Volume 103, Issue 16
Stories from the October 12, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
As a young boy, Akos Vertes was hooked on science. An elementary school classmate in communist Hungary told him that hydrochloric acid could dissolve iron. This simple experiment began a lifelong passion for scientific learning. Today Vertes is working on a slightly larger experiment – one that may revolutionize the way scientists study and treat […]
If you have $5 Buy a comic book in the spirit of the free, three-day International Comic Arts Festival, starting Thursday and running through Saturday. Held at the Library of Congress at 10 First Street, S.E., the event is sure to entertain. Discussions and exhibits on various aspects of the art form will take place, […]
U.S. Undersecretary of Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky stressed the United States’ role in the ongoing international effort to eradicate polio in a speech Tuesday. Dobriansky’s address in the Jack Morton Auditorium, the first event in the Elliott School’s Distinguished Women in International Affairs speaker series, stressed the importance of foreign policy to the […]
Ben Kweller, the indie singer-songwriter, will be performing at what he says is his “favorite venue in America,” the 9:30 Club, Oct. 18. The club is an ideal setting to hear his quirky brand of indie pop. “It’s intimate, yet you feel a definite energy from the crowd,” said Kweller, who is on a national […]
Hundreds of people evacuated Funger Hall Monday afternoon, while the D.C. Fire Department attended to a smoking light fixture. Students in professor James Bailey’s organizational behavior class noticed smoke coming out of a ceiling light in Funger 108 at about 4:30 p.m. After seeing the smoke and smelling an odor, Bailey pulled the fire alarm […]
“A couple days after 9/11, I thought, ‘Oh God, I guess I have to start engaging with the world,” David Rees said. The creator of “Get Your War On,” the popular Web-comic turned play now being put on by Rude Mechs at Woolly Mammoth, Rees became a news junkie, subscribing to periodicals of every political […]
The College Democrats and the College Republicans sparred over which political party better embodied Jewish values at a debate at Hillel Wednesday night. GW KOACH, the University’s chapter of a national Jewish student organization affiliated with the conservative movement, invited both groups to discuss human rights, social welfare and support for the state of Israel. […]
“Anything in the immediate future that you’re really looking forward to?” “Maybe getting a root canal performed in Los Angeles so I can stop feeling like I’m getting stabbed inside of the head.” Kyp Malone, guitarist and singer for Brooklyn-based TV on the Radio, is somewhere in Colorado, and he is in pain. He won’t […]
Thursday Fall Film Series Catch a double feature of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” and “You, Me and Dupree.” 7 p.m.: Pirates of the Caribbean 2 10 p.m.: You, Me and Dupree Marvin Center Continental Ballroom Sponsored by Program Board Friday Push America Dunk Tank Stop by University Yard and dunk some Greeks! All proceeds […]
As the Student Association allocated funds to student organizations Tuesday night, one group was not on the agenda. The University will fund student emergency response group EMeRG this year after years of debate about Student Association allocations for the group. The SA, which doles out money for student organizations, has partially funded the group in […]