Volume 102, Issue 10
Stories from the September 15, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
A few days had passed since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Louisiana coastline, and juniors Alana Kuhn and David Manchester were getting worried. Ronald Harper, a friend whom they met at an internship, was at Louisiana State University when the storm struck, and he wasn’t answering his cell phone. Kuhn and Manchester sent Harper repeated e-mails […]
Almost 50 people crowded into Georgetown’s ALDO shoe store Wednesday to catch a glimpse of actress Ashley Judd and “American Idol” finalist Kimberly Locke, who stopped by the store to promote AIDS awareness. Judd and Locke sat behind the store’s counter to sign autographs for fans who purchased $5 “empowerment” dog tags, the proceeds of […]
Nervous about having a community facilitator living on your floor? Try having an administrator, dean or professor for a neighbor instead. GW houses at least six staff and faculty members in student residence halls in Foggy Bottom and on the Mount Vernon Campus. Most GW staff who live on campus said it’s a perk to […]
While students are no longerable to smoke in dorms due to a mandatory ban of the practice this year, organizers of the ban and University officials said it is necessary despite the inconvenience it may cause to student smokers. After being initially criticized for instituting the ban without student input last January, the ban’s organizers, […]
A female student was arrested after reportedly biting a University Police officer who approached her while she was intoxicated in the lobby of Ivory Tower early Friday. UPD Chief Dolores Stafford said that, according to a police report, the student bit one of the UPD officers in the arm while he was trying to sit […]
University officials hailed the class of 2009 as the most “academically prepared” in GW’s history, but a new Scholastic Achievement Test, may make it harder for administrators to judge the merits of next year’s incoming freshmen. The new SAT complete with an essay-writing section, Algebra II math questions and more critical reading passages, was introduced […]
GW will welcome transfer students from New Orleans universities at a special Colonial Inauguration Thursday, in an effort to introduce students to their temporary home in D.C. The program, which will run from noon to 7:30 p.m. in the Marvin Center’s Hippodrome, will focus on providing new students with information they’ll need during their stay […]
Not surprised As a former student of Prof. Schaffer, I was appalled to read that he was let go (“Controversial sex professor gets the boot,” Sept 12, p. 1), but I can’t say I wasn’t surprised. I’m actually a bit surprised it hadn’t happened earlier. The class certainly opened itself up to this kind of […]
When the Office of Grad Life offered 120 spots on a crab boat cruise along the Potomac River, the tickets sold out within a number of days. And when Grad Life held its fall barbecue last month, more than 1,000 GW graduate students showed up for free food. A campus social life, it seems, isn’t […]
Baxter – a noun, term for the man who is always left behind, the guy that girls will “settle” for when nothing better is around. In a world of alpha-males, this hapless fellow is the beta. See also – the movie written by, directed and starring relative newcomer Michael Showalter (“Wet Hot American Summer”) opening […]