Volume 95, Issue 38
Stories from the January 14, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The GW women’s basketball team was probably a little embarrassed Sunday when it played Virginia Tech on national television in the Smith Center. The biggest crowd to ever see a GW women’s game was on hand. But the most vocal contingent of fans were loyal not to the Buff and Blue, but to the Hokies, […]
The Columbian School of Arts and Sciences dean’s office will use an anonymous $10,000 donation to establish a fund to support graduate students who are completing their dissertations. The new fund will help CSAS graduate students who are working on dissertations pay the $680 per semester continuous research fee, which will be implemented this fall. […]
There truly is no business like show business. Only in show business could you take an old-fashioned product, add a few new quirks more in tune with the time, and create a hipper version that resonates with the glamour of the original and pleases modern audiences. That’s exactly what producers Barry and Fran Weiser, of […]
Vice President Al Gore announced initiatives to promote “lifetime learning” during the “Vice President’s Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs” Tuesday at the Marvin Center. Vice President Al Gorephoto by Joshua S. Prezant “Obviously, lifetime learning is more than just a phrase,” Gore said. “It is a way of expanding all our […]
“The big break comes when everyone knows who you are. I wouldn’t say I have that yet,” said Valerie Wright, who plays Dolly Tate in the revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Although Wright still awaits her big break in acting, she is not new to the industry. Growing up in Las Vegas, Wright was […]
Prometheus, an Internet tool for course work at GW, has gained momentum during the spring semester, offering professors and students a new educational medium. “(Prometheus) has done more for the faculty than anything I’ve ever seen,” said Computer Information and Resource Center Director Brad Reese, who helped implement the software. The World Wide Web-based course […]
Varsity Blues (Paramount Pictures) brings together novice actors with a preteen idol and Academy Award-winning actor. But on the set, the lines separating the groups blur, the Hollywood hierarchy disappears and the cast members are friends instead of co-stars. Set in a small town in Texas, Varsity Blues follows the local high school football team […]
GW is participating in an international education exchange through the Fulbright Program, bringing foreign scholars to the University and sending GW professors abroad. The University boasts two faculty members in the American Scholar Program for the 1998-’99 academic year. American Scholars lecture or conduct research in various academic and professional fields. Scheherazade S. Rehman worked […]
Originally Published 01/14/99 Where: 2521 Pennsylvania Ave.Crowd: GW students, twentysomethings and young professionalsGetting in: ID required at the barPrices: Food prices are average, beer is $4-$5Food: Leaps and bounds above typical bar fareDancing: Possible – the bar has the music and the spacePick-ups: Slim pickin’Pluses: Friendly staff, great food, comfy atmosphereMinuses: Still too new to […]
Plans to create a Program Board fund for graduate student organizations are being re-examined after a University administrator halted a similar plan last semester. Mike Gargano, assistant vice president for Student and Academic Support Services, voiced strong objections last month to a plan to give graduate students PB funds for separate graduate programming. But he […]