Volume 103, Issue 2
Stories from the May 22, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Mark Harris graduated this past weekend, but did not attend any of the Commencement festivities. He was too busy preparing for a November election for the 42nd district of Pennsylvania’s state legislature. The 21-year-old political science major defeated a five-term incumbent state representative in last week’s primary election and will be representing the Republican Party […]
Potbelly Sandwich Works is coming to GW, ending a nearly 17-month legal fight with Coggins Sandwich Manufactory. Director of Media Relations Tracy Schario said Coggins officially closed Wednesday. Potbelly, a competing sandwich shop, will open in the space on June 5. The future of Coggins was uncertain after it was sued by Illinois-based Potbelly. Potbelly […]
University expects more diverse incoming class Next year’s freshman class will be more diverse than last year’s, Senior Vice President for Student and Academic Support Services Robert Chernak said at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Chernak said there will be an 11 percent increase in both the Hispanic and black population in next year’s freshman […]
GW’s highest governing body announced this week the members of the search committee for the next University president. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Charles Manatt announced the 14 members of the committee, which include nine trustees and five non-trustee members. University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg announced in April that he will be stepping down […]
GW’s Board of Trustees voted Friday to approve the University’s plan to fill an $8.2 million gap in next year’s budget. For the last two months, administrators and faculty members have been discussing how to make up for a gap between the University’s income and expenses in next year’s budget. Administrators initially proposed $4 million […]
Posted, Thursday, June 8, 6:36 p.m. Lee Huebner will be the next permanent director of the School of Media and Public Affairs,ending a more than 18-month search process. The University also announced Thursday that Frank Sesno, another candidate for the position, will become an SMPA faculty member. Huebner is a professor of communications and journalism […]
Instead of joining his classmates on the National Mall at Commencement Sunday morning, graduate Chris Kline was settling into his new apartment in Arizona. Kline decided to forego the Commencement ceremony and head back home to find a place to live before he begins work Monday. Kline is one of hundreds of graduates in the […]
The former GW student who pleaded guilty to assault for beating a fellow student unconscious last fall was sentenced Friday to six months in prison. Chad Dauman, a former junior transfer student, pleaded guilty in February to assaulting senior Akeem Samuels with a dangerous weapon. Dauman got into a fight with Samuels outside of The […]
From the links to the National Mall, seniors Brian Carroll, Andrew Gallo and Dan Mirabella spent the last four days going from green to green. Thursday, the trio led the GW golf team into the program’s first NCAA Tournament in 60 years at the East Regional. After three days of golf, they returned to Washington […]
Sophomore Charlie Kruer’s eighth home run of the season meant much more to the GW baseball team than the previous seven. Kruer’s ninth-inning, two-out, three-run home run gave the GW baseball team a 5-4 win over Duquesne and the sixth seed in the Atlantic 10 baseball tournament. The Colonials (22-32, 13-12 A-10) will clash with […]