Volume 98, Issue 51
Stories from the March 7, 2002 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Cokie and Steve Roberts joined panelists at Monday night’s Kalb Report to discuss how foreign news coverage has changed following the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl last month. Cokie Roberts, host of ABC’s “This Week,” and Steve Roberts, a GW Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, addressed about 300 […]
Privacy protection is on the minds of everyone today, when growing reports of credit card fraud and identity theft are becoming a common occurrence. These 21st century thieves are stealing something more valuable than any material possessions – personal information. On March 3, The Hatchet retrieved confidential student files carelessly tossed into unsecured dumpsters behind […]
Housing Services will make two changes to Sunday’s online housing lottery for freshmen based on student feedback. GW will have a back-up plan for the availability screen that went down on the first round, and students will be assigned rooms from the top floor down. Residence Hall Association President Noel Frame said GW switched from […]
Josh Singer and company were not satisfied when the Joint Elections Committee rightly threw out an invalid and late proxy vote for Singer. So they did what candidates often do when they know they are wrong but refuse to accept it: they went to Student Court to attack the JEC charter. Thankfully, the Student Court […]
About 1,500 students came out Wednesday to vote in the hotly contested run-off Student Association presidential election between Josh Singer and Phillip Robinson, Joint Election Committee officials said. That is a jump of 25 percent from the first day of last week’s regular election. On Monday, the JEC declared a run-off election three days after […]
In the Feb. 28 Hatchet letter (“Unilateral diplomacy”), Jon Williams wrote the United States sends roughly $6 billion in foreign aid each year to Israel. This number is less than $3 billion, and that number is decreasing. Also, more than 80 percent of the money Israel receives is sent right back into the American economy, […]
It is always nice to know backup systems are ready to act in case the unexpected occurs. In the case of last week’s New Hall power outage, the University’s backup system failed and left students in the dark. Had the loss of power occurred during an actual emergency in which lives were at risk, the […]
The latest film version of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine (Dreamworks and Warner Bros. Pictures) lacks the depth and emotion that its author intended. It is a well-directed science fiction adventure with astounding special effects and some superb acting. But the script is silly and trifling. The film, directed by Simon Wells, grandson of the […]
I find it disturbing that The Hatchet’s most prolific columnist, Russ Rizzo, is also the newspaper’s editor in chief. In his weekly column (“Inside Our Pages”), Rizzo often writes of a previous Hatchet story, and gives an account of why it was published, in the process providing opinions about the issues surrounding the article. If […]
Die Hard I Long Story Short: Bruce Willis saves Nakatomi Towers in Los Angeles. German terrorists are no match for him, and neither is Carl Winslow – the guy from “Family Matters.” Alan Says: First off, I’d like to say that I enjoy the entire Die Hard trilogy. In my humble opinion the original is […]