Volume 102, Issue 36
Stories from the January 26, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
In more than 30 years of working for the U.S. State Department, former-ambassador-turned-GW-professor Edward “Skip” Gnehm has not had very good timing. In the 1960s, his semester in Cairo was cut short by the Six Day War between Israel and several Arab states. While working to open up U.S. relations with Syria, a bomb went […]
It’s time to ban smoking around all GWU building entrances so that students and others will no longer have to run a gauntlet of dangerous as well as unpleasant tobacco smoke every time they enter or leave. Here are a few of the reasons why: Actual measurements near doorways at the University of Maryland show […]
Sensitive publishers I was puzzled by The Hatchet’s recent editorial on textbook pricing (“Make textbooks affordable, Jan. 19, p. 4), which neglects to explain several important facts about the higher education textbook market. I want to emphasize that publishers are extremely sensitive to the financial pressure that rapid increases in tuition, student fees, room and […]
Working with historian Joshua Shenk, author of Lincoln’s “Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness,” Vikram Jayanti’s documentary, “LINCOLN,” which premiered last week on the History Channel, reveals a side of our nation’s 16th president that too few of us ever saw in school. While the Lincoln we know and love battled […]
In a youth’s first days of playing basketball, it is not uncommon to sit at the free throw line, 15 feet from the hoop, shooting the unguarded shot. With this being the case, one would think that making free throws would be all but guaranteed at the upper levels of play. For numerous reasons, however, […]
More CLLC change needed I am one of the unfortunate students who have been negatively affected by the decision to change housing from a credit-based system to one based on class status (“CLLC makes big changes,” Jan. 23, p. 1). As a rising junior going into last year’s housing lottery, I was in the position, […]
Anyone who thought that senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu was having a down season will need to reconsider after Wednesday night. Mensah-Bonsu had a breakout game in GW’s 94-78 win over Duquesne with a career-high 29 points at the A.J. Polumbo Center in Pittsburgh. “I think (GW head coach Karl) Hobbs emphasized getting me the ball coming […]
Start the slideshow! Posted Saturday, Jan. 28, 5:20 p.m. If you look up the term “statement game” in a basketball dictionary, Saturday afternoon’s 81-62 win over Rhode Island may show up. The No. 14/15 GW men’s basketball team bolstered its ranking after erasing a six-point halftime deficit to top the Rams 81-62 in front of […]
After a win and a loss last weekend, the GW women’s basketball team has two opportunities this weekend to get back to its winning ways. The Colonials will host Fordham Friday at 7 p.m. and then travel to Richmond for a 2 p.m. matchup with the Spiders on Sunday. Neither squads have defeated a Joe […]
Government in constitutional quandry Student Association members met Tuesday night with a plan to resolve a constitutional crisis. They were unsuccessful. On Monday evening the SA Student Court invalidated a proposed new constitution that students voted on in a December election. Upon the court’s announcement the same constitution that has been in effect for the […]