January 29, 2001

Road trips are a highly regarded tradition at universities across the country, and GW is no exception. The ageless ritual, recently popularized by the summer blockbuster movie Road Trip, is accessible to budget-minded students looking for adventure and great stories to tell friends back home. What makes the traditional road trip so popular among college […]

In music today bands are often hit with specific classifications, labeled by their sound and lumped together with the other bands in a specific genre. While some fall in the strict musical style of rock, rap and punk, in reality many come from diverse musical backgrounds that help them to relate with other types of […]

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Between his lectures on the intricacies of conflict law and civil procedure, GW law professor Jack Friedenthal finds time to impart lessons on justice throughout the world of collegiate and professional athletics. Friedenthal, who served as dean of the GW Law School for 10 years before returning to teaching in 1998, is an authority on […]

Fast bass beats to rattle the trunk, electronic sound effects to hit the tweeters and a hook repeated over and over for consistency; songs produced by the members of Hot Boys crew are easy to spot, and to anyone unfamiliar with this unique rapping style, they all sound the same. While Lil’ Wayne’s voice is […]

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The opening of the new Media and Public Affairs building Monday welcomes “fiber to the chair” technology to GW’s classrooms and a new GWTV studio capable of producing broadcast quality video, University officials said. Most classrooms and auditorium seats in the MPA building will be wired with electrical jacks and fiber-optic data ports, allowing students […]

And you can book this one to the Birds. The Baltimore Ravens proved that defense truly does win championships. Despite coming close to disaster a couple times, the special teams and offense played good enough to allow the defense to just do its thing. And that’s all they needed to do. Kerry Collins succumbed to […]

I am shocked and appalled after reading Monday’s Hatchet (“Bush, Cheney honor veterans at GW,” Jan. 21, p. 1). To begin with, what did the protesters hope to accomplish when they picketed the Smith Center on Friday at an event honoring the veterans? Perhaps this was just simply an exercise in self-aggrandizement. After all it […]

January 27, 2001 Marvin Center 413 7:30 p.m. When Americans think of the new year, they think champagne, yelling in large crowds and the bright ball that drops in Times Square. Within my first step into Marvin Center room 413 to celebrate the Chinese New Year, I realized the Chinese take a slightly different approach. […]