Thursday GW Academic Success Series Workshop: Get Organized 4 to 5:30 p.m. The University Counseling Center, 2033 K St. Sponsored by the University Counseling Center Lecture on World War II and Japanese-Americans Franklin Odo, director of the Asian Pacific American Program and cultural history curator at the National Museum of American History, to speak 2 p.
Service fraternity looks to increase members The co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega is hoping to nearly double its membership during this week's spring recruitment period, Alpha Phi Omega President Violet Ricker said. Recruitment for the organization began Wednesday.
Senate staffer ejected for calling colleague a "bastard" Executive Vice President Anyah Dembling removed a Senate staff member Monday night for calling a senator a "bastard" on his online blog. In his online journal last week, freshman Tim Shea, director of Senate Outreach, called Ryan Kilpatrick (ESIA-U) a "bastard" for walking out of last week's Senate meeting and forcing the organization to stop debate shortly after 2:30 a.
PARK CITY, Utah - Imagine receiving an opportunity to attend the Sundance Film Festival, a raging 24-hour, week-long party in Park City, Utah resplendent with free swag, groundbreaking movie screenings and Cristal-sipping with A-list movie stars like Nicole Kidman.
The Boston Red Sox will never ever win the World Series. Until last fall, this fact was accepted since 1918. And for the long years between these triumphs, Sox fans wallowed in their own self-induced apocalyptic sense of doom every time Boston began to show promise.
Few are immune to the allure of performing in a rock 'n' roll band: the blinding lights, the roar of the crowd, the sweet after-parties. Sure, it takes years of hard work and slogging on the road to achieve this success, but many willing to try. Of course, few succeed.
The boys of Scythian have come a long way from playing on the streets of Alexandria for gas money. But that's exactly how these D.C. natives are proud to say they started out. Now, playing a full house every Thursday night at Fado's gives these lads the credibility they deserve.
Democracy was in action last weekend when 16 members of GW's Chamber Choir performed in the world premiere of Democracy: An American Comedy, The Washington National Opera's first commissioned work in more than a decade. GW's company debut also marked the WNO's temporary return to its original home at Lisner Auditorium.
Jack Starks has died. At least once. While serving in the first Gulf War (a montage that eerily resembles current images from Iraq), Starks (Adrien Brody) is shot in the head and miraculously survives. Suffering from amnesia, he returns to a cold and barren Vermont and winds up in a mental institution after being involved in the murder of a police officer.
Mark Jackson's The Death of Meyerhold, opens with the phrase, "Give me life or death, only not sleep!" Unfortunately, sleep is the only reaction that the three-hour, two-intermission play provokes. Set in early 19th century Russia, Studio Theatre's new play explores the life and death of its title character in conjunction with the political trend of the day; the audience watches Vselvolod Meyerhold (Joel Reuben Ganz) go from bossing around actors during the country's civil war to bossing around actors during the height of Stalin's reign.
The Saskwatch EP from GW's own Exit Clov is finished and will be ready for the masses Friday night at the Black Cat. Recorded on their own budget, studio and equipment in a basement in Virginia, the band calls the self-produced 5-tracks more "experimental" than their previous release, Starfish.
"The Education of Shelby Knox" opens with Butch Hancock, guitar player for the Flatlanders, saying, "life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love."
Jessica Yu's startling film documenting the life of outsider artist Henry Darger serves as a cogent reminder of the fantastical worlds and stories Joan Didion once said that we as humans create and "have learned, to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Take a moment to remember a few great rivalries. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Howard Stern vs. the F.C.C. Hillary Duff vs. Lindsay Lohan. Condoleezza Rice vs. Barbara Boxer. Now forget them. Repress them. Ignore them. Do whatever you can to push them out of your brain.
Since the onset of the season, GW men's basketball coach Karl Hobbs has made his aspirations clear. Three names have been mentioned countless times, citing their success as a measuring stick in Atlantic 10 basketball. Xavier, Dayton, and Temple have all had great success in the past decade, the kind of success Hobbs' program is looking to emulate this year.
Despite the fact that the GW women's basketball team has never lost to La Salle or Dayton, head coach Joe McKeown is not taking either team lightly. Wins against the Explorers and Flyers would help the Colonials pick up some ground in the Atlantic 10. GW currently sits in third place in the A-10 West, half a game behind second-place Richmond and one game behind first-place Xavier.
Atlantic 10 honor roll 75 student-athletes recognized Seventy-five Colonial athletes have made the Atlantic 10 honor roll by compiling a GPA of 3.5 or greater. This year, the A-10 has made requirements more stringent, raising the minimum GPA from 3.0. Fourteen members of the crew team, 11 soccer players, and 10 swimmers and cross country runners made the roll.
Use your ballot Should we support our troops? The answer: absolutely, unequivocally, yes. The men and women who govern our country were democratically elected, by and for the people. Our citizens, our vote, gave them the responsibility to protect our shores and preserve the integrity of our great nation.
Keep focus I have read many articles that The Hatchet has printed on the problems that the Student Association has been facing in the past few months. Despite being only a freshman attending GW, I know the SA has been in worse predicaments than what I have been subjected to.
The Student Association Senate finalized the Joint Elections Committee, confirming its final two members and passing an amended charter intended to prevent allegations of fraud that marked last year's election. The new amendments include sections to prevent bribes and inappropriate campaign spending.
