April 18, 2002

Jewish and Arab student groups commemorated deaths related to violence in the Middle East with candlelight and prayer on Kogan Plaza this week. About 50 Jewish students listened to speakers and music during the Yom Hazikaron, or Israeli Memorial Day, ceremony. The a yearly holiday is observed in Israel to remember soldiers killed. “Despite all […]

So why are those crazy protesters going to be outside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund international headquarters on April 20? What’s all the fuss about being against globalization anyway? How can you reverse an ever-changing process like globalization? How do you expect corporations to be socially responsible when they are, by definition, profit-seeking? […]

Posted 4:14 p.m. April 23 by Patrick W. Higgins U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered solutions for a lasting peace in the Middle East as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card called for a free-standing Palestinian state alongside Israel during separate speeches at the fourth annual American […]

I’m glad that The Hatchet has brought to light the problem of the School of Media and Public Affairs fee. As an electronic media major, I’d like to say this $1,000 fee should be removed. In your April 15 article (“Students dispute SMPA major fee”), you state that the equipment in the building includes: a […]

As the last of us finish licking and stamping envelopes to send to the IRS, mailing away our annual chunk of change to the U.S. government, it is crucial to consider the connections between our personal finances and the recently declared war on terrorism. This weekend will be alive with demonstrations against U.S. militarism abroad, […]

Posted 4:23 p.m. April 24 by Shaphan Marwah U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON- The debate over Israeli action in the West Bank intensified Monday afternoon into the evening as leading Palestinian and human rights organizations held a press conference before former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the 4th annual American Israel Public Affairs […]

Without delving into hyperbole, it must be said that Russ Rizzo’s April 15 interview (“Trachtenberg speaks of past, present and future”) with University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was superbly written. Not only did he furnish Trachtenberg with a forum to give further explication to issues that I’ve long wondered about, but he also attacked the […]

Labor Secretary, Lieberman to speak at SMPA U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and others will address GW students, faculty and staff members April 22 to educate the University community on jobs available in the federal government. GW is collaborating with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Partnership for Public Service […]

Posted 7:33 p.m. April 28 by Luke Willoughby U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) Editors Note: The author is a writer and university student in Manchester, England. The following is a special European style feature written for the Washington, D.C. Bureau of the University Wire. Image is, most certainly, everything. An irreverent expose by Richard Morrison in The […]

Five students were robbed at gunpoint by two different assailants near campus in the last two weeks and police have made no arrests, University Police and Metropolitan Police officials said. The two victims of an early Sunday robbery said responding UPD officers were unhelpful and disorganized. Both incidents are under investigation by Metropolitan and University […]