November 10, 2005

Thursday Senior class gift announcement and Senior Night Head over to Cabanas on the Georgetown Waterfront to party with fellow classmates. The first 75 people get free drink tickets. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sponsored by Class Council Friday Film: “Mad Hot Ballroom” This inspiring documentary follows 11-year-olds from some of the toughest neighborhoods as […]

The May 21 Commencement ceremony will take place on the Mall, University officials announced late Wednesday afternoon. The announcement ends a month and a half of uncertainty about where the University’s annual graduation ceremony would be held. In September, National Park Service confirmed to The Hatchet that the Ellipse, the site of every graduation ceremony […]

Executive’s top two advisers resign Two of the Student Association executive branch’s highest non-elected officials announced their resignations Tuesday night. Senior Ellen Wexler, the executive chief of staff, and junior Will Donovan, the executive chief administrative officer, both left SA President Audai Shakour’s cabinet over what Shakour termed a difference in the vision of the […]

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a two-part series on who may be reading students’ Facebook profiles. Read Monday’s edition for part two. Almost a year and a half after the creation of Facebook, some students may be surprised to learn that they can be punished for having their picture or personal information […]

The five candidates running for the D.C. democratic nomination for mayor fielded questions from journalists and residents before a full auditorium at the University of the District of Columbia Wednesday night during the first of many forums to come before next year’s primary. Sponsored by the D.C. Bar Association, the event allowed the candidates to […]

The Sigma Delta Tau sorority’s National Council suspended last week all activities of its GW chapter, the University said Wednesday. The sorority’s president is also no longer with the group. The National Council enacted the suspension on Nov. 4 to address concerns related to “general chapter operations and reports of risk management violations,” said Tracy […]

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 […]