Volume 102, Issue 21
Stories from the October 24, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
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, […]
There was no group that wasn’t at Jon Stewart’s mercy during his Friday night Colonials Weekend performances – Jews and Catholics, Republicans and Democrats, Boy Scouts and Scientologists, GW students and, of course, George W. Bush’s administration. Stewart, an equal-opportunity satirist, mocked them all. But first on his agenda? The decorations at the Smith Center. […]
Abraham Lincoln once said that “the best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” That may have been true in the 18th century. Yet with an emerging academic discipline geared towards predicting future events, businesses, organizations and governments do not have to consult Miss Cleo to find out […]
Hatchet editor in chief Michael Barnett’s column (“‘No comment’ doesn’t mean no story,” Oct. 10, p. 5) successfully defended The Hatchet’s policy of running a story without University comment. But it did little more than scratch the surface regarding the paper’s editorial choices in running a story about dismissed sex education professor Michael Schaffer. Barnett […]
It might be the only place you can find sauerkraut and stilettos for sale in the same place. The United Church-Die Vereinigte Kirche on 19th and G streets, more commonly referred to on campus as “the German church,” has a rummage sale once a year where assorted items spill onto the sidewalk that students walk […]