Volume 103, Issue 1
Stories from the May 15, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Second-year softball coach JoAnne Ferguson will resign and take the head coaching job at Division III Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., beginning next season, she announced at the team’s final meeting Monday. Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said Ferguson made it clear when she was hired at GW that if the Pomona job – her […]
The Senior Class Gift Committee has spent the last year asking seniors to give money to GW, but that is not an easy task at a school where many students have already paid more than $100,000 in tuition. However, it is important to leave something for our soon-to-be alma mater. Our goal is to commemorate […]
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg has a reputation for advancing a university by constructing buildings, improving academics and, in the process, agitating some members of the academic and residential community. And that is from his time as president of the University of Hartford. Before assuming GW’s top post in 1988, Trachtenberg served 11 years as president at […]
After a threat of being shut down by court order, Coggins’ Sandwich Manufactory may be nearing the end of its legal dispute. Shortly after Coggins’ moved into its Ivory Tower location in August 2004, the Illinois-based Potbelly filed suit against Coggins’ in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., alleging similarities between the two sandwich […]
Monday Spring book drive Donate books or help box books and send them to Africa. 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. GW Bookstore Sponsored by Books for Africa Luncheon about U.S. relations with Latin America Features Thomas A. Shannon, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs. 12:30 p.m. Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sponsored by the […]
The Foggy Bottom Association is still opposing GW’s plans for Square 54 after the University made changes to the plans. Members of the local neighborhood group voiced their opposition at a meeting last week held by Boston Properties, the firm GW hired to plan Square 54’s development. At the information session, the designers said they […]
University projects enrollment drop Administrators announced projections for a 2 percent decline in undergraduate enrollment for the upcoming academic year earlier this month. Executive Vice President and Treasurer Lou Katz said at the President’s Council meeting earlier this month that the projected decline in enrollment is attributed to the University’s desire for smaller, more manageable […]
The class of 2006’s last year at GW included the usual mix of scandals, new University initiatives and student complaints. The following is a roundup of some of the important issues that affected members of the GW community during the past academic year. Classes began in September with a buzz surrounding the dismissal of Michael […]
Can you believe it? You’re done. Finished. I am so jealous of you – it’s ridiculous. Words alone cannot describe how envious I am of your accomplishments thus far. Do you remember when you were in my shoes? A sophomore, just finishing the spring semester, halfway there. Is it true what they say? That every […]
The man accused of beating an elderly woman across the street from New Hall last spring was found guilty Thursday. James Dorsey was on trial for beating Vasiliki Fotopoulos, an elderly woman who sells umbrellas at the Foggy Bottom Metro on rainy days. The incident occurred at midday on May 3, 2005, on the 700 […]