We've all walked past it a hundred times, seen the firefighters outside the station on 2119 G St. Arguably every GW student has seen them come and go, heard the scream of the siren and seen those lights pierce the night sky with unrivaled intensity.
The Segway is not for the shy. This is the first thing I noticed once manager Craig Davidson of Capital Segway let me take the transportation device for a five-hour test drive. As I cruised throughout Georgetown and Foggy Bottom, I continually received looks from passersby.
Halloween has always been my least favorite holiday merely for the reason that on Halloween, outrageous fashion has no impact. In fact, it is the one recognized time of year primarily concerned with encouraging conformity to non-conformity. Trying to stand out on a day where everyone has the same intention leaves an undesirable option for people interested in avoiding convention.
Ah, the Information Age. For more than 50 years, it has proven that an economy can be based on data manipulation and storage, and has created a world where knowledge workers outnumber factory drones. Electronic innovations have bridged global barriers and made previously scarce data available to the masses.
The GW baseball team won its first Atlantic 10 series of the year after beating St. Bonaventure 10-1 Sunday at Barcroft Park. The Colonials and Bonnies split a doubleheader Saturday in Arlington, Va.
A sun-soaked Washington Harbor provided the backdrop for the 18th annual GW Invitational Crew Classic on Saturday. Schools from around the nation joined the Colonials, including local rivals Georgetown, George Mason, Navy, and the University of Virginia. Virginia captured the overall title, taking four first-place finishes, three second-places, and two third-place finishes to compile 67 points in front of a crowd of over a 1,000, many of which sat at outdoor patios at Harbor restaurants next to the Potomac River.
On March 3, 2002 the GW women's lacrosse team made its first appearance as a Division I squad, beating Marist 10-3. The team, comprised of club players, walk-ons and just nine freshmen recruits, won just four games in their inaugural season and went 0-7 in the Atlantic 10.
A 9-8 loss to Duquesne Sunday at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex snapped the GW lacrosse team's five game win streak. On Friday, the Colonials were on the opposing end of a close one, beating St. Bonaventure 9-8. GW (9-3, 3-1 Atlantic 10) battled Duquesne throughout, but ended up falling in overtime when Laura App scored the winning goal with 1:02 left.
Jackie Robinson was not a product of his time. A decade before the Civil Rights movement, before Martin Luther King Jr. and before Rosa Parks, he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. When Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, the racist structure that plagued baseball for half a century began to crumble.
The GW women's water polo team dropped two if its three matches this past weekend, each of which were against league opponents. The Colonials opened the weekend with an 18-7 victory over Salem International Saturday at the Smith Center. Senior captain Taraneh Bastani paced GW with three goals, while sophomores Morgan Hooker and Alessia Dinkel, and freshmen Theresa Lamontagne and Greta Pedraza recorded two goals apiece.
Monday Discussion about the American multiracial experience 7 to 9 p.m. Mt. Vernon Campus Sponsored by R.E.A.L. Conversations and Re:Mix Showing of "The Guantanamobile Project" Documentary about the history of Guantanamo Bay 7:30 to 9:30 pm Marvin Center Third Floor Amphitheatre Sponsored by GW Amnesty International Tuesday Oxfam Hunger Banquet Banquet to promote awareness of the world's unequal distribution of wealth and resources 7 to 9 p.
Monumental early-bird tickets on sale until April 15 Seniors have until April 15 to buy reduced-priced tickets to GW's annual graduation bash, Monumental Celebration. Early-bird tickets for the 2005 Commencement party are $49 for graduating seniors and $55 for everyone else.
The article "SMPA considers Kalb" (April 7, p. 1) incorrectly stated that the head of the School of Media and Public Affairs is a dean. That person carries the title of director. Additionally, professor Al May should have been referred to as a former interim director, not former director.
Thousands of students came out on a sunny Saturday to Spring Fling, which featured an oxygen bar, sky diving simulation and a headline performance from rapper Lloyd Banks on University Yard Saturday.
For the second straight year, The Hatchet took home the best non-daily newspaper award for the mid-Atlantic region at the Society of Proffesional Journalists' regional conference. The award puts The Hatchet in contention to repeat as the nation's best non-daily paper.
GW is urging students to contact their congressional representatives and express their support for the federal Perkins Loan program, which President Bush scheduled for elimination in his 2006 budget. More than 2,141 GW students receiving $3.8 million in Perkins Loans as part of their financial aid packages could be affected by the move.
After a prolonged election marked by legal battles, Student Association President-elect Audai Shakour is making preparations for his transition into office. Shakour, who beat Ben Traverse (CCAS-U) in a run-off election two weeks ago, said plans for his administration next year are progressing steadily.
Students and faculty can now put their teamwork skills to the test on a low ropes course inaugurated last week at the Mount Vernon Campus. Tim Miller, director of Student Activities Center, and Jeremiah Davis, director of GW Trails, came up with the idea for a ropes course on campus after a staff retreat to Virginia.
Like Joan Rivers, GW has gotten some facelifts over the years. It's now preparing for its next one. Renovations to the Hall of Government, Monroe Hall and Quigley's, a vacant GW-owned building on the corner of 21st and G streets, are slated to begin in the next two years, as the University continues its efforts to furnish the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses with state-of-the-art facilities.
The University will need to make more use of its former hospital site and off-campus locations in order to accommodate its planned development projects over the next decade, officials said Friday.
A GW student who unsuccessfully sued President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg over health code violations in his dorm room said he plans to continue with his case even though it was dismissed.
Nine D.C. public high school seniors won this year's Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Scholarships, worth more than $45,000 per year.
Facing an ballowing budget deficit, President Bush marked the Perkins Loan program for elimination in his 2006 budget. The elimination of this program would be especially detrimental to GW students, who already pay some of the highest tuition rates in the country and currently benefit from about $3.
For most, Saturday passed with little import. For Palestinians, though, April 9th marks a significant date in our collective memory. Early in the morning, fifty-seven years ago, commandos of the Irgun and Stern gangs attacked Deir Yassin, a village with a peaceful reputation.
Looking resplendent in their Michelangelo-designed ceremonial uniforms, the praetorian like Swiss Guard took their place in the history books by being involved in the world's largest funeral to date. Such was the influence of the Pope, whose death brought nearly 200 world leaders together.
Pay problems I recently read in The Hatchet that the University will put off pay raises for its professors ("University to put off pay raises," April 7, p. 1). Does this mean the University will put off tuition increases this year? It seems that GW's administration has its head in the wrong place.
The 2005 Women's Leadership Conference celebrated female entrepreneurship and ingenuity Friday at the Mount Vernon Campus. The event, titled "Thinking Globally, Leading Locally," hosted seven women from around the country who have assumed prominent leadership roles in their communities.
Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said his network is committed to presenting all perspectives on the news and accused other networks of being one-sided at the Kalb Report Thursday night. "The American people felt they weren't getting the whole story on some issues," Ailes said, citing his reason for creating the network.
Posted Monday, April 11, 6:12 p.m. GW associate head coach Steve Pikell will be named head men's basketball coach at Stony Brook University in Long Island on Wednesday, a spokesman said. Also, sophomore Ricky Lucas will transfer at the end of the semester.
Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2:09 a.m. The Mount Vernon Shuttle service had its fourth accident since July on Tuesday, when an electrical malfunction caused a driver's seat to smolder. No one suffered injuries in the accident, which forced the evacuation of more than 20 passengers onto a highway.
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