Volume 102, Issue 28
Stories from the November 17, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Drug Law Violation 11/12 – Aston Hall – 3:35 a.m. – case closed Community Living and Learning Center staff contacted University Police after noticing a suspicious odor in the dormitory. When UPD arrived and a search of a room was conducted, they found 1.2 grams of marijuana, pills, pipes and rolling papers. Referred to Student […]
Student Association President Audai Shakour narrowly escaped impeachment at Tuesday night’s SA Senate meeting in the Marvin Center. Despite Sen. Chris Rotella (CCAS-U), a sophomore, drafting a document outlining 11 reasons to impeach Shakour, not enough senators supported the document for the charges to be carried out. For Shakour to have been impeached by the […]
A photo caption that appeared on the front page of Monday’s Hatchet (11/14) misspelled the name of GW junior Nikoleta Tzaferos. The article “Blowing up Google” (Nov. 14, p.10), incorrectly stated that a Google bomb about the Arabian peninsula Ali Khoshgozaran started is no longer the number one result on the search engine. It is […]
When the house lights dimmed on Arena Stage’s world-premiere performance of Cuttin’ Up, the audience heard a familiar radio personality telling them how to be an appropriate theatre audience. The voice told everyone not to eat, crinkle candy wrappers or talk during the performance – common sense to most of the audience who had probably […]
I’m lucky. For some deranged reason, since the sprightly age of 7, I have known what I want to do with my life: become a writer. Fast-forward 11 years and that same interest motivated me to apply to GW’s journalism program in the School of Media and Public Affairs. When I was accepted into the […]
Before a crowd of about 70 students, former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp gave a speech on poverty and capitalism in the United States but did not address the major issues facing the GOP. Kemp, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president with Bob Dole in 1996, is a former professional football player, member of […]
University officials said they hope to increase the number of students participating in the six-year bachelor’s and law degrees program next year. The BA/JD program, in its second year, has five students enrolled this year and hopes to attract 15 incoming freshmen to participate in the program next year, Admissions Director Kathryn Napper said. “We […]
This week could not be worse for Student Association President Audai Shakour. While Student Judicial Services investigates allegations of sexual impropriety brought against him, some members of the Senate have drafted articles of impeachment outlining various alleged failures of leadership on the part of Shakour. While the results of the sexual misconduct investigation are a […]
About 200 students were forced to confront the issues of poverty and unequal wealth distribution during the Oxfam Hunger Banquet Tuesday night in the Marvin Center. “This is a dramatized version of what goes on in the world because of poverty,” said freshman Talia Recht, a human services major and volunteer involved in the project. […]
You don’t have to look far to see the seeds of disaster being planted all around us. They can be found throughout Southeast Asia and Europe; even throughout time, where the lessons we should have learned stretch as far back as 1918. We have ignored them at our own peril for far too long. The […]