Volume 103, Issue 26
Stories from the November 16, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
A few weekends ago I took a trip to the University of Virginia to visit one of my best friends from high school. We spent the time catching up, while he gave me a tour of the beautiful campus designed by Thomas Jefferson and the very decent nightlife that takes place there. We came to […]
Recent changes to federal grant programs have largely ignored recommended changes by various higher education organizations, several organization officials have said. In July, the Department of Education dispatched a Federal Register bulletin outlining rules and regulations for the Academic Competitiveness Grant and the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant programs. These rules […]
Students explored multiracial identities on campuses and in the workplace at a panel discussion Tuesday night in Phillips Hall that was part of Mixed Race Awareness month. Remix, GW’s Racially and Ethnically Mixed student organization, hosted the discussion called “Caught in the Mix.” The Mixed Race Awareness program began last year as a weeklong project, […]
I’ve been trying to get off club promotion juggernaut Jetset Mafia’s listserv for months. Their barrage of e-mails beckoning me to places with names like “Dream,” “Home” and “Fur” has somehow, week after week, failed to entice me to suit up in a tube top and subject myself to mild sexual assault. But last Friday […]
A Korean company wonders if Americans consider social sites like MySpace to be as close to their hearts as their friends. Cyworld, the Korean equivalent of networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook, hopes that American teenagers and college students are open to meeting a new friend. That friend is Cyworld. Launched in America in […]
President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton attended a ground-breaking ceremony Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial near the Tidal Basin. “We have gathered in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, to the ideals he held and to the life he lived,” Bush said. “Dr. King showed us that a life […]
Genre-benders in the music industry run the gamut from alt-country to pop-punk to anti-folk. Christopher O’Riley stands alone in a category that might be called alt-classical – he’s a pianist trained at the New England Conservatory of Music, but plays the music of artists more likely to be found in the average college student’s iPod […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 18 — Junior Kim Beck had 18 points and eight assists as the No. 25 GW women’s basketball (ESPN/USA Today) team topped TCU 88-77 in the BTI Classic at the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland. GW (4-0) had trouble early in the game, battling to take control of the […]
The D.C. Zoning Commission unanimously approved a joint construction project between GW and School Without Walls Monday evening – a decision that will lead to a new residence hall on campus. The University and D.C. Public Schools filed the application to build an addition to the high school and a dormitory on F Street […]
If you have $5 Put Mr. Lincoln back in your wallet and come to Lisner Auditorium on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. to support the Music Department by attending the University Symphony Orchestra’s Fall Concert. Featuring selections by past masters Mozart and Beethoven, as well as contemporary composer Brian Wilbur Grundstrom, the concert will provide […]