Volume 101, Issue 60
Stories from the April 25, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
A month after being severely burned in a fire in his Thurston Hall room, freshman Kevin McLaughlin was moved out of the intensive care unit at the Washington Burn Center last week. McLaughlin’s father, Timothy McLaughlin, said in an interview last week that his son is in a “step-down” unit, an area that has less […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, Miami Herald publisher Alberto Ibarguen and former Army doctor Philip Russel will join CBS correspondent Andy Rooney in speaking at Commencement on May 22. “It’s an interesting group of people,” University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said. “Any one of those people you’d be happy to have dinner with.” […]
“Today’s college campuses are hotbeds of religiosity and prayer,” according to a 2005 study conducted at the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California. The survey, which included 112,232 current freshmen attending 236 colleges and universities, found that 85 percent of the participants responded with an interest in spirituality and that eight students […]
Behind a desk littered with papers in English and Arabic, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr leans back in his chair and touches the tips of his fingers together. He is pondering a question often asked to men of his prominence: What is your greatest accomplishment? Professor Nasr’s mind may be flickering through some of his life’s […]
Senior Rebecca Lankin vividly recalls her strategy for surviving the deluge of college mail that flooded her Philadelphia home four years ago. “I had this book that Hillel puts out each year and every time I got information from a school, I would look them up. If they didn’t have a big enough Jewish community […]
Senior Brad Rosenblat is making the most of his last year at GW. He led the baseball team’s offensive machine, which scored 10 runs on 14 hits Sunday to take the rubber game of a three-game set with Duquesne. The Colonials, who split Saturday’s doubleheader, have won three consecutive Atlantic 10 series and 12 of […]
Despite any theological disagreements that GW’s religious communities may harbor, they all agree on one thing: they should get together more often. The various religious communities do not interact with one another as much as they would like for many reasons. Therese Bermpohl, director of Newman Catholic Student Center, said she thinks the religious groups […]
Monday Sex Talk: Issues involving race, gender, sexuality and religion 7 to 9 p.m. Multicultural Student Services Center, 2127 G St. Sponsored by R.E.A.L. Conversations Tuesday Latin Happy Hour Fundraiser Refreshments and tango lessons to support Campo Amigo, a summer program that teaches children in Ecuador about diabetes management. 6 to 9 p.m. Agua Ardiente, […]
In college, dating in its many forms is a thriving practice. What draws one person to another and places them in an intimate relationship could be attributed to an infinite number of factors. Take GW seniors Danielle Brody and Pat Dean. Their compatibility, to many, seems obvious. Both study psychology, are active in the Greek-letter […]
Bush picks alumnus for top military post President Bush picked a GW alumnus last week to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military officer. Peter Pace, who received a master’s degree in business administration from GW, would also be the first Marine to serve as the president’s top […]