Volume 98, Issue 12
Stories from the September 17, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
A play-by-play account of Tuesday’s activities seems almost insensitive. We all heard the details hundreds of times over. We all felt the pain, the shock, the terror and the amazement as we gathered around our televisions. The once-conceived invincible nation was under attack. The United States, much like the rest of the world has in […]
Posted 11:15 a.m. Sept. 19 CNN’s “Crossfire” aired live from the Media and Public Affairs auditorium Tuesday night featuring House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt from Missouri, Rep. Jane Harmon (D-Calif.) and terrorist experts Eric Holder and Larry Johnson. Show host Bill Press started the hour-long program by asking Gephardt if the Democrats in Congress will […]
GW students should continue with their plans for the weekend of canceled classes later this month even though the IMF and World Bank postponed their meetings. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank heeded a request from D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and Metropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey to postpone the meetings because of security concerns […]
By Zeb Eckert U-WIRE Washington Bureau Posted 6:50 p.m. Sept. 19 The Pentagon secured plans Wednesday to shift an arsenal of combat and supply aircraft to the Persian Gulf, the first clear sign that an organized military response to last week’s terrorist attacks could be soon underway. While those aircraft remain in the United States, […]
Tolerance when facing strong emotions brought about by tragic events is a hard ideal to achieve, but it is one we must embrace to defeat terrorism and maintain the values America embodies. Verbal attacks against Middle Eastern students are reprehensible and should cease immediately. Violence against mosques and stores selling Middle Eastern products is unacceptable […]
Several bomb threats on campus and around D.C. have caused disruptions since last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks, but none have materialized. Students evacuated a business class in Monroe Hall Thursday afternoon after a man wearing a large black backpack entered and walked to the front of the classroom while professor Tom Quasney lectured. The student asked […]
I am not a member of the GW Action Coalition, and I am personally still undecided as to whether I would support military retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, especially since no one is really sure of the perpetrator of these attacks. However, reading Bill Eldridge’s recent article (“Wrong to protest retaliation for terror,” […]
Red, white and blue. Land of the free. Fireworks and apple pie. They all represent an idea we call America. But what is America? Is it democracy, freedom, hard work, or strong will? Perhaps it is all of this. But last week proved the idea of America is rooted more in people coming together for […]
Religious organizations around campus observed a national day of prayer and remembrance Friday, which President George W. Bush proclaimed last week. Student gathered at the Newman Center, Hillel and the Quad to mourn and remember victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. At 12 p.m. all University businesses, including classes, stopped to observe a moment of silence […]
Tuesday, everyone in America and around the world witnessed a horrific event that will surely change the course of American history. It was an event that took more American lives in one day than the attack on Pearl Harbor, and possibly any other battle America has fought since the Civil War. The cowards that perpetrated […]