Volume 94, Issue 11
Stories from the December 4, 1997 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The brewing crisis in the Gulf, the byproduct of the failure of the Bush Administration to liberate Iraq as well as Kuwait, could be the defining moment of the Clinton presidency. More important than fund-raising scandals, sexual harassment allegations and Whitewater, Clinton’s true legacy, which in the area of foreign policy has in the past […]
Lately, the MCI Center has been at the fore of GW students’ minds. The question of where Commencement will be held continues to frustrate and worry students. Our views about Commencement are still the same – the Ellipse tradition should continue. But we too can appreciate the importance of the new MCI Center to the […]
Conventional wisdom says that on the tuition issue, everyone loses. The students never get what they want (more value for their tuition dollar), while administrators appears to be greedy businessmen bent on squeezing every dollar out of students. The facts support this: Tuition has increased 28 percent during the last six years, and the mysterious […]
After falling to North Carolina State University and the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Colonial women (2-3) had lost two consecutive games for the first time in almost a year. The last time GW suffered back-to-back defeats was in early December of last season, when GW dropped games on the road to George Mason University […]
Tuition. A word hated by all GW students and their parents. Ben Franklin used to say that in life, only two things were certain – death and taxes. College students can add another to the list: yearly increases in college costs above inflation levels. Tomorrow, University officials will devote a couple of hours of their […]
The GW men’s water polo team concluded its successful season Nov. 16 at the ECAC Championships. The team made it to the finals, defeating Villanova (15-9), Massachusetts (9-8 in overtime) and Bucknell (l6-7). After the victory against Bucknell in the semifinals, the Colonials faced UMass again in the championship round, where they lost 9-6. “Basically […]
Senior Cory Carr scored 25 points as Texas Tech University pulled away in the second half for an 80-57 rout of the GW men’s basketball team in Lubbock, Texas Wednesday. GW (5-2) shot a miserable 27 percent from the field in the second half. The Colonials made only nine of 34 shots and were outscored […]
Men’s basketball winter schedule* at Franklin National Bank Classic (MCI Center)** at U.S. Airways Holiday Classic (Patriot Center) DecemberMon 8 vs. Kansas or Maryland TBD (HTS)*Sat 13 at Old Dominion 4:00 p.m.Sat 20 vs. UNC-Charlotte 2:00 p.m.Sat 27 vs. Army 6:30 p.m.**Sun 28 vs. Northeastern/GMU TBD** JanuarySun 4 vs. La Salle 5:00 p.m.Wed 7 vs. […]
LAHAINA, HAWAII-The GW men’s basketball team traveled 5,000 miles last week to find out just how well it could compete against the best teams in the country. The results proved inconclusive. The Colonials won two of three games at the Maui Invitational Nov. 24-26, but finished fifth out of eight teams and did not play […]
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your Thanksgiving wasn’t relaxing because your family annoyed you too much. The next couple of weeks aren’t going to be a vacation, either, because of all of the work you have to do. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 21) Stop bitching about all of the papers you have to write. Not only does […]