Posted Tuesday, Oct. 17, 10:40 p.m. Occupants of the Marvin Center were sent out into the chilly weather Monday night as University Police urgently evacuated the student center at about 9:23 p.m. because of a suspicious package. Tracy Schario, director of media relations, said a black bag was found inside a BMW car with its door left open in the parking garage adjacent to the Marvin Center.
Shakour aide sued for not fully releasing financial documents Former Student Association insider Brandon Sherr, a junior, filed suit against SA President Audai Shakour's top financial aide on Sunday in an effort to receive the Shakour administration's financial documents, which Sherr claims are public information.
Unless you work in Rice Hall, you're likely well-acquainted with GW's unofficial reputation - the campus vibe, so to speak - a muted variation of boisterous ANC declarations which gets circulated in our corridors, classrooms and offices. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge mentality almost universally shared among students and faculty alike, so ingrained that it usually need not be made explicit.
Nothing is more irritating than D.C. motorists who insist on honking their horn every chance they get. I have lost count of how many times a blaring horn rudely interrupted my sleep or unmercifully squashed my good mood. One night, I finally had enough when a bus driver thought it was necessary to relentlessly honk at another motorist who, for whatever reason, slowed to a dead stop at 23rd and I streets.
Alumni of GW's journalism program and of this newspaper lost their friend and mentor Phil Robbins last week. Robbins, professor emeritus and former chairman of the journalism department, died Oct. 13 at his home in Elkton, Md., of pancreatic cancer. Robbins joined the journalism faculty in 1971 and became chairman in 1973 until his retirement in 1995.
Hezbollah not so nice I was a little disappointed with Geoff Bendeck's column, "GW Expat: Face to Face with Hezbollah." While I do not understand how study abroad status makes him an expat, it is not so important to me. What I am concerned with are his analysis and assessments, which I believe to be questionable.
The University has forced DJ's Fastbreak, a popular on-campus eatery, to stop charging customers a fee for using Colonial Cash, a GW official said Tuesday. The counter-service restaurant located at 22nd and G streets has been adding a five-cent surcharge on all Colonial Cash purchases for at least a month, and possibly as many as nine.
The last time Jon Stewart was on campus, it was Colonials weekend - and the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" certainly shook up GW's political climate. His appearance on Crossfire, in which he accused the hosts of the show of "hurting America," caused CNN to rethink the mission of the program, ultimately canceling it.
University officials expect about 5,000 to 6,000 parents and alumni to congregate on campus to attend the more than 80 events associated with this year's Colonials Weekend. Rodney Johnson, GW's director of freshman and parent services, said he hopes the weekend will be as successful as planned.
Most people associate the image of George Washington with a stiff, aged face on the front of a wrinkly dollar bill. But according to new three-dimensional images produced by the first president's library, it appears Washington was the equivalent of an 18th century heartthrob.
The lights dim. The crowd erupts. Three shaggy-haired men take the stage, launching into a driving backbeat reminiscent of a beer-soaked bar band. "Hello, Melbourne!" cries the singer. The crowd erupts again. The band croons a melancholy vocal harmony, their tortured souls bared to the thousands of onlookers.
Sam Gilliam, like many of his structured paintings, stands on his own. Many have claimed that he is an artist searching for a category, but the last thing he wants is to be lumped in with others, sharing a genre. The artist, whose career is celebrated at the Corcoran's Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective, has created a style that is distinctly his.
If you have $5 It's official - The new baby panda has been named Tai Shan, or "peaceful mountain." Even though the little guy will not officially debut until December, the zoo is hosting a talk at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday to discuss care for young "butterstick," as he was previously nicknamed.
In a true showing of mediocrity, "Dreamer" (Dreamworks) falls just shy of the mark. Based on a true story, the film chronicles an injured racing horse and one family's quest to nurse her back to health. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell, "Miracle") takes the gamble of a lifetime by quitting his job as a professional racehorse trainer to care for the injured Sonador, the horse that his young daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning, "War of the Worlds") likes.
When Stephen Lynch gets on stage, he seems like another John Mayer rip-off. It's pretty tame for the first few bars - until you realize that he's singing about how he wants to take you home from the bar, but can't handle your grossly overweight friend (the solution: his non-discriminating friend).
