Volume 102, Issue 38
Stories from the February 2, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Posted Thursday, Feb. 2, 9:10 p.m. Updated 11:19 p.m. CINCINNATI – With 16 seconds left in Thursday night’s contest, Xavier coach Sean Miller put the ball in the hands of the hot-shooting guard that killed the GW men’s basketball team last year at the Smith Center. Sophomore Stanley Burrell burrowed his way thorough a plethora […]
More than a dozen student groups will join together Thursday to do what they can to improve the lives of those affected by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan and the ongoing violence in the Sudanese province of Darfur. With a variety show and slide presentation called GW AID, students hope to raise money for the […]
Posted Friday, Feb. 3, 7:50 p.m. William Frawley, dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, was named president of the University of Mary Washington Friday. He was one of three finalists for the presidency of the Fredericksburg, Va., school. He will be formally welcomed to the school’s campus on Feb. 6. “It is […]
Apparently, there are still some people out there who are not familiar with the cardinal rules of horror movies. Here is a quick refresher. If you and several of your attractive friends ever decide to hang out somewhere where there is no way to reach help, you will die. The more sexually active you are, […]
Posted Sunday, Feb. 5, 3:05 p.m. For the GW men’s basketball team’s 10th straight win, it felt like home sweet home. Senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu and junior Danilo (J.R.) Pinnock had 16 points each and Mike Hall had 15 in the No. 10 Colonials’ 80-55 win over Richmond Sunday afternoon. The Colonials (18-1, 8-0 Atlantic 10) […]
Disorderly Conduct 1/24 – Marvin Center – 9:40 a.m. – case closed University Police officers identified an individual acting suspiciously in the building. When an officer asked the individual for identification, the individual became verbally irate. The individual eventually gave the officer identification but had no stated purpose for being in the building and was […]
Anyone who has taken a liberal arts class at GW has been there. Everything seems fine as the professor is plodding along with the lecture. Most students have a healthy glaze over their eyes as they dutifully transcribe notes in a semi-comatose state. But a couple of diligent students in the class develop an inspired […]
Our View: The Deficit Reduction Act is no more than an attempt to tax college students through loan interest. Proposed changes to student loan provisions in the Deficit Reduction Act before Congress are not only a just quick-fix to the immense problem of a growing deficit, but also showcase an increasingly short-sighted U.S. education policy. […]
Despite being sold in November, the Allen Lee Hotel on 23rd and F streets will continue to operate as it has for the past 100 years until late 2008. At the end of last year, the quirky, run-down and relatively inexpensive hotel was sold to Abdo Development, a prominent D.C. construction and development company, for […]
Missed Hamas mark Will Dempster’s column on Hamas’ parliamentary victory in the Palestinian territories (“Is it still possible to be pro-peace after Hamas?” Jan. 30, p. 6) should be applauded for its concise and well-written content – that is, up until around the last 50 words. Monday, I sat in J Street and perused The […]