It is 7:30 Friday morning and an alarm clock is going off somewhere on GW's campus. After a long night of clubbing, many GW students are too exhausted to drag their bodies out of their warm, cozy beds on a Friday morning to attend class. To skip or not to skip - that is the question.
The lobby of Lafayette Hall will be draped with buff and blue ribbons and streamers this weekend. GW horticulturists will be out in droves planting new floral arrangements. "I have to clean my room," freshman Peter Bordonaro said. The cause of the massive clean-up - parents are coming.
In the two minutes it takes GW students to walk from class at Funger Hall to J Street for lunch, lives of 10 young people around the world are changed forever. They are infected with HIV.
Dripping entrails spray blood over a dilapidated corpse as a skeleton tears its way out of the body. Don't be scared, baby - it's just a heavy metal record.
The image of the female has permeated visual media since humans etched their first mark on a cave wall.
A character-driven thriller that combines the right proportions of taut angst and comic relief thanks to the direction of John Dahl, Joy Ride is a nicely acted serving of classic film noir.
Constitution Hall maintains a level of dignity when it hosts concerts: smoking is not allowed, food is not allowed and - an unspoken rule - talking is not allowed.
Alexander Klochkoff, a sophomore at the University of Maryland College Park, was found outside his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house facedown with no pulse in a beanbag chair Sept. 5. Police immediately ruled out foul pay and alcohol poisoning in the 20-year-old's death, but toxicology tests now show that Klochkoff's death may have been caused by an overdose of gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB.
It's the feeling you get when you're talking about the principal behind her back and realize she's standing right behind you. It happens when you're meticulously detailing your dad's car and realize the wax has dried in the sun and will never come off. Or when you step into a class to find a mid-term you didn't about waiting.
About 300 GW students put on their walking shoes Saturday morning and braved drizzly conditions to participate in the 15th annual AIDS Walk Washington on the National Mall.
The GW Hospital is the only hospital in the D.C. area fully equipped to respond to a biological terrorist attack, with expert doctors, stockpiles of vaccines and antibiotics and a decontamination facility.
Students used to free checkups at GW now pay $12 for visits to Student Health. The program started the fee this fall to cover the cost of supplies, additional services and extended hours, said Student Health Medical Director Isabel Goldenberg.
American and British forces launched air strikes in Afghanistan Sunday, clearing the way for what President George W. Bush said would be a long and sustained campaign against the al Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban regime.
The University Police Department is investigating a report of indecent exposure early morning Oct. 2, when a man allegedly pulled up to a female student and exposed himself.
National Airport reopens Bush calls for $320 million to help Afghans Unemployment remains high Secret court cranks out warrants
Health and Wellness Center evacuated due to fire GW History Department discusses crisis
An NCAA rule banning professional players from college competition sent GW basketball recruit Kristaps Janicenoks back home to Latvia and has caused the men’s coach to consider stopping recruitment efforts abroad.
About 300 students stopped by the Rock for Choice concert held on the Quad Saturday afternoon sponsored by the GW Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.
The GW men's soccer team split its conference road trip this weekend, winning the first game against Xavier 3-2 Friday, then falling to Dayton 2-1 Sunday afternoon.
Universities nationwide are changing their security policies as new challenges surface following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The GW volleyball team dropped its second and third consecutive conference matches this weekend with road loses at Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With these loses the Colonials (4-9, 3-3) evened their previous first-place conference record to 3-3.
The GW women's soccer team lost both of its home games over the weekend and remains winless in the Atlantic 10 Conference. In a tough game against Xavier Friday, the Colonials lost 4-3 in sudden-death overtime. On Sunday, GW was shut out by Dayton, losing again 3-0.
GW professor Quadir Amiryar said diplomatic, economic and legal actions should remain the United States' priority in leading the international coalition against al Qaeda, the global terror network allegedly run by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The group is widely believed to be responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Both GW men's and women's cross country teams placed second behind East Carolina University in Saturday's Overton-Pirate Invitational meet in Greenville, N.C. Junior David Talbird led the men's race finishing fifth out of 39 runners. Freshman Mary Beth McCullough placed sixth out of 29 runners to lead the women's team.
The GW men's water polo team stretched its losing streak to six games after dropping three games this weekend. The United States Air Force and the United States Naval Academy defeated GW Saturday, and John's Hopkins University defeated the Colonials in Baltimore Friday. The losses dropped the Colonials record to 3-10 but does not affect the team's chances at post-season play.
GW wants to expand its campus boundaries to include off-campus residence halls, re-igniting a longstanding debate with the surrounding community.
GW applied for permits in August for two new properties - a residence hall that will house 700 students and a row of townhouses planned to house 200 students, said Vice President of Student and Academic Support Services Robert Chernak.
Universities in cities around the country are facing problems housing students and building campus projects as a result of city-imposed limitations.
GW medical professor and biohazard expert Dr. Craig D'Atley and other panelists said the nation is far from ready to respond to a biomedical terrorist attack during a "Nightline" town meeting Friday.
Brad Simon, Hatchet staff cartoonist.
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — "Mom, I don't want to go to England, I don't want to hear the word 'splendid'." These are the opening lyrics of a song by a popular Finnish band, called "The Absolute Zero." The song is clearly meant to be cynical, but I still think it tells a lot about the Finnish mentality: don't try anything new, be safe at all times, avoid everything unfamiliar. And I can clearly see why the modest, reserved and introvert Finn might find the word 'splendid' a bit too expressive and overwhelming.
Posted 6:00 p.m. Oct. 8 A weekly roundup of news from Washington, D.C. Bush calls for $320 million to help Afghans Washington area prepares for bioterrorism National unemployment remains at 4.9 percent Secret court cranks out secret warrants
Posted 6:00 p.m. Oct. 8 MANCHESTER, England - British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that British forces took part in Sunday's missile strikes against the Taliban government in Afghanistan, saying the attack on Sept. 11 "represented the worst terrorist outrage against British citizens in our history." Blair reiterated President Bush's statements that the strikes were directed against military sites of the terrorist network al Qaeda headed by Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban government.
Posted 6:00 p.m. Oct. 8 American and British forces launched air strikes in Afghanistan Sunday, clearing the way for what President Bush said would be a long and sustained campaign against the al Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban regime. In a televised address Sunday afternoon shortly after the strikes began, Bush said the Taliban would "pay a price." "These carefully targeted local actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime," he said.
Posted 6:05 p.m. Oct. 10 BELFAST, Northern Ireland - In Northern Ireland, a province notorious for tension and terrorism between Loyalists and Republicans, students reacted to the latest stage of the United States-declared war on terrorism with mixed emotions. Many who live, work and attend school in Belfast sympathize with the families of those killed in last month's attacks in New York and Washington. But others quietly say the worldwide attention on America's terrorist blight reopens old wounds in a region where unofficial counts estimate more than 3,000 people have been killed in terror-related incidents in the past 30 years.
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