A male student is still in critical condition after a fire early Tuesday morning gutted his ninth floor Thurston Hall room and kept residents from entering the building for several hours.
AUSTIN, Texas - Many destinations offer all the key elements of spring break - booze, sun, young people and parties. But only Austin, Texas, was packed with all this and 14,000 of the world's most innovative thinkers.
AUSTIN, Texas The White Headphones Phenomenon With one walk through campus, the phenomenon is clear - those little, white ear buds indicate that a growing number of students don't leave home without their customized, digital libraries. "Thirty-million music consumers love music more than ever," said Abbey Konowitch, vice president of Hollywood Records.
With more than 1,300 artists at the 2005 South by Southwest Music Festival, how they avoid getting lost in the shuffle? Apparently, the best way to attract attention (besides being extraordinarily talented) is to give your band a cracked out name. The following, listed in alphabetical order, are this year's 10 best band names: 1.
"Dear Frankie" (Path? Pictures) is Scot Shona Auerbach's feature film debut, but she already has an ability that many experienced American directors haven't mastered-filming a sad story without making it into mush. The movie begins with a family moving away from a town in Scotland, clearly running from someone.
Congratulations, Sandra Bullock, you've made a romantic comedy without a romantic interest. While you're at it perhaps you could make me a candle without a wick and a virgin Long Island iced tea. Both would be equally useful.
From March 16-20, Austin overflowed with more Converse sneakers and black plastic glasses frames per square inch than anywhere else on the planet, as musicians and music industry types swarmed into the city for the 2005 South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival.
Our view: Next year's Student Assocation president should focus on small service-based initiatives rather than grandiose advocacy.
In 1935, Americans drove the Model T, enjoyed Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing "cheek to cheek," watched the Chicago Cubs in a rare World Series appearance and were mostly unaware of an experimental technology known as "television." For today's Generation Xers, the 1930s are a world away, as contemporary American society bears little resemblance to these distant days.
Language war One of the hot topics in politics and society today concerns the issue of abortion. In March 2004, the District of Columbia saw an emergence of over one million advocates in support of the March for Women's Lives. One of those groups was our own University's chapter of Voices for Choices (VFC).
Thursday "The Middle East Today: A Region in Turmoil" Lecture from Shapiro professor Edward Gnehm 6:30 to 8 p.m. Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 213 "Russian Power and the Modern Russian Media" Dimitry Strovskiy from Ural State University to speak 12:30 to 2 p.
Senate rejects bill limiting spending on food The Student Association Senate voted down legislation Tuesday night that would have put a limit on the amount of money spent on food with student funds. The legislation called for a $10 per person cap on SA money used to purchase food and would have banned alcohol purchases with SA funds.
Fraternity to host pop culture quiz bowl The Sigma Nu fraternity will challenge the pop culture knowledge of Greek-letter groups at 7 p.m. Thursday when it hosts the Greek Bowl Quiz Tournament in the Hippodrome. The fraternity expects to raise about $500 quizzing contestants from nine teams on trivia about popular music, movies and television shows.
Receipts of Colonial Cash transactions will no longer display students' GWorld card numbers in an effort to protect against theft, University officials announced last week. The University will begin a push to equip all Colonial Cash partners with the software necessary to mask the numbers printed on the receipts of purchases made with the card.
A gloomy, rainy day and sparse campaign activity Wednesday marked a stark contrast from the last two weeks of legal battles that have characterized the Student Association presidential election run-off. The latest ruling in the contest between juniors Ben Traverse and Audai Shakour, the top two finishers in the SA general election three weeks ago, came from the Student Court early Wednesday morning.
The GW Mock Trial team achieved a new level of success over spring break, when it won the American Mock Trial Association National Tournament.
The University is taking steps to make its interim sexual harassment policy permanent by the end of the academic year. Donald Lehman, executive vice president for academic affairs, put together a committee of students and staff on Feb. 21 to create a permanent policy for the University.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was one of several guests who came to support their former classmate Edward Liddy, named CEO of the year by the Business School at the Four Seasons hotel Wednesday. Liddy, who received his M.B.A. from GW in 1972, heads up the Allstate Corporation, an insurance company.
