Volume 99, Issue 2
Stories from the May 20, 2002 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Sunday was not the last day of school for four seniors who will call the University home for at least a few more years, after receiving full-tuition scholarships to GW graduate schools this month. Emmanuella Duplessy, Madeline LePage, Alicia O’Neil and Nicolas Vikstrom were named the 2002 Presidential Administrative Fellows. The fellowship includes 42 free […]
Alum donates $5 million to SBPM GW officials announced Saturday that Henry “Ric” Duques and his wife, Dawn, donated $5 million for the new business school building, set for completion in fall 2004. The building will be named after the Duqueses. School of Business and Public Management Dean Susan Phillips announced the donation at the […]
Jeff Fertitta’s eighth-inning RBI single edged the GW baseball team over second-seed Saint Bonaventure 5-4 in the final preliminary round of the Atlantic 10 tournament Sunday. With the win, the third-seeded Colonials advance to the championship final of the conference playoffs, where they will face top-seeded Richmond in a best of three series Thursday, May […]
GW women’s basketball head coach Joe McKeown was one of seven coaches to turn down the head coaching job for the women’s program at Vanderbilt University, withdrawing his name from consideration last Wednesday. The spot, left open when 11-year veteran coach Jim Foster took a job at Ohio State in April, remains open. McKeown, named […]
It’s not often a five-year-old team makes it to a national championship, but with their second-place finish at the regional tournament in Princeton, N.J. last month, the GW men’s ultimate Frisbee team did. The team, called the Hungry Hungry Hippos, will travel to Spokane, Wash. this weekend with a little help from University President Stephen […]
Seniors raised a glass, gambled and revisited old haunts last week to enjoy their final moments at GW. Grad Week 2002 included the presentation of the senior gift, an all-night trip to Atlantic City and the annual back to Thurston night. The Cinema Drafthouse Monday night featured screenings of Animal House and a slide show […]
Posted 5:05 p.m. June 3 Local news media reported Monday that a man found in a K Street apartment Saturday was the victim of a homicide. The University Police crime log has a report of a murder that occurred at 2517 K St., the Shoremeade apartment building, sometime between Friday and Monday. Metropolitan Police said […]
Posted 8 p.m. June 4- Family members confirmed today the homicide victim found in his K Street apartment over the weekend was GW graduate student Daniel Krug. Krug, 30, was set to begin his second year in the master’s business administration program. He was found strangled in his second-floor apartment in the Shoremeade, at 2517 […]
Graduates couldn’t have asked for a better day to spend their last moments as GW students on the Ellipse Sunday- organizers said the Commencement ceremony was “blessed” with breezy, mid-50 degree weather. “I give 80 percent of the credit to God,” University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said after the ceremony, which honored the 4,200 graduates […]
Brown University President Ruth Simmons opened her keynote address to the class of 2002 Sunday by responding to criticism from students that she was chosen as the Commencement speaker, rather than a well-known political figure. Simmons said she was “apprehensive about coming to the podium” after reading critical student comments in The Hatchet, but after […]