Volume 98, Issue 25
Stories from the November 1, 2001 issue of the GW Hatchet.
GW officials await precautionary anthrax tests from Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon Campus mail facilities before giving any guarantees that packages and letters around campus are completely safe. But departments seem more affected by a mail slowdown than fears of anthrax. Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon mail facilities were tested for anthrax spores Tuesday, said […]
New guidelines for treating possible anthrax patients have led the University to use Student Health Services as the first contact for evaluating students. Now that new Center for Disease Control guidelines discourage the use of nasal swab tests, Student Health Services will begin evaluating and treating any students who were in high-risk areas where anthrax […]
The Coen brothers have brought some of the most original movies in the ’90s to the public eye. Fargo, The Big Lebowski and O Brother Where Art Thou apply an often dark sense of humor to offbeat scenarios and unpredictable plots. But with The Man Who Wasn’t There, the brothers’ homage to the classic black-and-white […]
This is how the revolution began: a dozen bands and a bunch of kids in some ratty basement screaming their lungs out. D.C. punk rock, pure and innocent. Now, almost 20 years later, that same basement – the infamous Wilson Center in the heart of D.C. – is legendary. After two decades as an epicenter […]
While making his credited screen debut in Rudy, Vince Vaughn became friends with another struggling young actor, Jon Favreau, who decided to write Vaughn into a script he was working on. That script eventually became the critical hit Swingers. And what at first seemed a minor career sideline soon vaulted Vaughn into films by such […]
It was just another calm night at the Hippodrome Tuesday, besides a World Series game and return of Michael Jordan playing on TV screens … and the group of break-dancers spinning on their heads. The first event held by Liquid Arts, a new GW student group dedicated to the “urban arts,” drew a crowd of […]
Nearly a week elapsed between the discovery of an anthrax-tainted letter in U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle’s (D-S.D.) office in the Hart Senate Office Building and testing at the Brentwood Road postal facility that handles all mail for the District. In that time, two D.C. postal workers fell ill and eventually died of inhalation anthrax. And […]
Movies AMC Union Station AMC Courthouse Plaza Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle Cineplex Odeon Foundry Cineplex Odeon Inner Circle Cineplex Odeon Uptown Lowes Pentagon City 6 Music 9:30 Club Black Cat Hatchet Movie Reviews AMC Union Station 50 Massachusetts Ave. N.E. (703) 998-4262 Bones (R) 1:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Domestic Disturbance (R) 1:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30, […]
While the past Hatchet editorial “Sluggish SA” (Oct. 18, p. 4) brought an immediate response from the top of the SA ladder (I’ll get to that controversy in my next column), I am waiting to see what the SA’s response will be to the Oct. 25 Letter to the Editor “Rags for Rugby?” Given my […]
Anonymous message posted on Crusingforsex.com on activities in the Corcoran Hall first floor bathroom: “This bathroom is hot! There is constant action there all the time, every day of the week.”