Volume 101, Issue 35
Stories from the January 17, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Outrage and frustration crowded the streets of Washington along with GW freshman Rachael Whitley and thousands of other protestors as George W. Bush made his way along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route four years ago. “I wasn’t even near where the parade was and it was unbelievable – there were so many people distraught and […]
The District may not be known as a winter wonderland, forcing student skiers and snowboarders to hang up their equipment early in the snow season. But with mountains surrounding the Beltway in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, a one-hour ride is all that is needed for a lift ticket to the mountains. Several nearby resorts […]
As you likely know by now, CNN is calling it a wrap on “Crossfire” as a stand-alone program after 23 years on the air, the last three at GW. During its unprecedented run on our campus, over 640 live programs have been produced in the Jack Morton Auditorium, with some 107,000 people in the studio […]
The search for a new director of the School of Media and Public Affairs is still underway as the school restructures its curriculum. A six-member search committee, made up of SMPA faculty and representatives from the Vice President’s Office of Academic Affairs and an outside advisory board, is in charge of reviewing and voting on […]
A GW medical school fundraiser has collected $2,500 to aid Southeast Asian countries hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami, which has already claimed nearly 150,000 lives. A second-year medical school student, Nipun Chhabra, organized the drive, which has benefited from more than 100 donations over the past two weeks. The money will be sent to […]
The most important lesson any student of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict can learn is to avoid being optimistic. It is precisely at the moment when circumstances appear ripe for substantial change in the status quo, that things always sour the quickest. Rabin’s assassination in the wake of the Oslo Accords and the launch of the Second […]
In an unusually quiet fall semester, student protests visibly declined despite high-profile national events and University labor struggles. GW’s Progressive Student Union, a group that fights for human rights and fair trade, has been an active presence on campus in recent years, protesting University policy on issues such as adjunct professor unionization and working conditions […]
At the very least, a 782-page novel can hardly be considered light reading. And yet, for whatever reason, “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” never loses its charm or sense of humor. The novel, author Susanna Clarke’s first, was published in September 2004 and has been named as one of the top 10 fiction must-reads for […]
The GW women’s basketball team split two games in Ohio last weekend, falling to Xavier 57-42 Sunday after beating Dayton 69-41 Friday. The defeat snapped the Colonials’ four-game winning streak and also marked GW’s first Atlantic 10 loss of the season. The loss also dropped the Colonials (10-5, 3-1 A-10) into third place in the […]
When a friend told 2004 graduate Adam Greenman about the Teach for America program, he was intrigued. But he had no idea it would significantly shape his future. Greenman, along with 15 other GW students who graduated last year, was accepted into the national teacher recruitment program immediately after receiving his diploma. He is now […]