Volume 99, Issue 11
Stories from the September 5, 2002 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Homeland Security consolidates 22 federal agencies into the third-largest cabinet agency. It would have a staff of 169,000 and a budget of $38 billion. This effort should be viewed in the context of seven federal reorganizations in the past six decades. Our current problems are our past solutions. Over time we created the poor connectivity […]
A record number of GW students took online courses this summer, but some of those enrolled in the classes said there were some drawbacks to learning with distractions like checking their Instant Messenger buddy lists. The program enrolled 350 students in 25 courses during the summer in its third year at GW, officials said. Most […]
While City By the Sea probably won’t break box office records or bring home any Oscars, this movie is surprisingly spectacular. Given an impressive cast list, one might expect no less. But its not the big names that make this worth seeing, it’s the little guys. The film tells the story of a well-respected homicide […]
Unlawful Entry 9/3/02- City Hall 2:45 a.m. UPD responded to student complaint of an intruder in the hall. Investigation continues Open Drug Law Violation 8/28/02- 1957 E St. 10:19 p.m. Referred to SJS Closed Liquor Law Violations 8/30/02- Thurston Hall 10:40 p.m. Referred to SJS Closed 8/31/02 Mitchell Hall 12:52 a.m. Referred to SJS Closed […]
Volleyball head coach Jojit Coronel expects to win this year’s GW Invitational, despite competition that includes Big East Conference powerhouse Rutgers University and 2001 NCAA qualifier Liberty University. “I expect us to use the competition to challenge ourselves and execute at a level that counts,” Coronel said. “The competition (at the Invite) is very good […]
The GW men’s basketball team received a verbal commitment last month from its first recruit for next season, local standout Ricky Lucas of Herndon, Va. Lucas, who recently transferred to Herndon High School, is a 6-foot-5 swingman who averaged 14 points and seven rebounds per game for Montrose Christian (Rockville, Md.) last season. GW Head […]
Tampa Bay Devil Ray John Flaherty is the only GW alumnus in Major League Baseball, but six former GW baseball players taken in last June’s draft could give the former Colonial catcher some collegiate company in the major leagues. Junior Jake Wald and seniors Mike O’Connor, Mike Bassett, Tony Brown, Jason Baker and Matt Krimmel […]
What began as a formal mayoral debate Wednesday night disintegrated into a political circus with the sitting mayor abandoning the forum early, one candidate talking on his cell phone and another mayoral hopeful singing her closing statement. About 150 GW students were treated to the full flavor of the District’s unique political culture at the […]
Mosheh Oinounou’s article (“New printing charge to take effect,” Aug. 26 p.1) contains a fundamental mischaracterization of the position taken by the Student Association Senate with reference to the imposition of a printing fee. Oinounou paraphrases a statement by University Librarian Jack Siggins in reporting that “three years of negotiations between the GW Prints members […]
Ten years ago, with a fellow student, I started a group at GW called GW Students for Choice to organize students to be activists for reproductive rights. It is wonderful to see that thanks to the efforts of GW students, the University, with its decision to include contraceptives in the student health plan, will be […]