Volume 101, Issue 52
Stories from the March 28, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
The votes are counted. The winner has been announced. But the Student Association presidential run-off is not over. SA President-elect Audai Shakour, who won by 29 votes, one of the narrowest margins in recent SA election history, has five violations and would be kept from assuming his post if he is found guilty of two […]
VIERA, Fla. – Amid the smell of sunscreen under the blistering heat of a Florida sun, a D.C. team is playing professional baseball for the first time in 34 years. Though the Nationals have taken the field nearly every day for the last month, most area fans have not seen the team with their own […]
The University Police Department is establishing a team of officers to handle disturbances in Foggy Bottom in order to address residents’ complaints about student behavior. UPD is in the process of hiring three additional officers to be part of the new team, which was formed because some neighbors said the department is doing an inadequate […]
Sophomore Ben Matlin is thrilled to be moving off campus next year. He said he and three friends are looking at large two-bedroom apartments in the $2,800-a-month range, meaning they will each pay about the same as he does now in a Madison Hall triple. “We got screwed,” Matlin said. “There are three of us […]
Assault With Deadly Weapon 12/19/04 – Hall on Virginia Avenue – case closed One roommate became angry with the other and began flailing his arms, waving a serrated butter knife in his hand. He then struck his roommate in the right shoulder with the knife. The wound required three stitches. This event was reported March […]
Student Association President-elect Audai Shakour is still in danger of being barred from assuming his position. The Joint Election Committee will decide by Friday if the junior committed two campaign violations that would nullify his victory. Shakour has five violations and faces an infraction for an online message allegedly sent over the social Web site […]
“On Background,” a new television show hosted by professor Steve Roberts, took center stage Monday night in a packed Jack Morton Auditorium for its first taping. In its pilot episode, the interview show welcomed ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson. Roberts and creator-producer Reena Ninan, a GW graduate, hope a major television network will buy the […]
A likely practical joke turned out to be no laughing matter for three female freshmen living in the Hall on Virginia Avenue. An anonymous tip about a hidden spy camera located in a fourth floor HOVA room led to a search by University Police investigators that didn’t turn up any digital Peeping Toms. Community Director […]
Posted Friday, April 1, 6:55 p.m. Junior Audai Shakour will be the next president of the Student Association, the Joint Elections Committee announced early Friday evening. The JEC acquitted the winner of last week’s run-off of one of two violations brought against him and will certify him as the president-elect of the SA. JEC chairman […]