as SA President. Richardson was elected to be a governor on the Marvin Center Governing Board in last week's regularly scheduled elections. Narla will also be the third consecutive SA President from the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He follows in the footsteps of Jason Lifton last year and Richardson this year.
Narla won a race that originally had five candidates. In last weeks regularly scheduled race, Narla received 34% of the vote compared to Bennett's 36%. However, in order to avoid the runoff one of the candidates needed to receive at least 40% of the vote.
Narla will immediately begin meeting with administrators in the days and weeks ahead along with Executive Vice President-Elect Abby Bergren who won last week. They said they're ready to get started on student issues ranging from student space to campus safety.
"I'm not going to be resting too much because there is still a lot of work to be done," Narla said.
After 45 minutes of waiting, Joint Elections Committee Chair Phil Gardner announced the results. Ashwin Narla will be the next and 37th Student Association President at The George Washington University.
Narla won the race 53 percent to SA Finance Chair Bennett's 47 percent in a runoff election that broke a University record for voter participation with 4,385 students voting. The election took place online between Wednesday at 9 a.m. to Thursday at 9 p.m.
Narla appeared stunned and a little emotional as supporters rallied around him, hugged him, and chanted his name as soon as the results were announced.
"I'm just really overwhelmed. It feels great," Narla told WRGW. "I had great grassroots support. If I didn't have friends I wouldn't be here," he said.
John Bennett appeared disappointed but gracious in the aftermath of the results. Narla and him walked towards each other following the announcement and met at the center of the room shaking hands and trading a few words before returning to their supporters. Bennet told WRGW in a live interview following the results how much he appreciated all of his supporters.
"I just feel lousy that I wasn't able to follow-through for them," Bennett commented. "I kind of feel guilty I don't have something a little more concrete to share with them," he said.
Narla will be succeeding junior John Richardson as SA President. Richardson was elected to be a governor on the Marvin Center Governing Board in last week's regularly scheduled elections. Narla will also be the third consecutive SA President from the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He follows in the footsteps of Jason Lifton last year and Richardson this year.
Narla won a race that originally had five candidates. In last weeks regularly scheduled race, Narla received 34% of the vote compared to Bennett's 36%. However, in order to avoid the runoff one of the candidates needed to receive at least 40% of the vote.
Narla will immediately begin meeting with administrators in the days and weeks ahead along with Executive Vice President-Elect Abby Bergren who won last week. They said they're ready to get started on student issues ranging from student space to campus safety.
"I'm not going to be resting too much because there is still a lot of work to be done," Narla said.
Friday, March 2, 2012
SA Runoff Election Interviews
Ashwin Narla Interview
John Bennett Interview
Audio of the Announcement of the Presidential Winner and Reaction from the Crowd
Interview with Markus Batchelor
John Bennett Interview
Audio of the Announcement of the Presidential Winner and Reaction from the Crowd
Interview with Markus Batchelor
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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