Volume 99, Issue 15
Stories from the September 19, 2002 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Until now, GW intramural football players could only dream of playing a championship game on an NFL field. But now that GW is one of 32 pilot colleges participating in the new NFL College Flag Football Program, the players may have a chance to play at FedEx Field, home of the Washington Redskins. The program, […]
Posted 9:04 p.m. Sept. 21 by Carolyn Polinsky U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) U-WIRE (WASHINGTON)–Members of Congress battled pressure from special-interest groups and won 57-40 this week, at the 4th annual Hoops for Hope Basketball Game. “Paying off refs and hoping they’ll get special treatment” was the tactic lawmakers used against lobbyists to win the charity event […]
Fabio Andrade’s goal in the 99th minute broke a 2-2 overtime tie, giving the GW men’s soccer team a win over host Monmouth University and an end to its three-game losing streak Wednesday. The goal, Andrade’s first of the season, came off an assist from teammate Justin Evans and gave the Colonials (3-3) a 3-2 […]
The School Without Walls is old, but it is not necessarily historic. Resident and city concerns about preserving the building should not overshadow efforts to create what both GW and School Without Walls officials call a “win-win” situation. Under a current proposal, GW would tear down the over-crowded, 120-year old School Without Walls and replace […]
GW’s unionized Aramark employees are threatening to strike Monday. Regardless of the validity of their claims, a strike will affect students who eat on campus. The GW administration needs to be proactive in addressing and settling the situation. These workers have been working without a contract since July 31 and negotiating a new one for […]
It baffles me that the University of California at Santa Barbara is ranked the 47th best college in the country by the U.S. News and World Report, while GW did not break into the top 50 this year. There is no reason that UCSB, a school notorious for non-stop block parties that degenerate into sloppy […]
Individual responsibility in this country seems to be as scarce as a fat- free double cheeseburger. Did the CEO of McDonald’s abduct young girls and force an intravenous line of fry grease? The article (“Professor sues McDonald’s, Sept. 16, p. 11) does not mention the parents taking any blame at all. If they drove their […]
Year after year, President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and other GW administrators have downplayed the U.S. News & World Report college rankings as being flawed and “stacked against GW.” For these reasons, President Trachtenberg and others have continuously ignored the rankings and have basically called them meaningless. He states, “What U.S. News is trying to do […]
I am constantly amazed at the numerous signs that show how many GW students believe the world revolves around them. Take, for instance, the editorial (“Close off H Street” Sept. 12, p. 5) suggesting that a block of H Street should be closed off for students’ convenience. We need to realize that D.C. was not […]
A former GW graduate student is currently being held by Immigration and Naturalization Services after the D.C. jail mistakenly released him last month. Khushal Khan, who was being held on charges of threatening to kill President George W. Bush, turned himself in days after his release. Khan studied at GW from fall 1999 until spring […]