Volume 103, Issue 12
Stories from the September 28, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Normally, all you can buy in Kogan Plaza are cheap earrings and Bob Marley posters. But from Monday to Wednesday, a whole store appeared – complete with music, wood floors, Oriental rugs and fake vintage posters. Has GW turned into a mall? Not quite yet. It’s the Levi’s Style Search, a nationwide hunt for college […]
BALTIMORE – Gray skies didn’t ruin the mood for the 40,000 concert-goers who piled into the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for Saturday’s Virgin Festival. The grounds were packed with college-aged youths, decked out in their finest Converse All-Stars, and quite a few people old enough to be their parents. And the Converse were indeed […]
A conservative author and National Review senior editor spoke about abortion to a crowd of about 70 in the Marvin Center Tuesday night. Ramesh Ponnuru addresses the history, constitutional foundations and public opinion regarding Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision that declared most anti-abortion laws unconstitutional. The student organization Colonials […]
“Jesus Camp” doesn’t try to explain why Evangelical Christians are a millions-strong group. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady instead focus on a strange, intense part of this massive movement. The results are frightening, but it’s only a small slice of a morally and politically complicated phenomenon. Ewing and Grady say they set out to […]
“Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls,” Craig Finn yawped on the Hold Steady’s “Almost Killed Me.” As if to prove the point, the band followed that stellar debut with the positively epic “Separation Sunday,” a record teeming with stories of depravity and love, sin and redemption It wasn’t an album, it was […]
Through a new initiative, the Open Educational Video Lecture Project, Yale intends to make it possible for anyone to have the classroom experience by simply using the Internet. This service will be available for free. Through a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, complete courses, including actual classroom lectures, will be accessible online […]
Thursday Fall Career Fair Browse through a host of employers for full-time, part-time, co-op and internship positions. 1 to 5 p.m. Marvin Center Continental and Grand Ballrooms Sponsored by the Career Center Consequences of a Nuclear India Join Eliza Matthews, a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Queensland for this discussion on American and Australian […]
If you have $5 Pocket it again this week, and head down to the Mall for the annual National Book Festival. Sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by the First Lady, this year’s festival, as always, promises a good time for the bibliophile, with multitudes of writers available to sign books and plenty […]
Vanessa Maltin grew up feeling like she had food poisoning every time she ate. Until well after she turned 21, stomach cramps, diarrhea and gas were routine parts of her life. Then as an intern reporter for the Palm Beach Post in 2004, the George Washington University student was assigned to cover a conference on […]
Sullivan confirmed for Student Association Court The Student Association Senate confirmed junior Ryan Sullivan as the Student Court’s newest judge Tuesday night in the Marvin Center. Last week, SA President Lamar Thorpe, a senior, nominated Sullivan to the court. Within days, Sullivan passed the Rules Committee with a 5-0 vote. “I think Sullivan is a […]