"All of us are for peace. But belligerent and inappropriate action is neither educational or effective," said University President Cloyd Heck Marvin in The Hatchet on January 4, 1938. He was referring to the previous year¹s attempted peace strike by the GW student body.

After six-year absence, student government returns in '76

On April 8, 1976, 85 percent of the student body voted for the establishment of the new Student Association. Six years before, student government had been abolished by Student Council President Neil Portnow, advocating the establishment of an All-University Assembly including faculty, students and administrators. Portnow¹s plan won student approval, but faculty members nixed the idea.

So reads the beginning of the Foggy Bottom column in the Sept. 30, 1958, Hatchet, written by the infamous Auntie Hester Heale.

Students rally against apartheid

The anti-apartheid movement was a major cause for GW activists in the 1980s. As the students immortalized their ideals in a rectangle of freshly poured cement that today rests in Kogan Plaza, thousands of miles away Nelson Mandela was still imprisoned, and a brutal police state struggled to survive.