Stories from the September 18, 2006, Print Edition
On the same street where today's soldiers nurse their battle wounds in Northwest Washington, a series of simple white stones stand guard over the ghosts of the soldiers from another era. Just blocks away from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C., and only about five miles away from GW's campus, lies Fort Stevens from the Civil War, where some 40 soldiers during the mid-nineteenth century died defending the nation's capital in one of the war's last battles.
Most sexually active students know the potential consequences of not using a condom when having sex - possible pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS - but when it comes to oral sex, it seems the condom consideration is often left out.
At the onset of her fourth year in college, Eve has learned quite a few things about sex. Eve, The Hatchet's anonymous sex columnist, will share her observations and (sometimes dirty) thoughts about sex at GW with the population that fuels her fire. My name is Eve.
At Wasabi Sushi, there's no waiting for a waitress to come and take your order. Your food is ready the moment you sit down - you just have to catch it before the person sitting next to you grabs the prawn cucumber pesto roll you wanted. Food moves fast at this 17th and I Street eatery.
In a handful of campuses across the country, students' cell phones are blowin' up - not with calls from their friends, but with text messages from professors. A new technology known as Rave Wireless allows students to stay in touch with campus information through their cell phones.
Ivory Tower is the premier upperclassman dorm, but some residents walk into their building and have flashbacks of freshman year - yells by a University Police Department officer to swipe your GWorld and groups of people forming a line to sign in their guests.
When graduate student Heather Bradley started a program in El Salvador that helped orphan children take photographs, she never imagined the United Nations would exhibit the children's work. Bradley, who got her undergraduate degree last May with a major in Latin American studies and women's studies, first traveled to San Salvador two years ago with a United States Agency for International Development internship in San Salvador.
Every date throughout the year has some significance - from historical moments to celebrity news to sports trivia. Read below to find out what important events occurred throughout history on September 18: In 1793, the first cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol building was laid by then-President George Washington.
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