Stories from the July 8, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet.
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. As the sun began to set on the final day of June, 78-year-old David Sheehan sat alone on a bench outside St. Mary’s Court. Sheehan quietly dragged on his cigarette when a loud voice interrupted his smoke break: “It’s the last day! It’s your last one!” a fellow resident […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. Just a few years ago, the word “blog” was known only to those on the cutting edge of technology, or in other words, a bunch of computer nerds with the desire to chronicle their existence in glorified electronic diaries. In no time, however, like most technologies that start out […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. Click on “2009” in the advanced search field on thefacebook.com and what do you get? More than 1,000 matches of girls decked out in prom dresses and shirtless guys with aviator sunglasses, all of them incoming freshmen. Despite the fact that these students have yet to come to GW, […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. The new NBA rule that goes into effect in 2006 requiring players entering the draft to be 19 and over and one year removed high school, highlighted in the June 28 Web posting “Before the Draft, A Day of Reflection & Relaxation,” protects young athletes from making foolish career […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. The District will follow New York City’s lead by banning smoking in restaurants and bars if its City Council passes recently introduced legislation. City Council members are considering at least two separate bills that aim to ban or restrict smoking in D.C. restaurants and bars. They predict that some […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. Following their A-10 championship season, the GW men’s soccer team placed two players on the All-Conference team while the incoming freshman class earned one spot on the All-Rookie team. Rising seniors Frank Ambrosio and Ben Mortimer were the Colonials’ only two players named to the team. Ambrosio played in […]
Posted Friday, July 8, 7:00 p.m. For the vast majority of GW baseball players, the conclusion of the Atlantic 10 tournament marks the end of their baseball playing careers. A very select few are fortunate enough to get the opportunity to follow their dreams of playing professional baseball. The most notable of the bunch is […]
Posted Wednesday, July 13, 11:01 p.m. University officials will conduct a new search for a School of Media and Public Affairs director after neither of two finalists for the position were selected. GW administrators were set to choose between media personality Marvin Kalb and Robert Entman, an author and professor of communications at North Carolina […]
Posted Tuesday, July 26, 8:16 p.m. Metro officials are looking into the feasibility of random bag searches in response to attacks this month on London’s subway system, Polly Hannon, chief of Metro Police, said Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill. Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Hanson said Metro officials are “very interested in […]
Posted Wednesday, July 20, 1:04 p.m. Updated 9:12 p.m. The GW women’s basketball team will be spending Thanksgiving in the warm confines of the Bahamas. The Colonials received their second invitation in three years to the Junkanoo Jam Tournament on Grand Bahama Island and will face Purdue in their first round match-up. “It’s important to […]