Volume 97, Issue 38
Stories from the January 25, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The 9:30 Club will welcome D.C. hip-hop act the Poem-cees on stage Saturday to showcase the group’s skills as writers and performers. And as group members exclaim on their mailing list, they are more than ready. Sharing the bill with local acts Infinite Loop and Team Demolition, the Poem-cees plan to launch what member Darrell […]
It is a sad day when we elect people to represent us that we do not know. However, I do not blame the electorate. I blame the candidates. It is easy to blame the candidates because they are the ones who sit on the Student Association Senate. They are the ones who do not want […]
Critics and general naysayers, start your engines. Snatch (Screen Gems) the new film written and directed by British sensation Guy Ritchie, is, without a doubt, the spitting image of his first movie, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. And that’s why we like it. Ritchie is one of the lucky few directors to score a […]
While we are certainly right to be zealous in our protection of the separation of church and state, the editorial in last Monday’s Hatchet, “Disunion of Faith,” was particularly bizarre in its paranoid tone and anti-religious bias. Clearly, The Hatchet does not have a firm grasp of the reality of the relationship between the American […]
“I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organization for which I work.” Thousands of graduating seniors at more than 50 colleges nationwide are taking a pledge to consider the social and environmental aspects of their […]
Amid the pomp and parading of the George W. Bush inauguration, Republicans wondered how it was possible for anyone to protest the new president. However, by the end of Bush’s first full day of office, we learned that we could not begin the protests early enough. As one of its first decisions, the Bush administration […]
It is the kind of book that is discretely taken off the shelf and quickly skimmed through in a desolate corner of the bookstore. It is the type of book people buy online to save the embarrassment of being seen holding it in front of others. Few people like to admit they need help, especially […]
Hey, the next time GW has the opportunity to host an event honoring American heroes – our veterans – let’s make sure we get the GW College Democrats to protest. I mean come on, why don’t you guys just kick my dog while you are at it? To say the least, it was in poor […]
My boyfriend and I have been going together for about two months. From the get-go we have both known that I am graduating in the spring and going to medical school on the West Coast; and that he is graduating this spring and continuing his schooling somewhere, but probably New York. I know that I […]
In one of his first acts as president George W. Bush implemented rules prohibiting U.S. international aid from being used by groups that offer to perform or counsel women regarding abortions. While these measures do not alter the availability of abortions and other family planning services in this country, Bush’s deceitful actions are dangerous and […]