Posts Tagged ‘ SJT ’

We’re now two years into the University Presidency of Steven Knapp. His predecessor, the larger-than-life SJT, was a transformational president with a firm goal: transform GW from a two-bit commuter school into a real, respected 4 year university. SJT was by no means a uncontroversial figure, but it is hard to argue that GW...
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I have none. Or, well, I have only a couple. My first thought is “why should I care about this?” The Class of 2007 had a decent reason to be angry about their commencement speaker: giving SJT the top spot was a bit like trying to sell someone back their own bowel movement. (Did...
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Last week my summer roommate, a graduated senior, told me that there was talk that if John Kerry would have won in 2004 that there was a good chance that then GW President (now President Emeritus) Stephen Joel Trachtenberg would have been tapped to be Secretary of Education. This comes from Trachtenberg being considered...
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In a decision that smacks of tolerance and all that fun stuff, GW announced today that NAACP chairman Julian Bond will be the keynote speaker at this year’s commencement.Bond has, despite the NAACP’s “non-partisan” status, frequently gone out of his way to attack President Bush and the Republican party, statements that have called into...
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…. the vast of majority of the GW enrollment seems to think so, as an apparent “WTF?” issued throughout campus as SJT was announced as the commencement. There are already at least five facebook groups protesting the decision..one with 355 members. The Hatchet Editorial Board sure wasn’t pleased, calling the incident a “failure“. The...
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As one of my friends said: “Umm…is it too late to transfer?” This is really funny, err pathetic depending on how you look at it. I actually thought about writing an April Fool’s Day article about this topic. Too bad I didn’t because it turns out that Trachtenberg is actually going to be the...
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