Volume 100, Issue 21
Stories from the October 20, 2003 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Tuesday “On Location” with the Center for Alcohol and other Drug Education noon to 1 p.m. Mount Vernon Pub and Grill Spanish Club Luncheon noon to 1 p.m. Marvin Center 101 Investigative Reporting Panel speakers include GW Professor Mark Feldstein, formerly of CNN and “Dateline NBC;” Peter Overby of National Public Radio and Mary Jo […]
Crawford arson forces evacuation Students in Crawford Hall were sent running through smoke and sprinkler water early Saturday morning after a hallway bulletin board was set on fire. Bob Ludwig, interim director of Media Relations, said University Police determined that the act was arson but would not disclose further details. At 5:30 a.m., Crawford’s eighth […]
GW welcomed parents, family members and alumni to campus this weekend to participate in a variety of events and to visit with students and friends. For the second consecutive year Colonials Weekend combined Parents Weekend and Alumni Weekend. Jason Miller, director of alumni benefits, said although he does not yet know how many alumni attended, […]
A nearly sold-out crowd at the Smith Center welcomed Whoopi Goldberg with a standing ovation on Friday night. The comedienne kicked off this year’s Colonials Weekend. About 5,000 people attended the hour and a half-long comedy routine, including CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. Goldberg opened her show by warning audiences about her crude language and voicing […]
In a span of no more than 15 seconds during overtime Sunday, the women’s soccer team was denied not once but twice by what appeared to be hand balls inside Xavier’s penalty box, but no penalties were called. Those non-calls and Xavier’s subsequent double overtime game-winning goal capped off a horrendous weekend for the Colonials, […]
Seven years after my Bar Mitzvah, I finally became a man last week. My initiation, de-flowering, whatever you want to call it, happened Thursday night. I am now a true Red Sox fan. Twenty-year-olds do not remember the hurt of 1986. We were barely in pre-school. After the Yankees moved on to the World Series […]
GW students, parents, faculty and alumni danced to a live performance from the Beach Boys in the Smith Center on Saturday. “It’s really great to be here tonight,” Beach Boys lead singer Mike Love said to a sold-out crowd. “It’s really great to be anywhere tonight, considering the Beach Boys started in 1961!” The Beach […]
A spirit event called Colonial Invasion will mark the beginning of the GW basketball season Thursday night at 9 p.m. in the Smith Center. Both the men’s and women’s teams will participate, along with the GW spirit squad and one outside act, an aerial dunk team. GW Spirit Coordinator Niccole Macchione said the event was […]
The GW volleyball team lost to Temple on Friday, 3-0, failing to avenge last year’s loss to the Owls in the Atlantic 10 Tournament final. Temple has now beaten the Colonials ten consecutive times dating back to 1998. GW rebounded Saturday, though, easily defeating La Salle, 3-0. Senior Sarah Hokom led GW with 13 kills […]
The first in a series of editorials addressing the alternative academic calendar. University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg first presented his concept for an alternative academic calendar nearly one year ago to the Faculty Assembly. After much debate, GW is now weeks away from forming an implementation committee that will develop specific suggestions to phase in […]