Manifest Destiny
Hello Everyone,
You may have noticed that our posts have been a bit sparse this summer. There are two reasons for that:
- It was the summer. GW doesn’t exist in the summer, the portal is closed, tri-folded and returned to the second side drawer of a desk in the Student Affairs office over on The Vern.
- We’ve been hard at work on completely unrelated shit.
- We’ve been hard at work on completely related shit…like, shit for y’all readers.
The Colonialist is about to get HUGE, like Dikembe Mutombo huge.* We’ve got a lot of new, exciting, shiny ideas that’ll expand, enlarge, and increase our GUH: Gross University Happiness. The GWU’s GUH will exponentialize daily.
You might’ve already noticed our new website design. It works better for what we’re about to be doing, is all. Now on to the good stuff…the stuff we’re initiating…now.
COLONIES
In addition to regularly posting new content, we will introduce two new sub-blogs, or Colonies. Colonies allow students to have their own sub-blog within The Colonialist, thus allowing more folk with more interests to connect to more folk with similar interests. We will be coming out with an application process soon so that anyone can apply for his/her own colony, but we wanted to give you a taste before you ordered, like at Baskin Robbins.
Sports!
“Sports!” is a Sports Colony, written by Jonathan Foox. Foox will be commenting on and discussing professional sports, sports here at The GWU, non-sports, and fathers who call their sons “sport.” It will be insightful, interesting, and funny. To learn more about Foox, Facebook stalk him.
State of the Uni
“State of the Uni” is the Presidential Colony, written by our current SA President, Vishal Aswani. State of the Uni will be a pretty awesome way for Vishal and y’all to connect with one another, to figure out what is going on with the SA and the community as a whole. Neither Vishal nor we have any interest in making State of the Uni some lame ass press release feed or whatever else you’re thinking. He will be able to ask the student body what problems they have and the comments section will allow for immediate S to SA President communication (the S is for “student”). It’s going to be great, you’ll like it. Things like this don’t happen.
EVENTS IN DC!
We’re in the process of planning a series of events in and around DC that will be fun for peoples to do (we’ll be there!). They’ll be comprised of: food, entertainment, and booze. Since we said booze, the caveat is most of these events will be 21+. We would love to know what kinds of experiences you would be interested in! Please comment on this article and tell us what you’d like to do and/or see!
THE COLONIALIST BOOK EXCHANGE
We’re nearly finished setting up an online textbook exchange, so people can swap textbooks and meet on campus, instead of waiting on line at the bookstore or queuing up at package services or taking the metro to Arlington to get that book you found on Craigslist. You can use this to exchange books leftover from classes you hated, to enlighten folk with great books from classes you loved, or to buy/sell/trade/offer up/take books that are just plain good reading. You can set up when you wanna meet and where (2 PM Kogan?) and do the trade, the classic money/book exchange, or the leave your book near the Pushkin statue and I’ll leave mine near the bust of GW in University Yard.
VIDEO BLOGGING
We’re going to start video blogging. We could use this as an opportunity to discuss issues between the four of us (like watching a radio show on TV, only better and worse at the same time!) or to explore new areas of GW and DC or to introduce whichever DC Snacksman brings us food or anything else that might happen.
OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Although this is not new, we would like to take this time to reiterate that ANYONE can submit ANYTHING to be published on The Colonialist. Of course, we cannot post everything and we’ll exercise our judgment as to the quality, timing, and usefulness (we post some pretty useless stuff ourselves, so don’t get too worried) of your piece. This way, we can continue to build the GW community and enhance student life in a way that is in all of our best interests. This can include, but should no means be limited to:
- Visual art of ANY kind
- News
- Essays
- Humor
- Reviews
- Previews
- Events
If you would like, feel free to email us and just pitch ideas too! This is also a good time to bring up the fact that because our scope will be expanding, we are always open to discussing new partnerships, ideas, and ventures with other groups or students. Email us!
Also, we will be using Facebook more and more to try to connect with the community. Please become a fan of our facebook page so we can tell you what’s what!
Thank you for your continued support for The Colonialist. We hope you enjoy our site as we grow. We hope you will voice any and all comments you may have so that we can continue to discuss and build with your thoughts in mind.
Sincerely,
Darren, Kevin, Kirk, and Travis
The Colonialist Editors
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*Although Dikembe Mutombo may not be the biggest of the “big men” in the NBA, he certainly has the silliest name.
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Comments
Please include more events in the central Pennsylvania area. My new home is now metro inaccessible by some 200 miles, so it’s VERY difficult to get to events in and around DC.
Post stuff about Obama campaign and volunteer events in Virginia. I’m sure not everyone who supports Barack is on the college Dems listserv. Also consider organizing something for him through the Colonialist.
You guys are awesome. It’s like a single-handed crusade for GW “community spirit” (dare I use the horrid phrase). Keep up the good work!
I like the new look but it’s harder to find where to comment. Maybe I’m just a little slow though that is always a possiblity.