Volume 96, Issue 63
Stories from the May 4, 2000 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Time Warner’s refusal to carry Disney programming on its cable distribution networks, while apparently legal, greatly inconvenienced television viewers and rests on shaky ethical grounds. Disney, owner of the ABC network, is one of Time Warner’s fiercest competitors. As such, no love was lost between the two in the contract dispute that led to this […]
Men’s basketball recruit Darnell Miller (6-4 guard; St. Raymond’s, Bronx) is currently on campus making an official recruiting visit. He was joined Wednesday night by Greg Jenkins (6-9 forward; Mt. Vernon H.S., N.Y.). These two players represent GW’s recruiting focus for this late signing period. Miller has already given GW a verbal commitment, but neither […]
University officials broke up a Riverside Towers party earlier this academic year that included about 70 people and underage drinking – a somewhat common occurrence on a college campus. But this type of incident has become more significant because of a change in federal law that requires University Police to count incidents like this differently. […]
Ensuring that the new GW sexual harassment policy provides sufficient due process protections isn’t just about protecting professors from being wrongfully convicted. It’s also about protecting complainants, witnesses and even panel members from being sued; and protecting free speech in classrooms. As an attorney who has probably filed and won more legal actions aimed at […]
Thursday- Baseball vs. Mount Saint Mary’s-3 p.m. Friday- XCountry at George Mason Saturday- WCrew at Princeton w/Georgetown-11 a.m. Baseball vs. Howard-12 p.m. Sunday- MCrew vs. Georgetown-8:30 a.m.
GW’s Monroe Hall and Smith Center may have fewer GW students in them after final exams end, but inner-city students will fill the empty space this summer learning math, English and leadership skills. The Program for Academic Leadership helps seventh and eighth grade inner-city girls, and is sponsored by the non-profit Youth Leadership Foundation. YLF, […]
If we go, you will have a chance to find him. If we stay, we will all die. My mom had no idea where my dad was the day Saigon fell. He had been serving as a doctor for the South Vietnamese forces in Danang – the most important base for the U.S. Army during […]
WWF: World Wrestling Federation; the major league of wrestling Raw Is War: Consistently the highest-rated cable television show. Monday at 9 p.m. on USA Smackdown: A more child-friendly version of WWF; Thursday at 8 p.m. on UPN. Wrestlemania: The annual World Series of the WWF that takes place in April. Face: A good guy Heel: […]
National averages show that Americans eat too much. But with two weeks left in the semester some GW students wonder if they can possibly eat enough. I buy a lot of cameras and stuff from Provisions, freshman Chrystal Puleo said. I’m going to be buying my boyfriend food from now to the end of the […]
I’ve been avoiding this. It’s not because of a lack of material or fear of the unknown or sentimentality. I have four years of mental notes to sift through, and I’m not sure where to begin. I was hired as a production assistant at The Hatchet when I was 17. My first production night was […]