September 29, 2005

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 […]

When describing the home of the Buff and Blue, most students envision the lettered and numbered streets in Foggy Bottom, or the sprawling field at Mount Vernon Campus. But in actuality, GW has more than 20 branch campuses, spanning five states and three countries. Brian Williams, a graduate student of human resource development at the […]

The other Americans Sam Sherraden’s photo essay “Crossing Paths in Mexico” (Sept. 19, pgs. 8-9) captures a reality some may find hard to swallow. It is only a glimpse, however, of the hardships that a destitute and poorly governed yet optimistic Mexican population tackles, even when directly juxtaposed against a nation to its north that […]

A group of about 15 students brainstormed ways to improve the relationship between blacks and Hispanics in the United States during a roundtable discussion in the Marvin Center Tuesday. The students at the event, who came from all ethnicities and backgrounds, looked at both the differences and similarities between blacks and Hispanics and cited examples […]

“Student bites cop.” We all saw this headline in The Hatchet (Sept. 15, p. 1). When I read the article, it came as no surprise to me and other Hatchet readers that this girl was drunk when she did this. In a recent edition of The Hatchet, the Crime Log (Sept.

Students no longer need to take an introductory writing program course before enrolling in other English classes, the English department announced earlier this month. Although all freshmen will still be required to take a University writing 20 course in their first year, as well as two writing in discipline courses by the time they graduate, […]

Owners of McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon, a popular destination among of-age students, have agreed to shorten their hours in response to complaints from community leaders who cited the bar for neighborhood disturbances. McFadden’s will now close one hour earlier on Friday and Saturday nights, and two hours earlier during the week, among a variety of […]