Sometime between May and June, it hit me that my brief walk from couch to freezer for another bowl of chocolate-chocolate chip frozen yogurt hardly qualified as a summer exercise routine. This was unfortunate, as I am not one inclined to motion by nature. In general, and particularly in the summer, I enjoy lying inert […]
Volunteers read aloud the names of children who perished in the Holocaust, a yearly campus memorial tradition, under blue skies Tuesday in Kogan Plaza. From a podium inside the tempietto, readers announced the name, age and home of each child as well as the concentration camp where each was killed. At least one million children […]
By 6:50 a.m. Saturday morning, Lilly Needleman is raring to go – and not because she had gotten enough sleep the night before. The GW sophomore only closes her eyes after she finally finishes dividing up a hefty bag of Skittles into its component colors: red, orange, yellow, green and purple. She had spent hours […]
Originally Published 04/20/00 April 18, 2000Ben & Jerry’s in Georgetown3:35 p.m. After a weekend of forced peace, love and pepper spray on campus, it was good to know that at least one hippie bastion can still manage to spread its message without taking back the streets or vandalizing Funger. Instead of Free Mumia, the chant […]
April 16, 2000G and 20th streets12 p.m. Every other Sunday for as long as we can remember, we’ve had to leave the Hatchet office to find the news. Today it came to us. By noon we had already been wandering the streets of D.C. for seven hours. We moved from Washington Circle in the dark […]
When you are trying to save the world, you get up before the sun – and you make sure everyone knows you’re there. Throughout Saturday night and Sunday morning, omens of impending activism disturbed nearby residents in their sleep. Blaring sirens, pulsating helicopter propellers and pounding drums called out from the streets below to the […]
Name: Chris Voss Hometown: Anoka, Minn. Major: Economics and BiologyYear: JuniorCredentials: Student Association Dining Services chair, Colonial Inauguration cabinet member, founder of Students for a Better GW, community facilitatorWeb site: www.stormloader.com/vote4voss The way Chris Voss sees it, the Student Association Senate has a few problems – political divisiveness, lack of visibility and slow progress. Luckily, […]
Krupin’s, 4620 Wisconsin Avenue, NWFebruary 167:10 p.m. Theresa, my Italian-Irish best friend, is trying to order at Krupin’s. Trying. She peers at the menu through wisps of blond hair and studies it intently, as if nervous she’ll be quizzed. Her anxiety is partly because she is a vegetarian, so the heaping corned beef sandwich I’m […]
Seven GW freshmen fled Foggy Bottom last weekend and headed for higher political ground. The students, who are neighbors on Lafayette Hall’s third floor, boarded a Greyhound bus bound for New Hampshire and spent the weekend campaigning for Bill Bradley, traipsing through the New England slush. The experience was one of many moments in the […]
Comedy Central talk-show host Jon Stewart’s appearance at GW, originally slated for Thursday night, was moved to Sunday after scheduling conflicts with Stewart’s management team nearly halted the show. Organizers for GW assured students Wednesday that all tickets purchased for the original date would be honored and that no exchange was necessary. The Sunday night […]