Volume 94, Issue 36
Stories from the April 13, 1998 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Anne Henderson will graduate on the Ellipse this May with honors in English. Henderson takes pride in this accomplishment, but a thought still lingers in her mind – she has only taken two upper-level English courses at GW. To graduate with a degree from the Columbian School, students must complete a solid sample of classes […]
For spectators at the 11th Annual GW Invitational Crew Classic Saturday, weather conditions were ideal. The sun shined on the crowds gathered at Washington Harbor watching the University of Virginia recapture the Gilbert H. Hood Jr. Point Trophy. But for the rowers, the weather conditions were not as spectacular. A strong cross tail wind and […]
Cronkite to speak at Press Club Monday Walter Cronkite, former anchor of CBS News, will sit down for a one-on-one interview with Marvin Kalb Monday at the National Press Club as part of an event sponsored by GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs. The interview is the last in a series of Kalb Reports […]
At first glance, it looked as though the devil himself had made a one-evening stopover April 4 at the Barns of Wolf Trap on his never-ending recruiting trip. By the end of the night, it was confirmed. John Mooney is six feet tall, has a head smoother than polished steel, and a goatee longer and […]
Susan Tolchin, a professor of public administration and author of a recent book on voter rage, has been awarded the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Research Scholarship. “Dr. Tolchin’s works are about the real world of government and politics and they are shaping that world,” said GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in a press […]
“The two legged beasts that walk like men/Placed finger in their crusty asses/While crackling babies in napalm coats/Stretched mouths to receive burning tears on splitting tongues/Just give me a cool drink a water ‘fore i die.” That’s the opening line of the CD Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou. (Rhino Records). Angelou’s dramatic and […]
About 30 students, mostly members of Greek-letter organizations, gathered for a Greek town hall meeting Wednesday to discuss President Clinton’s initiative on race. “Clinton called for communities and campuses to have a dialog on race, not a debate,” said Melvin Brock, interim director of the Multicultural Student Services Center, who read from the White House […]
The GW Hatchet’s news editor Becky Neilson will lead the paper next year as its editor in chief. Neilson was elected by Hatchet editors March 28. She is expected to be confirmed by The Hatchet’s Board of Directors later this month. “I’m definitely hoping to continue a tradition of covering student activities on campus and […]
The article “D.C. schools ax Barry hiring plan” (The GW Hatchet, April 9, 1998, p.1) should have made clear that despite The Washington Post’s report that GW is among area universities considering Mayor Marion Barry for as teaching post, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said GW will not consider such a move unless approached again […]
After the GW baseball team equaled its win total from 1996-’97 last week, the team made another statement this weekend. The Colonials completed a three-game sweep of Dayton at Barcroft Park Sunday afternoon to take sole possession of first place in the Atlantic 10 Conference’s West Division. “This is a huge weekend for us,” head […]