Volume 100, Issue 33
Stories from the December 8, 2003 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Posted 4:30pm December 15 by Marcus Mrowka U-WIRE Washington Bureau Chief Most young people interested in entering politics see it as a process. They might work for a Member or Senator, run for local or state office, and work years building up contacts so that one day they might make the big jump to national […]
University policy states that if a hookah is discovered in your room, it may be confiscated by University Police for testing. If it turns out that you were using it for its intended purpose – smoking flavored tobacco – you get it back. However, if they realize that you still have your hookah, they can […]
Posted 8:00pm December 4 by Vanessa Maltin U-WIRE Washington Bureau Stunned expressions filled a makeshift military base at the Baghdad International Airport as President Bush surprised 600 U.S. troops for Thanksgiving dinner. The trip, top-secret and in the works for almost six weeks, allowed Bush to assure troops their work in Iraq is creating peace […]
By day, Kim Kass is a senior double majoring in political science and Latin American studies, but by night, “LuvKassanova” is a self-described addict who can’t live without one of the most popular pastimes, instant messenger, commonly known as IM. Using six screen names (“SNs” in IM speak) on America Online, the Microsoft Network and […]
Posted Friday, Dec. 19, 12:57 a.m. To find the origin of why the GW women’s basketball team dominated the University of Oregon at the Smith Center Thursday night, you actually have to look back more than 15 years. At that time, GW head coach Joe McKeown was at New Mexico State University, and he was […]
“Here in Spartan splendor strolled the faculty in black silk robes; here waited the carriage of President John Quincy Adams as he attended a new professor’s opening lecture; here Stephen Chapin presided over the institution that was to become The George Washington University,” wrote the late Elmer Louis Kayser of a section of town not […]
Posted Saturday, Jan. 3, 11:15 p.m. St. Joseph’s guard Jameer Nelson could not do much last January in his team’s 74-68 loss to the GW men’s basketball team. In that game, the eight-time A-10 player of the week scored only eight points on 2-for-10 shooting. Almost a year later, Nelson got some payback by racking […]
The clock is ticking – the start of Hanukkah is just 11 days away and Christmas is in two weeks – but luckily for you, sales at the mall never seem to end. No matter if your shopping list is long or short, filled with people naughty or nice, consult this gift guide to find […]
In his upcoming film “Paycheck” (Paramount Pictures), Ben Affleck plays a genius whose work for high tech corporations requires that his memory be periodically erased. “Paycheck” is directed by acclaimed action film director John Woo (“Broken Arrow”, “Face/Off”) and has a cast that includes Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart. In a recent Hatchet interview, Affleck […]
Business as usual In the Dec. 4 Hatchet, Zej Moczydlowski gave readers a lesson in “Business in the real world”(p. 4). I must first point out that Aramark, the AFL-CIO and the Progressive Student Union have been dealing with business in the real world long before he or I gave our two cents. While Mr. […]