Volume 103, Issue 7
Stories from the September 11, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
To prepare for the upcoming year, 20 members of the Student Association took a look at the real thing. A visits to the City Council Chambers and the Mayor’s Office were part of a Student Association retreat earlier this month. It also included lectures from various faculty members, teamwork-building on a Summit Challenge Course at […]
Past years have seen rocker upon rocker perform at Fall Fest, while the hip-hop artist was typically reserved for Spring Fling. So it was rather uncommon when Program Board announced that Common, on the heels of his May 24 platinum album release “Be,” would perform at this year’s festival. But Common rose to the challenge […]
University officials will meet this week to discuss restructuring student ticket policies for men’s basketball games, said Robert Chernak, senior vice president for Student and Academic Support Services. Chernak said administrators will meet to consider altering the ticket policy and early entry privileges of the Colonial Army, a 1,000-person student spirit organization that has early […]
After 110 grueling minutes of soccer on Saturday, the GW men’s soccer team could not find the back of the net. Fortunately for the Colonials, neither could their opponents. The Colonials and the University of Delaware finished knotted 0-0 in GW’s home opener after 90 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtime periods. GW has […]
On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, GW graduate Caroline Bevan has something to smile about. The 2005 graduate spent the past summer across from Ground Zero in New York City helping create the newly opened galleries in Tribute WTC, a visitor center providing history and personal anecdotes from the Sept. 11 […]
GW’s basketball program operates on two different levels. In one respect, they are a team that went 27-1 last season, stayed in the polls all season and garnered attention from many members of the national media. The way the program operates from the inside, however, doesn’t match its performance last season. The Athletic Department does […]
A performance by hip-hop artist Common at Fall Fest Saturday capped off nine days of Welcome Week activities. Welcome Week offered students shopping trips to Target, a student organization fair in the Marvin Center and the transformation of the Smith Center into a dance club. “We are really pleased and excited about how Welcome Week […]
Volleyball The volleyball team finished third out of four teams at the Hokie Invitational in Blacksburg, Va., Sept. 7-8. Virginia Tech (6-3) and Appalachian State (5-4) swept the Colonials before GW beat Liberty (0-7) 3-0. Senior Juliene McLaughlin had 19 kills in the win and 18 kills against the Hokies. GW (7-2) next plays at […]
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Most freshmen are enthusiastic about coming to college. Emily Brooks has taken the excitement to an entirely new level. A week into classes, Brooks, a small but largely ambitious 18-year-old blonde-haired Tennessean, has already organized dinners for her classmates during Colonial Inauguration, declared her ambitions to run for a freshman non-voting seat in the Student […]