Tuesday morning's fire in Thurston Hall, which cost an estimated $10,000 dollars in damage and left one student in critical condition, was the dorm's worst fire in recent memory. But over two decades ago, Thurston suffered another tragedy, when a fifth floor blaze injured dozens of students.
Destruction 3/21 - Hall On Virginia Avenue - open case A University Police officer removed a vandalized poster in the elevator lobby. Residents on the second floor said that a J Street poster near the elevators had recently been defaced with obscene words directed toward the food service provider Aramark.
Two male students were robbed on campus - one of them less than a block away from University Police headquarters - minutes apart on Tuesday.
Two GW students who passed away last year will be remembered on campus thanks to efforts to organize memorials in their honor.
Thurston Hall residents living on the same floor as a student severely burned in a fire Tuesday said their exit from the building was delayed because of crowded stairwells. Many ninth floor residents also said they didn't evacuate quickly because they thought the alarm was just another of the dorm's notorious false alarms.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-Some mountains are just too steep to climb. The No. 9 seed GW women's basketball team fought until the end but could not overcome No. 1 seed North Carolina Tuesday night. The Colonials struggled offensively at the Dean E. Smith Center and were bounced from the NCAA Tournament 71-47.
NASHVILLE-Remember the rambunctious kid on the playground? You know, the one who looked like he might have the potential to out-jump, out-run and out-hustle almost anybody - but just wasn't quite there yet? That was the GW men's basketball team Friday night.
Travel, I've had my share. After spending a combined six days in Cincinnati and Nashville, I feel like I've been everywhere. I didn't exactly cross the deserts bare or breathe any mountain air, but I did see a nice chunk of the country these past few weeks.
Once again, Tom Shanley is coming up big for the GW baseball team. The junior infielder socked two homers in the Colonials' win over Delaware State Tuesday afternoon. GW slugged its way to an 11-6 victory at the Hornets' Soldier Field. The Colonials recorded 12 hits and knocked out four home runs in the win.
Golf Golf finishes fourth at William and Mary Invitational Senior Brian Carroll shot a three-over-par 147 to place second individually in the William and Mary Invitational in Williamsburg, Va. on Monday. The Colonials placed fourth as a team. Sophomore Jack Tyler was the next best Colonial finisher, carding an eight-over-par 152.
It's difficult to make any kind of qualitative judgment about Woody Allen's newest film for a number of different reasons. The film offers too many indications of genre types and categories. But oddly enough, or maybe not if you're a Woody Allen fan, this peculiar characteristic is responsible for the film's successful portions.
Posted Friday, March 25, 12:44 a.m. The JEC announced Thursday night that because of violation hearings that could remove both candidates from the election, they would announce the results by Friday evening. Students voted Wednesday and Thursday. Election officials planned to announce the results late Thursday night.
Watching Mrs. Doubtfire, or La Cage aux Folles, or the Harvard Hasty Pudding drag theatricals I attended in college, I laughed along with everybody else. Yet I always felt queasy, without quite knowing why. Years later, as I became a cultural critic, I began to ask myself why drag never represents the great qualities of women - their compassion, their stamina - in ways that would parody the weaknesses of men.
Posted Friday, March 25, 1:32 p.m. Updated 8:50 p.m. The votes are counted. The winner has been announced. But the Student Association presidential run-off is far from being over. Although junior Audai Shakour beat junior Ben Traverse by 31 votes in one of the closest elections in SA history, he still needs to beat several alleged campaign infractions before he can confidently assume the presidency.
Posted Saturday, March 26, 4:50 p.m. Updated 6:47 p.m. Juniors Mike Hall and Pops Mensah-Bonsu told The Hatchet that they will enter the upcoming NBA Draft but left the door open for a return to GW for their respective senior seasons.
Posted Sunday, March 27, 3:25 p.m. Updated 4:58 p.m. A 20-year-old man died and two were injured in a stabbing outside a GW student group-sponsored party early Sunday morning. Metropolitan Police and University officials said they have no indication that GW students were among those involved in the fight at the Bhangra Blowout after-party in the downtown Old Post Office Pavilion.
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