Report warns U.S. prisons overcrowded
Posted 9:21 p.m. April 15
Thursday, April 18, 2002
Women’s collage travels to D.C.
Posted 9:28 p.m. April 15
Largest rally for Israel takes over Capitol
Posted 8:30 p.m. April 16
Sizzling singer for the Anniversary chats with the Hatchet
I am sick like you wouldn’t believe – snotting and sneezing backstage in D.C.’s 9:30 club. Down the hall, cowering against the wall, Adrienne Verhoeven, keyboardist and singer for up-and-coming rock act The Anniversary, nurses me back to health. Intoxicatingly beautiful and possessing a pleasant disposition, Verhoeven is definitely a charmer.
BAR BELLE: Cities
Cities Where: Adam’s Morgan Pluses: it’s fun with all your friends Minuses: expensive and small If any of you were around last year at this time you would be able to recall the visit to Caf? Japone. Well, it was around that time again for celebrating a very cool girl’s birthday.
Scorsece hit makes it’s return to the big screen
Is it possible to feel nostalgic for a decade you never experienced? Either way, God bless Canada and the years between 1960 and 1976 for giving us The Band, and cheers to Martin Scorcese for giving us one of the best concert films ever made in The Last Waltz.
Have a wet and wild night, it’s all legal
3 Hatchets Legal Seafoods 2020 K St., N.W. (202) 496-1111 Reservations: A good idea Attire: casual Price: $25-30 for an appetizer and entree Split open a fresh-from-the-oven roll, slurp up a cup of chowder, and slice the tender piece of fish you ordered from the impressive menu at Legal Seafoods.
DC Diary: Following the tour of all tours
The Visitors Center Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3 p.m. I couldn't take another boring day of classes, so I set out to have some fun. And what better way to do that than by taking a tour of GW? Seriously now, I don't know what got into me, but walking around for an hour and listening to someone brag about our school just seemed more appealing than falling asleep in Funger 103.
Baseball beats rival in first tribute game
Dressed in a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey and a GW baseball hat, professor of sociology Richard Zamoff threw a perfect strike to GW baseball's Travis Crowder to kick off the inaugural Jackie Robinson baseball game Tuesday at Barcroft Park. The Colonials went deep four times en route to a 7-1 victory over cross-town rival Georgetown, earning local bragging rights while honoring an American hero.
Blankvoort ties GW record
Thomas Blankvoort's six-under-par (66) matched the lowest round in the history of Colonial golf. He won the Rehoboth Beach Invitational in Dover, Del., Monday, the final tournament before this weekend's conference championship.
Volleyball nabs Georgia Player of the Year
The GW volleyball team announced 2001 Georgia Player of the Year Shannon Parks has signed a national letter of intent to play with GW next fall. Parks is a 6-foot middle hitter, once coached by former GW volleyball player and hall-of-famer Anna Bush. Parks will add to GW's strength up the middle and along with middle hitters freshman Britta Stroman and sophomore Lindsay Ochs, will make up what head coach Jojit Coronel described as one of the best middles in the Atlantic 10.
GW Athletes fill Commissioner’s Honor Roll
One hundred and sixty-one GW student athletes were honored Wednesday by the Atlantic 10 conference for academic performance, earning spots on the Commissioner's Honor Roll. The athletes must accumulate a grade point average of 3.0 or higher to earn the commissioner's honor.
GW rugby wins second-straight Gorge Cup
The GW men's rugby club won its second consecutive Gorge Cup Saturday with a 19-7 win over cross-town rival American. GW advanced to the final round after beating the University of Maryland-Baltimore County 21-7 and Rocky Gorge 40-12. GW captain Andrew MacWilliams was named player of the tournament.
Column:Globalization’s protesters defined
So why are those crazy protesters going to be outside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund international headquarters on April 20? What's all the fuss about being against globalization anyway? How can you reverse an ever-changing process like globalization? How do you expect corporations to be socially responsible when they are, by definition, profit-seeking?
Column: War is not the answer
As the last of us finish licking and stamping envelopes to send to the IRS, mailing away our annual chunk of change to the U.S. government, it is crucial to consider the connections between our personal finances and the recently declared war on terrorism.
Around Campus: Briefs
Labor Secretary, Lieberman to speak at SMPA Groups prepare for 'Latinos Live in Color' Freedom Quilt squares due back Academic Competition Club places in tournament Black Student Union hosts election 'Melanoma Monday' to be held in Marvin Center lobby 'Ask a Librarian' aids student research Ocean's Eleven to be shown at MVC quad
Crime Report
This week's crime log.
MPD readies for visitors
The Metropolitan Police Departmentexpects a crowd of 10,000 to 25,000 demonstrators Saturday and Sunday, but "we never know until they come," said MPD Head Public Information Officer Joe Gentile.
Staff editorial: A call to UPD
There have been two armed robberies on or near campus in the past two weeks - an alarming fact, but one that is not totally shocking on such an urban campus. But what is alarming is the lack of information the University Police Department is willing to provide students when these and other serious crimes occur and a large number of blue light emergency phones that are not working on and near campus. UPD must address these serious problems if it wants students to feel safe and earn respect from a student body that increasingly complains that the department is not serving them.
