Volume 102, Issue 48
Stories from the March 9, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
A litigious law professor said he will threaten legal action against the University unless it decides to take at least some action on a student’s proposal to ban smoking within 25 feet of GW-owned buildings. Carlye Austin, a GW graduate student and member of the local group Smokefree DC, is leading an effort to rid […]
Now that “Brokeback Mountain” has reinvigorated the cowboy genre, acclaimed “Don’t Come Knocking” (Sony Pictures Classics) director Wim Wenders turns his camera, as he did with his film “Paris, Texas,” to the American West. Shot mostly in Utah, Montana and Nevada, the film vividly captures the small towns of the West. However, it is hampered […]
Posted Monday, March 13, 5:24 p.m. President Bush stressed the need to strengthen Iraqi police forces and combat the use of improvised explosive devices in a speech Monday at the Marvin Center’s Betts Theatre. Bush told more than 400 guests, among them Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the U.S. ambassadors to Jordan and Israel, […]
Senior Sam Farber has been the voice of GW men’s basketball on WRGW, the University-financed Internet radio station, for a historic season. But ESPN announcer Mike Patrick, a GW alumnus, in many senses is the history of Colonials broadcasting. A 1966 speech and drama major, Patrick came to GW from his West Virginia high school […]
Coldplay is the rock band from outer space – or at least that is what their music would have you believe. With their futuristic production, some of which sounds like it could have been lifted from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Coldplay likes using its music to portray the idea that it has the unique ability […]
Posted Thursday, March 16, 9:42 p.m. Updated Friday, March 17, 12:22 a.m. GREENSBORO, N.C. – When the GW men’s basketball team was down 18 points with 11:11 left in the game, it looked to most in the Greensboro Coliseum that the eighth-seeded Colonials would head back to Foggy Bottom with their second first-round loss in […]
The effects of GW’s nationally ranked basketball team, which has been in the top 10 for close to a month, could have lasting effects for the University – and not just in the Smith Center. Administrators said the greatest effect of a highly ranked basketball team is the sense of pride and unity it breeds […]
In the past month there has been enormous controversy surrounding the election of Hamas to lead the parliament in Palestine. Such concern is legitimate in light of their record of violence and their own founding charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel. It is important, however, to analyze the situation without rhetoric and emotion […]
Posted Friday, March 17, 3:46 p.m. The University answered two question marks about graduation Friday, announcing that it will definitely hold Commencement on the National Mall and it will host Monumental in Union Station. Earlier this month, the National Park Service offered GW the use of the Ellipse for Commencement after it had previously said […]
Posted Friday, March 10, 3:23 p.m. President Bush will speak at GW Monday about the global war on terror. The event will mark the second time in his presidency he has come to the University. His speech starts at 1:15 p.m. in the Marvin Center’s Betts Theater. It is not open to the public. Bush’s […]