Volume 97, Issue 60
Stories from the April 19, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
The GW men’s golf team will compete in the Atlantic 10 Championships Friday at the Penn National Golf Club in Mt. Alto, Pa., following a disappointing seventh-place finish at the Cleveland State Invitational April 15-16. Oakland City University won the Invitational with a score of 922, ahead of GW’s 956. Oakland City’s Gary Robinson overcame […]
In “Waterstreet Reclaims Title” (April 16, p.9), Adam Richman was incorrectly paraphrased as saying his full band may play with him at Spring Fling. Richman is a solo artist.
GW Athletic Director Jack Kvancz said Tuesday that he might have sanctioned GW basketball player Attila Cosby, had he known Cosby was charged with nine misdemeanors at the D.C. Superior Court Jan. 26. “If I had known (about the charges), I might have done something,” Kvancz said. “But now, the season’s over.” Cosby was charged […]
GW men’s basketball coach Tom Penders’ reaction to Attila Cosby showing him a court summons Feb. 8: “I couldn’t understand it. I did see the word `misdemeanor’ a couple of times.”
A group of 15 GW students joined about 200 protesters on the Ellipse Wednesday, holding signs and calling President George W. Bush the “toxic Texan” and the “polluter-in-chief,” at the Greenpeace-sponsored “Take Back the Earth Day” rally. Later in the day GW students celebrated Earth Day in Kogan Plaza. Groups from University of Maryland, Virginia […]
How much longer will homophobia be acceptable in mainstream society? Sexist, racist and anti-Semitic words have finally come to be recognized as hate speech, yet homophobic speech is still heard daily and largely goes unchecked. As reported to GWPride Friday, a group of students walked past the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house on their way […]
Changes to the 4-RIDE service are working smoothly, and the University Police Department plans to use feedback from student surveys to improve 4-RIDE and Colonial Express Shuttle service for next year, UPD Director Dolores Stafford said. “(4-RIDE staff) said the changes went fine,” Stafford said. UPD announced April 1 that students who call 4-RIDE for […]
George W. Bush rode into office on the backs of five Supreme Court justices with the nickname “Governor Death” draped about him like a Miss America pageant sash. Now, with his recent decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol, he has proven that he is an even more deadly threat to the American people […]
Tom Penders’s days with GW men’s basketball are over. After several reports of misconduct by him and his players attracted national attention to his squad in the past two years, coupled with new developments in recent weeks reported in both The Hatchet and The Washington Post, Penders resigned under pressure Friday. Now that Penders is […]
Earlier this month, Australia announced it would follow the United States’ decision not to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, and the European Union said it felt it could not retaliate against the Bush administration for making its decision. Yet some in the U.S. criticize President George W. Bush for failing to understand the requirements […]