Volume 96, Issue 32
Stories from the November 22, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA – Mark Lund is home. Well, not really. He’s from Klawock. This is Fairbanks. Lund will tell you that Klawock’s 1,000 miles south of here. That’s because, well, Alaska is huge. Big as a country. In fact, if Texas is really like a whole `nother country, it’s worth remembering that Alaska is twice […]
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — GW men’s basketball coach Tom Penders confirmed Thursday that GW has received a national letter of intent from high school recruit Shawn Davis. Davis is a 6-7, 235-pound, small power-forward from Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tenn. GW Associate Head Coach Rob Wright reported that Davis averaged 15 points, 14 […]
MondayWBBall vs. Howard 7:00 p.m. Tuesdayno games scheduled Wednesdayno games scheduled Thursdayno games scheduled
Vanderbilt University crushed the visiting GW women’s basketball team 81-57 in Friday night’s season opener at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn. The Colonial women’s slow start to open their season cost GW (0-1) as the Lady Commodores (1-0) ran out to a 15-2 lead and never looked back. GW senior guard Elisa Aguilar and her […]
GW students gathered on the stairs of J Street Saturday morning, grasping cups of coffee, soaking in the unusually warm autumn weather and preparing for the annual three-mile Homeless Walkathon. A lot of people are wrapped up in their own lives sometimes, said sophomore Harrison Wilder as he waited for members of his InterVarsity Christian […]
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA — With 2.8 seconds on the clock, the University of Houston’s Marcus Oliver drained a free throw to secure a 93-92 win and send the GW men’s basketball team (1-2) to its worst three-game start since the 1988-’89 season. The hardwood at the Carlson Center rumbled with the sound of two teams running […]
Get your mojo ready. Austin Powers is back with one more thing – another soundtrack. <i.More Music from the Motion Picture Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me has it all. There’s music to groove to, music to cruise to and, of course, music to shag to. The album opens up with a bit called […]
The recent popularity of women’s sports, with the women’s World Cup soccer team and the WNBA, validated the effectiveness of Title IX, according to athletic officials. Title IX, a set of federal guidelines intended to prohibit discrimination against women in federally funded programs, has sometimes come at the expense of men’s athletic programs. I’ve been […]
The slogan you’ve come a long way baby can be used for more than Virginia Slims cigarettes. Over the past eight years, Stereolab has gone from avant-garde electronic music to laid-back lounge pop. Now on its latest album, Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (Elektra), the band combines all of its […]
Every morning, the scene is the same. Sleep-deprived GW students flock to Viva Java at J Street. Grabbing a cup of coffee, many hope that the caffeine rush will help them stay awake through their early morning classes. For some students, it is their first cup of coffee, but for others the fresh smell of […]