April 5, 2004

If you think the true measure of an Italian chef is by his pasta, you are simply wrong. Good pasta is essential and bad pasta can ruin your meal, but can it really distinguish a chef from the rest of the pack? No. So what is the culinary hurdle that these cuoci Italiani must soar […]

Forum: John Kerry speaks on campus For all of us who follow politics with either a religious or sexual devotion – for me it’s both – two Thursdays ago was the perfect day. Last week the word went out across D.C. that the next President of the United States was coming to GW. About damn […]

Progressive campus forces stepped up efforts last week to improve workers’ rights on campus. Attempting to persuade University administrators to accede to their demands – such as instituting a living wage, allying with the Worker Rights Consortium and improving access to healthcare – 11 students were arrested by Metropolitan Police while assembling a tent city […]

Immaturity It was truly sad to read your April Fools’ Day edition of The Hatchet and you all should be embarrassed. While some may have found it offensive, I simply found it moronic and juvenile. There was not a single line of wit in the entire edition – even though so much about GW is […]

Last Monday, students rallied in front of Rice Hall. These individuals urged GW to affiliate with the Worker Rights Consortium – an organization aligned to prevent the use of sweatshop labor when making college apparel – and to adopt a workers’ rights code of conduct ensuring a living wage, affordable healthcare and the right to […]

Forum: John Kerry speaks on campus Its official: John F. Kerry is an unabashed liberal. Of course, we conservatives knew it all along. During the anti-Bush, leftist love fest, led by the still enraged – and deranged – Howard Dean, Sen. Kerry finally shed his “centrist,” “anti-Dean” fa?ade and proudly revealed himself as the radical, […]

GW to partner with Virginia Tech GW’s College of Professional Studies announced March 26 a partnership with Virginia Tech that will focus on offering the first Master of Landscape Architecture in the D.C. area. Upon application, students will be simultaneously admitted to Virginia Tech and GW. The program will give current GW students the opportunity […]

Monday Jesus Awareness Week Kick-off Literature distribution, music 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Kogan Plaza Week’s events available at http://studentorgs.gwu.edu/ivcf/ Sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Clothesline Project View a clothesline of shirts decorated by women affected by violence 3 to 8 p.m. Kogan Plaza Sponsored by the Alliance for Sexual Assault Awareness Take Back the […]

As a young girl, professor Shoko Hamano said she wanted to be an actress. Although she never took formal steps to achieve her goal, Hamano brings her dramatic abilities to the classroom instead of the stage. Hamano, a Japanese professor and this year’s recipient of the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Teaching Award, said she uses […]