January 16, 2001
Volume 97, Issue 35
Stories from the January 16, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
GW women fend off Xavier, St Joe’s takes first place
Amid the start of a new year, the GW women’s basketball team did something it has not done this season – beat a nationally ranked team. The Colonials’ win over Atlantic 10 rival Xavier (No. 22) Jan. 6 at the Smith Center launched GW to a 4-0 A-10 start, with conference wins over Duquesne, St. […]
Post-game altercation at Hawaii tourney puts GW in national spotlight
The last thing GW coach Tom Penders needed was a distraction that would divert his team’s attention away from the real reason why the Colonials were playing in a tournament almost 5,000 miles away from Foggy Bottom. GW had an opportunity to gain national respect and exposure against nationally ranked teams at the Outrigger Hotels […]
Rocky break leaves Colonials at 7-9
In the closing seconds of GW’s victory over LaSalle, with the game’s outcome no longer in doubt, junior transfer Attila Cosby raised his hands to the ceiling of the Smith Center and mouthed, “Yes, yes, finally.” Cosby’s elation sums up how the GW men’s basketball team, coaches and fans felt after the Colonials won their […]
A winter break game of shoots and ladders
There are two undefeated teams left in men’s college basketball. One is Stanford, the number one team in the country. The other is the 11th-best team in the land, and they come from your very own nation’s capital. That’s right, the Georgetown Hoyas are back and better than ever. If I had said at the […]
Subletting adventures
Jan. 11, 2001 1:30 p.m. 900 24th St. Unit E College is full of life’s little lessons – your first time living on your own, renting an apartment or perhaps even subletting a friend’s place. Another lesson is the difference between the two. I returned to D.C. from sub-freezing Pennsylvania in the unseasonable 60-degree sunshine […]
Spotlight: Thurston Hall breaks the gender barrier
In 1869, almost 50 years after the founding of GW, then known as Columbian College, Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman to officially express a desire to study at GW. University officials turned down her application to the law school, saying that there was no public want for female lawyers, and therefore no […]
GW misses SMPA opening deadline
A race to finish the new School of Media and Public Affairs building by Tuesday fell short, forcing GW officials to reschedule more than 80 classes to rooms in Hillel, the Marvin Center and other campus buildings. The University plans to move all classes to the new facility Jan. 29. After receiving daily updates of […]