Like most people at GW, I'm glad Saturday's basketball game against Richmond wasn't televised. Despite all the hype, our performance was disappointing. We embarrassed ourselves and would have only damaged our reputation had the game been on national or even regional television.
It wasn't pretty and it wasn't easy, but the GW women's basketball team returned to its winning ways with strong finishes at Massachusetts Thursday and at home against Temple Sunday on senior day. While GW (21-6, 14-2 Atlantic 10) had already clinched the A-10 West title and its seed in next weekend's A-10 Tournament, the Colonials needed to beat UMass (6-21, 2-14 A-10) and Temple (18-9, 14-2 A-10) to prove they were still the conference's team to beat.
The GW men's basketball team came into Saturday's game against Richmond winners of five in a row, tied for first place in the Atlantic 10 West and one victory away from its first perfect home season in five years. But the Spiders shut down the streaking Colonials, defeating GW 75-67 in front of a loud sellout crowd of 5,252 at the Smith Center.
The GW men's squash team has improved dramatically since it became a varsity program last season, rising in the College Squash Rankings to No. 21. But players say they still feel slighted. Despite the 2001 opening of the Health and Wellness Center, which includes several squash courts, the team is unable to compete on campus due to city zoning regulations that prohibit non-GW students from entering the HWC.
The GW softball team hosted the GW Invitational this weekend at Mount Vernon field, winning its first game of the season while dropping three. The Colonials (1-5-1), who were battling several unspecified injuries, opened the tournament by beating Manhattan College (2-3) 4-0.
Baseball drops two of three at UTSA The GW baseball team dropped two games and won one in a three-game series at the University of Texas at San Antonio last weekend. Their 9-5 win Saturday was their first road victory of the season. On Sunday, the Colonials (2-6) managed to turn seven hits into only two runs, as the Roadrunners won 5-2.
The spirit of political activism that had begun to emerge at GW during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the University earned the nickname the "Holiday Inn of the Revolution." Located just blocks from the White House, it was impossible for GW to avoid catching the wave of student political activism that swept colleges across the nation during the highly controversial Vietnam conflict.
July 27, 1964 University President Thomas Henry Carroll dies suddenly of a heart attack. September 1964 Thurston Hall opens as an all-female dormitory. August 1965 Lloyd Elliott, former president of the University of Maine, becomes GW president despite faculty opposition.
When asked to name a building on campus, one of the first that comes to mind for most GW students is the Marvin Center. It's where much of the undergraduate population eats, hangs out with friends, attends meetings, spends hundreds of dollars on books and sometimes studies.
For today's average GW student, the mention of Thurston Hall brings to mind just a couple of thoughts: "sex and booze." Now envision an entirely different experience - an all-female "Superdorm," the New Women's Residence Hall. Costing about $5 million, the nearly 1,000-bed hall on the corner of 19 and F streets came complete with a resident director, nurse, housekeeper, dress code and curfew.
"The Student Assembly is failing because its ideas, its goals and its purposes have failed it," wrote Hatchet columnist Tom Schade in October 1969. And many shared his sentiments. The Student Assembly, GW's student government, appeared to be just another tool of the University administration - blind and deaf to student interests.
GW students pride themselves on what they do outside of the classroom. After college, they will tell stories of internship experiences, share pictures from their semester abroad or proudly display their medal after completing a marathon. But seniors Mary Tisa, Kristy Shimabukuro and Nicholette Routhier will most likely remember their time spent on stage.
"Are you a Mac person or a PC person?" For more than 20 years, this question has become as common - and to some people, every bit as important - as, "Are you married or single?" "Would you like white or wheat?" "Scrambled or sunny-side-up?" Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, and the company's debut was marked by the release of the Apple I and then the Apple II personal computers.
Apple Store 2700 Clarendon Blvd. Arlington, Va. Friday, Feb. 6 11 a.m. I've used an Apple computer once in my life. During finals freshman year, facing a full-to-capacity PC lab at Mount Vernon's Eckles Library, I ran up to the second-floor Mac lab.
Chick Foreplay's overrated. Yes, you want to get each other hot before sex, but people tend to fall into routines and it makes fooling around more like a ritual. "Now he's going to squeeze my right boob and kiss my neck. And while he lays me down on the bed, he's going to nibble on my ear and start taking off my belt ..." You can be more adventurous and "experiment" with new things, but the truth is, there are really only so many places on a woman's body to lick and kiss and fondle.
I made a new friend in one of my classes and she seemed really cool at the time, but she continually talks about herself. We've hung out a few times, but she's never once asked about me. It feels weird to "self-promote" what I've been up to, but I'm tired of only listening.
Monday Pre-orders of caps and gowns, announcements and rings for graduating seniors 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. GW Bookstore Same time and place Tuesday and Wednesday Tuesday Cafe Gelman Free smoothies, coffee and entertainment 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. First-floor reading room, Gelman Library "Super Tuesday" election party 7 to 11 p.
Becker named GW Hospital Chief Officer Dr. Richard Becker will take over as interim Chief Officer of the GW Hospital Monday. Becker will step in for Chief Officer Dan McLean, who will become Group Director of six University Hospital System hospitals in South Texas.
A prominent Egyptian scholar whose persistent calls for democracy landed him in jail urged Middle East governments to grant their citizens greater freedoms in a speech at GW Thursday. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociology professor at the American University in Cairo, was released from an Egyptian prison last spring following a three-year trial that ended in his acquittal.
