March 22, 1999

DONEGAL, Ireland – “Oh yes, they’ve been celebrating downtown every night for a few days now. If it’s crack you’re looking for, you’re sure to find it in Dublin.” This was my introduction to Mrs. Crofton the innkeeper, and to Ireland in general. It had been my great fear that while in Dublin for spring […]

There is no such thing as “reverse discrimination.” The headline of The GW Hatchet’s March 4 editorial (p. 4) erroneously referred to an instance at Boston College of the denial of male students’ civil rights on the basis of sex under this absurd, illogical term. Discrimination is a social wrong perpetrated by one group against […]

While the Clinton administration is attempting to stand up to Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic despite years of appeasing him and his genocidal ambitions, it has just completed a deal with the worlds most dangerous regime – North Korea. The negotiations that led to this latest agreement began after evidence began to mount that an underground […]

The world (most of it, anyway) has stood idly by as the breakup of Yugoslavia degenerated into some of the worst examples of organized genocide and atrocities since the Holocaust. The threat of international intercession has been raised so many times that it lacks any real credibility. The Clinton administration has once again declared that […]

This spring Ed Meinert asked me to help him in his bid for Student Association president. I knew Ed through participation in a student group, so I decided to join the campaign. Little did I know what I would be exposed to in an SA presidential campaign. In my three years at GW, I have […]

This year’s student elections have taken a page from a soap opera script: Just when it seems Alexis Rice has finally won, a shocking ballot controversy takes away her victory. And just when it looked like Derek Grosso was gone for good, he surprises everyone by coming back from the dead for one more attempt […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Cinderella teams abounded after the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, as low seeds consistently beat top seeds in the first and second rounds. But the GW men’s basketball team forgot to get fitted for a glass slipper, as Indiana University escorted the Colonials from the “Big Dance” early with a 108-88 […]

The Elliott School of International Affairs received nearly $5 million in grants this month to build up different components of its East Asian studies program. The grants give the program a significant boost amid the economic crisis plaguing Asia and fierce competition by several area universities for limited funds. President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will match […]

The NCAA Tournament first and second round games in Orlando, Fla., were full of lots of little subplots, just like every site in the tourney. The first-round match-up between the University of Louisville and Creighton University featured two high-octane offenses that promised to put up huge numbers. Samford University was hyped as “Southern-Fried Princeton” because […]

A Community Living and Learning Center official says the Community Host Initiative has been “overwhelmingly successful,” six months after the program was introduced in several residence halls. “The students really like the homey touches created by the community hosts,” said Mark Levine, assistant dean of students. The program, which is in Crawford, Madison and Fulbright […]