Volume 101, Issue 63
Stories from the May 5, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
The spring sports teams had a tough act to live up to. The GW basketball team made history, qualifying for their first NCAA tournament since 1999, and support for the GW athletic program was at a high. The golf team has exceeded expectations and is having its best season since 1947, while the lacrosse team […]
I would like to announce my retirement from college. I turn 22 Friday. As Danny Glover laments in “Lethal Weapon,” “I’m too old for this shit.” Please trust that I explored my options – I had plans. I planned to enter the NBA Draft, but the league has no interest in a 5-foot-8 inch, slower-than-Sherman […]
Posted Sunday, April 8, 6:14 p.m. The GW baseball team snapped a three-game losing streak, taking the final two games of a three-game set with Xavier this weekend. After blowing a lead and losing 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, the Colonials offense awakened, winning the second game 7-4 and taking […]
I’ve had a recurring conversation with my dad for the last four years, usually right around the time I get my grades back at the end of the semester. It goes something like this: “Brian, you need to get better grades than this.” “But dad, the most important things I’m learning here aren’t in the […]
SA sends out course and advising surveys The Student Association and administration jointly sent out course evaluation and academic advising surveys via e-mail over the last week. The course evaluation survey, co-funded by the University and the SA, is a 50-question poll completed by students that gives feedback to professors and departments on courses and […]
Posted Sunday, May 8, 7:26 p.m. Updated Tuesday, May 10, 12:55 a.m. Metropolitan Police officers arrested a male Hall on Virginia Avenue resident Sunday afternoon after he allegedly made threats that he would use a firearm on a student. The freshman was seen wielding a plastic BB gun in the residence hall prior to his […]
“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” – George Bernard Shaw The dichotomous nature of students at universities like GW is not well documented. I was thinking about this as I finished a 15-page research paper on the evolving nature of self-reliance in Chinese energy security policy […]
Everyone’s favorite gigolo is coming back in one of this summer’s most anticipated sequels, “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” (Columbia Pictures). Rob Schnieder is reprising his role as Deuce, the world’s most unlikely male escort. In the sequel, Deuce heads overseas to clear the name of his friend and male madame, T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin). Along […]
Steve Trachtenberg did not go to the Graduate School of Education and Human Development’s council meeting last Friday with crowd-pleasing news. The group of administrators and faculty had submitted a proposal for GW to erect a new building for their school, and Trachtenberg was telling them to get in line. Many schools within the University […]
It is often said most people fear public speaking more than death. In spite of this, a group of 15 students is meeting twice a month to make their mortality a higher priority. The GW Toastmasters, founded by sophomore Ben Meiselas, is one chapter of an international organization claiming more than 200,000 members in 80 […]