Volume 102, Issue 45
Stories from the February 27, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Start the slideshow! BRONX, N.Y. – Amid the boos, the vulgarities from the crowd and a flurry of questionable calls on both sides of the ball, there was a sixth-ranked basketball team struggling Saturday, a team with serious NCAA aspirations and without an emotional and physical anchor late in February at the tail end of […]
USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds said President Bush’s heart is not in the right place on civil rights issues at a C-SPAN-televised panel discussion Friday afternoon. The five-person discussion, held at the Center for American Progress think tank in downtown D.C., involved Reynolds, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas and GW media law professor Carl […]
Nearly every preseason, baseball experts point to the Atlanta Braves, who have won 12 consecutive National League East championships, as a team that might finally experience a drop-off and have a substandard season. Every season thus far, however, manager Bobby Cox has gotten his players, whatever that year’s roster happens to be, to play as […]
Posted Monday, Feb. 27, 5:20 p.m. The National Park Service has made the Ellipse available again for Commencement 2006 due to delays in planned renovations, but the University will probably stick with its plan to hold the ceremony on the Mall due to “real logistical difficulties.” Jim Hess, executive director of University Events, said that […]
BRONX, N.Y. – After the Colonials defeated the Fordham Rams 76-65 at the historic Rose Hill Gym Saturday, head coach Karl Hobbs talked about why his team has been so successful this year. “Three words,” he said. “Character, unselfishness and a determination to be special.” Knowing they might play the rest of their season – […]
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 28, 9:10 p.m. Senior Pops Mensah-Bonsu had successful surgery on his meniscus in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, Robert Chernak, senior vice president of Student Academic and Support Services, said. Mensah-Bonsu began rehabilitation in Alabama Tuesday and will return to Washington Wednesday. Assistant basketball coach Roland Houston accompanied Mensah-Bonsu for the examination and operation […]
McDonald says he is out for the year Freshman forward Montrell McDonald said Sunday that he has been suspended for the rest of the 2005-2006 season for an unspecified team violation. In 20 games this season, McDonald averaged 4.4 points per game in 13.1 minutes per game, while providing a strong defensive presence for the […]
Following record growth in its endowment, GW plans to hire eight to 10 employees to assist with fundraising in an effort to help the University achieve a fourth consecutive year of increasing donations. At this month’s Board of Trustees meeting, the University’s highest governing board increased the amount of money GW is allowed to take […]
Monday Seniors: Focus on Your Job Search! With graduation quickly approaching, get information on how to find the right job for you. 4 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center 310 Sponsored by the Career Center Tuesday Faculty Lecture Series: Role and Identity in the Foreign Policy of Arab States Murhaf Jouejati, director of the Middle Eastern […]
GW alumnus Bill Westenhofer helps create visual effects for major motion pictures that transcend the boundaries of reality, but there was nothing phony about the announcement he heard Jan. 31: he’s up for an Academy Award. Westenhofer, who graduated from GW with a master’s degree in computer science in 1995, is nominated in the visual […]