You know that song you hear one time and can't get out of your head, the one where all you can remember is a snippet of it, and you can't figure out what it's called or who it's by for the life of you? This is the song that keeps you up at night when you should be studying or sleeping, futilely Googling misheard lyrics in the soon-to-be-dashed hopes that you can figure out who made those glorious three seconds that haven't faded away into the recesses of your mind.
Cilantro Restaurant and Tapas Bar 3241 M St. NW It seems like once you make it to senior year, birthdays become a reason for everyone to go out for dinner and drinks. It is different from the 21st, when hoards of people buy you shot after shot in some dive that will allow a mixture of legal and non-legal drinkers.
Acclaimed music video director Dave Meyers could tell you a few surprising stories about the artists he has worked with. Who knew that Dave Mathews, who Meyers describes as "a soulful, serious person" drank half a bottle of Jack Daniels and launched into a stand-up comedy routine before filming the video for "I Did It"? Meyers could also tell you that Andre Benjamin of Outkast is "practically a full-fledged director in himself," while Janet Jackson is usually removed from the creative process.
In anticipation of next week's Academy Awards, I would like to make a bold claim. After years of close scrutiny and study of the awards, I believe that I am now in possession of the knowledge necessary to create a film that would not only be a shining Oscar darling, but would become the divine standard against which all future Oscar contenders would be measured.
Over the course of a year in the Student Association, certain themes continually reappear. Borrowing on a familiar one, this year's election season has already seen significant controversy stemming from decisions by the Joint Elections Committee - the body charged with overseeing an impartial student election.
Uggs. The "O.C." Starbucks. Reality television. AIM. Camera phones. The Internet. iPods. Are these going to be the defining the characteristics of our generation? Moving along the assembly line of arbitrary titles handed out in society, "Generation Y" has yet to prove itself a presence worth remembering.
The Hatchet editorial and article (Feb. 22 issue) about the lack of a formal survey leading to the ban on smoking in residence halls is based on a fundamental misconception. While many issues - like which bands to invite to campus - should be determined primarily by student opinion, the University has the right, if not the duty to adopt rules to protect student health and safety, as well as protecting itself from legal liability, physical damage and financial harm, without student surveys or approval.
Thursday Soul Bowl Make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and activity packets for homeless children. Free Hippodrome Bowling from 8 to 10 p.m. 7 to 10 p.m. Hippodrome Sponsored by the Black Student Union GW Academic Success Series: Master Your Stress 4 to 5:30 pm The University Counseling Center, 2033 K St.
Senate candidates form students first A group of 10 Student Association Senate candidates have come together to form Students First. The team has members running for five undergraduate Senate seats with a mission to better help facilitate discussion between the University and students and to stop what they said is the inefficient bickering within the SA.
Sorority collects soda tabs for Ronald McDonald House The Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority is sponsoring a semester-long soda tab collection to help raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House for Children. The Ronald McDonald House for Children builds and provides free housing for families of children receiving medical treatment in hospitals across the country.
A photo caption on page 7 of the Feb. 22 issue misidentified a group as the Z 5 Dynasty. It is the Z Phi Dynasty.
Attempted Simple AssaultDestruction Disorderly Conduct 2/18 - Fulbright Hall - 12:10 a.m. - case closed A Community Living and Learning Center staffer reported complaints of someone banging on the walls. A male told the staff member and UPD that he was banging on the walls and doors because someone had stolen his coat and iPod.
Wow! "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," (Lions Gate Films) has everything! Let's have a round up: penis jokes, pot jokes, fart jokes, ethnic jokes and hilarious sexism? Check! A young black comedian (Tyler Perry) cross-dressing as a gun-toting septuagenarian? Watch out, Eddie Murphy.
The Hirshhorn Museum - Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor (Until May 8) What makes one a master sculptor? Is it a mastery of materials? An ability to create a realistic figure one day, and an abstraction the next? Or perhaps just the talent to create a simple, but strong image? Isamu Noguchi is, as the title of his solo exhibition suggests, a master indeed.
Three student leaders agreed this week not to grant a Joint Election Committee request to remove one of its members for alleged favoritism. Four members of the JEC, a five-person body that oversees the March 2 and 3 SA elections, called last week for the removal of graduate student Christopher Jenkins.
