You probably remember The Romantics as that '80s band that put out "What I Like About You," or that '80s band that did "Talking in Your Sleep," a song that's so '80s, it puts the B-52s to shame. Either way, The Romantics have been pegged as an '80s band and, really, until their new album, 61/49, came out in September, this was entirely accurate. After all, the band hadn't come out with new material since 1985.
The lobby bustled with prospectors, all atwitter over the treasure of a new Stephen Sondheim musical, the first to surface in nearly a decade, and the first Sondheim ever intended to write. He got the idea for "Bounce" in 1952 after reading several articles about the eccentric Mizner brothers. He shelved it, though, and went on to forge new frontiers in musical theater. After several incarnations and an expected pathology of gossip, his show has bounced its way into the Kennedy Center. It may have taken 50 years to unveil but, like uncorking a long-cellared Bordeaux, it was well worth the wait. The American musical has again been revitalized by Stephen Sondheim.
Seeing "The Apple Tree" is akin to biting into the season's finest candy apple: at times sticky, often too sweet, but entirely enjoyable. The musical, which opened Wednesday in the Betts Marvin Theatre, portrays three different stories with the common themes of love, temptation and sex. Produced by the GW Department of Theatre and Dance, the play was created by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, of "Fiddler on the Roof" fame.
As I stood beside my fellow film critic we both aimlessly stared off into the Potomac River. We were torn on a single issue: should we throw ourselves in or burn every theater in the world so that no man, woman or child would accidentally wander into one of the most overblown, self-important, epic pieces of void that is "The Matrix: Revolutions" (Warner Brothers).
The upcoming film "Shattered Glass"(Lions Gate Films) tells the true story of Stephen Glass. As a young journalist, Glass spent three years working for The New Republic in the late 1990s but was terminated when his editors realized he had fabricated over 27 of the 41 articles he had written for the magazine.
You come home and find your place trashed. Your John Belushi "Animal House" poster has been ripped off your wall of depravity; your food has been eaten, there is dried vomit on your carpet and, to top things off, your DVD player is full of Orlando Bloom films. Moving out of the residence hall and into your own place isn't all it's cracked up to be, is it? Well, you could be too nice of a person.
After a brief foray on the Web (it's not just for porn, ya know), the Bar Belle is back, although still recovering from her Halloween weekend trifecta. Halloween has always been a temperate holiday for me. Sure, it was fun as a kid to dress up for a day and get lots of candy, but my trick-or-treating adventures were never quite what I wanted them to be.
The GW men's basketball team will play the first of two home exhibition games Saturday in preparation for its season-opener against the University of North Carolina-Charlotte on Nov. 21. The Colonials will host the Universal All-Stars, a traveling exhibition squad, in the Smith Center at 7:30 p.m.
Two vital wins last weekend put the GW men's soccer team in position to qualify for the Atlantic 10 Tournament, but to gain one of the bracket's six spots, the Colonials need to either tie or beat the undefeated Richmond Spiders on Saturday or get help from Rhode Island.
When the Atlantic Coast Conference started this great chain of conference dominos, I thought the Atlantic 10 was in big trouble. Everyone knew the Big East would be adding a few teams to replace the three that departed, and schools like Xavier and St. Joseph's appeared to be perfect candidates. Luckily, it turns out the name "Big East" restricts the conference to any school East of the Rockies, and Conference USA fell prey instead of us.
Property Management recently agreed to turn back on the air conditioning in residence halls, responding to student complaints about excessive heat due to abnormal November temperatures. This was in no small part due to the urging of Student Association President Kris Hart, who advocated on behalf of sweaty students throughout campus. Hart should be commended for his action in addressing student concerns when no one else seemed to take them seriously.
The proposed calendar changes developed by the Alternative Academic Calendar Study Group on June 3, 2003, have produced an explosion of debate and discussion regarding the future of our institution. In evaluating the progress that has been made thus far, researching the potential benefits and obstacles, we have come to the conclusion that only more information and discussion can clear up the uncertainty of the proposal. Trying to reach such a conclusion without having sufficient information impedes our creativity and limits our potential.
Mother Russia simply cannot help itself. Ever since the years of Peter the Great, it has birthed men who rule with iron fists. The latest autocrat, Vladimir Putin, is taking on imperial tradition in true Russian form. In the last two years, all political opposition coming from the economic sector - former Yeltsin-supporting billionaire magnates - have either been scared from the Motherland's soil or have stayed out of defiance and have suffered the consequences.
When Gary Livacari suggested that we write on the White House leak, I panicked. There was a leak? I didn't hear anything about it. Fortunately, though, I keep stacks of old newspapers in my room in desperate hopes that one day a fire burns down The Schenley, leaving the University no choice but to let me bunk with GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.
The political leak from the White House has all the elements of a classic Washington scandal, playing perfectly into the game plan of the compulsive Bush-hating Democratic hacks who thirst for political blood. And this is not to mention their willing accomplices in the national media who will gladly do the Democrats' dirty work and exploit what is essentially a non-story. There is just one thing standing in the way - the truth.
The attacks of September 11 served as a focusing event that changed the ways in which many Americans see the world. The Arab street has become the central focus of U.S. foreign policy and increasingly the subject of debate and scrutiny. But experts on this region and its languages are few and far between, and higher education in the U.S. has so far been slow to respond to the need for graduates educated on everything Arab.
GW and Georgetown students commemorated the life of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the eighth anniversary of his death Tuesday.
Freshman Elizabeth Carlton said Wednesday that she was unable to sleep for the past few nights because the recent warm weather has made living conditions in Thurston Hall unbearable.
Almost 200 students watched democratic primary candidates engage in a televised debate geared toward young Americans in the Hippodrome Tuesday night. Broadcast live from Boston, the debate was sponsored by CNN and Rock the Vote - a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing young voter turnout.
GW housekeeping and grounds staff members voted Wednesday to maintain representation with their current union instead of bringing new representation to GW.
Two major campus organizations issued reports opposing an alternative academic calendar proposal until more research is done. GW is considering adding a mandatory summer session for rising juniors and a four-credit four-class system in a few years.
GW will offer more Arabic language class sections and add at least one faculty member next fall in response to growing student interest and enrollment in the subject.
GW has taken out about $45 million to finance construction of its new business school building, causing the University's debt to climb to $680 million.
GW student-athletes will be playing in a bigger and likely more competitive Atlantic 10 conference in two years, when the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and Saint Louis University will join the league. A source close to the process told The Hatchet that the A-10 will announce its expansion plan Thursday afternoon.
The GW Law School joined a coalition this week of professors and law schools suing the U.S. Defense Department for allegedly discriminating against gays.
Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson criticized President Bush for allegedly manipulating intelligence about Iraq's nuclear weapons program to justify the U.S. invasion in a speech at GW Monday night.
University Police are looking for a street hustler who tells passersby that he is a GW professor and then asks them for money.
Early Decision I applications are on the rise so far this year, following a 10-year trend of an increased overall applicant pool.
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