Two gay seniors who said they felt alienated by the Newman Center's controversial priest will launch a campaign this week to force him off campus. At least a dozen students, including seniors Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen, say they have left the Newman Center in the last several years because Father Greg Shaffer’s strong anti-gay and anti-abortion views are too polarizing.

The provost defended the freedom of speech Friday for the Catholic priest on campus, two weeks after a pair of seniors filed a discrimination complaint against him and launched a campaign to force him off campus for comments and actions they called anti-gay. Newman Centers operate ministries at non-Catholic universities across the country.

A senior who spent months probing J Street’s finances concluded in his economics thesis that the dining hub is unlikely to ever turn a profit – and will continue to burden students with extra costs. Economics professor Donald Parsons, who oversaw John Bennett’s thesis, verified his student’s “solid arguments” that J Street is a money pit with a mandatory dining program, which also drives participating retail GWorld partners to inflate prices across Foggy Bottom to offset the high commission.

Tori Guy was unpacking her belongings in Thurston Hall when she found out her father lost his job. Already dependent on aid for 60 percent of her GW bills, Guy turned to the University for additional help and requested an emergency grant from the Office of Financial Aid. As her family’s unpaid bills piled up, the political science major continued attending classes.

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When alumna Cayo Gamber legally adopted her partner’s daughter, she had to explain to the 7-year-old why her moms weren’t married. Twelve years later, the Maryland couple’s now-19-year-old daughter, Blake, is helping her parents plan their wedding. The state approved same-sex marriage through a narrow 52 percent in a referendum Tuesday.

GW will strip about $150,000 in funding from a prestigious graduate fellowship program next fall, cutting salaries and housing benefits, and leaving departments to sponsor their own fellows. The Presidential Administrative Fellow program, which picks a handful of students to work in University offices while earning master’s degrees tuition-free, has previously been funded by the Dean of Students office.

The Residence Hall Association spent about $1,300 on upscale dinners and apparel for a newly elected executive board, prompting its president to resign Saturday after attempting to disband the organization. Freshman Patrick Wohl said he stepped down after University officials ignored his concerns that the student-run organization, which deals with facilities issues in halls, was abusing funds from its $30,000 budget from the Center for Student Engagement.

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Less than 85 miles from Foggy Bottom, Robert Arnold’s farm grows crops like sweet corn, cauliflower and squash for supermarket shelves and local food establishments – including J Street. About 20 percent of produce in GW’s dining halls comes from farms within a seven-hour drive of D.C., like Arnold Farms, where workers chop down corn stalks and pick vegetables by hand for three-quarters of the year.

An aide helps Jaggar DeMarco get to class and put laundry away. But on Friday nights, the freshman – who has muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair – is on his own. He said his disability has limited him from meeting other students, and he often opts to stay in his Thurston single at night.

The first bomb went off the same minute senior Sarah Joyce crossed the Boston Marathon’s finish line. When the second blast shot shrapnel into the air, Joyce was about 100 feet away. She was safe, but shaken. The bombs killed three and injured more than 180, spraying shrapnel into the crowd. Joyce didn’t turn back towards the chaotic Copley Square.