Volume 96, Issue 11
Stories from the September 9, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
“Who could beat us in that category?” GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg about GW’s No. 17 “red tape” ranking. “I find it incredible to think that anyone beat us. We’re so close to the definitive beast of red tape – the federal government – that it makes us overly bureaucratic. Our model in town is […]
Here’s a trivial fact about me that many of my friends don’t even know (if they care). Lou Holtz, the former Notre Dame and current South Carolina football coach, is my second cousin (my branch of the family dropped the `z’). I actually met him once at a family wedding, and he seems like a […]
Crew: Matthew Pascal was named men’s novice coach, replacing Matt Russell. Baseball: Chris Burr was named assistant baseball coach.
The Colonial women are 0-5 and have been outscored this season 18-1. The season hit a new low Wednesday at George Mason Stadium when the Patriots romped over GW 7-1 to notch GMU’s second-highest point total in school history. There is consolation in that the Colonial women opened the season 0-6 last year only to […]
Two separate announcements were made Wednesday that promise to keep roundball lovers in the vicinity of 22nd and G streets happy throughout the usually basketball-free month of September. Instead of the usual cast of gym rats, the Larry “Tex” Silverman Court is scheduled to spend the last two weeks in September hosting some of the […]
A male resident of the Hall on Virginia Avenue was struck by a car Tuesday night, said University Police. UPD Director Dolores Stafford said the HOVA resident was struck in the arm by the car’s side view mirror at about 11 p.m. The resident was crossing Rock Creek Parkway at Virginia Avenue when the accident […]
Thursday:No games scheduled. Friday:WVBall vs. Brown- 4 p.m.* Saturday:WVBall vs. Fairleigh Dickinson- 11 a.m.*WVBall at Navy- 7 p.m.*MSoccer vs. Georgia Southern- 12 p.m.#MWPolo vs. Washington and Jefferson- 10 a.m.+MWPolo vs. Princeton- 1:30 p.m.+MWPolo vs. Johns Hopkins- 5:30 p.m.+MCCountry at Navy- 11 a.m.WCCountry at Navy- 11:30 a.m.Golf at Navy Fall IntercollegiateWTennis at W. V. Invitational Sunday:MSoccer […]
The Hall on Virginia Avenue is operating like a tightly knit community, said Mark Levine, assistant dean of students. “There is an active atmosphere with lots of excitement surrounding the upcoming hall council election,” Levine said. Two special living and learning communities are also HOVA attractions. Residents of the Healthy Lifestyle Community made a commitment […]
Originally Published 09/09/99 The scents of stale beer, cigarette smoke and rented shoes greeted me as I opened the door to “Nick” Rinaldi Lanes, at 2945 South Glebe Rd. in Arlington, Va. The guys responsible for discovering this palace of sketchiness, fully equipped with broken lanes and inexplicable quotes in the company name, were my […]
Some Dakota residents said they are exasperated over sharing one phone line between four roommates and four computers, while GW housing officials and Dakota staff are doing little to assist them. At GW, where nearly every on-campus housing facility is equipped with individual phone lines and Ethernet connections for each student, some Dakota residents said […]