BALTIMORE - Gray skies didn't ruin the mood for the 40,000 concert-goers who piled into the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for Saturday's Virgin Festival. The grounds were packed with college-aged youths, decked out in their finest Converse All-Stars, and quite a few people old enough to be their parents.
BALTIMORE - The Flaming Lips are known for over-the-top live shows with outrageous spectacles. So, before their set at the Virgin Festival at the Pimlico Race course in Maryland, I had understandably high expectations. What I didn't expect was transvestites, fire-breathers, aliens, Santa Clauses and a monkey-man in a sequined leotard.
Last weekend, a group of friends and I headed over to Baltimore's Virgin Festival for a day of old people (the Who), crazy people (The Flaming Lips) and people who used to wear socks on their penises, but now just have a whole lot to say about California (The Red Hot Chili Peppers).
"Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls," Craig Finn yawped on the Hold Steady's "Almost Killed Me." As if to prove the point, the band followed that stellar debut with the positively epic "Separation Sunday," a record teeming with stories of depravity and love, sin and redemption It wasn't an album, it was a Proverb with garage licks.
I have a great idea for a film. It would be called "School for People Who Can't Execute a Coherent Script Good, and Who Want to Learn to Act Good Too." It would star the cast and crew of "School for Scoundrels," and would document them trying to learn to make a decent movie, following them on random subplots while maintaining vague and ambiguous characters.
Normally, all you can buy in Kogan Plaza are cheap earrings and Bob Marley posters. But from Monday to Wednesday, a whole store appeared - complete with music, wood floors, Oriental rugs and fake vintage posters. Has GW turned into a mall? Not quite yet.
"Jesus Camp" doesn't try to explain why Evangelical Christians are a millions-strong group. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady instead focus on a strange, intense part of this massive movement. The results are frightening, but it's only a small slice of a morally and politically complicated phenomenon.
If you have $5 Pocket it again this week, and head down to the Mall for the annual National Book Festival. Sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by the First Lady, this year's festival, as always, promises a good time for the bibliophile, with multitudes of writers available to sign books and plenty of displays that will remind you of that special time when reading was fun and not just something you slog through for school.
Thursday Fall Career Fair Browse through a host of employers for full-time, part-time, co-op and internship positions. 1 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center Continental and Grand Ballrooms Sponsored by the Career Center Consequences of a Nuclear India Join Eliza Matthews, a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Queensland for this discussion on American and Australian non-proliferation efforts.
The Student Association Senate confirmed junior Ryan Sullivan as the Student Court's newest judge Tuesday night in the Marvin Center. Last week, SA President Lamar Thorpe, a senior, nominated Sullivan to the court. Within days, Sullivan passed the Rules Committee with a 5-0 vote.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council began its annual process to recruit potential new members Tuesday. Founded in 1930 at Howard University, the NPHC, or the Divine Nine as the organization is commonly referred to, is the Greek-letter governing council for historically African American fraternities and sororities.
In her column last week ("The Colonial Army earned its privilege," Sept. 25, p. 4), Molly Gannon mistakenly referred to a last-minute Colonials victory over Dayton last year. The victory she referred to was against Charlotte.
Basketball game policy GW's first-come, first-serve entry policy will help ensure more equitable access to games. This move is a logical step toward the eventual change to charging students for tickets. Administrators should be careful, however, not to price fans out of a program that still has yet to prove its consistent excellence.
Monday night, I threw on a pair of khakis, a blazer and a power tie for the chance to do something that many at GW salivate over - testify in front of a Washington, D.C. government panel. It wasn't the Senate Judiciary Committee or the House Committee on International Relations.
This summer, when your mother's friends asked you where you were headed to college, you probably felt fairly secure that your reply inspired at least some degree of respect. This University has been increasing in quality since its days as a commuter school, and has now become a nationally recognized institution.
Trachtenberg World Tour In the Hatchet's recent article on University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's ambitious travel plans for his last year in office, "Pres. to travel for alumni" (Sept. 18, p. 3), Lizzie Wozobski, campus news editor, accurately described me as a frequent critic of the administration's budget policies.
The doors at the D.C. Armed Forces Recruitment Office were shut for two openly gay students attempting to enlist Tuesday morning. The office doors of the recruitment center were locked at 10:30 a.m. Posted office hours stated that they would be open. The two students were protesting the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy by trying to enter the recruitment office and enlist while announcing their homosexuality.
Unlawful Entry 9/23 - Gelman Library - 6:10 p.m. - case closed UPD officers responded to a call from Gelman Library about a disorderly individual. Upon arrival, officers found the subject wandering around the Gelman Starbucks screaming and yelling at customers.
