Volume 102, Issue 19
Stories from the October 17, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
While facebook.com has become an essential to college campuses, this year the most popular college networking Web site has a new rival. Last month a group of students launched XuQa.com – a racier alternate social directory that has sparked competition between the two Web sites. XuQa co-founder Ali Moiz, who graduated last year from Williams […]
Students were forced to evacuate New Hall Friday afternoon after students playing Frisbee in one of the hallways hit either a fire alarm or sprinkler head, causing the sprinklers to go off. Witnesses on the ninth floor said a fire alarm began to sound and the sprinklers began to spray water all over the hallway. […]
Instead of playing one game the length of two normal ones, like the Astros and Braves’ 18-inning marathon two weeks ago, the GW softball team played two games half as long as normally scheduled Saturday. In the final games of their fall season, the Colonials won both parts of their doubleheader via the eight-run “mercy […]
It’s been traced back to orchestrating the Jack the Ripper killings, concealing the true identity of Jesus’ children and secretly running the world. Closer to home, this semi-secret organization has ties to GW and American history – through University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. Freemasonry traces its history to medieval European stonemasons, who worked on grand […]
For the GW water polo team, beating 11th ranked Princeton is difficult to begin with, as evidenced by its 0-2 record versus the Tigers this season entering Sunday. Beating them without ejected coach Scott Reed, the Colonials found out, was impossible. GW lost both games of its doubleheader, first 11-9 to No. 17 Bucknell, then […]
Changes to inspection procedures have left some students missing their private property and calling confiscation of prohibited items unreasonable and invasive. GW has contracted a private company to conduct health and safety inspections previously performed by Community Living and Learning Center employees. Last week the University announced that “highly trained and experienced professionals” from HRH […]
A new bill in Congress aiming to add political diversity to university classrooms is causing controversy among academics. Included in the 2005 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, to be voted on by the House and Senate this fall, is an amendment establishing an “Academic Bill of Rights” meant to maintain an ideological balance in […]
A GW student is being held without bond until a Wednesday court hearing after he struck and kicked another GW student in the face during an altercation outside of a downtown nightclub in the early hours of Oct. 9. Junior Chad Harris Dauman, a transfer student from the State University of New York-Albany, was arrested […]
A majority of college students overestimate the alcohol consumption of their peers, according to a new study. The study, published in Journal of Studies on Alcohol, found that over 70 percent of 76,000 college students at 130 U.S. colleges and universities overestimate the alcohol consumption of their peers. Such misperceptions effect individual alcohol consumption, according […]
Throngs of students jammed the sidewalks of 22nd and G streets to check out Colonial Invasion 2005, the official start of what senior forward Mike Hall predicted will be “a special season.” The doors of the Smith Center opened at 7:45 p.m., and thousands of eager students shuffled in to the band’s rendition of the […]