Volume 102, Issue 20
Stories from the October 20, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn made sharp, though veiled, criticisms of President Bush’s performance and more directly reproached his party’s congressional leaders in a speech at GW Monday. Without naming names, Coburn (Okla.) deplored Republicans’ actions on several hot-button domestic issues in a 20-minute speech to College Republicans in the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom. Coburn, a […]
Most people associate the image of George Washington with a stiff, aged face on the front of a wrinkly dollar bill. But according to new three-dimensional images produced by the first president’s library, it appears Washington was the equivalent of an 18th century heartthrob. The Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens is performing research on Washington’s […]
Some universities have rivalries. Others have war. Last month Emory University’s Student Government Association President Amrit Dhir, donning fake military apparel, declared “war” against Washington University in St. Louis during an emergency government meeting in hopes of increasing school spirit and creating an official rivalry. Even though Washington University’s Student Union has expressed no interest […]
Sam Gilliam, like many of his structured paintings, stands on his own. Many have claimed that he is an artist searching for a category, but the last thing he wants is to be lumped in with others, sharing a genre. The artist, whose career is celebrated at the Corcoran’s Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective, has created […]
The Marvin Center has been used less for student organization functions and more for non-University events in percentage terms over the course of the last seven years, according to a report obtained by The Hatchet. The report, titled, “Executive Summary 2004: Marvin Center and University Conferences,” was distributed to members of the Board of Trustees […]
If you have $5 It’s official – The new baby panda has been named Tai Shan, or “peaceful mountain.” Even though the little guy will not officially debut until December, the zoo is hosting a talk at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday to discuss care for young “butterstick,” as he was previously nicknamed. Though Tai Shan […]
On a rainy afternoon, John Logsdon sits in his office on the fourth floor of the Elliott School of International Affairs building. His workspace is lightly decorated with models of the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V rocket that first took men to the moon and other pieces of space memorabilia. If his office does […]
Whenever a conversation even starts to head toward thoughts about your parents having sex, it is clearly time for a quick topic change. The same goes for parents about children – it’s just not something they want to know about. This is exactly what Lisa (Meryl Streep) is forced to deal with in the slightly […]
Shakour aide sued for not fully releasing financial documents Former Student Association insider Brandon Sherr, a junior, filed suit against SA President Audai Shakour’s top financial aide on Sunday in an effort to receive the Shakour administration’s financial documents, which Sherr claims are public information. In late August, Sherr requested to view financial records from […]
Across town from the glitz and glamor of the Kennedy Center, in the nondescript Playbill Cafe, a cast of three brings the audience to the edge of their seats by dramatizing the works of Edgar Allen Poe in the Meat and Potato Theater’s production of Poe 2000. True to its mission of “utilizing forgotten, ignored […]