Volume 95, Issue 7
Stories from the August 24, 1998 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Lysa Selfon signed the thank-you notes she sent this summer “Greetings from the Lightning Girl.” “It’s funny that I had to become `the lightning girl’ to get attention,” she said. Selfon has plenty of reasons to say thank you, and she’s come up with plenty of ways to do it. Selfon, a third-year GW law […]
Last week the president gave a four-minute address to the nation that was supposed to explain his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Most pundits and analysts were predicting the president would issue a mea culpa and ask for the nation’s forgiveness. But instead of telling everyone exactly what happened with the former White House intern, he […]
DOLE SPEAKS: Entertains crowd on Ellipse Former Sen. Bob Dole said he always dreamed of giving a major speech on the National Mall. But the keynote address at GW’s May 17 Commencement was not what he had in mind. “The way I imagined it, we were all standing a little closer to the Capitol,” Dole […]
College coaching positions often are like a revolving door – new coaches replace those who have moved on to better jobs or have presided over poorly performing programs. GW’s doors have been spinning at a rapid rate this summer. Ten new and promoted coaches will take over or assist varsity athletic programs this year. Much […]
GW honors March on Washington GW’s Gelman Library and Black Entertainment Television will sponsor an exhibit entitled, “Looking Back – Moving Forward: The March on Washington 35 Years Later” to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Civil Rights March. The exhibit will honor the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The exhibit will […]
GW to host sport tourism conference The Institute of Tourism Studies and the business school’s sports management program will sponsor Teams ’98, a conference and expo on sport tourism at the Marriott Hotel at Metro Center Sept. 17-19. Teams ’98 is dedicated to the industry that has come to be known as sport tourism, which […]
He’s showing up everywhere these days – on the Sunday morning political television shows, the network evening news, the 24-hour news channels. And hours after President Clinton admitted to the nation Monday night he had a relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky, GW Law School Professor Jonathan Turley was back in front of the camera. […]
The Barenaked Ladies are known for their musical wizardry – they blend rhythms and sounds to create entertaining songs. But the band earns accolades more for its lyrics than its musical ingenuity. That pattern is repeated on Barenaked Ladies’ latest release, Stunt (Reprise Records). Each song on the album is like a cryptogram waiting to […]
Jonathan Turley has seized the spotlight in the past seven months for his analysis of Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton, but he isn’t the only GW professor on television these days. With media outlets constantly searching for academics to fill hours of discussion of unfolding events, GW law professors, political scientists and journalists are […]
GW students don’t need to travel far to sample the city’s best performing arts. The Kennedy Center is just around the corner, and the city’s theater district is only a Metro ride away. But faculty members in GW’s theatre and dance department want students to know they don’t even have to leave campus to find […]