April 26, 2004

More than 200 students and community members gathered on campus Sunday night to remember Israeli soldiers who lost their lives in war. The event, Yom HaZikaron, is devoted to the memory of the more than 21,000 Israeli soldiers who gave their lives for the creation and security of the Israeli state. The sorrowful event falls […]

College admission camp opens at Dartmouth (U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. – High school students will come to Dartmouth College this summer to seek a leg up in the increasingly competitive college admissions process. The 11-day program, called College Admissions Advantage, carries a price tag of $2,695. Spots in the camp are first-come, first-serve, and will be […]

Four years ago I was a drama queen. Loud. Demanding. Everything was about me. I quickly learned that wasn’t the best way to make friends your first semester at college, because in Thurston Hall you were living with hundreds of others just like yourself. However, also around that time I started keeping a journal. It […]

It has been a number of decades since substantial changes have been made to the Guide to Student Rights and Responsibilities, which includes the Student Code of Conduct and the Code of Academic Integrity. This is the one document that enumerates our rights as students. How much has our campus changed, though, over the last […]

The city is slated to approve plans in early May for a multimillion renovation of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The “Plaza Project,” which has already been approved by the D.C. Commission of Fine Arts, calls for the addition of two new buildings to the center, an alteration of its current […]

The latest spring fashion has arrived at GW. Women, get ready to show some leg, men break out those oxfords, and everybody get ready to pop that collar. I set out on a sunny Saturday afternoon and hit up all the campus hot spots – J Street, Kogan Plaza and the Quad – to see […]

It has been several months since we communicated regarding your work with Verizon and your assistance in helping the company thwart workers’ efforts to form a union there. Since we did not hear back from you, we were uncertain whether or not our comments had any impact on you. We are disappointed to discover they […]

Lack of professionalism As someone who has written to The Hatchet in protest of the publishing of student corpse photos, I would like to propose that freshman Zej Moczydlowski – who wrote in support of “photography” in the April 22 Hatchet (“Defending photographers,” p. 4) – does not fully understand the ethics of professional journalism […]

The GW women’s lacrosse team remained at the .500 mark for the season after splitting two games this weekend. The Colonials defeated Mount St. Mary’s College 16-6 Sunday and fell to Temple 13-5 Friday. Freshman Laura Hostetler scored seven goals Sunday, breaking her own school record. She previously scored six times against Howard March 26. […]