Looking back on University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg's legacy after 18 years at the helm of The George Washington University will inevitably invoke nostalgia, fondness and anger - depending on whom you ask. He has been here too long to simply go down in history as a good or bad president.
In a Feb. 27 Hatchet editorial essay, Adam Connor wrote about a personal catastrophe that probably sent chills right into the very bones of most students at GW. His iPod died ("iSolated: iPods and an alternate reality," p. 4). Worse, his old iPod also died.
Authors note: As I write this, Art Buchwald is in a hospice in Washington, D.C. He wants to spend his final days with friends and family. This is my memory of the one time our paths crossed. From my very first day of college in September of 1965 at George Washington University in Washington, D.
During the spring semester of 2002, the Palestinian Intifada was at its height. Multiple suicide bombings occurred every week in Israeli cafés and on buses. Israel reoccupied Palestinian population centers, bulldozing houses and launching missiles aimed at top figures in Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Last week, Hillel Director Robert Fishman sent an organizational e-mail over the Hillel listserv accusing me of being a terrorist. The claims include that I have "led chants (of) 'Death to Jews'" and "openly admitted to associating with suicide bombers." Needless to say, I have not done either; in fact, all of Fishman's accusations are appalling lies with absolutely no basis in reality.
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