Volume 102, Issue 56
Stories from the April 13, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Thursday The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series – a reading by Natasha Trethewey Join the noted poet for a special GW reading. 8 to 9 p.m. Marvin Center Amphitheatre Sponsored by the GW English Department Creative Writing Program Maida Withers: A Choreographer’s Life Photographic and video exhibit of the creative and performance work of Maida […]
Panelists spoke Tuesday night on the legacy of the late Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, outlining the travails, accomplishments and influence of the baseball player who has become a cultural icon. The event, which drew about 30 audience members to Gelman Library, featured five experts who discussed the athlete. Robinson became the first black Major League […]
Thorpe could get violations; senators-elect to meet Student Association President-elect Lamar Thorpe is facing two campaign complaints that will be aired by the Joint Elections Committee. The election oversight body found probable cause in two complaints filed against Thorpe, a junior, stemming from the election that took place in March and early April. One regards […]
The campaigning is over, and now the real work begins. In last week’s runoff election, Student Association President-elect junior Lamar Thorpe beat opponent junior Morgan Corr by 186 votes for the SA’s top spot. On May 5, Thorpe and Executive Vice President-elect Josh Lasky will officially be sworn into their respective offices, but they’ve already […]
New sorority develops GW’s newest sorority, Pi Beta Phi, is continuing its development in anticipation of becoming the campus’ ninth sorority next fall. Dean Harwood, GW’s director of Greek life, said the sorority’s progress is going smoothly and that the national organization will be selecting a chapter adviser in D.C. to oversee the organization’s colonization […]
More than a year after a two-alarm fire severely burned a GW student on Thurston Hall’s ninth floor, administrators said that despite initiatives to improve safety in residence halls, Thurston Hall is still no safer than it was a year ago. At about 5 a.m. on the morning of March 22, 2005, then-freshman Kevin McLaughlin […]
The article “Rained out, but not beaten” (April 10, p. 7) erroneously stated that rapper Talib Kweli dubbed sophomore Mark Prysler “The Great White Mark.” Prysler, not Kweli, conceived the nickname. (Don’t laugh. This is an actual correction.) An April 10 headline stated that the biophysics department is applying for a $2 million grant to […]
Just more than a year ago, sophomore Ethan Helfand’s life hung in the balance after his fourth attempt at taking his own life landed him in the emergency room. As doctors worked feverishly to save Ethan, he was surrounded by friends who had discovered him hours earlier in his dorm room, near death and suffering […]
I’m usually not a belligerent drunk, but Monday night was my 21st birthday, so I’d like to think that I earned it. The fact is, after hearing about some of my escapades from friends who were able to remember the event, I’m astonished that I wasn’t arrested. I’m writing this article in class right now. […]
Oliver Truong plugged his iPod headphones into his ears and faced the mirrored wall. He jumped, flexed his calves, lunged his body toward the ceiling and twirled in the air like a figure skater. After repeating the double tours en l’air three times, he took a swig of water and started the song again. His […]