Volume 103, Issue 4
Stories from the August 30, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Only 900 of the nearly 17,000 people who lived on campus this summer were GW students, according to Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz. To catch up on the summer news most students were not on campus to see or read about, here is a wrap-up of some of the biggest stories of the […]
“This is Petra, the ancient rose-red city carved into the mountains of southern Jordan. Here I am climbing up to the tomb of Aaron – you know, Moses’ brother who died on the trip to the holy land. Oh, and this is a friend whom I met with in Amman, and here is where we […]
As college students prepare to return for another year of school, disproportionately high textbook costs remain a pertinent issue for higher education. While a number of studies have blamed publishers for driving up costs of books for several years, little has been done to reverse this trend for America’s college students. Last January, this page […]
New York’s Hunter College settled a lawsuit last week with a student who alleged that the school barred her from her dormitory after she tried to commit suicide. The student’s suit resembles that of former GW student Jordan Nott, who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the University in October 2005. The Hunter College student, known […]
It’s the beginning of the year, and there are some things we are just plain excited about. The Scene has compiled a list of the top 10 things we are looking forward to at the moment. 10. Maybe it’s just that “Snakes on a Plane” has revved up our willingness to see so-bad-they’re-good movies, but […]
“Warterloo to Anywhere” Dirty Pretty Things Interscope Records Ex-Libertine Carl Barat says the songs on his band’s debut aren’t about former best friend, band mate and partner-in-crime Pete Doherty. Uh-huh. Much has been made of Doherty’s spiral of self-destruction, and Barat has been relegated in the public imagination to the role of mere witness to […]
Elliott Smith has been dead for three years, his last tracks have been mixed and released as 2003’s “From a Basement on the Hill,” and your vinyl copies of “XO” and “Figure Eight” have burned a hole in your record player. Where, then, sad indie boy or girl, are you to turn? Ashton Allen hopes […]
If you have $5 Put it in your midnight 7-11 Slurpee account and head down to the Kennedy Center from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday through Monday for the Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, an annual event that offers potential theater-goers a sneak peek at the upcoming offerings of the D.C. theater community with a series […]
Sizzling Express 538 23rd Street, N.W. SizzEx – you may know it as the pay-by-the-pound buffet you turn to on those nights when all you want is a gravy-soaked slice of turkey on a peach cobbler with a side of egg rolls. You may know it as a magnet for mammoth middle school tours of […]
GW’s student government is commonly blamed for being inefficient, out of touch with students and plagued by political bickering. Student Association President Lamar Thorpe, a senior, said he is aiming to change that view. Thorpe, who won the student body presidency last April in a run-off election against SA veteran Morgan Corr, also a senior, […]