Volume 103, Issue 15
Stories from the October 9, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Soon smokers on campus may have to do more than just go outside to have a cigarette. A cross-departmental initiative to evaluate second-hand smoking on campus began this summer with representatives from the Offices of Risk Management, Residential Property Management, Facilities Planning and GW Housing Programs. The departments decided to relocate smoking areas further from […]
Following a year of budget reductions higher than those in past years, the vice president of Student and Academic Support Services said that cuts could be worse in the future. The amount and frequency of budget cuts fosters a negative perception about GW administrators’ ability to effectively plan for future students without adversely impacting our […]
Harvard University’s Sept. 12 decision to end early admission, an acceptance policy that is thought to favor wealthier students, prompted a wave of repeat decisions throughout the collegiate world. Princeton University followed suit less than two weeks later and the University of Virginia joined the group on Sept. 26. Even though the University of North […]
Junior Dan Kirkwood was misidentified as a senior in the story “Fifteen miles on the C&O Canal.” (Oct. 2, p. 9). The column “Drink, vomit, hospital” (Oct. 2, p. 4) incorrectly stated that EMeRG instituted the new medical amnesty policy. EMeRG was not involved in the institution of the new policy.
Perhaps the most disappointing part of last week for me came when I read about the plans for George Mason and Georgetown universities’ preseason basketball celebrations in The Hatchet (“Area schools beef up baskteball events, Oct. 5 p.1). The story reported that as both of those schools expand their season-opening events, GW administrators had no […]
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 11, 8:13 p.m. A 2005 Elliott School graduate was kidnapped in the West Bank Wednesday and released later that day. A previously unknown group, calling itself Ansar Assuna, told Reuters it kidnapped Michael Phillips, 24, in Nablus, West Bank, as leverage for the release of imprisoned Palestinian women and minors. The news […]
When freshman Simone Smith visited GW on a campus tour last spring, she decided almost immediately that Mount Vernon was the place for her. “Visiting the Vern is what made everything click for me,” she said. Smith is one of 376 students who listed Mount Vernon as a first or second choice for a housing […]
Go one step further for Darfur Having created a scholarship to make it possible for a student from Darfur to come to GW is, as Students Taking Action Now: Darfur indicates, a good first step. But we cannot rest on our laurels. We should try to encourage other universities to put their money where their […]
GW’s Licensing and Trademarks office hosted its first annual Vendor Fair Thursday in the Marvin Center’s Grand Ballroom. GW established its Licensing and Trademarks Program in 1991, which serves to regulate and protect the commercial use of the University’s federally trademarked names and identifying marks both on and off campus. “A vendor fair is where […]
Twelve members of the GW College Republicans organized a counter-rally to an anti-Bush protest outside the White House Thursday. The students gathered in front of the Marvin Center at 11 a.m. and walked to Farragut Square, where they had a per11 a.m. and walked to Farragut Square, where they had a permit to protest, said […]