Volume 101, Issue 40
Stories from the February 3, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Democracy was in action last weekend when 16 members of GW’s Chamber Choir performed in the world premiere of Democracy: An American Comedy, The Washington National Opera’s first commissioned work in more than a decade. GW’s company debut also marked the WNO’s temporary return to its original home at Lisner Auditorium. “It’s been a great […]
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – Kids growing up in Southeast Washington, D.C., have questions likely to boggle the savviest of spin artists here: Why was their neighborhood home to 106 homicides last year? Why were 24 of those victims younger than 18, compared with 12 the year before? But the difficulty in finding answers to their questions […]
Burglary II 1/30 – Francis Scott Key Hall 11:22 p.m. – open case A laptop was stolen from a resident’s room. The resident claimed her door was locked, however a male witness told University Police that he noticed the door was open during the time period in question. Destruction 1/26 – Thurston Hall – case […]
Jack Starks has died. At least once. While serving in the first Gulf War (a montage that eerily resembles current images from Iraq), Starks (Adrien Brody) is shot in the head and miraculously survives. Suffering from amnesia, he returns to a cold and barren Vermont and winds up in a mental institution after being involved […]
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON – Dana Chester, a junior at the George Washington University, braved the low temperatures and snow on Jan. 22, and led a team of 11 of her fraternity brothers in providing groceries to the elderly. “We saved them a trip to the grocery store,” said Chester the co-service chair of the Phi Sigma […]
Our view: The University must balance long term growth with educational quality for current GW students. This semester, GW students have felt the pinch of a University-wide classroom shortage. Forced to sit in chairs without tables – and even on the floor – students in some of the University’s most popular departments have voiced concerns […]
Mark Jackson’s The Death of Meyerhold, opens with the phrase, “Give me life or death, only not sleep!” Unfortunately, sleep is the only reaction that the three-hour, two-intermission play provokes. Set in early 19th century Russia, Studio Theatre’s new play explores the life and death of its title character in conjunction with the political trend […]
Anyone who’s had a relative in a nursing home or other elderly-care facility knows that the phrase “assisted living” can be misleading; one’s life is not being assisted – it’s often driven, at the cost of an individual’s independence. It is in this uncomfortably carceral setting that writer-director-producer Elliot Greenebaum created his independent tragicomedy “Assisted […]
Students looking to smoke in their dorm rooms next year will either need to move outside or kick the habit. The University announced Wednesday that it will prohibit smoking in all residence halls beginning next semester, citing accidental fire alarms, health concerns and maintenance issues. A letter sent by the Residence Hall Association to GW […]
The Saskwatch EP from GW’s own Exit Clov is finished and will be ready for the masses Friday night at the Black Cat. Recorded on their own budget, studio and equipment in a basement in Virginia, the band calls the self-produced 5-tracks more “experimental” than their previous release, Starfish. “(We’re using) compositional rock, mixing in […]