Student Life

Sitting in the cold, wind and rain, nearly 1,000 students waited outside Lisner Auditorium Monday to watch one of the final tapings of “The Colbert Report” featuring special guest, President Barack Obama. The president traveled from the White House to George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium to meet with political humorist and pundit, Stephen Colbert and […]

David Makovsky, a former advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry, spoke to students at the Marvin Center about the current situation in the Middle East on Monday evening. Makovsky specifically focused on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. His message to the students was to not give up and “hold your head high.” Makovsky […]

Around 30 GW students braved cold weather and rain to stage a “Die In” in protest of the shooting of Michael Brown and acquittal of office Darren Wilson. Dubbed #GWFerguson, students yelled chants while laying on the ground for four and a half hours to symbolize the amount of time Michael Brown’s body lay in […]