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Serving the GW Community since 1904

The GW Hatchet

Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor

Fiona Bork is a junior majoring in journalism and mass communication from San Diego, California. She is The Hatchet’s 2024-2025 development assistant and previously served as the assistant news editor for the Student Life beat.

All content by Fiona Bork
Left: The GW College Republicans march toward the White House after Donald Trump's victory in Pennsylvania. Right: GW Democrats Programming Director Emily-Anne Santiago displays her bracelets supporting Kamala Harris.

Students weigh future of democracy, economy in Trump’s second term

By Rory Quealy and Fiona Bork
November 11, 2024
From left to right, Foggy Bottom Advisory Neighborhood Commission hopefuls Yang May, Ed Comer, Trupti Patel and Jim Malec.

Four candidates run unopposed for ANC, leaving seats vacant as veterans depart body

By Quinn Giordano and Fiona Bork
November 4, 2024
A person walks past The Aston on New Hampshire Avenue.

The Aston is ‘precedent’ in combating DC’s unhoused crisis: local advocates

By Ella Mitchell and Fiona Bork
October 7, 2024
Faculty senators listen to Provost Chris Bracey during a senate meeting in March.

Faculty senators press officials on funding, staffing concerns

By Hannah Marr and Fiona Bork
September 16, 2024
Students board the Mount Vernon Campus Express from the Tompkins Hall stop.

Officials collect Vex feedback amid reports of unreliable shuttle times

By Fiona Bork, Senior Staff Writer
September 16, 2024
A pedestrian walks by GW Hospital.

Labor board rules GW Hospital violated labor laws, reversing previously vacated ruling

By Fiona Bork, Senior Staff Writer
May 20, 2024
The Statesman Apartments on F Street.

Foggy Bottom apartment landlords named in ongoing antitrust lawsuit

By Fiona Bork and Rory Quealy
May 20, 2024
Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) host a press conference with demonstrators on Capitol Hill after police's clearing of University Yard.

House Democrats rebuke GOP pressure to clear GW’s encampment

By Sejal Govindarao, Rory Quealy and Fiona Bork
May 13, 2024
Fraternity townhouses line 22nd Street.

Fraternities to petition for charters; express hope amid recruitment drop

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
April 22, 2024
Presidential candidate and Student Government Association Sen. Dan Saleem.

President: Dan Saleem

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
April 8, 2024
Friends, professors remember junior, aspiring immigration attorney who died at 21

Friends, professors remember junior, aspiring immigration attorney who died at 21

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
April 1, 2024
Students participate in the DSA Dinner and Dialogue Series by filling out a worksheet reflecting on harms they’ve experienced and caused

As campus tensions continue, some look for common ground

By Fiona Bork and Jennifer Igbonoba
March 7, 2024
Townhouses line F Street on Fraternity Row.

Fraternity spring recruitment drops by a quarter

By Fiona Bork and Quinn Giordano
February 26, 2024
A sign welcomes students to the GW Multicultural Student Services Center's fifth-floor lounge.

Community members worry over MSSC staffing, funding after Pickett departure

By Fiona Bork, Jennifer Igbonoba and Ianne Salvosa
February 5, 2024
Multicultural Student Services Center Director Dustin Pickett.

Pickett resigns as MSSC director after one year in role

By Fiona Bork and Jennifer Igbonoba
February 1, 2024
From left to right, Dean of Students Colette Coleman, Dwayne Kwaysee Wright, the GSEHD director for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and Christy Anthony, the director of Students Rights and Responsibilities, during Thursday's discussion.

Empty chairs, tight-lipped officials define launch of free speech discussion series following campus discord

By Fiona Bork and Jenna Lee
January 29, 2024
Glenda Baskin Glover joins hands with Vice President Kamala Harris at the TSU Commencement Ceremony in 2022.

GW alum, university president named Tennessee person of the year

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
January 29, 2024
The Disability Support Services office in Rome Hall.

Disability advocacy groups partner to bring greater accessibility to GW

By Emma Khodaverdian and Fiona Bork
January 16, 2024
Officials to prohibit student events in U-Yard, Kogan Plaza through end of semester

Officials to prohibit student events in U-Yard, Kogan Plaza through end of semester

By Fiona Bork and Hannah Marr
December 8, 2023
GW alum Kellie Nalbandian perches against a tree on the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.