Administrators are preparing for a University-wide reduction in use of Social Security Numbers as a means of identification. The use of Social Security numbers cannot be completely phased out, officials said, but they hope a reduction will lessen the risk of identify theft for student and employees.
Music professor Pam Bricker, who was a part of the University's jazz department for five years, took her own life last weekend, an official from the Maryland Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday.
Shortly after returning from winter break, sophomore Melissa Veilleux watched as the bed she had been sleeping in just minutes before became covered in concrete and plaster. "It was like a bucket of mud," she said, referring to the gunk that covered her sheets and pillows.
The GW baseball team's season ended with a thud last May. First, the Colonials fell to Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Then, they became the only 40-win team in Division I baseball not to make the NCAA Tournament. And if that wasn't enough, head coach Tom Walter left to take the vacant University of New Orleans job and freshman slugger Anthony Smith transferred to St.
Instead of avenging last month's one-point loss to Xavier, the GW men's basketball team fell flat Wednesday night. But this time, it wasn't close. The Musketeers handed the Colonials an 81-62 loss in front of 10,250 fans at the Cintas Center. Xavier repeatedly broke GW's half-court trap and began the second half with a 17-3 run to open a 23-point lead that did not dip below 14 points the rest of the way.
After losing at La Salle in earlier this month, the GW women's basketball team has righted its ship and risen to the top of the Atlantic 10. The Colonials are on a five-game winning streak and are currently in a three-way tie for first place in the A-10 West.
The Colonials will head north on Saturday to face Dayton. GW beat the Flyers 82-73 on Jan. 30 at the Smith Center. Junior Monty Scott (15 points per game) leads Dayton, one of the youngest teams in the A-10. Freshman Warren Williams is a contributor - he torched the Colonials for 18 points in teams' first meeting.
Baseball GW turns two this week Freshman Brian Frazier struck out seven batters and did not give up an earned run in his first collegiate start, as the Colonials beat Old Dominion University 6-3 on Tuesday. Senior Ryan Roberson belted a second inning home run and junior Tom Shanley had a RBI single in the win.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - A Florida congressman introduced a new twist on the Bush administration's plan to privatize Social Security earlier this month, sending analysts scrambling to measure its impact in Congress and leaving many students struggling to understand the effects the complex issue will have on their lives.
The GW community gathered to celebrate the birthday of the nation's first president - and the University's namesake - on the Quad Tuesday evening. Students dined on baked potatoes, cake, pea soup and s'mores, and a fife and drum band dressed in Continental Army uniforms served as the evening's entertainment.
Three GW alumni have developed a nationwide network for students to trade books as an alternative to paying what they said are expensive University bookstore prices. The Web site, Swapswop.com, encourages students to participate with the slogan "Why buy when you can swap.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - The warped existence of college life usually consists of creative ways to inject caffeine into an overworked body, underground music sharing, constant colds and the adventure of doing one's own laundry. However, today students may have to consider forfeiting the "best four years of one's life," if the costs become too steep.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - In many ways, Tim Titus lacks the markings of a typical college professor. He doesn't hold a PhD, has never published any scholarly work and spends most of his time working for LexisNexis Courtlink in Washington, D.C, where he is the director for litigation strategy.
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - It's a reporter's consequential dilemma: Reveal your unnamed source as evidence in a grand jury case, or risk months of jail time if you refuse. Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine and Judith Miller of the New York Times have been in this quandary for months, after refusing to reveal their source in the CIA leak of Valerie Plame's name.
In a world where Michael Jackson continues to make headlines, it's hard to believe that anything considered risqu? in 1963 could shock audiences today. However, director Terry Johnson's stage adaptation of "The Graduate" does just that. From the first notes of Simon and Garfunkel to the falling of the final curtain, this cinematic classic tantalizes at the Warner Theatre.
Posted Saturday, Feb. 26, 5 p.m. DAYTON, Ohio - With the game tied at 59 and the clock ticking down Saturday afternoon, the situation looked bleak. Dayton had the ball, seemingly poised to take the game's last shot and re-capture the Atlantic 10 West lead. But GW sophomore Carl Elliott did not let that happen.
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