Whenever a conversation even starts to head toward thoughts about your parents having sex, it is clearly time for a quick topic change. The same goes for parents about children - it's just not something they want to know about. This is exactly what Lisa (Meryl Streep) is forced to deal with in the slightly offbeat and very funny movie "Prime" (Universal Pictures), written and directed by Ben Younger ("Boiler Room").
Across town from the glitz and glamor of the Kennedy Center, in the nondescript Playbill Cafe, a cast of three brings the audience to the edge of their seats by dramatizing the works of Edgar Allen Poe in the Meat and Potato Theater's production of Poe 2000.
After selling its initial allocation of 800 seats in less than one day, the Colonial Army will receive an additional allocation of 200 seats in the Smith Center for basketball games. The organization, which is devoted solely to the basketball program, will offer "Colonial Army Gold Club Memberships.
The volleyball team earned city bragging rights Tuesday by rallying to topple Georgetown at the Hoyas' McDonough Gymnasium. It was the team's third straight win. GW dropped the first game 28-30 despite their late offensive surge before taking the next three games 31-29, 30-23 and 30-22 over two hours and two minutes.
With the New York Yankees' exit in the first round of the Major League Baseball playoffs, no GW alumni will be taking the field the rest of October. Despite the loss, two GW graduates are still making news in the baseball world. Sam Perlozzo was named manager of the Baltimore Orioles Oct.
Crew The GW men's crew team began its fall season with the 2005 Occoquan Chase Regatta in Lorton, Va. The GW varsity squad placed second behind Virginia. The freshman eight beat the Hokies and Georgetown. GW returns to action at the Head of the Charles Oct.
'Stay' True: Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts star in new film 'Stay' by Sehar Raziuddin Hatchet Reporter "Stay" (Regency Enterprises) is one of those movies that unfortunately seems all too familiar at this point. It explores the relationships and fine lines between dreams, reality and illusion.
There are several defining characteristics of British films that, aside from obvious differences in speech and dialect, set them apart from American productions taken from the same genre. British dramas, for example, tend to exercise more control than American dramas in their generally slow, more deliberate treatments of plots and storylines.
Toronto's Broken Social Scene's latest self-titled and third full-length album presents an energetic and upbeat aural wonderland to bring delight to the ears of music listeners of all stripes. The album presents a mixture of a wide variety of instruments, and the massive ensemble comprises 18 musicians, many of whom hail from other famed Canadian acts as Metric and Feist.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn made sharp, though veiled, criticisms of President Bush's performance and more directly reproached his party's congressional leaders in a speech at GW Monday. Without naming names, Coburn (Okla.) deplored Republicans' actions on several hot-button domestic issues in a 20-minute speech to College Republicans in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom.
Some universities have rivalries. Others have war. Last month Emory University's Student Government Association President Amrit Dhir, donning fake military apparel, declared "war" against Washington University in St. Louis during an emergency government meeting in hopes of increasing school spirit and creating an official rivalry.
Student Association President Audai Shakour clashed with members of the Senate leadership at a Monday forum over fighting for student representation on the Board of Trustees. The town-hall-style event, held in the Jack Morton Auditorium, welcomed about 30 people, mostly SA functionaries, and was organized by campus radio station WRGW.
It may not be a crystal ball, but it could be a glimpse into the future of GW. The University has released a 20-year campus development plan outlining possible sites that will add 2 million square feet of academic buildings and student housing. The development plan, which can be found at http:/?neighborhood.
Although it had been about eight years since he last rode a bike, senior Dave Lipschutz spent his summer at home perfecting his peddling skills - not for a marathon or for a mountain biking trail, but in preparation for his commute. This year he moved from Foggy Bottom to a townhouse at 15th and P streets.
The Marvin Center has been used less for student organization functions and more for non-University events in percentage terms over the course of the last seven years, according to a report obtained by The Hatchet. The report, titled, "Executive Summary 2004: Marvin Center and University Conferences," was distributed to members of the Board of Trustees and outlines the use of Marvin Center space over a seven-year period.
On a rainy afternoon, John Logsdon sits in his office on the fourth floor of the Elliott School of International Affairs building. His workspace is lightly decorated with models of the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V rocket that first took men to the moon and other pieces of space memorabilia.
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