December 4, 1997

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 […]

Going into a season, every team sets goals for itself. The 1997 GW women’s soccer team’s main goal was to make a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament, a goal it fell just short of achieving. “We obviously weren’t pleased with the season because we didn’t reach our goals, and one of our goals […]

Unlike other John Grisham novels-turned-feature-films, The Rainmaker (Paramount Pictures) is not just another gavel-banging courtroom drama. Instead, the movie is fun and entertaining as it manages to find humor in the serious world of law. Matt Damon (Courage Under Fire) plays Rudy Baylor, a wet-behind-the-ears lawyer who has yet to try his first case. Practicing […]

The children stand in a line, clad in green and white school uniforms. The neckties they knotted themselves are remarkably uneven. The classroom session has ended for the afternoon – the kids soon will be released to personal tutors. The tutors wait in a silent group at the end of the room. The children, growing […]

Flubber (Buena Vista) pitifully tries to recreate the 1961 Walt Disney Classic, The Absent Minded Professor. The film lacks a few elements which made its predecessor a success – plot, humor and a supporting cast, to name a few. A brilliant, but absent-minded scientist, Professor Phillip Brainard (Robin Williams, Jack) is trying to concoct a […]

Jazz music has been an inspiration to many artists. Friday night, musicians and dancers will come together for “Seeing JAZZ Move” to explore the moods and rhythms of jazz. It will be a site-specific performance in conjunction with “Seeing JAZZ,” an exhibition of the Smithsonian’s International Gallery of Art. The exhibit showcases artwork and literature […]

Record stores in Nashville, San Francisco and even the District are being overrun by hordes of anxious music lovers, searching for their own copies of Garth Brooks’ latest release, Sevens (Capitol Records). This soothing masterpiece is sure to be a chart-topper including several melodic masterpieces. Highlighting the album, “In Another’s Eyes,” a duet featuring Trisha […]

The city’s zoning board postponed its final decision on the University’s proposed health and wellness center for at least another month and scheduled an additional hearing on the issue for mid-December. The D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment was scheduled to vote Wednesday on GW’s request to build the center at the corner of 23rd and […]

<IMG Student leaders and administrators will meet Friday to discuss tuitionand budget priorities in a closed session at the Marvin Center’s University Club. The meeting was promised to student leaders by GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg last spring, when students protested this year’s 6.9 percent increase in tuition and fees and demanded more student input […]