Volume 100, Issue 43
Stories from the February 12, 2004 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Although some people were planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day as the next major holiday, last Friday, it felt a little more like St. Patrick’s Day, when local punk rockers convened for an early show at Nation to party with the spirit of the Irish. The opening band Stiff Little Fingers successfully revved up the crowd, […]
Students stumbling home after a night of partying could be stopped and asked to take a breathalyzer test by University Police officers starting as early as March. The University has also acquired identification scanners to help crack down on underage drinking and identify intoxicated students who need medical attention, UPD Chief Dolores Stafford said. Metropolitan […]
The GW gymnastics team suffered a tough loss in its second dual meet of the season, falling to Maryland 195.400-192.975 Wednesday night at the Smith Center. The Colonials, who had three gymnasts competing with minor injuries, scored their second lowest total of the season. “It was a rough night all around,” head coach Margie Foster-Cunningham […]
What hit me first was the turnout. The line wrapped around every wall and up the stairs as patrons from all over D.C. waited with the hope of snagging a seat to view Bernardo Bertolucci’s latest work, “The Dreamers” (Fox Searchlight). The buzz about this film is unfortunately due to the controversial rating it has […]
A service to commemorate the life of sophomore Jenny Dierdorff will be held in the Smith Center Thursday at 9 p.m. Following the service, students will walk to Kogan Plaza to light candles in remembrance of Dierdorff, 19, of Naperville, Ill. For more information about the event, e-mail eic@gwhatchet.com or call the Hatchet news desk […]
It wasn’t an upset, but for the GW men’s basketball team, a conference road win is as big as they get. The Colonials picked up just their third win away from home this season by beating Fordham 77-66 Wednesday night in Bronx, N.Y. GW (14-8, 8-3 Atlantic 10) moved to within one and a half […]
Let’s clear up one thing: “Miracle” (Walt Disney Pictures) isn’t “Mighty Ducks 4,” a joke I’ve heard made about the film numerous times. Instead, “Miracle” is a fairly solid film that, surprisingly enough, fails to bore. The film begins with a montage of footage depicting the growing list of depressing major events of the late […]
Three additional Greek-letter organizations will reside in townhouses on campus next year, as part of the University’s expansion of fraternity and sorority housing. The move comes after the University introduced Towhhouse Row this year, enabling eight fraternities and sororities to live in on-campus housing. The Alpha Epsilon Pi and Beta Theta Pi fraternities and the […]
Sigma Phi Episilon trains new members Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity attended a new member camp last weekend to promote the organization’s ideology to pledges. Twenty of the 22-member fall pledge class attended the camp, held in Fort Royal, Va. Alumni of the fraternity attended to teach pledges “what it’s like to be […]
“It was like being in the front row and watching the passing parade of history,” said Alonzo Fields, the first black chief butler of the White House. In the one-man performance titled “Looking over the President’s Shoulder,” Wendell Wright, playing Fields, gives audience members an especially intimate view of the former inhabitants of the most […]