Volume 102, Issue 38
Stories from the February 2, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
GW’s political wonks turned out and tuned in at the Hippodrome Tuesday night to spend the evening watching President Bush’s annual State of the Union address. About 100 College Republicans, College Democrats and non-partisans attended the event. The watching party in the Marvin Center was sponsored by the CRs, CDs and the Call to Serve […]
Senate closer to election agreement The Student Association Senate took another step towards being ready for a looming SA presidential election at Tuesday night’s meeting in the Marvin Center. The body offered new rules to govern the election and agreed to abide by the constitution that has been in effect for the entire year. In […]
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and U2 singer Bono will speak at the Washington Hilton and Towers tomorrow evening as part of the Nation’s Capital Distinguished Speakers Series. Recently named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Bono has distinguished himself in the past year as a humanitarian, promoting awareness of global poverty and AIDS. The speaker […]
Unbeknownst to much of Foggy Bottom, there is an impressive GW team that is ranked first in its league, fourth in its region, and is still undefeated more than halfway through a long season. Tucked away at the Fort DuPont Ice Arena in Southeast Washington – a long Metro train ride and a bus transfer […]
Never before has a torpedo fish’s stunning mechanism for seeking its prey simultaneously caught the attention of biologists, chemists and physicists. But soon the secrets of this unique sea creature – and the complexities of life’s molecular structures – could be revealed on the fourth floor of Corcoran Hall. Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, biochemistry […]
GW head coach Karl Hobbs and his 10th-ranked men’s basketball team knows their past performances against Xavier all too well: nine losses in the past 10 games. Zero for two last season. No wins in the Musketeers’ Cintas Center. Despite the Colonials’ Atlantic 10 championship and a top-10 ranking for the first time in 50 […]
As wireless Internet connections and electronic note-taking grow more common on college campuses, some students and faculty are starting to debate their benefits. Various universities have gradually made the switch to wireless access. Dartmouth College was among the first schools to provide its students with campus-wide wireless internet service last year, earning a 4th-place ranking […]
Austrian native verbally commits to GW, prep school coach says Herman Opoku, a 6-foot-9 Austrian native, has verbally committed to the GW men’s basketball team, said coach Raphael Chillius of the South Kent School in South Kent, Conn., which Opoku attends. Chillius said Opoku verbally committed to coach Karl Hobbs’ program approximately two months ago […]
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 […]