February 12, 2001

Monday – no games scheduled Tuesday – no games scheduled Wednesday – Men’s basketball at Rhode Island 7 p.m.

After another disappointing display of three-point mania by GW against Temple University, I believe that someone needs to start to apply pressure to or questioning the coaching staff. Tom Penders, upon his arrival to GW, was a high profile coach with a winning background. How is this possible? I have yet to see a consistent […]

So you’re on a dinner date in Georgetown and the infamous flower guy approaches you with a stash of wilted, day-past-ripe roses. He looks at you, then at your date, and he smirks back at you. It seems to me you have three choices: A) Take the fall, and cough up the money – and […]

Columbia Plaza residents are seeking to enlist the help of attorneys to demand more details about a mostly shrouded agreement between building management and GW, saying the University’s recent inclusion of the complex in its housing lottery is the first sign of a complete takeover. Members of the Columbia Plaza Tenants’ Association said they will […]

I am not a dork. I want that to be known. Yes, I own one Rush CD, but I am not a dork. However, I think of Rush as dork music. It is! I cannot imagine any better soundtrack for a Dungeons and Dragons game than Rush 2012 or perhaps Moving Pictures. However, the comments […]

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Rap artists and Black Entertainment Television personalities collided Saturday in the Smith Center as crowds from all over D.C. descended on campus to watch the Reebok Hoop Magic Celebrity basketball game. The biggest draw for the event was 13-year old rapper Lil’ Bow Wow’s halftime performance of his chart-topping “Bow Wow (That’s My Name).” BET […]

By starting a Hippo “secret” society, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has brought something to the University that can never be considered bad: a reminder to all graduates about their days here. I, being a very recent immigrant to this urban jungle, belonged to untold dozens of sanctioned and unsanctioned groups and societies at the […]

By Alex Kingsbury U-WIRE Washington Bureau February 12, 2001 Hotly debated Cabinet members John Ashcroft and Gail Norton are settling into to their new positions this week, less than two weeks after their Senate confirmations. The Senate cleared the way for Ashcroft as attorney general on Jan. 31 and for Norton as secretary of the […]

Members of the pop-rock band Good Charlotte bowled a few frames before playing an hour-long acoustic set at the end of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s 24-hour bowl-a-thon Thursday and Friday. The event, held in the Hippodrome, raised money for the Frank Foundation, which provides aid to children in extreme cases of need. Organizers originally planned the […]