This Saturday, New York City punk mavens the Lunachicks and D.C.'s, own The Washington Social Club will take the stage at the 9:30 Club to take a stand against the right wing. The concert is being sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's primary pro-choice advocacy group, and Punkvoter.
Many people are averse to musicals, claiming people don't really break into song and dance in daily life. Well, I don't know about you, but I always tap dance my way to J Street and sing "soda please" to the worker at Chick-Fil-A. OK, so I'm lying. But if you don't think a musical can justify characters singing and dancing, you need to see "Se?or Discretion Himself," a new musical now playing at Arena Stage.
There is one kidnapping every 60 minutes in Latin America. Seventy percent of the victims do not survive. For the past 14 years, there has been one Denzel Washington movie released about every six months. I have to ask: How long will it take the bad guys to realize that King Kong ain't got shit on Denzel? "Man On Fire" (Regency) tells the story of John Creasy (Washington), an ex-military man, counter-terrorism agent and assassin with a drinking problem.
"Close Your Eyes" (First Look Pictures) is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Dr. Michael Strother (Goran Visnjic), a hypnotist living in London who has the ability to read people's minds. When a patient of his, Detective Janet Losey (Shirley Henderson), realizes his gift, she entices him to help her on a child abduction case.
Eight months ago, three GW students probably never dreamed that they'd be performing on stage at the next Spring Fling. Exit Clov, which includes three GW students - Aaron Leeder, Brett Neidermann and John Thayer - started booking shows last summer, and then, they say, "the band started rolling.
First, let's just get the irony of the situation out of the way: a chart-topping college dropout headlined a University-sponsored concert on the quad last Saturday. Moving right along, it's possible to look at this year's Spring Fling and see the play list from an eccentric mix CD someone made for you.
On Sunday, the GW community endured the loss of its fifth student in as many months. In response to these tragedies, the University is forming a committee to evaluate how it handles and proactively addresses such situations. It is imperative that in this process the University thoroughly evaluates how well its Counseling Center reaches out to students contemplating suicide as well as provides resources and support to those directly affected by a student death.
Before I get into this issue, I wish for it to be noted that while I write for The Hatchet, as a columnist I have very little oversight from and interaction with the Editorial Board. I have my own opinions, and they are not influenced, censored or biased as a result of my affiliation with The Hatchet.
There has been a lot of reflection around The GW Hatchet offices in the past several weeks over the April Fools' publication. We, the editors who created it, went too far. We crossed the line of good taste and appropriateness. We apologize to our readers, our advertisers and the GW community as a whole.
It is in the nature of things for the older generation to worry about the young. We worry about what they do, and what they don't do, and we worry about the kind of adults they will become. These days, there is more to worry about. There is a problem growing among our kids, growing dramatically and insidiously and, all too often, invisibly.
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Some of sports' most memorable moments have been made by athletes playing through pain. Willis Reed with a torn thigh muscle, making his first two shots in Game Seven of the 1970 NBA Finals. Kirk Gibson with a bum leg, hitting the game-winning home run in Game One of the 1988 World Series.
The GW men's baseball team didn't make it easy Tuesday, but the Colonials still came away with a victory on the road, defeating Delaware State University 10-8 to complete the season sweep. Earlier in the year GW beat the Hornets 5-1 at Barcroft Park. Junior starting pitcher Nick Koken left the game after the fourth inning with GW up 6-2 only to watch the bullpen nearly squander the lead.
Freshman Anthony Smith's teammates know him as a quiet man. The 6-foot-1-inch southpaw simply lets his bat and his left arm do the talking. "If he wasn't hitting home runs all the time, you wouldn't even know he's there," freshman catcher Steven Wallace said.
Sen. Hillary Clinton criticized the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq at a discussion with journalist Marvin Kalb Tuesday afternoon. At the most recent installment of the GW-sponsored "Kalb Report," a series of discussions featuring prominent politicians and journalists, Clinton (D-N.
The District dropped charges Wednesday against nine GW students arrested in the Marvin Center last month for protesting University worker policies. At an hour-long D.C. Superior Court hearing Wednesday morning, city officials dropped charges against 11 students - including two from Georgetown University - detained in the Marvin Center's Great Hall March 26.
