Volume 103, Issue 10
Stories from the September 21, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Earlier this month, GW administrators made the decision to yank free copies of The New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today from dorm news racks. Associate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Johnnie Osborne told the Hatchet that students have many other avenues for newspaper readership and the elimination of the GW Reads […]
Members of GW’s highest oversight body solicited student, faculty and staff opinion in two forums in an effort to gain feedback about the University’s academic and strategic plans for the next two decades. Discussions focused on the search for a new University President and what attracted students and faculty to Foggy Bottom. The Board of […]
“All the King’s Men” is a new film based on the old Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren. The film is the melodramatic, archetypal tale about the nature of men and the world colored with shades of gray that they inhabit. Whenever a movie comes out based on a classic novel, there is the […]
GW law professor Mary Cheh won the primary election for a D.C. Council seat last week and said she will continue teaching if she is elected in November. Cheh won the Democratic nomination for the Ward 3 Council seat last Tuesday, defeating eight opponents including fellow professor Erik Gaull. He has said he believes Cheh’s […]
President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai are scheduled to speak on campus. Musharraf will speak this Friday in the Marvin Center’s Betts Theatre and Karzai is set to give his address next Tuesday in the Jack Morton Auditorium. Musharraf’s stop at GW is one of many on […]
The restructuring of the ticketing and admission procedure for men’s basketball games is a step towards changing the “culture” of GW basketball and preparing fans for a major overhaul of Smith Center seating, Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said. Within the next three years, barring any unexpected budgetary constraints, the University is planning to replace […]
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) emphasized the importance of changing security policies and the plan for the war in Iraq in a speech Tuesday night in the Elliott School of International Affairs. Boxer told the audience that the U.S. troops in Iraq need a defined objective, but said it is difficult when the reasons for […]
The first female space tourist, alumna Anousheh Ansari, an alumna, will answer students’ questions in the Marvin Center while she is circling the Earth on the International Space Station Friday. Local-area middle school, high school and GW students will participate in the event Friday in the third floor amphitheater. Ansari paid a reported $20 million […]
Colonial Army president Frank Dale returned to campus looking forward to basketball season and the front section Smith Center seats his three-year-old spirit organization has always received for home games. Instead, Dale, a junior, came to Foggy Bottom and learned that the future of the organization he leads is up in the air. University officials […]
About 50 students and faculty attended GW’s Constitution Day tribute Tuesday featuring author Walter Isaacson discussing his book “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.” Isaacson, who was formerly the CEO and Chairman of CNN and managing editor for TIME Magazine, spoke about Benjamin Franklin’s transformation from a printer’s apprentice to a national leader. Isaacson now serves […]