Volume 98, Issue 6
Stories from the August 27, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Pizza for breakfast, Burger King for lunch and a sensible J Street dinner. While this diet may shed points, it will also help you pack on those college cuisine pounds. For students who hope to slim down instead of beef up during their college career, GW offers variety of ways to stay fit through different […]
President Bush prepares for busy fall President George W. Bush returned to Washington Aug. 30 from almost a month at his Texas ranch, one of the longest sojourns of a sitting president. His return comes on the eve of Congress’s arrival and the beginning of what is expected to be an intense exchange over his […]
First-year graduate student Chasta Jones wears rubber gloves when she walks down D.C. streets. But this is not an attempt to begin a new fashion trend in town. Her gloves serve a purpose – to keep her hands clean as she picks up trash littering our capital’s streets. “I want to act rather than complain,” […]
Originally Published 08/27/01 Teaism restaurant 800 Connecticut Ave. August 24, 2001 12:05 p.m. Hungry and thirsty on the Friday before school starts, I picked the wrong time to buy textbooks from the GW Bookstore. I knew I could not contain my hunger waiting in a line that wrapped down the stairs. I needed to go […]
Both GW men’s and women’s soccer teams hosted preseason games on the new soccer field at Mount Vernon Campus last weekend. Less than a week after its unveiling, the field is forcing the teams to adjust to a faster game than their old grass home, South Riding Field in Virginia. On a mostly sunny and […]
A shock rippled through a GW community scattered around the country July 28, when sophomore Jonathan Rizzo was reported missing in his small Massachusetts hometown. News of his violent death July 31 spread through a network of Kappa Sigma fraternity members and friends. Thousands gathered to mourn the loss and remember a man who had […]
Minivans and SUVs flooded a closed F Street Thursday, as GW’s largest class in history prepared to make the University their home. The move-in rush was not limited to traditionally freshman residence halls such as the Hall on Virginia Avenue, Thurston, Mitchell and Lafayette halls. Clothes, boxes, TVs and stereos also littered the sidewalk outside […]
Hardcore, hard rock, and rapcore are the intermingling styles that have surfaced at the forefront of popular music throughout the past few years. Every few minutes another hard rock band is born, has its run and disappears only to be replaced by yet another band that sounds remarkably like Korn did four years ago. Adema […]
GW sophomore Jonathan Rizzo was found dead after disappearing for two days last month near his hometown of Kingston, Mass. Police arrested Gary Sampson, a 41 year-old resident of Abington, Mass., for Rizzo’s and two other unrelated murders July 31. Sampson reportedly turned himself in to authorities in Plymouth, Vt., after a failed house burglary. […]
While studying abroad at Oxford University this summer I took an early August vacation to Madrid and visited the Plaza de Torros to see a bullfight. While the boys of summer rule the fields back home, bullfighting season is Madrid’s summer pastime. Bullfighting and baseball – could they be any different? Maybe they are more […]