Volume 99, Issue 25
Stories from the October 24, 2002 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Imagine an old lounge singer strutting across stage trailing a silk scarf that conveniently covers her Adam’s apple. Her large blond wig is secured by a rhinestone-covered bow. Her accompanist is furiously pounding the keyboard. She looks into the audience, brings the purple-topped microphone to her lips and opens her mouth. “Wu-tang, motherfucker!” It is […]
As a freshman last year, Graham Murphy decided to do what many GW students have considered doing but have never actually done. He started his own student organization. He formed The Out Crowd last year for students who are just “coming out of the closet.” “If you’re not proactive, you’re not going to get a […]
Ghost Ship by Matt Windman The poster for the new film Ghost Ship features a large skull rising out of a cruise liner. It was probably designed to scare pre-adolescent children (it desperately screams “I’m scary! Come see me!”). To anyone who’s actually made it through puberty though, it comes across as a tad ridiculous. […]
Unionized food workers voted to approve a three-year contract with food service provider Aramark Wednesday, after about five months of negotiations. Aramark responded to most of the workers’ demands concerning higher wages, better health care benefits and more efficient grievance procedures in the new contract, union representatives said. All but one of the 80 unionized […]
It’s 2 p.m. on a weekday. Where are you? Your seat in Econ. 11 has been vacant all semester. Why? Because “Passions” is on, and you just have to know what is going to happen today to the denizens of Harmony. It’s your dirty little secret. “Passions” is a soap opera for the 21st century. […]
In 1968, I sat in a car with three friends and drove for hours to hear Robert Kennedy speak. We had no air conditioning, our quarters were cramped and we were running late, with no time to get out and stretch our legs. On the drive back, not one of us doubted that the trip […]
Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah spoke about the future of Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. war on terrorism in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday, calling fundamentalism a “threat to normal life.” The Elliott School of International Affairs and the GW Law School sponsored the speech, held in front of the packed auditorium in […]
Mark Twain’s words couldn’t be more pertinent when discussing art and its preeminent detractors. “Out of Context – A View from the Hill” is the transfixing new art exhibit on display in D.C.’s Zenith Gallery. Artists Raymond Wiger and David Morgan present a tonal ultimatum to the United States Senate, offering pieces directly responding to […]
It began as a typical enough Tuesday night. I had been up 38 straight hours studying for the day’s exams and was enjoying a soothing World Series baseball game made even better than usual by the lack of sleep, which was causing me to hallucinate that the Red Sox and Giants were battling it out […]
Posted 2:36 p.m. Oct. 25 by Carolyn Polinsky U-WIRE (DC BUREAU) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON–Police believe they have caught two men responsible for the Washington, D.C. area sniper attacks that have terrorized residents for the past three weeks and drawn national and international attention. The suspects are John Allen Muhammad, 41, a Persian Gulf War Army veteran […]