Volume 102, Issue 29
Stories from the November 21, 2005 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
A photo caption that appeared on the front page of last Monday’s Hatchet Nov. 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 […]
D.C. resident Kenneth Wyban said that five years ago, he thought his “blighted neighborhood” in Near Southeast along the Anacostia River by the Navy Yard was headed for a turnaround. But now his community is approaching nonexistence. Wyban, a retired Army officer, is one of 16 property owners whose land was seized by the D.C. […]
Beginning next fall, a new living and learning community will offer students guaranteed housing, priority registration and $1,000 tuition grants to students studying abroad during the fall semester. About 625 students typically study abroad in the spring, while a little more than 250 students choose to go abroad in the fall. Senior Vice President for […]
Over the course of a year, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg received a $62,749 increase in salary and benefits, according to a report released last week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. In the 2003-2004 school year, the most recent period included in the new report, Trachtenberg earned $704,113 in salary and benefits, compared to […]
As students filed into class, opened their notebooks and looked up to their instructor to begin his lecture, archeology professor Eric Cline projected a large picture of an ancient toilet on the screen. “You didn’t anticipate this today did you?” he asked the room of almost 100 students, who chuckled at the notion of a […]
Professor Melvin Lader, a former chair of the art history department who was currently serving as a graduate student adviser, died suddenly in his Alexandria, Va., home Wednesday of a heart condition. He was 58. Lader is survived by his wife and two sons. This semester he taught a graduate seminar in 20th-century art. He […]
Scientists addressed a small audience of D.C. residents at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences Friday night to make them aware of global weather patterns that affect the District. Local NBC 4 meteorologist Chuck Bell said one of the biggest challenges in predicting D.C.’s weather, as opposed to other areas, […]
University officials defended their mixed-use development plan for Square 54, the empty site across from the Foggy Bottom Metro, despite opposition arguments from community members and some students at a debate Thursday night. The debate, hosted by the Enosinian Society, a new student organization created to facilitate discussion among students and faculty, took place on […]
Posted Tuesday, Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m. GW communications professor Charles Feldman, who taught classes in public communication and small group communication this semester, died earlier this month. Feldman, who lived in Alexandria, Va., was an adjunct professor and taught at GW for about four years. He died Nov. 8 and is survived by his wife […]
D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams acknowledged that there is much more he would like to accomplish before he leaves office in January 2007 and used a town hall meeting Saturday to gauge resident input on his progress and what still needs to be done. About 2,000 residents joined Williams and other community leaders for Citizen Summit […]