April 10, 2006

After torching the Temple Owls for four unanswered goals in the opening 5:30, the GW women’s lacrosse team stumbled, losing the game 13-10 on Sunday. In front of about 300 GW and Temple fans at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex, attackers Colleen Schmidt, a senior, and Laura Hostetler, a junior, scored three goals apiece, but […]

The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences unveiled its newest science degree program this year – biophysics. Five students have opted for the biophysics major so far, which studies science at the molecular level and works to understand the structure of individual molecules and their interactions. John Balbach, professor of physics and biophysics, said medical […]

A lot of GW students got a haircut this weekend. Buzzing for Change, an event that raises money to send children with cancer to summer camps, held its third annual head-shaving event Sunday in Kogan Plaza where $13,500 was raised and 247 students either got hair cuts or buzzes to raise money – and hair […]

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary attended a memorial service Sunday in Lisner Auditorium to pay tribute to the late Eli Segal, an aide to his cabinet and chief executive of the service organization AmeriCorps. GW students, Segal’s family, friends and some of the politicians that Segal worked with, including 1972 Democratic presidential […]

Liberal radio talk show host Al Franken broadcasted his show, typically based in Minneapolis, live from GW’s Jack Morton Auditorium last week, giving him the opportunity to criticize and satirize President Bush in a building five blocks from the White House. Thursday’s “Al Franken Show,” which aired from noon to 3 p.m. and attracted about […]

Good morning Froggy Bottom. The owners of Froggy Bottom Pub – one of the neighborhood’s most popular hangouts – will soon be opening a restaurant and motel a world away based on the Pennsylvania Avenue venue. Hien Bui has owned the Froggy Bottom Pub for seven years. Along with her husband, Hoang, she plans on […]

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 […]