Students, faculty and alumni testified at D.C.'s Zoning Commission Monday night at the third public hearing for GW's 20-year Campus Plan. Student Association President Lamar Thorpe and former presidents Omar Woodard and Phil Robinson spoke to the commission, as well as other students.
A District Department of Transportation study presented at a Foggy Bottom community meeting Tuesday recommended the demolishing the Whitehurst Freeway. The $540,000 study, which took more than two years to complete, examined the effects of 14 proposed construction and destruction plans, and how they would affect traffic.
Emmett Smith, an employee for nearly 27 years, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Smith, 59, worked in various University offices ranging from the University Police Department to his latest position as media lab operations supervisor in the School of Media and Public Affairs.
It may not affect many people within 1,000 miles of Foggy Bottom, but senior Chris Beatty is hard at work raising money and awareness for one of the world's most deadly diseases. Beatty is the founder and leader of the GW Team to Fight Malaria in the worldwide Madness Against Malaria tournament.
John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill gave students a behind-the-scenes look at campaigns Monday night. The political strategist spoke in the Marvin Center to an audience of about 130 students. In her speech at the GW College Democrats-sponsored event, Cahill offered optimistic predictions for the Democrats in 2006.
The Hippodrome will be closed starting Monday due to construction on the WOW Caf? and Wingery. The delayed food venue, which was originally scheduled to open by Sept. 5, is now slated to begin service Nov. 6, said Nancy Haaga, director of Campus Support Services.
The Student Association Senate passed a resolution expressing the body's disappointment with the recent cancellation of the "GW Reads" program and will form a petition to reinstitute the program. Earlier this month the University axed the initiative that brought free editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today in an effort to reduce University spending by $50,100.
Students might be more concerned about fending off a cold than acquiring leprosy, but one professor hopes to draw more attention to neglected diseases such as these. Peter Hotez, chair of the Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Diseases department, began a new scientific journal called Public Library of Science: Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Many law-school hopefuls in Washington are leaving the District Saturday to take the Law School Admission Test because all test centers in D.C. were filled nearly three months before the registration deadline. All the spots for LSAT centers in D.C. were filled in May.
GW hosted one of the East coast's largest professional school fairs for Monday and Tuesday in the Smith Center, event organizers said. A committee from the D.C. Consortium of Colleges and Universities organizes the event, which they expected to draw more than 2,000 people.
Golf The GW golf team won the Rehoboth Beach Invitational in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Sept. 25. It was GW's third victory in six years at the tournament. La Salle's John Lorenzo took medalist honors with a 3-under par 139 (68-71). Freshman Tyler Wendelken carded a 70 and 72 to finish second.
After the GW women's soccer team defeated Rider 3-1 Tuesday afternoon at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, head coach Tanya Vogel focused on the squad's match-up Friday against Massachusetts. The game will mark the opening of Atlantic 10 play and essentially the start to a new season.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke about the economic development of his country and the need for more business ties with the U.S. in an address Tuesday afternoon. About 250 invited guests and members of the media filled the Jack Morton Auditorium in the School of Media and Public Affairs building, according to University officials.
Admission for GW men's basketball games will be on a first-come, first-serve basis, a University official told The Hatchet yesterday. The University will not offer early admission to the Smith Center for any student organization, and students will not be required to pick up tickets, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said yesterday.
CNN's "Reliable Sources" will begin regular tapings in the Jack Morton Auditorium Oct. 6, the University announced this week. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz hosts the hour-long program, which airs once a week and will be taped once a month at GW.
Student Association President Lamar Thorpe announced Tuesday that free condoms will be available in freshman residence halls starting Thursday.
Residence halls at GW have changed dramatically over the last half-century. Today, most students live in one of many co-ed dorms with as many as six roommates, high-tech electronics and strict security. Fifty years ago, the story was very different.
A conservative author and National Review senior editor spoke about abortion to a crowd of about 70 in the Marvin Center Tuesday night. Ramesh Ponnuru addresses the history, constitutional foundations and public opinion regarding Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision that declared most anti-abortion laws unconstitutional.
Through a new initiative, the Open Educational Video Lecture Project, Yale intends to make it possible for anyone to have the classroom experience by simply using the Internet. This service will be available for free. Through a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, complete courses, including actual classroom lectures, will be accessible online for free universal access.
Vanessa Maltin grew up feeling like she had food poisoning every time she ate. Until well after she turned 21, stomach cramps, diarrhea and gas were routine parts of her life. Then as an intern reporter for the Palm Beach Post in 2004, the George Washington University student was assigned to cover a conference on celiac disease at the National Institutes of Health.
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