Volume 96, Issue 51
Stories from the March 16, 2000 issue of the GW Hatchet.
MoneyForMail.com finally finds a way for college students to get paid for receiving junk e-mail. The site urges students to, take control of your personal information and put the advertisers’ dollars where they should go – in your pocket! Students register at the Web site, making up a profile of themselves, with information such as […]
March 14, 2000 Corcoran Hall 7:50 p.m. As soon as students began filing into the bare Corcoran third-floor classroom, a trend emerged. The GW students, typically plastered with brand-name logos on clothes that seem to be stolen from show-window mannequins, were draped in generic duds, sans labels. The room was devoid of shiny Guess? signs, […]
Perhaps right as you read this, I’m winging my way toward Notre Dame (on your dime, sucker!) to cover GW’s overachieving women’s basketball team. I’m particularly excited because I was just told this afternoon that we have a women’s basketball team, and I can’t wait to find out if this is true. (I only wrote […]
GW is making strides to maintain a level of diversity in its faculty, according to the annual Report on Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty and Faculty of Color. Presented to the Faculty Senate last Friday by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the report lends insight into the demographic makeup of […]
According to Fortune magazine, Julia Roberts is the most powerful celebrity in Hollywood. She is the only actress that can command a $20-million salary and for good reason. Her films routinely bring in more than $100 million dollars, the benchmark for economic success in the motion picture industry. But Roberts is not infallible. People only […]
Nothing can prepare you for the emotional journey you take while watching Wit. But then again, nothing can prepare you for cancer. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Your stomach will ache from nausea. You will experience everything that Dr. Vivian Bearing endures during her battle with fourth-stage metastatic ovarian cancer. Bearing, a doctor of 17th-century poetry […]
WASHINGTON – Frequent binge drinking increased on college campuses in 1999, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study released Tuesday. But as the number of frequent binge drinkers rose, so did the number of students who abstain from drinking alcohol. According to the study, one in five college students reported they refrained from […]
Originally Published 03/16/00 Bar: Third EditionWhere: 1218 Wisconsin Ave., NW Crowd: twentysomethings and upGetting In: you’ve been reading the Bar Belle long enough to knowPrices: take some money if you want to partyFood: nadaDancing: upstairs you can groove, downstairs you can swayPick-ups: definitelyPluses: dancing, option of a low-key or crazy partying nightMinuses: can be tighter […]
The Foggy Bottom residential community, as you can well imagine, resonates well to the voted conditions of the Student Association Senate’s endorsement of the GW Campus Plan. The majority of Foggy Bottom residents feel the campus plan is unfair in that it is not detailed enough to allow for serious consideration (e.g., unspecified uses for […]
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