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Picks Up Colonials | Clark
Discovery Yields Evolutionary Connection |
Fountain Day at GW’s
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is First Female Space Tourist | Faculty
Focus | At A Glance
| GW in History
| A Faculty for Writing
GW In History
25 Years Ago
In the 1986 GW Student Association elections,
Morton Shapiro—whose campaign statement
read, in part, “I’m running because
I enjoy power”—was elected as School
of Engineering senator. Unbeknownst to many voters,
“Shapiro” didn’t actually exist,
reported the Hatchet. A group of students
had written the name on an election petition,
providing a fake student ID number, a fake phone
number, and a fake Georgetown address.
50 Years Ago
Then-junior Janet Marshall was the first college
student in the nation to enroll in the Air Force’s
ROTC WAF training program in 1956. GW was one
of only 10 schools to offer the program, which
led to a post-graduate commission as a second
lieutenant in the Air Force.
100 Years Ago
An October 1906 Hatchet called for
greater participation in the debate societies:
“We can not urge too strongly the necessity
for new men to connect themselves with one of
the debating societies and at once begin to acquire
the ability to speak with ease and self-possession
on their feet. It is too apparent and too old
a story to need to impress the necessity of being
able to express one’s ideas before an audience.
Everyone recognizes this and that especially for
a lawyer it is as valuable as the knowledge of
the law itself.”
The Magazine gratefully acknowledges the
assistance of University Archives in the identification
of interesting historical information. Readers
wanting to learn more about GW’s history
can find the University Archives Web site by accessing
www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives.
The site’s Historical Almanac is especially
informative.
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