Volume 102, Issue 26
Stories from the November 10, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Historians and an investigative journalist discussed the history of secrecy within the executive branch and called the Bush administration one of the most secretive in U.S. history at a panel discussion Tuesday night. Moderator John Friedman, who compiled and edited the recently released book “Secret Histories: Uncovering the Past and Influencing the Present,” said Americans […]
Universities across the country are preparing for the possibility of an avian flu outbreak on their campuses, though some question whether it’s necessary. Last month, George Washington University created a task force to work with an ad hoc committee on infectious diseases established by its medical center to prepare for an avian flu outbreak. Not […]
The GW student on a casual stroll near the Vietnam and Lincoln memorials is likely to notice a few stands selling an array of pins and patches from the Vietnam War. But there’s more to the makeshift storefronts than tiny pieces of memorabilia. “By the end of the Vietnam War, there were 2,300 troops missing,” […]
Students are in the process of re-chartering a professional foreign service fraternity on campus that died out from inactivity at GW following World War II. Students are working to bring the Delta Phi Epsilon foreign service fraternity’s Eta chapter back to campus, as well as a sorority chapter, because they feel there are a significant […]
Start the slideshow! Posted Saturday, Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m. The new banner that commemorates 2005’s Atlantic 10 championship and NCAA tournament appearance is meant to evoke memories of last year’s successful men’s basketball season. GW Coach Karl Hobbs said the way his team played Saturday in what was supposed to be a warm-up against a […]
Alpha Delta Pi hopes to lock up charity funds The Alpha Delta Pi sorority will hold its annual Jail ‘N Bail event Thursday in Kogan Plaza. To participate in the event, students enlist their friends to be handcuffed to an Alpha Delta Pi member. The student then walks around the Foggy Bottom campus with the […]
Democrat Tim Kaine will succeed GW alumnus Mark Warner as Virginia’s next governor, after defeating Republican Jerry Kilgore by a six-point margin Tuesday night. Kaine’s victory with 52 percent of the vote marks the end of a hotly contested statewide race that Kilgore was expected to win not more than two months ago. The Republican […]
Posted Sunday, Nov. 13, 7:10 p.m. Student Association President Audai Shakour categorically denied sexual harassment charges leveled against him last week by a female colleague. A female SA member alleged that an act of harassment occurred in mid October, and she filed a complaint three and a half weeks later on Nov. 7, Shakour said. […]
UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson told students and distinguished guests, including retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Tuesday night that the UN is “is facing a most important crossroad.” Eliasson said that despite criticism of the UN, including the oil-for-food scandal in which former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein pocketed billions of dollars meant […]
I am writing in response to the animal liberation exhibit sponsored last week by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the uproar on campus that ensued. For the record, I am not a member of PETA; nor do I agree with them on all ethical and political issues. Moreover, I never actually […]