U-WIRE: Experts explore hangover cure
(U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. - They are one of the great mysteries of college life, the seemingly unavoidable result of a night of drinking: hangovers. Everyone offers a remedy - from coffee to multivitamins - but no one has found a cure. Although there is no proven antidote, there are steps people can take before, during and after drinking to help lessen their morning-after pain.
Staff editorial: Prior restraint
Hillel Director Simon Amiel displayed poor judgement when he denied five Arab students entrance to Hillel on Friday for an open forum with former Israeli Defense Force soldiers. At a time when communication and interaction between Jewish and Arab students is already strained, a campus activity should be just that - open to the entire campus.
Jewish and Arab groups hold vigils for dead
Jewish and Arab student groups commemorated deaths related to violence in the Middle East with candlelight and prayer on Kogan Plaza this week. About 50 Jewish students listened to speakers and music during the Yom Hazikaron, or Israeli Memorial Day, ceremony.
Hart murmurs: Making something happen here
It all started on a warm April day in those innocent days of 2000, when movie tickets cost $9.00 and Marc Rich was just a twinkle in Bill Clinton's eye. I was frolicking in my backyard Jacuzzi in Lexington, Mass., with Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman. As I politely asked Ashley to pass the Courvosier (I was drinking that stuff when Busta Rhymes was in diapers), I heard our trusty mailman Pokey clanging up the back steps to the mailbox (he had a titanium leg). Ashley purred, "Do you think you got accepted somewhere today, Mr. Hart?" and I replied "I sure hope so, baby doll."
Letters: Dig deeper
I'm glad that The Hatchet has brought to light the problem of the School of Media and Public Affairs fee. As an electronic media major, I'd like to say this $1,000 fee should be removed.
Letters: Aware of fee
In response to the April 15 staff editorial ("Paying for Prestige"), I would like to know why the editorial board thinks School of Media and Public Affairs students do not know why they are getting charged the extra fees.
Letters: Satisfied reader
Without delving into hyperbole, it must be said that Russ Rizzo's April 15 interview ("Trachtenberg speaks of past, present and future") with University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was superbly written. Not only did he furnish Trachtenberg with a forum to give further explication to issues that I've long wondered about, but he also attacked the article from an aggressive, yet also respectful, perspective.
Students denied entry at speech
Five Arab students were turned away from a speech at Hillel Friday because Hillel Director Simon Amiel said he thought their comments would "create a ruckus."
University awaits protests
As the city prepares for protests officials predict to be "the lightest in recent memory," GW students get ready to demonstrate or observe the crowds.
Pro-Israel rally floods Capitol
About 250 GW students joined what has been called the largest support rally for Israel in U.S. history Monday, turning the Capitol lawn into a sea of people and blue and white Israeli flags.
Student suspended for assault
A GW freshman was removed from on-campus housing two weeks ago after being suspended for an October sexual assault he said he did not commit.
Police investigate armed robberies
Five students were robbed at gunpoint by two different assailants near campus in the last two weeks and police have made no arrests, University Police and Metropolitan Police officials said.
Violence absent from World Bank protest
Posted 3:48 p.m. April 22
Protest for Palestine coincides with IMF event
Posted 3:53 p.m. April 22
D.C. protest organizers hold training sessions
Posted 4:03 p.m. April 22
COLUMN: Profile of a protester
Posted 4:08 p.m. April 22
33 arrested in Washington, D.C., Colombia protest
Posted 12:49 a.m April 23
Netanyahu: ‘I want to talk about a real peace’
Posted 4:14 p.m. April 23
AIPAC conference draws protestors
Posted 4:23 p.m. April 24 (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON- The debate over Israeli action in the West Bank intensified Monday afternoon into the evening as leading Palestinian and human rights organizations held a press conference before former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the 4th annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C. The press conference was hosted by Sustain Campaign, a humanitarian group dedicated to ending U.S. aid to nations that abuse human rights.
Style: Just A Trend
Posted 7:33 p.m. April 28 Editors Note: The author is a writer and university student in Manchester, England. The following is a special European style feature written for the Washington, D.C. Bureau of the University Wire. Image is, most certainly, everything. An irreverent expose by Richard Morrison in The London Times style section reiterated the well-oiled notion that both sexes are willing to sacrifice a ludicrous amount of time, effort and money in the pursuit of aesthetic perfection. So how has this fascination - obsession - with appearance and apparel, evolved?
Gonzaga U. lawyers defend school from FERPA violation allegations
Posted 2:35 p.m. April 29 (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - The boundaries of the Family Educational Privacy and Rights Act came under scrutiny during a Supreme Court hearing last week as lawyers for Gonzaga University defended school officials against allegations from a former student who wants the right to sue the university in civil court because his privacy rights' were violated stemming from an alleged sexual assault offense in 1993. Both sides agree that Gonzaga did in fact violate Ru Paster's rights under FERPA, but have widely different claims concerning Paster's right to sue for damages under the law.
Student visa restrictions tightening
Posted 2:39 p.m. April 29 (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush is set to sign a bill into law that mandates intense background checks on all student-visa applicants from countries listed by the State Department as potentially harboring terrorists, in response to the Sept. 11th terrorists' attacks. The bill is part of a recent push by the federal government to increase boarder controls and is accompanied by a separate piece of legislation that would divide the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies.
