Volume 94, Issue 2
Stories from the October 27, 1997 issue of the GW Hatchet.
I feel compelled to respond to the opinion article “New Landmine Treaty is Unrealistic” (The GW Hatchet, Oct. 23, p.5). Unfortunately, the editorial only presented half of the story. It neglected to mention the effects that landmines have on people. The majority of landmine victims are civilians. Twenty-six thousand people a year are killed or […]
Koul, Mescheriakov honored by preseason magazine Dick Vitale’s College Basketball Yearbook and Street and Smith’s magazines both bestowed preseason honors on GW’s Yegor Mescheriakov and Alexander Koul. Vitale’s College Basketball Yearbook named Mescheriakov to its first team All-Atlantic 10 Primetime-Players, while Koul was named to the second team. The magazine also ranked the GW men’s […]
The GW men’s soccer team lost two games on the road this weekend to Atlantic 10 rivals Xavier and Dayton, both of which are having surprisingly good seasons. Xavier is now 7-1 in the A-10 conference, while Dayton is 6-3. The Flyers finished the season undefeated at home after beating GW. In the preseason A-10 […]
As the season winds down, when many games translate into must-win situations, a team almost always looks to its stars to put it into the win column. That’s what the GW women’s soccer team did this weekend when it looked to senior Chemar Smith to lead it to two huge wins over Atlantic 10 rivals […]
Through a background of complex acoustic rhythms came the angelic voice of Teresa Salgueiro, singing with Madredeus at Lisner Auditorium Friday night. By the end of the night, the audience was in love with that angel’s voice, and with the band. The night began on a humorous note when Carlos Trindade on synthesizer delayed the […]
The GW Interfraternity Council has 102 additional members as a result of its September 1997 rush process. In the same month, the 12 fraternities of the IFC were among the many students across the nation shocked by the recent deaths of two freshmen fraternity pledges at Louisiana State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The […]
MOVIES AMC Courthouse 82150 Clarendon Blvd. Arlington, VA(703) 998-4AMC The Full Monty (R)Fri. 1:45, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00Sat. 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15Sun. 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:00Mon.-Thur. 5:45, 8:15, 10:15 In & Out (PG-13)Fri. 1:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:30Sat. 2:00, 5:30, 8:15, 10:30Sun. 2:00, 5:30, 8:15, 10:15Mon.-Thur. 5:45, 8:15, 10:15 L.A. Confidential (R)Fri. 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45Sat. 1:30, […]
The Student Association is revamping its Student Advocacy Service in an effort to provide a more personalized touch to student government, SA officials said. The reorganized service will provide students an outlet to address administrative and academic grievances, and general concerns about student life. SAS is meant to serve as a safety net to catch […]
Chairman of the University Board of Trustees, John Zeglis, was named the new president and chief operating officer of AT&T earlier this month. A key figure in AT&T’s major strategic efforts during the last 15 years, Zeglis is credited with drafting the plan that broke up the Bell Telephone System in 1984, overseeing AT&T’s lobbying […]
SA’s Academic Update helps students online GW students now can access the Academic Update online starting Monday Oct. 27. The update provides course and professor evaluations collected by the Student Association at the end of last semester. The new World Wide Web site will include information about more than 900 courses offered at the University. […]