Following Iowa's caucus shake-up six weeks ago, a slogan emerged to describe new Kerry supporters: "Dated Dean, married Kerry." With Dean now officially out of the picture, many Democrats appear ready to seal the deal with the Massachusetts Senator. What, exactly, is Mr.
The state of the gay civil and equal rights movement is not good. In fact, it is in a state of disarray. With the president of the United States pushing a Constitutional amendment that would ban gays from partaking in the sanctity of marriage - a move that would basically write a segment of the population right out of the Constitution - and the leading Democrat for the presidential nomination lobbying for a similar amendment in his own state, it is clear that the gay movement is weak.
Not one truth In response to "Speaking the truth (Feb. 26 p. 5)," I'd like to represent another side of the case. Last time I checked Jesus did not put his stamp of approval on the Bible and neither do I. The true, more complete story is not in a book but in your own heart and life.
Last week this page asserted that while it came after careful, long and difficult deliberations, Omar Woodard was clearly the candidate best positioned to return student excitement to and interest in the Student Association. After the events of this week, it is equally clear that it is no longer a difficult decision to make.
Based on an interview earlier today, The Hatchet was set to endorse two-year Senator Anyah Dembling in the Student Association executive vice presidential run-off. However, The Hatchet learned late Sunday of charges being filed against Dembling alleging she paid the membership fee for several individuals to become part of the College Democrats so they could participate in the endorsement process on her behalf.
(U-WIRE) Boulder, Colo.- The University of Colorado at Boulder will require all incoming freshman to take an Internet course about alcohol use and abuse beginning this fall. Robert Maust, a university official, said the university has not made a final decision as to which Internet course will be used, but hopes to do so this week.
by Katie Rooney Hatchet Staff Writer A youth advocacy organization is recruiting D.C. college students in its campaign to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. While flyers from the National Youth Rights Association have been posted around campus, GW students have yet to officially join the group's effort to change the nation's drinking laws.
Students may be paying more money to ride the Metro starting in July to cover the service's large budget shortfall. The city has proposed fare increases, including raising the base price from $1.20 to $1.35, to close the gap on an approximately $30 million Metro deficit.
Students narrowly voted against doubling the Student Association fee to $2 per credit hour this week, preventing an increase that could have given the organization nearly $1 million. In a 1,084 to 981 vote, the referendum lost by about 100 students. The referendum would have amended the SA constitution, allowing the organization to charge all GW students $2 per credit hour up to 15 hours.
Junior Eric Weigand said he wants to create a monthly "Happy Hour" and add more "mature programming" as Program Board executive chair next year. Weigand, PB's executive vice chair this year, was elected to his new position last week.
As Roman soldiers selected a spiked whip from a table laden with torture devices, the audience gasped. But that was the only sound viewers would make during a Wednesday night showing of "The Passion of the Christ." "It was very gruesome," said freshman Eugene Meyers after watching Mel Gibson's highly anticipated but controversial chronicle of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
Comedian Dave Chappelle entertained a sold-out Smith Center Saturday night with jokes about marijuana, masturbation and race. Chappelle, 30, is known for his role in the cult classic "Half Baked," and stars in hi own television program, "Chappelle's Show," which airs on Comedy Central Wednesday nights at 10:30.
Jif creamy peanut butter, Campbell's Soup and green beans, all packaged in industrial size containers - these are items the D.C. Central Kitchen receives more than 2,000 pounds each day, but it's the things the kitchen doesn't get that it really needs. When GW Hillel students organized a month of hunger and homelessness awareness projects, they thought not just about the homeless' stomachs, but also their feet.
A GW student filed a complaint against a D.C. nightclub last week, alleging that he was manhandled by one of its bouncers at a February sorority party. Freshman Seth London, who was attending a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority event at Polly Esther's Feb. 23, said he was assaulted by one of the hot spot's crowd controllers for not complying with its dress code.
The first floor 24-hour reading room will be the Gelman Library's last wireless initiative until the library receives more funding. Students will be able to access wireless Internet in the reading room in the library within the next few months, officials said.
Several members of Greek-letter organizations in Townhouse Row said they are having trouble meeting occupancy rates for next year, citing high prices, plans to study abroad and other living arrangements as deterrents. Organizations with houses in Townhouse Row must fill a minimum occupancy requirement, oreither GW will charge the chapters for the empty beds, or members of other Greek-letter organizations will live there.
Rising juniors and seniors raced to get into the new Ivory Tower residence hall during Sunday's housing selection, which was spared computer problems that plagued last year's process. But about 250 students were unable to secure Foggy Bottom housing and await on-campus rooms if they fill out a wait list form Monday, officials said.
The Joint Election Committee will decide Monday on charges that executive vice presidential candidate Anyah Dembling did not provide a full account of campaign finances. The Hatchet learned late Sunday that a complaint alleges that Dembling paid for multiple College Democrats memberships so supporters could vote during the group's endorsement hearings earlier this month.
Juniors Lee Roupas and Omar Woodard are set to face off this week to determine who will be the next Student Association president. Executive vice presidential candidates Ed Buckley and Anyah Dembling will also compete in the run-off, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
Student Association President Candidate Votes % Omar Woodard 1,013 33.9 -will compete in run-off Lee Roupas 700 23.4 -will compete in run-off Isaiah Pickens 676 22.6 Glenn Dym 148 4.9 Alex Rochestie 126 4.
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