Volume 102, Issue 38
Stories from the February 2, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
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 […]
As GW students, we pride ourselves on the international environment that is our campus and our city. When The Hatchet reported that nearly 42 percent of the class of 2005 studied abroad during their junior year (“GW Briefs,” Jan. 30, p. 2), launching GW into the national top 10 in percentage of students studying abroad, […]
The University announced Wednesday that the Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu fraternities will be receiving University-owned townhouses in the fall, replacing the Kappa Sigma and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities. The Student Activities Center, which works with other University offices to determine which Greek-letter organizations receive townhouses, said the process is aimed at identifying the […]
“Little Miss Sunshine” is a comedy, despite its dark beginning. Many black comedies never rise above their sorrowful dregs, offering morally uncertain humor, but “Little Miss Sunshine” does something special by being at once dark and degraded, yet glad and joyful. It is the outrageous story of a family road trip to a beauty pageant, […]
GW’s graduate programs produce some of our finest alumni doing leading work in medicine, law, academia, engineering, business and more. In fact, there are more graduate students on campus than undergraduates. Why, then, isn’t there a unified voice for graduate students? Why does virtually every other university have a dedicated organization representing all graduate students […]
There are a few names that all hardcore GW men’s basketball fans know: Red, Karl, Shawnta, Yinka, Pops and Herve. Steve “Herve” Hadley, a 1994 graduate, and fellow GW basketball devotees on the message board GWHoops.com know the players and coaches better than almost anyone else. Hadley started the site in 1996 when he became […]
Some movies should only be seen at home, with all the doors locked up and the windows shut tight to keep your worst fears trapped outside. “Right at Your Door” (Thousand Words) is not one of them. Not by a long shot. Essentially, the premise is simple: on an average May day in Los Angeles, […]