Volume 100, Issue 3
Stories from the June 9, 2003 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Although CNN’s “Crossfire” moved to a new time slot and shortened to a half an hour in April, officials involved with the show’s production said the changes have not negatively affected the show. The political debate show – filmed five days a week in the Media and Public Affairs building’s Jack Morton Auditorium – moved […]
VP Gargano to take UMass job Mike Gargano, associate vice president for Student and Academic Support Services, will be leaving the GW after 15 years for a job at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst later this month. Gargano will become the vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life at the fellow Atlantic 10 […]
A local 7-Eleven store looking into expanding its hours has faced stiff opposition from Foggy Bottom residents worried that students with the after-hours munchies will disrupt the neighborhood. The store, located at 912 New Hampshire Avenue NW near the Foggy Bottom Metro station, is petitioning the District to stay open 24 hours a day, seven […]
Administrators said the University significantly reduced its spending for this year’s Colonial Inauguration in response to budget cuts in departments across the University. Associate Vice President for Student and Academic Support Services Michael Gargano said GW mostly cut spending from give-aways, food and printed materials. GWopoly, the board game traditionally given out to all CI […]
The taskforce created to explore a new academic calendar submitted its final report to top administrators last week, which will be posted on the GWeb site on Wednesday. The committee was originally slated to release its report in early May, but pushed back the date to allow for further investigation. The report enumerates the pros […]
It’s a Friday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. You are sitting in a tiny, overheated and drab cubicle at your unpaid internship, checking your e-mail for what seems like the hundredth time and counting down the minutes until 5 p.m. You will then walk to the nearest Metro stop in the blazing heat, or pouring rain, […]
Now that the geography department has moved out of Quigley’s on 21st and G streets, students are salivating over the possibility of a 24-hour eatery sometime in the future. GW President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has said in previous interviews that he envisions a 24-hour food venue there, but no solid plans have been developed. While […]
Not so illogical The Hatchet’s prior reporting on GW’s zoning problems has been sophisticated and knowledgeable. Your staff editorial “An Illogical Lawsuit” (May 12, p. 6), however, misses the logic of Dr. Kreuzer’s lawsuit against GW and its Superdorm. Dr. Kreuzer moved to 600 23rd St. in 1974 when his block (known as Square 43) […]
On ABC’s Sunday morning panel show This Week, panelist George Will quoted Charles de Gaulle in saying, “Nations do not have permanent allies or permanent enemies. Nations have permanent interests.” Replace the word “nations” with “universities,” and you can easily understand the current situation with the Atlantic Coast Conference invading the Big East. While talk […]
Atlantic 10 restructures championship tournaments The Atlantic 10 concluded its annual meetings in Amelia Island, Fla. last month by making changes to the locations and formats of the league championships in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer and baseball. In 2004, the A-10 Men’s Basketball Tournament will be held at Dayton. But unlike […]