Volume 95, Issue 44
Stories from the February 1, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The Joint Committee of Faculty and Students discussed a proposal Friday that would integrate rape under the definition of sexual assault, change reporting and victim assistance procedures, and enhance campus awareness about the issue. The Student Association Senate-sponsored resolution presented to the JCFS Friday intends to eliminate “the distinction between rape and sexual assault,” according […]
Depeche Mode is one of the few bands from the 1980s that survived the cross-over into the 1990s. But more impressively, it became more successful in the later years. Although critics often disliked it, the band was successful commercially. Many of the big-name bands of today, including Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo and Tricky, have cited Depeche […]
OK kids, get ready to have some fun. Yes, I know I usually write about dreary, serious and mundane topics, but this installment is going to be completely different. It is going to be wacky. You see, it all goes back to New Year’s. I was visiting New York City for the huge Times Square […]
When Skip Gnehm was president of the GW student government in the mid-1960s, he knew students who had been expelled for violating the school’s residence hall curfew or for sneaking into the women’s hall. Times have changed in Foggy Bottom in the ensuing 30 years, not just on campus, but also at the Department of […]
Continue the goals I would like to respond to the Jan. 28 full-page advertisement against racial preferences entitled “Guilty by Admission” (p. 8) and the article about the ad (“Ad campaign claims illegal admissions,” p. 3). This ad is frustrating and disheartening. Universities should not go back to the days of exclusionary admissions policies because […]
The Office of Student and Academic Support Services offered a $500 reward last week for information about nine reported technology thefts in University buildings last month. The most recent incidents involved the theft of two Random Access Memory cards and a Pentium II processor in the Mitchell Hall computer lab, and the theft of a […]
What a surprise. Yet another way GW is treating its Mount Vernon campus students different than its Foggy Bottom students with respect to policies and privileges. First, Foggy Bottom residents became worried of high lottery numbers that would force them to live at Mount Vernon. So the Residence Hall Association held a meeting and decided […]
Renee Harris did not plan to attend an all-women’s institution when she began to apply to colleges and universities in 1995. The former president of Mount Vernon’s Student Government Association began her freshman year at Howard University four years ago. But after touring what was then Mount Vernon College, she said she “fell in love” […]
I applaud Kathy Rooney and Clark Harding for finally challenging our housing policy on opposite-sex roommates. The current policy reflects an archaic view that any male-female contact must be a romantic relationship of some kind; that opposite-sex friends do not exist. More importantly, it implies that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation worthy of consideration. […]
A residence hall on GW’s Mount Vernon campus will house almost 100 men next semester, marking a historic change for the women’s college the University acquired three years ago. Robert Chernak, vice president for Student and Academic Support Services, said Pelham Hall, which houses 88 students, will become an all-male residence hall this fall and […]