GW staff hung a giant American flag from Lisner Hall overlooking the encampment
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- BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police Department reportedly rejected a request from GW officials to clear student protesters from the U-Yard encampment early Friday morning, The Washington Post reported Friday evening
- BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall, according to an email addressed to students in the seminar that was obtained by The Hatchet. Thomas is no longer listed as a lecturer on GW Law’s course list
- BREAKING: GW suspended Students for Justice in Palestine at GWU from organizing or participating in campus events for at least 90 days after four of its members projected anti-Israel and anti-GW messages onto the side of Gelman Library last month
- BREAKING: The Board of Trustees votes to retire the Colonials moniker in the 2023-24 academic year, following years of pressure from student activism
- BREAKING: Sen. Elizabeth Warren will deliver the keynote address at the in-person Commencement ceremony for the classes of 2020 and 2021 this October
- Images from F Street:
Protesters have pitched nine tents on F Street outside of GW administrative offices. Thurston Hall is in emergency mode and more than a hundred police have blocked off the street. Live updates here: gwhatchet.com/2024/05/09/in-… - BREAKING: Officials will announce Friday that GW will participate in U-Pass, providing students with access to unlimited Metro rides after a years-long push from student leaders gwhatchet.com/2021/11/05/gw-…
- BREAKING: University President Thomas LeBlanc will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, he announces in an email to the GW community
- BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on the Metropolitan Police Department’s reported refusal to clear the GW encampment. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, MPD Chief Pamela Smith invited to testify. Story to come
- BREAKING: Officials announce that all students, faculty and staff coming to campus this fall must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning
- Replying to @gwhatchetA GW spokesperson confirmed that University officials directed staff to hang the flag. Read live updates here:
- BREAKING: Officials announced that MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki will deliver this month’s Commencement address. Story to come
- BREAKING: A GW Alert states a dangerous individual escaped from GW Hospital. A large police response has been reported on campus, including a helicopter flying above Foggy Bottom and K9 officers
