Volume 96, Issue 42
Stories from the February 14, 2000 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Women in skirts move their hips and bare feet to the rhythm of a Hawaiian song. They say words like aloha and koholo, but they are not dancing on a beach or around a bonfire like in movies. These GW students meet in Marvin Center’s Room 405, escaping the cold winter of D.C., to learn […]
February16 MARYLAND20 at Maryland26-27 at Princeton Invitational March11-12 at CWPA Weekend No. 1 (at James Madison)18-19 at Villanova Invitational25-26 CPWA WEEKEND NO. 2 (SMITH CENTER) April1-2 at ECAC Championship* (at Brown)15-16 at Mid-Atlantic Championship (at Villanova)29-30 at Eastern Championship* (at Princeton) May5-7 at NCAA Championship* (at Bloomington, IL) *must qualify for these tournaments
At what point do student groups have the right to do as they please? The Hatchet seems to imply (Uniform policy, Feb. 7) that the same strict codes of conduct regarding Greek-letter events with alcohol ought to be applied to student groups as well. There is a cry for equal enforcement, an absolutely just and […]
Columbia tops GW Columbia University defeated GW 8-1 in women’s tennis Saturday. GW’s Sarine Weingarten posted the team’s only victory, winning her competitive singles match 7-5, 1-6, 6-3. Ghada Skaff lost her singles match 6-4, 6-4 and Tracy Wei fell 7-6, 6-4 for GW. Eight-to-one doesn’t sound too good, Coach Jeanne Gengler said. But there […]
(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Indiana has become the latest state to be swept up in a growing national movement to allow the Ten Commandments to be hung in schools. Last Monday, its legislature passed a bill permitting the practice. Gov. Frank O’Bannon promised to sign the bill despite its disregard for a 1980 Supreme […]
The GW women’s water polo team will open its inaugural varsity season Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Smith Center, with quite a challenge – the 20th-ranked Terrapins of Maryland. It’s going to be a very tough game, GW Coach Scott Reed said. If the Colonials can sail as smoothly as they did in gaining […]
J Street food service employees have been roiled in a dispute with Aramark management about problems with paychecks and poor treatment. With a petition filed to the D.C. Wage and Hour Board, J Street workers have taken appropriate measures to amend the disputes and Aramark should respond to the workers’ pleas in good faith. In […]
The GW women’s basketball team earned its ninth 20-win season in the past 10 years as the Colonials rammed through Atlantic 10 opponents St. Bonaventure and Rhode Island this weekend. The first-place Colonials (20-3, 11-1 Atlantic 10) increased their current winning streak to six games and improved their conference road record to 5-1. The high-flying […]
The GW gymnastics team placed second in a four-team competition at Saturday’s New Hampshire Invitational, hosted by the University of New Hampshire. The Colonials finished with an overall score of 192.500, led by sophomore Devin McCalla, who won the all-around competition with a score of 39.225. She posted a 9.875 on the balance beam. Fellow […]
The idea of MTV doing a spoof of the overwhelming boy-band phenomena may seem like commercial suicide. Without videos by Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and all the others, MTV would lose a big percentage of its audience. Still, if the movie is anything like 2GET+HER, Music from the MTV original TV movie! (TVT Records), it […]