September 29, 2005

Last year, during The Hatchet’s Student Association presidential endorsement hearings, a main criterion for this page’s support called for a candidate with a pragmatic approach to the SA’s potential as a student services organization. Thus far, SA President Audai Shakour and his peers in the Senate have worked hard to transform the governing organization from […]

Soussi 2228 18th St. N.W. The weather is beautiful. The temperature is calm, the breeze is crisp, and it just feels right to be outside this time of year. Before we know it, fall is going to turn to winter, and making a trip outside my apartment, let alone to any bar, is going to […]

Like the locusts of a biblical plague, tens of thousands of ultra-liberals descended upon Washington this past weekend. Anarchists, anti-Semites, communists, feminists, aspiring terrorists and every other bastard breed spawned of the Left came to our nation’s capital, ostensibly to advocate peace and protest the war in Iraq. Yeah, right. The first thing I noticed […]

If you have $5 And you want to feel like a kid again, head over to the free Fall for Fairfax festival (held on the ellipse at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax, Va.). Though it’s a little out of the way, the best way to ring in the fall season is with hayrides, […]

If a cell phone goes off in professor John Sides’ class, the caller, not the student, will be answering to the instructor for it. “If I can get to the phone before the person turns it off, I (answer it). Usually it rings, the class sucks in its breath, and the student usually turns it […]

The last time the GW men’s soccer team faced an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference, it was one of the finest moments in program history. The Colonials defeated the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., in the first round of the NCAA tournament last year. This Saturday, the Colonials will have another […]

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather staunchly defended last year’s discredited story on President Bush’s National Guard service at the “Kalb Report” Monday night, saying he wouldn’t have acted differently if he could do it all over again. Almost seven months after Rather retired from his post as the lead anchor of “CBS Evening News,” […]

So what if it’s Maryland and not Washington. The GW volleyball team showed that it felt comfortable close to home Tuesday night in the Bay State, coming back from a one-game deficit to top the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 3-1. Despite the Colonials’ recent losing ways, they did not want to change history. GW has […]

More than 300 freshmen will be able to register for spring semester classes a few days before their peers because of their participation in a University academic assessment program. A randomly selected group of freshmen in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences was offered priority registration if the students were willing to take a […]

I’ve spent the past several days contemplating the juxtaposition of two seemingly disparate events. The first is Dr. Benjamin Ladner, president of American University, creating a public relations storm (or worse) by wrong-headedly assuming a sense of privilege and entitlement misfitted to his professional role. The summary of his seemingly over-the-top expenses has been reported […]