April 10, 2006

In the past four years GW has managed to increase its level of minority professors by 3 percentage points, but despite efforts to recruit them, has made no progress increasing the number of Hispanic professors on campus, University officials said. According to GW’s Office of Institutional Research, the percentage of full-time faculty identified as racial […]

Law professor John Banzhaf, who has threatened to sue the University if it doesn’t ban smoking outside its buildings, took his threats one step further last week when he sent a letter of intent to sue to the director of the GW Office of Risk Management and Insurance. Banzhaf initially told The Hatchet of his […]

When the chair of the Joint Elections Committee announced that junior Lamar Thorpe would be the next Student Association president, Thorpe’s mother was just as excited, if not more so, than he was. “I’m just so ecstatic,” Dorita Thorpe said. “It made it all worth the trip, worth it all.” Members of Thorpe’s biological family […]

Universities may be forced to reevaluate how they deal with depressed students after a recent settlement stemming from the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student. On April 3, the family of former MIT student Elizabeth Shin settled with the university for an undisclosed sum, ending nearly six years of controversy surrounding the circumstances […]

For some, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s legacy will be the growth of GW or his testy relationship with Foggy Bottom residents. But many students said they will remember the president for bringing something else to GW: an unofficial mascot. Improving academic rigor and institutional prestige, construction of new buildings or even fostering a top-tier […]

It’s a familiar sight: thousands of college students snaked around the Smith Center waiting to get inside. On Sunday night, however, it wasn’t for an athletic event, but rather a night filled with the lyrical and musical spectacle that is Matisyahu and his blazing band. “I thought it was a really great crowd,” said Matisyahu, […]

More and more college professors are looking at pornography. Some of them are even watching it with their students. But it’s not the latest student-teacher sex scandal – it’s an emerging phenomenon in academia and one that some say has an important future in university curriculums. A growing number of professors are examining the historical, […]

It is widely recognized that the situation in Iraq is highly problematic and the management of the occupation has, up until now, been exceptionally incompetent. Members of both parties have expressed discontent and frustration with the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq. With this broad acceptance that the situation in Iraq is abysmal, it is remarkable […]

For many college students, iPods are an indispensable companion for those long walks in between classes. Yet at some universities, the popular music players are making their way into the classrooms themselves. Faculty at a number colleges are experimenting with various ways to allow students the chance to use their iPods for educational purposes, be […]