Burglary II 1/30 - Francis Scott Key Hall 11:22 p.m. - open case A laptop was stolen from a resident's room. The resident claimed her door was locked, however a male witness told University Police that he noticed the door was open during the time period in question.
Some Sigma Delta Tau members are being asked to leave the sorority following an investigation by its national organization last weekend. Sigma Delta Tau National Executive Director Ann Braly said the investigation was conducted in response to concerns about "general chapter management" and "future leadership.
Our view: The University must balance long term growth with educational quality for current GW students. This semester, GW students have felt the pinch of a University-wide classroom shortage. Forced to sit in chairs without tables - and even on the floor - students in some of the University's most popular departments have voiced concerns that the current classroom situation is negatively affecting their academic performance.
First and foremost, this will be my last column on this issue. I already feel as if this is a dead horse, but everyone who has written to me has wanted me to have a final word on the topic. During my conversation with President Trachtenberg and Special Assistant Gerald Kauvar earlier this week, we discussed many issues including my original gripe about GW's drop in rankings in my last column.
Graduate student Matthew Tisdale started last weekend the way he starts many weekends: hoping the industrial-strength garbage compactor he was standing in did not turn on.
Students looking to smoke in their dorm rooms next year will either need to move outside or kick the habit. The University announced Wednesday that it will prohibit smoking in all residence halls beginning next semester, citing accidental fire alarms, health concerns and maintenance issues.
GW's Spanish program is struggling to accommodate students with enough faculty and classroom space, professors in the department said. There are 89 students on a wait list to get into a Spanish class this spring and 24 classes have exceeded their caps, said Ellen Echeverr?a, chair of the Spanish language program.
With December's Asian tsunami sliding into the inside pages of newspapers, Elliott School of International Affairs professors discussed challenges facing the ravaged nations at a town hall meeting Tuesday night. Elliott School Dean Harry Harding moderated the panel, which consisted of faculty members Ray Williamson, Shawn McHale, Elizabeth Chacko, Stephen Commins and Leon Fuerth.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - The cost of college textbooks has increased at nearly four times the rate of inflation since 1994, costing students upwards of $900 per academic year, according to a study released Tuesday by the State Public Interest Research Groups.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Imagine spending nine hours in a room the size of a walk-in closet. That was exactly what George Washington University senior Beth Pellettieri faced after being arrested in her student center for protesting the treatment of university workers last spring.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Last Monday, tens of thousands of pro-life activists gathered on the National Mall to protest the thirty-second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. The crowd, made up of protesters from around the country, marched in frigid conditions from the White House Ellipse to the Supreme Court, to voice their annual call for the 1973 decision to be overturned.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - More high school students than ever before are taking and passing Advanced Placement exams according to a recently released report. The first-ever Advanced Placement Report to the Nation was released by the College Board, the non-profit organization that administers the AP program, just as the program approaches its 50th anniversary.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Though students may not remember seeing long-time host and comedian Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," many heard about him from parents and older relatives. The comedian died last week at age 79 of emphysema in his Malibu, Calif.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Kids growing up in Southeast Washington, D.C., have questions likely to boggle the savviest of spin artists here: Why was their neighborhood home to 106 homicides last year? Why were 24 of those victims younger than 18, compared with 12 the year before? But the difficulty in finding answers to their questions makes them more important to ask, a group of local middle and high school students decided.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Dana Chester, a junior at the George Washington University, braved the low temperatures and snow on Jan. 22, and led a team of 11 of her fraternity brothers in providing groceries to the elderly. "We saved them a trip to the grocery store," said Chester the co-service chair of the Phi Sigma Pi fraternity and student leader in the office of community service.
Anyone who's had a relative in a nursing home or other elderly-care facility knows that the phrase "assisted living" can be misleading; one's life is not being assisted - it's often driven, at the cost of an individual's independence. It is in this uncomfortably carceral setting that writer-director-producer Elliot Greenebaum created his independent tragicomedy "Assisted Living" (Economic Projections/Momodog).
It was not long ago that students protested at the Marvin Center dedication, believing, as The Hatchet editorialized that day in 1971, that "the name Cloyd Heck Marvin will insult many users of this Center, especially the black students whose parents were not allowed to attend GW.
Many people have misconceptions about fraternity life. Some think we all live in an "Animal House" atmosphere, have no respect for property or our fellow students, or that we are disinterested in the lives of people outside our own organizations. Most people who get to know fraternity life are surprised to find out that these stereotypes are not true.
I have suffered long enough from the curse of the largely-ignored mid-December birthday. So last weekend I decided to beat the curse. I found two other victims of winter break birthdays so we could throw ourselves a fabulous party. And where to throw this type of party, you ask.
Posted Saturday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m. PHILADELPHIA - Nursing a double-digit lead with 10 minutes to go in the game Saturday, the GW men's basketball team remained relentless. Body language said it all: Mike Hall and J.R. Pinnock bobbed up and down like pogo sticks on defense. Coach Karl Hobbs stomped his foot and frantically directed his players from the sideline. Temple coach John Chaney sat silent on the bench, black tie loosened. And nearly all 6,812 fans at the Liacouras Center re-focused their attention on the Eagles and their Super Bowl chances.
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