February 11, 2002

Losing games hasn’t helped Hobbs’ efforts to draw students to the Smith Center, but the student section was filled for Saturday’s home loss to Temple, where students offered their candid thoughts on the coach and his team. Early success made head coach Karl Hobbs’ job more difficult. Ten wins, a couple successful comebacks and one […]

The GW men’s tennis team dropped two early-season matches to Atlantic 10 foe Richmond Friday and to the University of Virginia Saturday, evening its record to 4-4 on the season. The men dropped their final match of the weekend Saturday to the Virginia Cavaliers 6-1, as Matt Treadgold posted GW’s only win, at No.3 singles. […]

North Carolina dominated the scoreboard Saturday night with wins on the vault, balance beam and floor exercise, beating out visiting schools Bowling Green and last-place finisher GW. UNC senior Monica Middleton won the all-around competition with a 39.050, while teammate Anna Wilson finished second with a 38.700. UNC took four of the top five places […]

The GW women’s tennis team split a home weekend, getting swept by visiting American Sunday after trouncing James Madison 6-1 Saturday. The team improves to 2-2 as it gets set to host Maryland-Baltimore County Sunday in the third of a six-match home stand. American moved to 1-0 with a 6-0 sweep inside the bubbled tennis […]

GW’s Department of Human Resources located a record last week that indicates former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay taught economics at GW as an associate professor from 1970-72, GW spokesman Eric Solomon said. The Hatchet inaccurately reported last week that the Economics Department had no record of Lay’s employment. Solomon said Human Resources Director Tom Rodgers […]

A former computer engineering professor who sued GW when he was denied tenure a decade ago says that a court ruling that denied him a position at GW harms the University. But GW officials disagree. Apostolos Kakaes, a former professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, was denied tenure in 1993. He then […]

More than 100 GW students, families and D.C. residents packed the hallway outside the WRGW radio studio in the Marvin Center basement Sunday morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of legendary vocalist Tony Bennett. Bennett, 75, was a guest at GW’s radio station on the “Capital Jazz Show,” a weekly program of music and conversation […]

Candidates for Student Association, Program Board and Marvin Center Governing Board leadership positions are waiting for Student Judicial Services approval before they officially begin to campaign for the Feb. 27-28 elections. But Joint Election Committee members said poor publicity has prevented many would-be candidates from finding out about the application deadlines. Sophomore Daniel Greenspan and […]

Criticism has been lodged at the Florida A&M University administration from free press activists and students for prohibiting the distribution of the 2000-01 Rattler yearbook last spring. They allege the university violated students’ constitutional right to freedom of speech. “The university completely ignored the First Amendment limitations,” said Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student […]

Nearing the 30th anniversary of former President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking visit to China, former Nixon administration National Security Council members met at GW Friday to discuss the historic implications of the 1972 visit. The three officials discussed the trip’s significance in international politics and shared anecdotes from the trip, in front of a standing room-only […]