Volume 100, Issue 19
Stories from the October 13, 2003 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
University administrators are launching fellowships and proposing new courses this year in an effort to strengthen undergraduate research opportunities and challenge students. The programs are part of the University’s Strategic Plan, which focuses on enhancing intellectual engagement and improving academic excellence, among other initiatives. The Strategic Plan includes the University Writing Program, which GW launched […]
Tuesday Count the Condoms Guess the number in the jar to win the condoms 12 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center Great Hall Same time and place Wednesday Sponsored by Voices for Choices Diversity in the Media: Reaching Generation Next Brown Bag Lunch with Shapiro Fellow Dorothy Gilliam 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Media and Public Affairs […]
French ambassador visits GW Jean-David Levitte, France’s ambassador to the United States, said his country would always be a U.S. ally despite its reservations about Operation Iraqi Freedom in a speech at GW Friday. Speaking in front of a packed crowd of about 100 people in the Elliott School of International Affairs building, Levitte talked […]
The University is looking to build a boathouse on the Georgetown waterfront for its rowing teams, officials said Friday. GW has entered into preliminary negotiations with the National Park Service, which owns the land along the Potomac River, to trade two University-owned townhouses for waterfront property. In July, GW paid $2.4 million for two townhouses […]
Posted 10:54pm October 15 by Vanessa Maltin U-WIRE Washington Bureau Distinguished journalists, Bob Schieffer, Daniel Schorr, Karen Jurgensen, Margaret Warner and David Broder joined moderator Marvin Kalb in a discussion Monday night at the Kalb Report on the ethics of journalism in war and politics. With over 250 years of combined knowledge amongst them, the […]
Red Cross hypocrisy There is one important reason for not giving blood that Ben Delman neglects to address in his article (“Donate blood and save a life,” Oct. 9, p. 4). If you are a man who has had sex with another man, even once, since 1977, you are forbidden from ever donating blood to […]
The Student Activities Center revoked its policy last week requiring all student organizations to submit their members’ names and e-mail addresses. A coalition of 14 student organizations concerned about protecting members’ privacy rights led senior administrators to reassess the rule. The group, Student Organizations Aligning for Rights, consists of the College Democrats, College Republicans, Feminist […]
Posted 11:01pm October 15 by Jane Black U-WIRE Washington Bureau A year after the sniper shootings that terrorized the nation’s capital, one of the accused triggermen will plead he was brainwashed to kill by the man he once called “Dad”. Lawyers for accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo announced just five days before Muhammad’s trial that they […]
There we were, just walking around campus and holding hands. We were not trying to make a political statement. We were not trying to rub “it” in anyone’s face. We were just trying our best to keep our emotions contained before we had to say goodbye and end our relationship. It was an emotional moment […]
In the dining halls of J Street, on the steps outside of Funger Hall and wherever else students gather throughout the day, there is a dominant theme dictating conversation and clothing. It causes agreements and arguments between people who have never met before and creates an air of anticipation as each game draws near. It […]