Volume 97, Issue 60
Stories from the April 19, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Members of GWPride were confronted with an unpleasant anti-gay epithet Friday night as they walked past the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, where a student on the house’s front porch proclaimed, “I hate fags.” According to police reports, the student felt no shame and pointed himself out to the GWPride members to let them know […]
The GW baseball team scored 38 runs in its past two games and Dan Rouhier and Chris Barry combined to drive in 17 of them. Rouhier and Barry both hit grand slams in Tuesday’s 16-4 victory over the United States Naval Academy Tuesday at Barcroft Park. In the Colonials 22-4 victory over Towson University, Barry […]
When I think of guns, I think “safe.” Safe guns make a lot of sense, kind of like a dry ocean. I think back to Spring Break in Santo Domingo – guards at McDonalds with double-barrel shotguns, eight of 10 citizens with six-shooters in their back pockets – and I remember thinking, man, do I […]
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 […]