Volume 97, Issue 42
Stories from the February 8, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
GW students will celebrate the accomplishments of African Americans this February during Black History Month. Activities planned by the Black Student Union and others will look back at the civil rights movement and educate how historical events shaped today’s multicultural society. This year’s theme “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” centers on how past events influenced today’s […]
Secret Service agents shot and subdued a 47-year-old Indiana man wielding a gun outside the White House Wednesday morning. The alleged gunman, Robert Pickett, a former Internal Revenue Service employee from Evansville, Ind., was taken to GW Hospital, arriving at 11:57 a.m. Hospital officials said the man was in stable condition during a press conference […]
GW announced Wednesday a 4.4 percent tuition increase for next year – the lowest hike in 13 years. Announcing the 2001-02 budget to student leaders at a meeting Wednesday night, GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said alumni fundraising and increased gifts helped cut .1 percent from last year’s tuition increase of 4.5 percent. “We have […]
Members of GW’s Indian community began a campaign to raise money for relatives and other victims in India following the worst earthquake in the country’s history Jan. 26. “We’ve raised a few hundred dollars … although we were rushed in our efforts,” Indian Student Association President Rishi Desai said. Desai said the organization hopes to […]
A male student reported that he was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning outside the Savoy apartment building on the corner of 22nd and L streets, said Dolores Stafford, director of University Police Department. The student was alone at 2:50 a.m. when a man approached him, showed a gun and told the student to hand […]
GW students and professors will bring their classroom to Miriam’s Kitchen next Tuesday morning. With the help of two graduate English professors and GW volunteers, members of a new seminar named Miriam’s Dialogue will embark on a tour of international literature at the local soup kitchen. “As the title suggests it is to be an […]
The Dimock Gallery will open on the second floor of the newly constructed Media and Public Affairs building. The opening should coincide with the grand opening of the MPA building on March 7, said Lenore Mille, director of the Dimock Gallery. The University’s permanent art collection is currently located in the lower lobby of Lisner […]
Students advocating marijuana legalization used an article written by GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in the 1970s as testimony to their cause in a meeting Wednesday night. The GW group Students for a Sensible Drug Policy passed out an article Trachtenberg wrote in 1972 advocating the repeal of federal marijuana laws. The article, published in […]
In 1996, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, in an odd gesture to the now-departed class of 2000, donated a bronze hippopotamus to GW. Not long after this gift Trachtenberg admittedly bought after a “liquid lunch,” he began the Order of the Hippo, a secret society that has done little to benefit the University community and […]
University professor Amitai Etzioni will host a discussion and signing of his latest book Next: The Road to the Good Society at the GW Bookstore Feb. 12. The event will be broadcast on C-SPAN and Etzioni, director of GW’s Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, will discuss the need for a new political agenda. The main […]