GW alum competing on ‘Survivor’ booted in blindside vote

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
December 4, 2023
In Kogan Plaza, individuals set up empty chairs with signs depicting the hundreds of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.

Students share memories of Israeli hostages with empty chair demonstration in Kogan Plaza

By Cade McAllister and Fiona Bork
November 13, 2023
A dim City View room overlooks the landscape of the National Mall.

Student organizations struggle to rent on-campus event venues, meeting spaces

By Fiona Bork and Nicola DeGregorio
November 13, 2023
Hundreds of students walked out of their classes Thursday to protest GW for its role in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Students gather at library steps for pro-Palestinian sit-in, march on State Department

By Fiona Bork and Fiona Riley
November 10, 2023
Colette Coleman, the associate dean of students, pictured in 2019.

Officials respond to a student group’s demands to provide abortion pills in the SHC

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
October 30, 2023
Multicultural Student Services Center Director Dustin Pickett.

MSSC expands presence, reach during director’s first year

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Fiona Bork
October 30, 2023
Interfraternity Council townhouses line 22nd Street.

IFC fall recruitment doubles after plummeting last year

By Fiona Bork and Lizzie Jensen
October 30, 2023
The candelight vigil in Kogan Plaza Monday.

Community members gather for candlelit vigil, mourn those killed in Israel

By Fiona Bork and Max Porter
October 11, 2023
Demonstrators wave flags during the two rallies Sunday.

Students, demonstrators reckon with violence and history as Israel, Hamas plunge into war

By Fiona Bork, Rory Quealy and Jennifer Igbonoba
October 9, 2023
ORCA paraphernalia scatters a table.

Rebranded climate group demands officials cut ties with fossil fuel industry

By Fiona Bork and Molly St. Clair
October 9, 2023
Students peruse self-care resources like condoms and blood alcohol concentration cards during the Camp Wellbeing tabling last week.

Officials launch Camp Wellbeing to combat midterm stress, promote harm reduction

By Fiona Bork and Rory Quealy
October 2, 2023
Democrat Joe Vogel, a 2018 graduate and a Maryland General Assembly delegate representing Gaithersburg and Rockville, would be running for Maryland's 6th District in the House of Representatives.

GW alum hopes to usher in new generation of leaders to US House

By Cade McAllister and Fiona Bork
September 25, 2023
Students toed soccer balls across the bricks of Kogan Plaza last week during the Organization of Latin American Student's kick-off for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Student organizations celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

By Fiona Bork and Lizzie Jensen
September 25, 2023
About 800 of the 2,500 first-year and new transfer students attended the annual ceremony.

Officials welcome Class of 2027 at sparsely attended Convocation

By Cade McAllister and Fiona Bork
September 25, 2023
Students lounge in the Mitchell Hall lobby.

CLRE student workers to focus on community engagement, tackle conflicts

By Brooke Forgette and Fiona Bork
September 18, 2023
The petition states that GW has a responsibility to offer abortion pills because D.C. is one of the few remaining places where people can receive abortions near the southern United States in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision.

Petition calling for on-campus abortion pills hits 600 signatures: student group

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
September 18, 2023
The temporary tribute on the south side of Lisner Auditorium featured nine flags dedicated to the nine GW alumni who died during the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Community members gather to remember 9/11 attacks, 22 years later

By Fiona Bork and Jennifer Igbonoba
September 14, 2023
The GW Hawai’i Club sold butter mochi and musubi, a traditional Hawaiian snack made of rice and spam, for community members Tuesday to raise funds for victims of last month’s wildfires in Maui.

Hawaiian student organization fundraises to support Maui wildfire survivors

By Fiona Bork, Assistant News Editor
September 14, 2023
Officials announced in May that Revolutionaries would replace the Colonials moniker and unveiled the new logo as students returned to campus this semester.

‘Revolutionaries’ mixed bag among community

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Fiona Bork
August 28, 2023
Over the past three weeks, the flames in Maui scorched more than 2,000 acres of land and left at least 115 people dead, with hundreds still missing.

Students mourn after Maui wildfires, search for ways to support family, friends

By Fiona Bork and Jennifer Igbonoba
August 28, 2023
Administrators launched a new alumni association Wednesday to strengthen ties between the University and its graduates.

Alumni Association to add 11 new members to executive committee

By Fiona Bork
July 21, 2023
Two researchers won $25,000 to innovate ways to reduce the environmental impact of the solar farms that provides more than half of GW's electricity.

