Volume 97, Issue 40
Stories from the February 1, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The Student Association voted wisely Tuesday evening to put a referendum on upcoming election ballots for a student fee that would end the University’s control of SA funding and give it to the students. The fee, which amounts to $1 a credit hour, will abolish an old system that left allocations to the discretion of […]
GW accepted a housing proposal this week that opens new options to all students in on-campus housing and aims to close loopholes that made the previous system unfair, Residence Hall Association officials said. Sponsors of the proposal said the rule changes will also shorten the waiting list for sophomores by giving sophomores first pick. Under […]
Boy meets girl. Boy falls madly in love with girl. Following the path of its love-at-first sight predecessors, Head Over Heels (Universal Pictures) is not what one would call an original. The movie opens as Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter, Patch Adams) discovers her boyfriend sleeping with a lingerie model. Heartbroken and homeless, Amanda is wondering […]
A delegation of students from GW’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are among students from 15 schools chosen from across the United States and Canada to compete in the FutureTruck competition, sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and the Department of Energy. The sponsors chose the competitors from 99 proposals. The competition challenges teams […]
Images of misshapen and contorted humans, along with subhuman witches, monks and nobility, play out disturbing and complicated themes in the Dimock Gallery’s latest exhibit “Goya: Los Caprichos.” The exhibit, which runs until Feb. 28, gives visitors a rare chance to view all 80 prints of Francisco Goya’s controversial “Los Caprichos,” while providing a greater […]
Based on advertisements for the movie Left Behind (Cloud Ten), the plot promised to be an intriguing apocalyptic thriller following a journalist in search of the truth. But advertisements do not always tell the whole story, as the movie based on a New York Times Bestseller became more of a forum for religious ideology than […]
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Where: 1831 M St. NW Crowd: Laid-back college students Getting In: I.D. at door Price: No cover, $3.25 drafts Dancing: ’80s and ’90s pop music It might be “end of days” for the traditional Tuesday nights at Mister Days, but Madhatter has become the new home to GW students every Tuesday night. Located on M […]
The idea of fusion food, which is made by combining two different cuisines, seems to be in decline these days. This is probably not a bad thing, as the new rise of home-style cooking tends to lead to cheaper meals and better food. But every once in a while a restaurant challenges my thinking on […]