University officials said the campus will follow its normal operating schedule during a Saturday World Bank and International Monetary Fund protest that is expected to be peaceful. The demonstration's main event will be a noon rally at Franklin Square, located at 14th and K streets, followed by a march to Murrow Park near World Bank headquarters at 18th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Liquor Law Violation 4/1 - McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon - case closed A freshman female student presented a fake I.D. to enter the bar and was arrested by undercover cops standing with the doormen. Undercover cops regularly patrol the entrance, said the bar's manager, Wes Wesley, who noted that these incidents "happen all the time.
Thursday Cultural Transitions Workshop for students studying abroad in Spanish-speaking countries 3:30 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center rooms 413 and 414 Student Excellence Awards 7 p.m. Marvin Center Grand Ballroom Friday Panel on retention of minority students Speakers include Debra Harris, director of admissions for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, and Michael Tapscott, director of the Multicultural Student Services Center 6 p.
Finance committee proposes allocation change: The Student Association Finance Committee drafted legislation at a meeting Monday night that would require student organizations requesting $2,000 in co-sponsorship funding to present their case in person. Currently, student organization representatives must appear in person for co-sponsorship requests of $2,500 or more.
Theta Delta Chi, Delta Gamma win top prizes The Theta Delta Chi fraternity and the Delta Gamma sorority were named the best fraternity and sorority of the year, respectively, Tuesday night at the annual Order of Omega Awards. The Order of Omega is a Greek-letter honor society that recognizes "outstanding leadership" in the Greek-letter community.
Leaders of the Democratic and Republican national committees teamed up with MTV in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday to promote political awareness and activism among American youth. At the press conference, DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and MTV News correspondent Gideon Yago announced two essay contests, one for each party, geared towards people between the ages of 18 and 24.
Speakers condemned the possibility of students being subject to residence hall room searches, record checking and curriculum changes under the PATRIOT Act at a discussion about the anti-terrorist law Tuesday. The PATRIOT Act, which was passed after the September 11 terrorist attacks, is intended to protect the United States from future terrorist attacks by allowing the release of certain types of information about individuals.
The University is reducing financial support for the peace studies minor as a result of budget cuts in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. While students can still take peace studies classes in the fall, the program will not receive any additional funding and could lose all funding in the near future, peace studies professors said.
At a scene becoming all too familiar to the GW community, more than 100 students gathered in the Marvin Center Monday night to mourn the death of freshman Hasan Hussain. The vigil, which began at 9 p.m., included prayers and readings from the Quran and comments from students, local Muslim leaders and University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.
Compromises will need to be made as the Student Association moves toward changing GW's Guide to Student Rights and Responsibilities, administrators and SA senators said. The SA Senate adopted a series of recommended revisions to the guide last week and will pass them along to the Joint Committee of Faculty and Students and the Board of Trustees for approval after re-working the document with administrators.
GW is creating a commission to investigate how effectively the University has responded to five student deaths following the suicide of freshman Hasan Hussain Sunday. Dean of Students Linda Donnels is organizing the panel in response to the deaths of four undergraduates and a law student in the past five months.
As a George Mason University Law School student, Bruce Austin* needed a way to make some extra cash. A flyer in his residence hall led Austin to a process that would make him $40,000 richer - sperm donation. "A lot of people got these things ... and were reading them and laughing about it," said Austin, now a lawyer.
Posted Friday, April 23, 5:45 p.m. Head softball coach Shaunte' Fremin resigned on Monday amid allegations that she was abusive to players and violated NCAA rules.
Posted April 24 8:05pm Washington Post writer Bob Woodward is no stranger to Presidential politics. Along with fellow Post writer Carl Bernstein, he helped break the Watergate story that eventually led to Richard Nixon's resignation. With such a start in the world of Presidential reporting, it's almost surprising that he has been allowed unprecedented access into several administrations. Woodward's latest book, "Plan of Attack," chronicles the buildup to the war in Iraq. The book is a product of interviews with 75 people and reviews of documents surrounding the decision to go to Iraq. The Washington Post has been running excerpts from the book for the past several days. Overall, Woodward says he feels President Bush is absolutely convinced that going into Iraq was the right thing to do. Woodward says Bush asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to draft plans for a war in Iraq on Nov. 21, 2001. While Bush went to the United Nations to try to get the rest of the world on board, Rumsfeld was meeting with generals and commanders to get a handle on the operations.
Posted April 24 8:03pm
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