Volume 102, Issue 10
Stories from the September 15, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
New Line Cinema’s “The Man” is classified as an action-comedy, though it seems to lack both characteristics. The premise unfolds as federal agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) is investigating the murder of his partner. Meanwhile, Andy Fiddler (Eugene Levy) is in town to speak at a dental suppliers convention. Their paths unite through an […]
SA passes one Student Court nominee, two to go The Student Association Senate approved junior Oliver Tobias to be a judge on the SA Student Court Tuesday night at a meeting on the Mount Vernon Campus. The court still has two vacancies to fill. Tobias was confirmed by the Senate Rules Committee last Wednesday and […]
Men’s Basketball Schedule completed The GW men’s basketball team will play three games on the ESPN family of channels during the 2005-2006 season. The Colonials will meet N.C. State on Dec. 31 on Fox Sports at noon. On Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. the Colonials will face Xavier in Cincinnati on ESPN2. On Feb. 11, […]
Sigma Phi Epsilon recognizes local chapter For the third consecutive year, GW’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been recognized as an outstanding chapter by its national organization. Sigma Phi Epsilon returned from its national leadership conference in Nashville, Tenn., last month with the Buchanan Cup, an award given every two years to recognize undergraduate chapters […]
Liquor Law Violation 9/11 – Thurston Hall – 2:35 a.m. – case closed University Police officers responded to a call about a sick male in the residence hall. After they discovered that he had consumed too much alcohol, a D.C. ambulance arrived and transported him to GW Hospital. Referred to Student Judicial Services 9/11 – […]
Dean of Students Linda Donnels left Washington. Sept. 3 in a wheelchair-accommodating car on a mission: to make the 1,100-mile trek to Gentilly, La., and rescue her 87-year-old father from the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. “I knew where my father was and hoped he wouldn’t be moved,” Donnels said in an interview Wednesday in her Rice […]
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, […]