Volume 103, Issue 30
Stories from the December 7, 2006 issue of the GW Hatchet. View a PDF version of this issue.
While many are busy booking flights home for winter break, about 140 students have decided to remain in GW housing for winter break – with no additional fees. Any student with a job, departmental or athletic commitment can petition to live on campus during the three-week break. While in previous years students were charged a […]
Students could soon see courses in “Fat Studies” in their schedule of classes if a group of academics and activists has its way. Fat Studies scholars attempt to examine the political and social consequences of being overweight in much the same way that academics have turned their attention to other marginalized groups like women and […]
Administrators and faculty said they are happy to have a leader with a rich academic background ready to take the reins as GW’s 16th president. Johns Hopkins University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Steven Knapp was selected by GW’s Presidential Search Committee and confirmed by the Board of Trustees as the successor […]
GW has been recognized for having one of the most politically charged campuses in the nation, so it is fitting that GW graduate students are working to improve America’s voting system. Stefan Popoveniuc and Ben Hosp worked with students from across the Unites States and Canada to develop Punchscan – a system that allows voters […]
The year was 1957. Marvin Kalb was studying in Harvard University’s Widener library when a woman walked over and said a man named Edward R. Murrow had called for him. Kalb assumed it was a joke and told her to forget about it. “I didn’t believe it for an instant,” he said. Why would Kalb’s […]
Nothing about this game was typical. The GW men’s basketball team played the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore smack dab between two high-profile marquee games. The Colonials had only one day of preparation, after recovering from its down-to-the-wire win over Virginia Tech two days earlier. Through their morning-after eyes, the squad was looking westward to Saturday’s […]
Simple Assault 12/03/06 – 600 block of 23rd Street – 3:43 a.m. – closed Five male students were walking together when an unknown male, unaffiliated with GW, asked the group for directions. However, the man did not know where he wanted to go. The group proceeded, and the subject followed. He struck one of the […]
Thursday How Do I Become a CEO Before the Age of 40? Join GW alums and get the inside scoop. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Funger Hall 103 Sponsored by the GW Alumni Association, Career Center and Class Council Fall Film Series: The Black Dahlia Take a study break and catch this free flick. 7 p.m. […]
Five minutes into the first half of GW’s 79-56 win over the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Tuesday night, sophomore forward Cheyenne Moore stepped onto the Smith Center court to play in a game for the first time. This season, the Baltimore native had yet to check into a contest as he nursed a stress fracture […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest spoke about the CIA and how the attacks of Sept. 11 have changed her job as a national security correspondent and the world’s political landscape. The lecture, titled “The CIA’s Secret War on Terror” was hosted as part of the Elliott School’s Distinguished Women in International Affairs series and about […]