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Student reports club assault

A GW student filed a complaint against a D.C. nightclub last week, alleging that he was manhandled by one of its bouncers at a February sorority party. Freshman Seth London, who was attending a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority event at Polly Esther's Feb. 23, said he was assaulted by one of the hot spot's crowd controllers for not complying with its dress code.

City proposes Metro fee increase

Students may be paying more money to ride the Metro starting in July to cover the service's large budget shortfall. The city has proposed fare increases, including raising the base price from $1.20 to $1.35, to close the gap on an approximately $30 million Metro deficit.

Viewers debate controversial "Passion"

As Roman soldiers selected a spiked whip from a table laden with torture devices, the audience gasped. But that was the only sound viewers would make during a Wednesday night showing of "The Passion of the Christ." "It was very gruesome," said freshman Eugene Meyers after watching Mel Gibson's highly anticipated but controversial chronicle of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.

Students protest drinking age

by Katie Rooney Hatchet Staff Writer A youth advocacy organization is recruiting D.C. college students in its campaign to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. While flyers from the National Youth Rights Association have been posted around campus, GW students have yet to officially join the group's effort to change the nation's drinking laws.

Nation in Brief

(U-WIRE) Boulder, Colo.- The University of Colorado at Boulder will require all incoming freshman to take an Internet course about alcohol use and abuse beginning this fall. Robert Maust, a university official, said the university has not made a final decision as to which Internet course will be used, but hopes to do so this week.