Volume 99, Issue 56
Stories from the March 27, 2003 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Student hotline addresses concerns A new SA student help hotline will offer advice to students with concerns about University offices and policies. The hotline, 994-1307, which will be staffed by SA office assistants, will be available during regular SA office hours, Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 12 to 6 p.m. and […]
SJT travels to Asia, awards President’s medal University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg awarded the GW President’s Medal to Chiang Chen, chairman of the Chen Hsong Group and donor and founder of the Chiang Industrial Charity Foundation. Trachtenberg presented the award to Chen at a ceremony in Hong Kong last week. On a business trip to […]
Lambda Chi ALpha holds Watermelon Fest The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will host the main event for its fourth annual Watermelon Fest Sunday, an Olympic-style competition among seven sororities. The event is a week-long competition that also includes a lip-synch contest and food drive. Sunday’s event will take place from 12 to 3 p.m. on […]
Arson/Malicious Burning 3/20 Marvin Center – 11:30 a.m. Open Case Upon entering the ground floor bathroom, a UPD officer noticed that the contents of a garbage can were on fire. The fire was extinguished, and the D.C. Fire Department was called to search the building for additional fires. A fire was also extinguished in a […]
Time for unity I watched on TV, along with millions of other fellow Americans, as President George W. Bush indicated we were going to war. Regardless of how much I expected this to happen, I found myself feeling anger toward the Bush administration. Many feel he is finishing what his father started and had long […]
You might have read about her in the news. Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American student at Evergreen College in Washington State. On March 16, she was the first person to be killed working with the International Movement for Solidarity in Gaza. She was killed after an Israeli bulldozer ran over her – and upon […]
In the midst of war, students have little time to grasp the complexities of this year’s housing selection. Since the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a city order to house all freshmen and sophomores and 70 percent of all students within campus boundaries or outside Foggy Bottom, uncertainty and confusion have prevailed […]
While University officials have ruled out switching to a trimester system anytime soon, members of a committee studying different academic calendars said GW may consider adding a required summer session. Committee chairmen Charles Karelis and Walter Brown released a statement in last week’s By George, revealing the committee’s initial findings to abandon a trimester system […]
Metropolitan and University police are investigating a series of burglaries of administrative offices on campus. On March 19, eight offices in Rice Hall were broken into, according to a UPD crime report. UPD Chief Dolores Stafford said offices on the second, third, fifth, sixth and eighth floors were burglarized. She said while intruders entered several […]
Muslim students urged University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg to adopt a statement reiterating GW’s zero tolerance policy toward hate crimes against Muslims at an emergency Muslim Students’ Association town hall meeting Tuesday night. About 50 students attended the event in the Marvin Center Amphitheater to hear University officials and Muslim activists discuss issues confronting Muslim […]