Volume 102, Issue 21
Stories from the October 24, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said Friday he wants to cancel the May Monumental graduation ball to help pay for a Commencement ceremony that could cost $150,000 more than it has in previous years. The announcement, which was made at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, comes nearly a month after the National Park Service confirmed […]
Duques Hall to get Java City Aramark will open a Java City caf? on the ground floor of Duques Hall this spring, when the new business school home begins holding classes next semester. The coffee shop will be located in between Duques and Funger Hall, but only accessible from the business school or an outside […]
Though hundreds of items have been confiscated from rooms, and parents and students have complained to the University about this month’s health and safety inspections, GW has no plans of creating an appeals process to reclaim confiscated items deemed dangerous. The inspections, designed to remove potentially dangerous items from student housing, are about halfway complete, […]
A GW group protesting the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region is calling for the University to divest from any stocks or bonds of companies doing business in the African nation. Student Taking Action Now Darfur is following the lead of Stanford University, asking the GW administration to divest in companies that give money to the […]
No matter what changes are made to J Street and no matter how many offices are given to student groups, it is abundantly clear that the Marvin Center is not and will never be a true student union. Constructed decades ago, the center was not built to handle the explosive growth of the student population […]
When GW senior Jacqueline Burgess arrived in Uganda in February to study abroad, she hoped to focus on improving water sanitization in the developing country. What she didn’t expect was seeing the country’s ongoing civil war, which would change her life forever. “It’s thrown me into a world I’m going to be entering in about […]
College students often have an almost compulsory need to complain about the way their university is managed. The latest example of this phenomenon at GW comes with student ire directed toward the administration’s decision to develop Square 54 – the vacant plot where the former GW Hospital once stood – into a joint retail, commercial […]
On the 10 Commandments: “The 10 Commandments (posted in a school) keeps kids from shooting other kids just as well as the ‘Employees must wash hands’ sign keeps piss out of my Happy Meal.” On the Boy Scouts banning gay men: “The definition of gay is thousands of young men wearing neckerchiefs, waiting for the […]
Forget the first 10 people you met at GW – not everyone is from Long Island. Or New Jersey, for that matter. Or even Pennsylvania. Though many times you may hear students asking one another “Nassau or Suffolk County?” GW really does attract students from interesting locales all over the country and the globe. Meet […]
If guided campus tours don’t always give incoming college students the most complete view of university life, a new series of documentaries could help add a little perspective. A set of five DVDs to be released next week intends to give prospective students an all-access look into life at the country’s 50 most popular universities, […]