GW and Northwestern researchers develop dissolvable heart monitor

By Fiona Bork
July 13, 2023
Without further stimulus from the federal government, the planned cuts may enter effect in 2022, WMATA officials said.

Metro eliminates peak fares, increases service on Orange, Blue, Silver lines

By Fiona Bork
June 30, 2023
Metropolitan Police Department officials released data showing racial disparities among individuals stopped without a ticket.

D.C. reaches 100th homicide of year at earliest date in two decades

By Fiona Bork
June 15, 2023
Executive board members said they plan to use the resources provided through the new partnership to host more University-wide gaming events.

GWU Esports partners with largest global esports organization

By Brooke Forgette and Fiona Bork
May 22, 2023
Maddie Billet, center, decided to evolve the "gimmick" GW Birds Instagram account into a full-fledged student organization this semester after its creation nearly two years ago.

GW Birds spreads its wings from Instagram account to student organization

By Fiona Bork
May 22, 2023
A Title IX complaint was filed against GW in February but made public on the education department website last week.

Office for Civil Rights to investigate GW for alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Fiona Bork
May 12, 2023
Officials said GW student organizations with new members must comply with the law because of GW’s certification to offer degrees in Virginia through the University’s Ashburn campus.

GW implements enhanced anti-hazing training in compliance with Virginia law

By Fiona Bork
May 1, 2023
About 30 people, including Alpha Epsilon Pi’s leaders and other Jewish community members gathered in Kogan Plaza Tuesday evening for a silent march across campus.

GW chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi hosts a silent walk around campus to honor Yom HaShoah

By Fiona Bork
April 24, 2023
Last Monday, more than 150 students marched from Kogan Plaza to F Street House, interim University President Mark Wrighton's on-campus residence, to protest the decision.

Student opposition mounts against Board’s decision to arm GWPD officers

By Erika Filter and Fiona Bork
April 24, 2023
The GroW Garden brought one of the largest student attractions to the event – a mini petting zoo with at least eight sheep, including two lambs.

Eco Baa-sh: Students, local organizations, farm animals partner to launch zero-waste Earth Day event

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Fiona Bork
April 24, 2023
Protesters chanted “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “We keep us safe” as they pounded drums and hoisted signs with messages reading “Guns off my campus” and “Disarm GWPD” during their hourlong protest.

Students demand GW reverse plans to arm GWPD during march to F Street House

By Jennifer Igbonoba, Max Porter and Fiona Bork
April 17, 2023
John Vlach's loved ones and colleagues said he revolutionized the American studies department after he first came to GW in 1981 through his introduction of folklore studies.

American studies professor, celebrated folklorist dies at 74

By Fiona Bork
March 27, 2023
A train pulls into the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station.

Metro to increase service for cherry blossom season

By Fiona Bork
March 20, 2023
Officials discuss diversity climate survey findings in community forums

Officials discuss diversity climate survey findings in community forums

By Rachel Moon and Fiona Bork
March 9, 2023
Shuai said he hopes developing countries will use the disinfectant for purification purposes where there is limited access to clean water.

SEAS professor creates disinfectant two to four times more likely to kill coronavirus strains

By Fiona Bork and Rory Quealy
March 6, 2023
Stephanie Tulowetzke, the manager of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association’s Vision Zero Coalition, said the D.C. Council made "great progress” in reducing traffic fatalities last year, voting to ban right turns on red lights.

D.C. traffic fatalities drop in 2022 after spike in prior year: MPD data

By Fiona Bork and Nathan Varnell
February 27, 2023
Adjunct faculty members said while the increased salary and benefits guaranteed in the new CBA are “notable,” their salary is still not enough in terms of the qualifications adjuncts bring to GW.

Union deal increases pay, benefits for adjunct professors after prolonged negotiations

By Caitlin Kitson and Fiona Bork
January 30, 2023
GW earned an A1 rating in 2020, which officials said signaled “financial strength and sustainability” amid the financial woes of the pandemic.

Moody’s reaffirms GW’s A1 rating, indicating stable financial outlook

By Ianne Salvosa and Fiona Bork
December 6, 2022
Published in early October, GW’s presidential profile states the University’s goal to become the first AAU member in the District will “likely take years to achieve.”

GW must boost research and academic profile to join AAU, experts say

By Kellen Hoard and Fiona Bork
October 31, 2022
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