Volume 102, Issue 47
Stories from the March 6, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Tuesday American Sign Language club meeting Check out the club’s first meeting and find other students interested in sign language. 6 to 7 p.m. Marvin Center 307 Sponsored by the GW ASL How to Make it Through the Madness! Find out how to find the perfect job. 7 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheater, Third Floor Sponsored […]
Start the slideshow! Posted Monday, March 6, 8:30 p.m. The GW women’s basketball team lost in the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship 59-54 to Temple in Philadelphia early Monday night. The Colonials end their conference season 22-8, with two wins over the A-10 champion Owls this year. Monday’s loss marked the second consecutive year GW has […]
Counseling center tackles eating disorders GW is trying to educate students about a serious condition that affects one in five college-aged women nationwide: eating disorders. Recently, there has been a “spike” in the number of people coming to the University Counseling Center for treatment and information about eating disorders, said John Dages, associate director of […]
Pops Mensah-Bonsu Class: Senior Sport: Basketball Hometown: London, England High School: British High School GW tied the school record with its 14th straight win Saturday evening, a 64-51 victory over Richmond, in which the No. 6 Colonials never trailed. The win also marked the first time the Colonials (22-1, 12-0 Atlantic 10) have won at […]
Commencement is less than three months away, but the University has not decided if Monumental, the annual graduation party held for seniors, will take place this year. At the October 2005 Board of Trustees meeting, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said he wanted to cancel Monumental to offset the increased cost of this year’s Commencement […]
Thursday’s Snapshot photo caption (p. 2) erroneously stated that Lent is a time when “Catholics practice self-denial to remember the 40 days Moses and his followers spent in the desert.” Lent is actually a time when Catholics recall Jesus’ 40 days in the desert. Also, Moses spent 40 years in the desert. A photo caption […]
Administrators must determine how to close a $10 million to $12 million “gap” in the University’s fiscal year 2007 operating budget – which could lead to cuts to programs – before they propose it to the Board of Trustees in May. Executive Vice President and Treasurer Lou Katz said last week that a gap in […]
Housing officials said creating new selection pools according to class led to a “successful” selection process this year, but many rising sophomores think they are getting the short end of the stick. The Community Living and Learning Center decided to change housing selection so that each class had its own pool of dorms to choose […]
Students running to be the top leader of the Student Association are voicing complaints about a plan to replace the SA Senate with a new body. All five SA presidential hopefuls have objections to the plan, which could dramatically change the structure of GW’s student government. Two weeks ago SA Sen. Elliot Gillerman (ESIA-U), a […]
GW professor Jean Folkerts has been named dean of the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Folkerts was chosen over two other finalists and will take office in Chapel Hill in July. “I’m looking forward to such a large arena at a prominent school within a prominent university,” Folkerts, who also […]