Before D.C.-area colleges welcome back their undergraduates from summer vacation, let's give the schools a little test of our own. Campus Pride's LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index rates four-year colleges and universities around the country based on their "LGBT-Friendly policies, programs and practices." The index surveys schools on eight subject areas (click through for survey [...]
Fall From Glory: George Washington University's Corcoran Hall
Anonymous public sex ain't as public—or anonymous—as it used to be. In the past ten years, private Internet hook-ups have all but eliminated the need for old-fashioned public toe-tapping meet-ups. In the meantime, some infamous incidents have helped raise awareness about the dangers of initiating anonymous public [...]
Umm. Okay [PDF].
On Friday, the Faculty Senate of the George Washington University moved to include "gender identity and expression" to its non-discrimination policy, the Hatchet reports. G.W.'s added protection puts its policy in line with the D.C. Human Rights Act, which added those protections in 2006. The official recognition as a protected group, at the very least, [...]
George Washington University student group Trans Education and Advocacy (TEA) is spearheading the campaign to add "gender expression and identity" as a protected group in the university's non-discrimination policy. In 2006, "gender expression and identity" became a protected group under the District of Columbia's Human Rights Act, but the university's policy has since failed to [...]
Todd Belok, the George Washington University freshman who was kicked out of the university's ROTC program after two of his fellow program members reported him as gay, has receiving nothing but love from fellow students, community members, and ex-militaries since his story was published in the Hatchet earlier this month. The two fellow ROTC students [...]
My story this week, "Menace to Sorority," about a transgender man's sorority trouble, touched about a hundred nerves. You can read all the comments on the story here. Below, choice perspectives from Greek life, GLBT theory, and innocent bystanders:
bigblugemini, 2009/02/20 at 1:34 AM
I am gay male and a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. [...]
It's day two in the thinky bracket of our Manliest Workplace in D.C. tournament, where our nation's capital's think tanks take on its academics in a fight for utter non-femininity (see the full 64-workplace bracket here)! This time: Will those Libertarian scallywags over at the Cato Institute prove brawnier than the George Washington University's spoiled [...]
George Washington University student Andew Clark wrote an opinion piece in campus newspaper The Hatchet this week explaining why he voted for California's Prop 8 on Nov. 4 (full disclosure: I wrote for the Hatchet as a student). Yesterday, Travis Helwig of G.W. blog The Colonialist published a rebuttal to the piece, calling Clark's argument [...]
* Juicy Campus has hit George Washington University. How do G.W. gossips compare to Georgetown's finest? So far, Juciy Campus' G.W. page seems to have a lot more nonsense on it. That's a good thing, writes Travis of G.W. student blog The Colonialist: "I spent the weekend surfing the site a lot, putting up things [...]
