This week, the GW Hatchet delves into the exciting world of investigative journalism; one female columnist writes about her venture into the world of sorority recruitment---and was surprised to find the proceedings superficial and judgmental.

Sororities, exclusionary?  Bitchy?  What?

You learn something new every day.

First we thought "Students puking in a moving vehicle?  That's not news!"

Then we thought "Student newspaper writes an article about students puking in a moving vehicle?"  That's not news once-removed.

Alas, not for the Washington Post.  Their Education section includes an article today detailing the nuances of the Hatchet article about puking...

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Eager to prepare GW students for the wide world, each semester the Class Council schedules private lectures with succesful alumni.  We can go learn at the feet of people who've succeeded at the kinds of things people go into after graduating from GW.  Like banking.  And lobbying.  And...um...banking. 

But this Friday is the most exciting dinner

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After a spate of bike thefts on campus, UPD has advised that GW bike owners use two locks and don't leave bikes outside overnight.  Oh, and we can register them with UPD---for a fee.  Slackers. 

University of Toronto police curtailed bike theft by installing GPS on nice bikes and leaving them as bait.  Take that, bike thieves!  You got Punk'd!

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So last weekend you went wild.  It was your first weekend as a real college student, and you drank six Natty Lites that your new roommate's scruffy friend brought over in a paper bag from some market on Pennsylvania Ave that doesn't card.  You woke up wearing someone else's jeans. 

But now you're past all that.  It's time to buckle down.  This

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Get this: not only do we have a gymnastics team, but we have a smart gymnastics team.

Two GW gymnasts, Jess Guilbert and McKenzie Parrack, were recognized by a national gymnastics association as having really high GPAs.  For, you know, gymnasts. 

So is it a good thing that our athletes are smart? Or should we be worried that our athletes aren

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Our freshman survival series will just not go away! (Read Part One, Part Two.)

Last year, Heaven smiled upon GW.  After years of being forced to trek to the Dupont Circle Whole Foods to obtain edible groceries, Trader Joe's set up shop just a couple of blocks from campus.

But now the Watergate Safeway, the other grocery store in the vicinity,

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Our freshman survival series of places-to-never-go continues! (Read Part One.)

The WOW Cafe and WIngery seemed like such a fantastic idea when its opening was announced last year. Hamburgers! In J Street! Convenient and delicious, and on GWorld.  

Then it opened months behind schedule, soon fired half the student employees, and turned out to h

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So here you are, a freshman.  Your face is scrubbed, your hands are washed, and you have no idea what the **** you're doing.  Well, OTR is here to help.  There are certain places on campus one should never go, no matter what the university says, and we're here to help you identify them.

First up, it's the one place on campus that's impossible t

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Newsweek has yet again released their list of the America's 25 hottest colleges. And guess who's on it?

That's right. Not GW. 

Beating us out as "Hottest for International Studies" is the University of Richmond. What?  What??  Come on! Richmond isn't even a real place--of course they want to leave!  Maybe they're just dropping out and pretend

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