Volume 103, Issue 28
Stories from the November 30, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
Students may be irritated with Gelman Library’s Starbucks 10 p.m. closing time, but food service provider Sodexho announced this week it will keep its J Street Coffee shop – Grounds for Change – open until midnight. Grounds for Change is now open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but starting Dec. 4, the fair-trade coffee […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-For 22 regular-season games, teams couldn’t solve the juggernaut that was GW men’s basketball. Providence College head coach Tim Welsh found the solution, sitting at the end of the bench, with 11:29 remaining in its game against the Colonials Sunday night at Dunkin’ Donuts Center. Welsh put Ray Hall into the game with GW […]
Whether serenading girlfriends or singing on the corners of Georgetown just for fun, the all-male GW a cappella group, Sons of Pitch, has been keeping busy this year as they try to get their name out to as many people as possible. With a performance coming up on Friday, December 1, and even more events […]
Elected colonials A GW senior, a professor and an alum bestowed a little more prestige on the University by winning their respective races for local and Congressional office. ANC opposition The ANC voted to continue its opposition of GW’s plan for a mixed-use facility on Square 54. Community leaders should realize that the construction plan […]
A homemade video recently posted on the video sharing site YouTube presented a master and slave scene with a man in blackface being beaten for not following commands. The video was made by three white students from Texas A&M University in College Station. Titled “The Adventures of Jeraboem” and two minutes long, the video begins […]
GW may have the highest tuition in America, but have you ever thought of the true value our tuition brings us? This year’s freshmen will pay $37,820 a year in tuition for the next four years, no small sum; however those students will not have a fall break and many will stay until Dec. 22 […]
Posted Saturday, Dec. 2, 1:18 a.m. Twenty students, including six GW students, were arrested at about 4 p.m. Friday for protesting on White House property without a permit as a part of the World AIDS Day rally. The students dressed themselves as needles, pill bottles and doctors with coats stating “Missing Doctors.” They were released […]
Check numbers and facts about adjuncts This might seem a bit technical for most Hatchet readers, but let me correct a few minor factual inaccuracies in Mr. Grossman’s otherwise fine article “Court of Appeals hears GW case against part-time professors union” (Nov. 20, p. 1). At one point in the article, the author writes that […]
Thursday Blood Drive 1 to 7 p.m. Marvin Center Grand Ballroom Sponsored by Colonial Donors Friday Free HIV Testing Find out your status on World AIDS Day. 1 to 3 p.m. Marvin Center 301 Sponsored by GW Student Global AIDS Campaign, Student Health and the Student Association World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil Join in the […]
The first thing you notice when The Living End takes the stage for a live performance is the bass. It’s a stand up bass that you rarely expect to see outside an orchestra or a smoky jazz club, but here it is being hammered on to keep up with the punkabilly beats of this Australian […]