Volume 96, Issue 16
Stories from the September 27, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
GW’s state-of-the-art classroom technology can benefit students in ways previously impossible, but too often malfunctions and teachers who can’t work the new gadgets cause the loss of valuable class time. This is unacceptable at a university of GW’s caliber. With some simple trouble-shooting and education of professors on how to work the technology, these obstacles […]
When Tricky released his debut album, Maxinquaye, critics immediately hailed it as a masterpiece. It also helped to define the trip-hop sound – a sinister, claustrophobic sound that mixed hip-hop with styles like reggae and dub. Then Tricky’s downward spiral began. With each of his subsequent albums, Tricky retreated further into that claustrophobic sound. Now, […]
As the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 50th anniversary Oct. 1, the Chinese economy prospers and business leaders around the world are clamoring to rub elbows with Politburo leaders while thousands of political and religious dissidents remain in prisons, viciously persecuted by the government. In a display of biting hypocrisy, more than 200 of […]
Few events could motivate more than 600 GW students to wake up early on a Sunday morning to walk about six miles. Free breakfast, free T-shirts, and free condoms, while influential, were not the factors that drew students out of bed and into their sneakers Sunday. It was the desire to fight the spread of […]
The GW women’s volleyball team (8-4, 3-1 A-10) split two conference home matches this weekend as GW lost to Temple and then defeated La Salle the following night. GW was led in the matches by senior Gabriela Mojska, who posted 36 kills this weekend. GW 3, La Salle 0Saturday, Sept. 25 The Colonial women used […]
The Women’s Center at GW’s Mount Vernon campus hosted a discussion about body image Wednesday night, inspired by the National Organization of Women’s “Love Your Body Day.” Coordinated by University graduate students in charge of the center, Janice Cori and Ruthie Vishlitzky, the event was intended as part celebration and part informative seminar. For the […]
Crews open season with Head of the Potomac The GW crews made respectable showings in their first events of the fall season Saturday at the Head of the Potomac. The women’s varsity eight finished second in the open race, 12 seconds behind the U.S. Naval Academy and ahead of Georgetown. The men’s varsity eight finished […]
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Now is the time for the Colonial women to reach the Atlantic 10 Tournament. There is no doubt that this year’s GW volleyball team has the nucleus to compete with every A-10 opponent. After nine seasons as head coach, Susie Homan stepped down and handed the program to last year’s assistant coach, Yvette Moorehead. Moorehead […]
The GW Elliott School of International Affairs announced its choice for the Japan-U.S. relations chair Thursday at the National Press Club after a worldwide search. The new chairman, Mike M. Mochizuki, is a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Studies Program, a private organization focusing on East-Asian studies. He is a renowned specialist […]