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Live coverage: Encampment enters 13th day as protesters condemn alleged negotiations rejection

Live coverage: Encampment enters 13th day as protesters condemn alleged negotiations rejection

By The GW Hatchet Staff May 7, 2024

Protesters commenced the encampment's 13th day Tuesday, as protesters continue to denounce University President Ellen Granberg's alleged refusal to meet with organizers on their demands. Granberg said...

Live coverage: GWPD cuts flagpole rope on encampment’s 12th day

Live coverage: GWPD cuts flagpole rope on encampment’s 12th day

By The GW Hatchet Staff May 6, 2024

Protesters enter the 12th day of the encampment with the final exam period in full swing and ire over University President Ellen Granberg’s reported refusal to meet with organizers.  Granberg said...

Granberg says GW unable to end ‘illegal’ protest alone

Granberg says GW unable to end ‘illegal’ protest alone

By Faith Wardwell and Erika Filter May 5, 2024
Granberg said on Sunday that all of the University’s efforts to end the “potentially dangerous” encampment or deter protesters from escalation have failed.
Live coverage: Encampment begins 11th day without bargaining from officials, students say

Live coverage: Encampment begins 11th day without bargaining from officials, students say

By The GW Hatchet Staff May 5, 2024

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators donned ponchos and rain jackets and rain flies remained on tents as the encampment in University Yard experienced unrelenting rainfall throughout the night. Organizers...

Op-ed: GW should learn from historic protests to meet ongoing demonstrations

By Shawn McHale, Guest Contributor May 4, 2024
On the 54th anniversary of the 1970 Kent State shootings, GW officials must compromise with student protests to move forward.
Live coverage: Encampments tenth day met with rain, temperature drops

Live coverage: Encampment’s tenth day met with rain, temperature drops

By The GW Hatchet Staff May 4, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters in the University Yard encampment strapped tarps to tents, gathered umbrellas and layered ponchos over their clothes as puddles of rainwater formed overnight and into the morning...

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Live coverage: Palestinian flag re-hoisted in U-Yard as encampment nears end of day nine

By The GW Hatchet Staff May 3, 2024

Protesters awake on the ninth day of the encampment to GW Police Department officers’ overnight removal of the large Palestinian flag that the group hoisted at the south end of University Yard Thursday...

Biden nominates alums to cabinet positions

Biden nominates alums to cabinet positions

By Sachini Adikari, Contributing News Editor May 2, 2024
President Joe Biden nominated two alumni to cabinet posts Thursday.

Op-ed: Approach nonviolent protest with love

By Michael Long, Guest Contributor May 2, 2024
We are due the radical love of the students, staff and faculty who are protesting at GW so that we may reconnect with our own sense of justice.
Nicholas Anastácio: Off the charts

Nicholas Anastácio: Off the charts

By Nicholas Anastácio, Community Relations Director May 2, 2024

My newspapers were in Portuguese or pinned on pavements by pickups. Journalism was relative to my family, marked by a rotating marathon of multilingual television broadcasts and a collection of newspaper...

Grace Miller: Maybe it was by design

Grace Miller: Maybe it was by design

By Grace Miller May 2, 2024

I don’t know what made me stay at The Hatchet, but I can’t help but feel it was meant to be. I joined after sending a panicked DM in the fall of my first year — asking if I was too late to apply...

English professor Jane Shore

Beloved poetry professor reflects on 35 years at GW

By Ella Mitchell, Contributing News Editor May 2, 2024
After a decades-long career as a poet and an educator, Jane Shore’s 35 years at GW are coming to a “clothes” as she plans to retire to her home in Vermont.
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