Volume 95, Issue 39
Stories from the January 18, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment unanimously approved the Mount Vernon College campus plan Dec. 15 following an agreement between the Foxhall/Palisades neighborhoods and GW. In early December, GW and the neighborhood reached an agreement with the assistance of a mediator. Mount Vernon Executive Dean Grae Baxter said dialogue always existed between the Palisades neighborhood and […]
(U-WIRE) GOLAN HEIGHTS, ISRAEL – Jewish college students from the United States found themselves in a key piece of territory in the Middle East this month while the leaders of Israel and Syria met in West Virginia to discuss peace. Participants in the Israel 2000 program were in the Golan Heights, an area of Israel […]
Courts postpone sentencing of former GW student Former GW student Ed Meinert, who pled guilty to two counts of first-degree fraud Oct. 7, had his sentencing postponed until April 10. Meinert’s sentencing, originally scheduled for Dec. 13, was postponed to Dec. 21 after his lawyer, Joseph Jorgens, asked a federal judge to postpone the hearing, […]
The GW Hatchet’s Special Projects Editor Matt Berger spent 12 days in Israel this winter break, as part of the Israel 2000 program. He spent each day with a different school and filed daily reports for Hillel’s Web site www.hillel.org). The following is one of his reports, from a day spent with a group of […]
The United States was facing the fight of its life at the height of the Vietnam War when GW alumnus Berl Brechner was drafted. But Brechner honed his writing skills, not his military deftness, at GW. That is why former Professor Robert Willson called a friend at the Pentagon. Willson assisted Brechner in getting a […]
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Members of GW’s Neighbors Project joined other AmeriCorps volunteers from District organizations to make the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a day on, not a day off. Fourteen GW volunteers helped dust, garden, paint and replace light bulbs in the Martin Luther King Jr. Library at Ninth and G streets. The day of service was […]
President Bill Clinton presented a $21-billion tax relief plan for low-income families Jan. 12 in GW’s Dorothy Marvin Betts Theatre. The plan will increase the Earned Income Tax Credit, an initiative launched in 1975 as an incentive for families to stay off welfare. The main idea here is still the old idea of the American […]
A comedic hypnotist, a casting call for the new GW admissions film and a casino night in the Marvin Center are some of the activities the Student Activities Center promises will MONOPOLYze the lives of GW students this week. As students begin to sharpen their pencils and get back in the groove of waking up […]
The GW women’s basketball team completed a perfect winter break of basketball Sunday, extending its current winning streak to 11 games with an 83-73 victory over Temple at the Smith Center. The now 24th-ranked Colonials were rewarded Monday with a place in the Associated Press Top 25 for the first time this season. There’s a […]