February 22, 1999

False fire alarm in New Hall triggers investigation The housing services office and several New Hall rooms suffered damage Saturday morning after a false fire alarm triggered emergency sprinklers, saturating the first floor. Students in damaged rooms were moved out temporarily while the soggy rooms were cleaned. “The Community Living and Learning Center asked the […]

GW started a three-game series with Coastal Carolina University this weekend by thrashing the Chanticleers in Conway, S.C. But Coastal Carolina bounced back to handily defeat GW twice and take the series. The Chanticleers’ 7-2 start is their best in 11 years. The Colonials (2-4) travel to the University of South Carolina next weekend for […]

The festival of Holi (pronounced “Holy”), also called the festival of colors, celebrates the coming of spring in the northern regions of India. As the stark branches and barren fields of winter months give way to budding leaves and blossoming flowers, people try to match the riot of colors unleashed by nature. The present form […]

If you compare the five members of Collective Soul from its last tour and the guys promoting the band’s new album, it looks like someone told them to get a makeover. But appearance aside, Collective Soul is still the same band that is arguably the most popular modern rock group of the ’90s. After releasing […]

My compliments to the editors of The GW Hatchet for amusing us all once again with their attempt to act like a real newspaper. While it failed, as usual, it did provide another glimpse into the “ivory tower” mentality that now seems to dominate The Hatchet. First off, I will gladly confess to being the […]

After years of criticism – mostly from the right – that President Clinton had allowed the U.S. military to deteriorate like the hollow forces of the 1970s, he finally gave in. Or that is what he would like the public to believe. During his State of the Union address in January, he said, “It is […]

After Colonial Inauguration last year, I determined that the single most frustrating experience of my life was telephone registration for classes. I was at the fifth CI and spent about three hours on the phone only to hear that scary, horrifyingly frightening woman tell me that the classes I wanted were closed. Later, the mere […]

Six candidates plan to request an injunction Monday in student court after the Joint Elections Committee removed them from the ballot for not attending a mandatory candidates’ meeting last week. But the JEC members and candidates involved in the case offer varying versions of the events surrounding the election’s first major conflict. Jeff Marootian, acting […]

Dartmouth College’s Board of Trustees decided last week to end the college’s 150-year-old single-sex fraternity and sorority system. Dartmouth President James Wright said the trustees’ decision will end the Greek-letter system “as we know it” and the college is prepared to spend tens of millions of dollars to implement its decision. The decision is a […]

It was not Shakespeare or Spielberg. But the film’s title, Juranal Park, certainly rang a bell. And the 18-and-older crowd filled the Marvin Center ballroom Thursday night for Program Board’s showing of “XXX Adult Entertainment.” “We show a variety of films to meet a variety of students’ needs,” said PB Films Chair Ian Zeitzer. “It’s […]