February 11, 2002

Mount Vernon College holds the tradition of schooling smart and talented women. Hope Diamond owner Evelyn Walsh McLean, Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock and Elizabeth Harris, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, are only a few among a list of leading alumnae. “Friends” star Courtney Cox even attended for a year before pursuing her acting career. […]

The Hatchet reported last Thursday that GW would propose a 4.9 percent tuition increase to the Board of Trustees the next day. Since the question has come up in conversation with numerous administrators, I’d like to clarify why we found it important to report this news as soon as we had received it. Newspapers function […]

Saturday’s home loss against Temple exemplified what has gone wrong for the Colonials during their current seven-game losing streak. GW displayed streaky shooting and sloppy passing in the most recent loss and dug themselves into a large first-half hole. For the seventh straight game, poor first-half shooting and turnovers cost the Colonials as they fell […]

During the Cold War, the ultimate symbol of the edgy relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was the red phone located in the Oval Office of the White House. It guaranteed that before a nuclear war the country’s two leaders could try to talk out their differences, much like a married couple […]

The Colonials gave ESPN viewers and the Smith Center crowd of more than 3,000 little to get excited about on Saturday as the team fell to Temple 80-58. The loss extended GW’s losing streak to seven during its first and likely only national television appearance this year. Coach Karl Hobbs’ team connected on less than […]

Even with their three seemingly impossible last-second comebacks, untimely injuries are teaching GW it is not an invincible team. Last month, freshman Anna Montanana replaced senior Elena Vishniakova after a torn ACL ended the forward’s season. Now, Montanana is on the bench nursing a strained knee that has been a reoccurring problem all season and […]

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 […]